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Vehicular Communications and Networking

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2013) | Viewed by 37812

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Esteban Egea-López

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Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Technical University of Cartagena, Plaza del Hospital 2, 30202 Cartagena, Spain
Interests: vehicular communications; wireless networks; medium access protocols; resource allocation
Dr. Juan J. Alcaraz

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Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Technical University of Cartagena, Plaza del Hospital 2, 30202 Cartagena, Spain
Interests: vehicular communications; wireless networks; medium access protocols; resource allocation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Significant efforts are being carried out by industry, academia and public agencies to improve driving safety, provide travel assistance, increase vehicle traffic efficiency and decrease fuel consumption by exploiting vehicular communications and networking technologies. These technologies, which are generally referred to as VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks) or by the more general term VCS (Vehicular Communication Systems), include vehicle-to-infrastructure, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and can be based on short- and medium-range communication as well as on cellular systems. The development and deployment of VCS are also considered one of the most critical issues for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry.
This special issue seeks for contributions addressing technical and research issues, development projects, standardization activities, and field trials on VCS technologies and applications. Contributions can be of theoretical or practical nature, original results or state-of-the-art surveys of interest to the VCS community, focused on communication issues or on applications. Manuscripts from both academia and industry professionals are welcomed.
This special issue also publishes extended versions of selected papers from VECON 2012 (2nd International Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Networking, http://ait.upct.es/vecon2012/), held in conjunction with WiMob 2012 (8th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications).

Dr. Esteban Egea-López
Dr. Juan J. Alcaraz
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The workshop website is available at: http://ait.upct.es/vecon2012/

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Keywords

  • VCS standardization activities and government policies
  • Architectures and protocols for VCS
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks
  • Medium access control in VCS
  • Resource allocation in VCS
  • Safety applications of VCS
  • Simulation issues for VCS
  • Mobility and vehicular traffic models
  • Vehicular Traffic Management
  • VCS technologies for fuel efficiency and reduced emissions
  • Security, encryption and privacy for vehicular systems
  • Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of VCS
  • Human-machine interaction in VCS
  • Driving assistance and comfort applications
  • Networking aspects of VCS
  • QoS and real-time support in VCS
  • Physical layer aspects of the vehicular wireless link
  • Cognitive radio in VCS
  • Delay-tolerant techniques for VCS
  • Deployment issues in VCS
  • Real-world experiences and testbeds

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Sending Safety Video over WiMAX in Vehicle Communications
by Jun Steed Huang, Oliver Yang and Funmilyo Lawal
Future Internet 2013, 5(4), 535-567; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi5040535 - 31 Oct 2013
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This paper reports on the design of an OPNET simulation platform to test the performance of sending real-time safety video over VANET (Vehicular Adhoc NETwork) using the WiMAX technology. To provide a more realistic environment for streaming real-time video, a video model was [...] Read more.
This paper reports on the design of an OPNET simulation platform to test the performance of sending real-time safety video over VANET (Vehicular Adhoc NETwork) using the WiMAX technology. To provide a more realistic environment for streaming real-time video, a video model was created based on the study of video traffic traces captured from a realistic vehicular camera, and different design considerations were taken into account. A practical controller over real-time streaming protocol is implemented to control data traffic congestion for future road safety development. Our driving video model was then integrated with the WiMAX OPNET model along with a mobility model based on real road maps. Using this simulation platform, different mobility cases have been studied and the performance evaluated in terms of end-to-end delay, jitter and visual experience. Full article
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Physical Layer Network Coding Based on Integer Forcing Precoded Compute and Forward
by Smrati Gupta and M. A. Vázquez-Castro
Future Internet 2013, 5(3), 439-459; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi5030439 - 28 Aug 2013
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In this paper, we address the implementation of physical layer network coding (PNC) based on compute and forward (CF) in relay networks. It is known that the maximum achievable rates in CF-based transmission is limited due to the channel approximations at the relay. [...] Read more.
In this paper, we address the implementation of physical layer network coding (PNC) based on compute and forward (CF) in relay networks. It is known that the maximum achievable rates in CF-based transmission is limited due to the channel approximations at the relay. In this work, we propose the integer forcing precoder (IFP), which bypasses this maximum rate achievability limitation. Our precoder requires channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, but only that of the channel between the transmitter and the relay, which is a feasible assumption. The overall contributions of this paper are three-fold. Firstly, we propose an implementation of CF using IFP and prove that this implementation achieves higher rates as compared to traditional relaying schemes. Further, the probability of error from the proposed scheme is shown to have up to 2 dB of gain over the existent lattice network coding-based implementation of CF. Secondly, we analyze the two phases of transmission in the CF scheme, thereby characterizing the end-to-end behavior of the CF and not only one-phase behavior, as in previous proposals. Finally, we develop decoders for both the relay and the destination. We use a generalization of Bezout’s theorem to justify the construction of these decoders. Further, we make an analytical derivation of the end-to-end probability of error for cubic lattices using the proposed scheme. Full article
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Cross-Network Information Dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs): Experimental Results from a Smartphone-Based Testbed
by Stefano Busanelli, Filippo Rebecchi, Marco Picone, Nicola Iotti and Gianluigi Ferrari
Future Internet 2013, 5(3), 398-428; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi5030398 - 5 Aug 2013
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In this work, we present an innovative approach for effective cross-network information dissemination, with applications to vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). The proposed approach, denoted as "Cross-Network Effective Traffic Alert Dissemination" (X-NETAD), leverages on the spontaneous formation of local WiFi (IEEE 802.11b) VANETs, [...] Read more.
In this work, we present an innovative approach for effective cross-network information dissemination, with applications to vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). The proposed approach, denoted as "Cross-Network Effective Traffic Alert Dissemination" (X-NETAD), leverages on the spontaneous formation of local WiFi (IEEE 802.11b) VANETs, with direct connections between neighboring vehicles, in order to disseminate, very quickly and inexpensively, traffic alerts received from the cellular network. The proposed communication architecture has been implemented on Android smartphones. The obtained experimental results show that an effective cross-network information dissemination service can entirely rely on smartphone-based communications. This paves the way to future Internet architectures, where vehicles will play a key role as information destinations and sources. Full article
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eHealth Service Support in Future IPv6 Vehicular Networks
by Sofiane Imadali, Athanasia Karanasiou, Alexandru Petrescu, Ioannis Sifniadis, Eleftheria Velidou, Véronique Vèque and Pantelis Angelidis
Future Internet 2013, 5(3), 317-335; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi5030317 - 27 Jun 2013
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Recent vehicular networking activities include novel automotive applications, such as public vehicle to vehicle/infrastructure (V2X), large scale deployments, machine-to-machine (M2M) integration scenarios, and more. The platform described in this paper focuses on the integration of eHealth in a V2I setting. This is to [...] Read more.
Recent vehicular networking activities include novel automotive applications, such as public vehicle to vehicle/infrastructure (V2X), large scale deployments, machine-to-machine (M2M) integration scenarios, and more. The platform described in this paper focuses on the integration of eHealth in a V2I setting. This is to allow the use of Internet from a vehicular setting to disseminate health-related information. From an eHealth viewpoint, the use of remote healthcare solutions to record and transmit a patient’s vital signs is a special telemedicine application that helps hospital resident health professionals to optimally prepare the patient’s admittance. From the automotive perspective, this is a typical vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication scenario. This proposal provides an IPv6 vehicular platform, which integrates eHealth devices and allows sending captured health-related data to a personal health record (PHR) application server in the IPv6 Internet. The collected data is viewed remotely by a doctor and supports his diagnostic decision. In particular, our work introduces the integration of vehicular and eHealth testbeds, describes related work and presents a lightweight auto-configuration method based on a DHCPv6 extension to provide IPv6 connectivity with a few numbers of messages. Full article
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Optimization of Vehicular Trajectories under Gaussian Noise Disturbances
by Juan-Bautista Tomas-Gabarron, Esteban Egea-Lopez and Joan Garcia-Haro
Future Internet 2013, 5(1), 1-20; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi5010001 - 27 Dec 2012
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Nowadays, research on Vehicular Technology aims at automating every single mechanical element of vehicles, in order to increase passengers’ safety, reduce human driving intervention and provide entertainment services on board. Automatic trajectory tracing for vehicles under especially risky circumstances is a field of [...] Read more.
Nowadays, research on Vehicular Technology aims at automating every single mechanical element of vehicles, in order to increase passengers’ safety, reduce human driving intervention and provide entertainment services on board. Automatic trajectory tracing for vehicles under especially risky circumstances is a field of research that is currently gaining enormous attention. In this paper, we show some results on how to develop useful policies to execute maneuvers by a vehicle at high speeds with the mathematical optimization of some already established mobility conditions of the car. We also study how the presence of Gaussian noise on measurement sensors while maneuvering can disturb motion and affect the final trajectories. Different performance criteria for the optimization of such maneuvers are presented, and an analysis is shown on how path deviations can be minimized by using trajectory smoothing techniques like the Kalman Filter. We finalize the paper with a discussion on how communications can be used to implement these schemes. Full article
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