With the increasing demand for public and vehicle’s safety on roads, vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) has been widely studied in recent years. Many researchers have investigated the applicability of Long Term Evolution (LTE) to support vehicular applications even though IEEE 802.11p is regarded as a suitable wireless technology for VANET. In order to overcome the limitations faced by single wireless technology, we have considered heterogeneous VANET by integrating IEEE 802.11p and LTE technologies. These two wireless technologies are popular as they are widely used and easily available. We have done the performance evaluation by using an integrated simulation framework for heterogeneous VANETs called VEINS-LTE. The results show that integration of IEEE 802.11p and LTE is suitable for heterogeneous VANETs.

VANET, heterogeneous, IEEE 802.11p, LTE.