An integrated simulation tool called Video Delivery Simulation Framework over Vehicular
Networks (VDSF-VN) is presented. This framework is intended to allow users to conduct experiments
related to video transmission in vehicular networks by means of simulation. Research on this topic
requires the use of many independent tools, such as traffic and network simulators, intermediate
frameworks, video encoders and decoders, converters, platform-dependent scripting languages,
data visualisation packages and spreadsheets, and some other tasks are performed manually. The lack
of tools necessary to carry out all these tasks in an integrated and efficient way formed the motivation
for the development of the VDSF-VN framework. It is managed via two user-friendly applications,
GatcomSUMO and GatcomVideo, which allow all the necessary tasks to be accomplished. The first
is primarily used to build the network scenario and set up the traffic flows, whereas the second
involves the delivery process of the whole video, encoding/decoding video, running simulations,
and processing all the experimental results to automatically provide the requested figures, tables and
reports. This multiplatform framework is intended to fill the existing gap in this field, and has been
successfully used in several experimental tests of vehicular network
