Evaluation of the reliability of synthetic mobility models applied in vehicular networks

• Maurício Silva UFOP
• Ricardo Oliveira UFOP
• André Aquino UFAL

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcup.2020.11212

Abstract

Evaluating applications and protocols for vehicular networks is a requirement before employing them in real environments. Generally, this evaluation takes place through simulations because it allows evaluations with low cost and on a large scale. However, for the simulations to produce realistic results, the simulators' mobility models must reproduce the observed behavior in real scenarios. In this work, we developed an epidemic routing algorithm for vehicular networks, and we compared the reliability of the results produced by a mobility model with the results produced in a real scenario. The results show that the mobility model does not reproduce real mobility, and consequently, the applications evaluated in synthetic scenarios do not present the same results when evaluated in real scenarios.

Keywords: Mobile computing, vehicular networks, vehicular mobility models

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