Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks

✍ Scribed by Kan Zheng, Lin Zhang, Wei Xiang, Wenbo Wang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 93
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This brief examines recent developments in the Heterogeneous Vehicular NETworks (HETVNETs), integrating cellular networks with Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) for meeting the communications requirements of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS)services. Along with a review of recent literature, a unified framework of the HetVNET is presented. The brief focuses on introducing efficient MAC mechanisms for vehicular communications, including channel access protocols, broadcast/multicast protocols, the location-based channel congestion control scheme and the content-based resource allocation scheme. The cooperative communication between vehicles is discussed.

This brief concludes with a discussion on future research directions, and provides the readers with useful insights into the future designs in the HetVNETs, to motivate new ideas for performance improvements in vehicular networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Architecture of Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks....Pages 9-24
Efficient MAC Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks....Pages 25-46
Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks....Pages 47-77
Conclusion and Outlook....Pages 79-82

✦ Subjects

Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Communication Networks