A ns-3 model for C-V2X Mode 4 communication based on the ns-3 D2D model from NIST.
The work on this paper has been partially funded by the federal state of Northrhine-Westphalia and the “European Regional Development Fund” (EFRE) 2014-2020 in the course of the InVerSiV project under grant number EFRE-0800422 and by DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Collaborative Research Center SFB 876 project B4.
- Clone or download the source code from this repository
- Navigate to the root directory of the cloned/downloaded repository
- Configure the project using the command
./waf configure
- Build the project using the command
./waf build
For more details regarding the configuration and building of ns-3 projects see the ns-3 documentation.
A example script for the usage of the C-V2X Mode 4 is located in the scratch directory of this repository (v2x_communication_example.cc). To run the example script run:
./waf --run v2x_communication_example
If you use our model in your research, please cite the following paper:
F. Eckermann, M. Kahlert, C. Wietfeld, "Performance Analysis of C-V2X Mode 4 Communication Introducing an Open-Source C-V2X Simulator", In 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, September 2019.
@InProceedings{Eckermann2019performance,
Author = {Fabian Eckermann and Moritz Kahlert and Christian Wietfeld},
Title = {Performance Analysis of {C-V2X} Mode 4 Communication Introducing an Open-Source {C-V2X} Simulator},
Booktitle = {2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall)},
Year = {2019},
Address = {Honolulu, Hawaii, USA},
Month = {September},
}