Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs): Architecture, Protocols and Applications

This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of vehicular communications (including vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, and intelligent transportation systems), covering VANET research areas (such as broadcasting, routing, security, QoS, and MAC), performance metrics for VANET, and the standards DSRC and IEEE 802.11p. The chapter also examines architectures and solutions that have been proposed for broadcasting, routing, security, QoS, and MAC, and discusses the challenges that still need to be addressed.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments, which helped us to improve the quality and presentation of this chapter. Sherali Zeadally was partially supported by a District of Columbia NASA Space Grant and an NSF TIP grant (Award Number 1036293) during the course of this work.

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  1. School of Telematics, University of Colima, Av. Universidad 333, Colima, COL, 28040, Mexico J. A. Guerrero-Ibáñez & C. Flores-Cortés
  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, 20008, USA Sherali Zeadally
  1. J. A. Guerrero-Ibáñez