Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Intelligent Transportation Systems

ISBN-13: 9783844307108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 200 str.

Opis

The convergence of telecommunication, computing, wireless, and transportation technologies facilitates that our roads and highways can be both our communications and transportation platforms. These changes will completely revolutionize when and how we access services, communicate, commute, entertain, and navigate, in the coming future. The specific characteristics of vehicular networks favor the development of attractive and challenging services and applications. In this book we focus on safety applications. Specifically, we develop and evaluate a novel protocol to improve safety on the road. Our proposal combines location information of vehicles, and roadmap scenario characteristics, to improve warning message dissemination. In safety- based applications for vehicular networks our approach is able to reduce the broadcast storm problem while maintaining a high message dissemination effectiveness towards surrounding vehicles. Finally, we assess the performance of our proposed protocol using our enhanced simulation platform, evidencing the importance of an adequate simulation framework to achieve more realistic results and draw more meaningful conclusions.

O autorze

He is an associate professor in the Department of Computers and Systems Engineering at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Valencia in 2010. His current research interests include VANET simulation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, V2V and V2I communications.