Section: New Software and Platforms

SimConVA

Participants : Pierre Merdrignac, Oyunchimeg Shagdar, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes.

This software was developed during the SINETIC FUI project. It aims at interfacing the network simulator ns-3 and the prototyping software RTMaps.

The source code of is software is a library to generate an RTMaps component that triggers and controls ns-3. The component handle emission and reception of data packets between RTMaps and ns-3 for every vehicle. It can also deal with the mobility of vehicles in ns-3 based on the localization known in ns-3.

This software was used with the communication stack developed in RITS. It has been shown during the SINETIC project how this it can be used for simulating and emulating cooperative driver assistance systems. Particularly, the software has been tested on cooperative platoons. The tests were conducted on both simulation and real platforms to prove how the such software can be used during the development phase and that it is fully compatible with the architecture already present in the experimental vehicles.

• Contact: Fawzi Nashashibi