ColosSUMO: Evaluating Cooperative Driving Applications with Colosseum

TL;DR

ColosSUMO is a novel framework that couples the Colosseum wireless network emulator with the SUMO mobility simulator to enable realistic and flexible evaluation of cooperative driving applications in vehicular environments.

Contribution

This paper introduces ColosSUMO, a new coupling framework that combines real hardware emulation with mobility simulation for improved CCAM performance analysis.

Findings

Demonstrates the integration of Colosseum and SUMO for realistic vehicular environment simulation.

Shows flexibility in simulating various communication technologies.

Provides a scalable and reconfigurable platform for cooperative driving application testing.

Abstract

The quest for safer and more efficient transportation through cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) calls for realistic performance analysis tools, especially with respect to wireless communications. While the simulation of existing and emerging communication technologies is an option, the most realistic results can be obtained by employing real hardware, as done for example in field operational tests (FOTs). For CCAM, however, performing FOTs requires vehicles, which are generally expensive. and performing such tests can be very demanding in terms of manpower, let alone considering safety issues. Mobility simulation with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) serves as a middle ground, but current solutions lack flexibility and reconfigurability. This work thus proposes ColosSUMO as a way to couple Colosseum, the world's largest wireless network emulator, with the SUMO mobility simulator, showing its design concept, how it can be exploited to simulate realistic vehicular environments, and its flexibility in terms of communication technologies.