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Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) is surging in popularity, in whichvehicles constitute the mobile nodes in the network. Due to the prohibitive cost of deployingand implementing such a system in real world, most research in VANET relies on simulationsfor evaluation. A key component for VANET simulations is a realistic vehicular mobilitymodel that ensures that conclusions drawn from simulation experiments will carry through toreal deployments. In this work, we introduce a tool MOVE that allows users to rapidly generaterealistic mobility models for VANET simulations. MOVE is built on top of an open sourcemicro-traffic simulator SUMO. The output of MOVE is a realistic mobility model and can beimmediately used by popular network simulators such as ns-2 and qualnet.TraCI is the shortterm for "Traffic Control Interface". Giving the access to a running road traffic simulation, itallows to retrieve values of simulated objects and to manipulate their behavior "on-line"Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) enable communication among vehicles as well asbetween vehicles and roadside infrastructures. Currently available software tools for VANETresearch still lack the ability to assess the usability of vehicular applications. In this article, wepresent Traffic Control Interface (TraCI) a technique for interlinking road traffic and networksimulators. It permits us to control the behavior of vehicles during simulation runtime, andconsequently to better understand the influence of VANET applications on traffic patterns. Wedescribe the basic concept, design decisions and the message format of this open-sourcearchitecture. Additionally, we provide implementations for non-commercial traffic andnetwork simulators namely SUMO and ns2, respectively. This coupling enables for the firsttime systematic evaluations of VANET applications in realistic settings.

Rahul N. Vaza, Amit B. Parmar, Trupti M. Kodinariya, “Implementation of TRACI and Induction loop in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 1, Issue 6, pp. 112-120, June 2014.