Artery (VEINS extension) - LTE and IEEE 802.11p combined

Question

I'm new to Artery, although I have some experience with VEINS. I've been able to run simulations where all nodes have IEEE 802.11p interfaces, or all nodes have LTE interfaces.

However, I'm having trouble implementing a combined scenario.

Is it possible to run simulations where:

• Some nodes have IEEE 802.11p and other nodes have LTE interfaces?
• Do nodes possess both IEEE 802.11p and LTE interfaces?

If so, how can I achieve it?

Answer 1

I recommend you to use the artery.lte.World network for this purpose because it features the required LTE modules on top of artery.inet.World for WLAN communication. The artery.lte.Car vehicles already come with LTE and WLAN radios. You can control the number of WLAN radios per vehicle via the numRadios parameter. Please also have a look at the traci.MultiTypeModuleMapper which allows you to use different module types for vehicles, e.g. a mix of artery.lte.Car (1 LTE + N WLAN interfaces) and artery.inet.Car (0 LTE + N WLAN interfaces).