Telematics Communication Technologies and Vehicular Networks: Wireless Architectures and Applications

Advances in information technologies now enable the incorporation of Internet services into vehicles, allowing the transfer of digital data from the smart nodes inside the vehicle to central servers on the Internet.

This book examines critical issues involved with telematics such as vehicular network infrastructure, vehicular network communication protocols, and vehicular services and applications. A defining collection of latest findings and cutting-edge solutions, this highly esteemed reference publication provides useful techniques, tools, and assessments for those involved with computer science, computer engineering, and management information systems.

Topics include:

• Data communications inside vehicular environments
• Delay tolerant vehicular networks
• DTN technologies for vehicular networks
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Mobility models of vehicular networks
• Routing protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks
• Security attack of vehicular networks
• Vehicular ad hoc networks
• Vehicular embedded system architecture
• Vehicular metropolitan area network systems architecture
• Wireless access and GPS systems
• Wireless mesh networks for traffic control