Vehicle - to - Vehicle Channel Simulation in a Network Simulator Gerges Dib

Recent development in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication has increased the need for simulation to test and analyze protocols for this emerging technology. Packet level network simulators lack a realistic V2V channel module which would allow having accurate simulations. This thesis proposes an efficient method for generating a V2V channel in a packet network simulator. This method, based on V2V channel measurements and models, efficiently generates Nakagami fading whose power spectrum and fading severity change with vehicles velocity and separation. The smallscale fading envelope is used to modulate a large-scale path loss model. The implementation uses a simple pre-computed lookup table to generate the power envelope with minimal calculations in the simulator. This method is then implemented in Network Simulator 2 (NS-2).