Journal of Korean Society of Transportation (대한교통학회지)

Korean Society of Transportation (대한교통학회)
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Designing a Simulation Framework for Vehicular Ad hoc Network Applications

애드혹 네트워크 기반 교통 시스템을 위한 컴퓨터 모의실험 환경 설계

  • Published : 2008.12.31
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Abstract

With a spread of mobile devices, the growing trend of integrating wireless communications technologies into transportation systems is advanced. In particular, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) enable vehicles to share traffic information that they have through intervehicle communications. This research focused on the design of an integrated transportation and communication simulation framework to build an environment that is more realistic than previous studies developed for studying VANETs. Developing a VANET-based information model, this research designed an integrated transportation and communication simulation framework in which these independent simulation tools not supporting High Level Architecture (HLA) were tightly coupled and finely synchronized. As a case study, a VANET-based traffic information system was demonstrated based on a real road network and real traffic data. The experiment results showed that the simulation framework was well integrated. The simulation framework designed in this study is expected to contribute to developing the environment to experiment a wide range of VANET applications.

무선 통신 장비의 빠른 확산과 함께 교통 분야에도 새로운 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 무선 통신 기술의 하나인 애드혹 네트워크를 차량에 적용한 Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs)은 주행중인 차량간의 통신을 가능하게 하여 교통 안전, 혼잡 정보 등의 교통 정보 전달에 활용이 검토되고 있다. 하지만, VANET 기술은 아직 연구 수준이고, 실험에 있어 시간과 비용의 한계 때문에 컴퓨터 모의실험에 의존하고 있다. VANET 기반은 교통과 통신의 통합된 환경임에도 불구하고, 이전 연구에서는 한 분야만의 환경을 고려하였거나, 현실적인 통합 환경을 이루지 못하였다. 본 연구에서는 기존 실험의 한계를 극복하기 위하여, 실제 VANET 기반 교통 시스템에서 발생하는 차량의 움직임과 무선 통신 특성을 표현하기 위한 미시적 교통 모의실험 모형과 통신 모의실험 모형을 시 공간적으로 동기화한 모의실험 환경을 설계하였다. 사례 연구로, 실제 도로 및 교통 수요 자료를 사용하여 설계된 모의실험 환경을 적용하였고, 교통 특성과 통신 특성을 잘 반영하는 결과를 얻었다. 향후, 본 연구에서 설계된 모의실험 환경은 VANET 기반 교통 시스템의 다양한 설계에 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

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