Vehicular Communications and Networks
Architectures, Protocols, Operation and Deployment

A comprehensive review of the design, development and deployment of vehicular communication systems

Wai Chen (Edited by)

9781782422112

Hardback, published 9 March 2015

324 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.61 kg

Vehicular Communications and Networks: Architectures, Protocols, Operation and Deployment discusses VANETs (Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks) or VCS (Vehicular Communication Systems), which can improve safety, decrease fuel consumption, and increase the capacity of existing roadways and which is critical for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry. Part one covers architectures for VCS, part two describes the physical layer, antenna technologies and propagation models, part three explores protocols, algorithms, routing and information dissemination, and part four looks at the operation and deployment of vehicular communications and networks.

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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

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

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
Index

Subject Areas: WAP [wireless technology TJKW], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK]