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

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Next-Generation Wireless Technologies

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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

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    Naveen Chilamkurti

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Appendix: List of Acronyms

Appendix: List of Acronyms

CALM::

Communications Access for Land Mobiles

DGP::

Gross Domestic Product

DSRC::

Dedicated Short-Range Communications

ECS::

European Committee for Standardization

IEEE::

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ISO::

International Organization for Standardization

ITS::

Intelligent Transportation Systems

ITSA::

Intelligent Transportation Society of America

MANET::

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

OBU::

On-Board Unit

OFDM::

Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing

QoS::

Quality of Service

RSU::

RoadSide Unit

VANET::

Vehicular ad-hoc Networks

V2I::

Vehicle-to-Infrastructure

V2R::

Vehicle-to-Roadside

V2V::

Vehicle-to-Vehicle

WAVE::

Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments

WiMAX::

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WLAN::

Wireless Local Area Network

3G::

Third Generation

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Guerrero-Ibáñez, J.A., Flores-Cortés, C., Zeadally, S. (2013). Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs): Architecture, Protocols and Applications. In: Chilamkurti, N., Zeadally, S., Chaouchi, H. (eds) Next-Generation Wireless Technologies. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5164-7_5

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