Simulators for vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) development

Continuous increased of on-road vehicles has also increased the possibility of accidents, most of it caused by human errors. Hence, a solution has been proposed, which is to make vehicles more intelligent through research on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Currently, simulation on VANETs has been widely studied. It is known that networking and mobility component are required to form a VANET. In this paper, mobility component is focused and discussed. A few mobility simulators have been introduced with some citations of related works for each of the simulators. MATLAB and Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) are further used for VANET simulation respectively. At the same time, TraCI4Matlab, an Application Programming Interface (API) developed in MATLAB that allows communication between any applications written in MATLAB and SUMO simulator is also discussed.