
Vehicular Communications and Networks
Architectures, Protocols, Operation and Deployment
Description
Key Features
- Comprehensive coverage of the fundamental principles behind Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETS) and the rapidly growing need for their further development
- Thorough overview of the design and development of key technologies and devices
- Explores the practical application of this technology by outlining a number of case studies, testbeds and simulations employing vehicular communications and networks
Readership
Postgraduate students and academic researchers in automotive engineering, electronics, computer engineering, telecommunications and networking will find this a useful reference book. It will be of interest to R&D managers in industrial sectors such as the automotive industry, wireless technology, electronics, telecommunications and networking, and information technology, and also to government agencies and standards organisations.
Table of Contents
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- Part One. Architectures for vehicular communication systems
- 1. Vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. V2I applications, requirements and related work
- 1.3. Performance of cellular communication systems for vehicular applications
- 1.4. System model for the evaluation of the impact of V2I communications on LTE resource utilization
- 1.5. Channel-aware V2I communications for efficient utilization of cellular resources
- 1.6. Future trends
- 1.7. Sources of further information and advice
- 2. Vehicular ad hoc networks
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Primary applications
- 2.3. Enabling technologies
- 2.4. Technical challenges
- 2.5. Societal challenges
- 2.6. The future of VANETs
- 1. Vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
- Part Two. Protocols, algorithms, routing and information dissemination for vehicular networks
- 3. Medium access control in vehicular ad hoc networks
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Requirements and challenges
- 3.3. IEEE standards for DSRC MAC
- 3.4. MAC for multichannel
- 3.5. QoS scheme in MAC
- 3.6. MAC broadcast mechanism
- 3.7. Future trends
- 3.8. Sources of further information and advice
- 4. Information dissemination in vehicular networks
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Dissemination concepts
- 4.3. Broadcast-based dissemination
- 4.4. Multi-hop dissemination and store–carry–forward
- 4.5. Dissemination via cellular networks
- 4.6. Future trends
- 4.7. Further reading
- 5. Broadcasting in vehicular networks
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Review of related research
- 5.3. System design
- 5.4. Factors affecting reliability
- 5.5. Improving reliability by considering traffic patterns
- 5.6. Conclusion
- 6. Opportunistic routing and delay-tolerant networking in vehicular communication systems
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Delay-tolerant networking in vehicular communication systems
- 6.3. Opportunistic routing in vehicular communication systems
- 6.4. Conclusions
- 7. Dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio for vehicular communication networks
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio
- 7.3. Introduction to vehicular dynamic spectrum access
- 7.4. VDSA with learning
- 7.5. VDSA implementation
- 7.6. Summary
- 8. Modeling and evaluation of location-based forwarding in vehicular networks
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. System and modeling assumptions
- 8.3. Analysis
- 8.4. Illustrative numerical examples
- 8.5. Conclusions
- 9. Security and privacy in vehicular networks
- 9.1. Introduction and security requirements
- 9.2. Identity management in C2X
- 9.3. Privacy protection
- 9.4. Misbehaviour detection
- 9.5. Outlook and open issues
- 3. Medium access control in vehicular ad hoc networks
- Part Three. Operation and deployment of vehicular communications and networks
- 10. Connected vehicles in an intelligent transport system
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. DSRC/WAVE for connected vehicles
- 10.3. LTE for connected vehicles
- 10.4. Mobility handling in VANETs based on LTE-A networked femtocells
- 10.5. Conclusions
- 11. Test bed for simulations of the effect of a vehicle ad hoc network on traffic flow
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory
- 11.3. Kerner–Klenov stochastic microscopic three-phase traffic flow model
- 11.4. Model of an ad hoc network
- 11.5. Simulations of a neighbour table
- 11.6. Highway control based on ad hoc network
- 11.7. Prevention of traffic breakdown at an on-ramp bottleneck through vehicle ad hoc network
- 11.8. Prevention of moving jam emergence in synchronized flow through vehicle ad hoc network
- 11.9. Effect of danger warning ‘breakdown vehicle ahead’ on congestion patterns
- 11.10. Conclusions
- 12. Simulative performance evaluation of vehicular networks
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Mobility
- 12.3. Wireless communication
- 12.4. Coupling mobility and network simulators
- 12.5. Performance evaluation
- 13. Architectures for intelligent vehicles
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Protocol architectures in communications
- 13.3. A survey of intelligent vehicle architectures
- 13.4. An architecture for CDSs
- 13.5. Conclusion
- 10. Connected vehicles in an intelligent transport system
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 324
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2015
- Published: March 9, 2015
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9781782422167
- Hardcover ISBN: 9781782422112
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