One of the hard parts for this project is the installation of omnetpp and sumo.

SUMO

Since veins requires a quitely old sumo version, we cannot directly use ‘sudo apt-get sumo’ to install it. I have checked this Youtube video for the installation of any versions sumo.

Specifically, the installation for sumo (Ubuntu System) has following steps:

• Download sumo from this link. For example, I use ‘sumo-src-0.32.0.tar.gz’ here
• Extract the sumo installation file.
• CD to the extracted file.
• In the command line, type:

  sudo apt install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev libfox-1.6-dev libproj-dev libxerces-c-dev libxerces-c3.2 libgdal-dev default-jdk 
      
  ./configure
      
  make
      
  sudo make install
  

  Now you can test whether you have installed sumo successfully, just type ‘sumo-gui’ in the command line.

Moreover, remember to add sumo in you path, in the command line:

  Type 'gedit ~/.barshc'
  
  Add ' export SUMO_HOME="/Yourpath/sumo-0.32.0" ' to the end of the file. DO NOT change any other things of this file!
  
  reboot or type 'source ~/.barshc'

How to create a simulation map and generate vehicles:

• Download a OSM file of the selected area from openstreetmap.org
• Open your terminal
• Convert the OSM file to a sumo network file (XXX.net.xml) using this command:

  netconvert --osm-files XXX.osm -o XXX.net.xml --junctions.join --tls.guess-signals --tls.discard-simple --tls.join
  

• Import polygons from OSM data and produce a sumo-polygon file using this command:

  polyconvert --net-file XXX.net.xml --osm-files XXX.osm --type-file typemap.xml -o XXX.poly.xml
  

• Generate vehicle traffic demand using this command, ‘randomeTrips.py’ can be found on ‘sumo/tools’

  python XXX/sumo/tools/randomTrips.py --n XXX.net.xml -r cars.rou.xml -t "type=\"car\" departSpeed=\"max\" departLane=\"best\" -c passenger --additional-files car.add.xml -p 1.4 e 1000 -l
  

OMNETPP

Although there are many videos or blogs about the installation of it, I strongly suggest you take a look at the official mannual of omnetpp, it will make you life become much more easier.

VEINS

The installation of veins is quite simple, just download it from its officail site.

Build Connection

After you got sumo, omnetpp and veins, you can try fisrt to run the example provided by veins. Take a look at this Youtube video, it is really helpful.

Try Your Project

Another exciting thing is to build a network for your own, the process is quite simple. Please check this Youtube video.

By the way, all the information I provided here are built based on other people’s efforts. I just summarize them together based on my understanding.