Far East Journal of Electronics and Communications © 2016 Pushpa Publishing House, Allahabad, India Published Online: September 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/ECSV216155 Special Volume 2, 2016, Pages 155-162 ISSN: 0973-7006 This paper initially presented at the ICACCI2016 held during May 27-29, 2016 at the University of San Carlos, Philippines. Keywords and phrases: VANET, heterogeneous, IEEE 802.11p, LTE. Lead Guest Editor: Gyanendra Prasad Joshi; Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea. ∗ Corresponding author PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF HETEROGENEOUS VANET BASED ON SIMULATION Rakesh Shrestha, Rojeena Bajracharya, Sirojiddin Djuraev, Seung Yeob Nam ∗ and Kyu-Seek Sohn ∗∗ Department of Information and Communication Engineering Yeungnam University Gyeongsan-si 712-749, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea ∗∗ Department of Hacking and Security Hanyang Cyber University Seoul, South Korea Abstract 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. I. Introduction With the advancement of mobile technology, most of the digital equipment is connected to the internet on the move. These days, people