Synthetic mobility traces for vehicular networking

This chapter provides a comprehensive survey on the generation of vehicular mobility traces for network simulation. It presents an introduction to the process of generating synthetic mobility traces and outlines the history of synthetic vehicular mobility generation. The chapter provides a taxonomy of the most important tools employed in the process above, that is the microscopic-level simulators that are available today for the generation of vehicular mobility traces. Finally, the outcome of the process, that is the mobility traces that are publicly available for the simulation of vehicular networks, are presented.