Changing WSM(WAVE Short Message) packet size in Veins

Question

Does setting length of WSM via setWsmLength or adding a large payload via setWsmData makes any difference during simulation? I am trying to simulat

Answer 1

I know it is decades later, but maybe it can help some new vanets lovers like me.

In omnet++5.4.1 and Veins 4.7.1, in the function

populateWSM()

defined in BaseWaveApplLayer.cc (veins/modules/application/ieee80211p), you can set the bit length with the

wsm->setBitLength()

method and it changes the size of the wsm packet. By default, it has the length of the header

wsm->setBitLength(headerLength)

I have played with this and could obtain different packet sizes.

Hope this is useful.