Table 5. The simulators used by different TM models.

Article	Simulator
Ahmad, Franqueira & Adnane (2018)	VEINS, SUMO, OMNET++
Gazdar, Belghith & Abutair (2018)	not discussed
Soleymani et al. (2017)	NS2, SUMO
Ahmed, Al-Rubeaai & Tepe (2017)	OMNET++ discrete event, network simulator
Biswas, Sanzgiri & Upadhyaya (2016)	not discussed
Hussain et al. (2016)	not discussed
Sedjelmaci & Senouci (2015)	NS-3
Haddadou, Rachedi & Ghamri-Doudane (2014)	NS-2, SUMO
Rawat et al. (2015)	not discussed
Ya, Shihui & Bin (2015)	not discussed
Rostamzadeh et al. (2015)	MATLAB
Alagar & Wan (2015)	not discussed
Abdelaziz, Lagraa & Lakas (2014)	NS-2
Wahab, Otrok & Mourad (2014)	MATLAB, network simulator, MobiSim traffic
Shaikh & Alzahrani (2014)	SWANS++
Wei, Yu & Boukerche (2014)	not discussed
Yang (2013)	not discussed
Chen & Wei (2013)	not discussed
Li et al. (2013)	NA
Zhang, Chen & Cohen (2013)	not discussed
Monir, Abdel-Hamid & El Aziz (2013)	MATLAB
Rehman et al. (2013)	not discussed
Li et al. (2012)	Groove Net
Gazdar et al. (2012)	Veins
Sahoo et al. (2012)	not discussed
Mármol & Pérez (2012)	TRMSim-V2V
Minhas et al. (2011)	SWANS
Biswas, Misic & Misic (2011)	not discussed
Wu, Ma & Zhang (2011)	NS-3
Chen et al. (2010)	not discussed
Raya et al. (2008)	MATLAB