  Vehicular cloud computing is gaining popularity thanks to the rapid
advancements in next generation wireless communication networks. Similarly,
Edge Computing, along with its standard proposals such as European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Multi-access Edge Computing
(MEC), will play a vital role in these scenarios, by enabling the execution of
cloud-based services at the edge of the network. Together, these solutions have
the potential to create real micro-datacenters at the network edge, favoring
several benefits like minimal latency, real-time data processing, and data
locality. However, the research community has not yet the opportunity to use
integrated simulation frameworks for the easy testing of applications that
exploit both the vehicular cloud paradigm and MEC-compliant 5G deployment
environments. In this paper, we present our simulation tool as a platform for
researchers and engineers to design, test, and enhance applications utilizing
the concepts of vehicular and edge cloud. Our platform significantly extends
OMNet++ and Simu5G, and implements our ETSI MEC-compliant architecture that
leverages resources provided by far-edge nodes. In addition, the paper analyzes
and reports performance results for our simulation platform, as well as
provides a use case where our simulator is used to support the design, test,
and validation of an algorithm to distribute MEC application components on
vehicular cloud resources.
