VANET (PDF)

This book provides an invaluable introduction to inter-vehicular
communications, demonstrating the networking and communication
technologies for reducing fatalities, improving transportation
efficiency, and minimising environmental impact.

This book addresses the applications and technical aspects of
radio-based vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure
communication that can be established by short- and medium range
communication based on wireless local area network technology
(primarily IEEE 802.11). It contains a coherent treatment of the
important topics and technologies contributed by leading experts in
the field, covering the potential applications for and their
requirements on the communications system. The authors cover
physical and medium access control layer issues with focus on IEEE
802.11-based systems, and show how many of the applications benefit
when information is efficiently disseminated, and the techniques
that provide attractive data aggregation (also includes design of
the corresponding middleware). The book also considers issues such
as IT-security (means and fundamental trade-off between security
and privacy), current standardization activities such as IEEE
802.11p, and the IEEE 1609 standard series.

Key Features:

* Covers the state-of-the-art in the field of vehicular
inter-networks such as safety and efficiency applications, physical
and medium access control layer issues, middleware, and
security

* Shows how vehicular networks differ from other mobile networks
and illustrates the idea of vehicle-to-vehicle communications with
application scenarios and with current proofs of concept
worldwide

* Addresses current standardization activities such as IEEE
802.11p and the IEEE 1609 standard series

* Offers a chapter on mobility models and their use for
simulation of vehicular inter-networks

* Provides a coherent treatment of the important topics and
technologies contributed by leading academic and industry experts
in the field

This book provides a reference for professional automotive
technologists (OEMS and suppliers), professionals in the area of
Intelligent Transportation Systems, and researchers attracted to
the field of wireless vehicular communications. Third and fourth
year undergraduate and graduate students will also find this book
of interest.

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