Vehicular Networks

Contents

Chapter 1: Congestion Control for Safety Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Beaconing frequency

1.4. Transmission power.

1.5. Minimum contention window

1.6. Physical carrier sense

1.7. Conclusion

1.8. Bibliography

Chapter 2: Inter-Vehicle Communication for the Next Generation of Intelligent Transport Systems: Trends in Geographic Ad Hoc Routing Techniques

2.1. Introduction

2.2. IVC-relating ITS projects

2.3. Wireless sublayer techniques

2.4. Geographic routing techniques for VANET

2.5. Conclusion and open issues

2.6. Acknowledgments

2.7. Bibliography

Chapter 3: CONVOY: A New Cluster-Based Routing Protocol for Vehicular Networks

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Clustering or network partitioning

3.3. Mobility-based clustering in ad hoc vehicular networks

3.4. Clustering of VANETs for MAC and transport applications

3.5. CONVOY: a vehicle convoy formation protocol

3.6. Assessment of the convoy formation protocol

3.7. Conclusion

3.8. Bibliography

Chapter 4: Complementarity between Vehicular Networks and LTE Networks

4.1. Introduction

4.2. State of the art

4.3. General description of the proposed architecture

4.4. Detailed description of the LTE4V2X-C protocol

4.5. A detailed description of the LTE4V2X-D protocol

4.6. Performance evaluation

4.7. Conclusion

4.8. Bibliography

Chapter 5: Gateway Selection Algorithms in Vehicular Networks

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Clustering and gateway selection in VANET networks

5.3. Gateway selection in a clustered VANET-LTE advanced hybrid network

5.4. Conclusion

5.5. Bibliography

Chapter 6: Synthetic Mobility Traces for Vehicular Networking

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Generation process

6.3. Mobility simulators

6.4. Mobility traces

6.5. Bibliography

Chapter 7: Traffic Signal Control Systems and Car-to-Car Communications

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Classification of traffic signal control systems

7.3. Traffic signal control and car-to-car communication

7.4. Summary and conclusion

7.5. Bibliography

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