Vehicular networks are sets of surface transportation systems that have the ability to communicate with each other. There are several possible network architectures to organize their in-vehicle computing systems. Potential schemes may include vehicle-to-vehicle ad-hoc networks, wired backbone with wireless last-hops, or hybrid architectures using vehicle-to-vehicle communications to augment roa...

In USA, 2002, approximately 3.2 million intersection-related crashes occurred, corresponding to 50 percent of all reported crashes. In Japan, more than 58 percent of all traffic crashes occur at intersections. With the advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems, such as off-the-shelf and in-vehicle sensor technology, wireless communication and ubiquitous computing research, safety of inters...

Transport infrastructure elements are widespread and increasing in size and length in many countries, with the subsequent alteration of landscapes and wildlife communities. Nonetheless, their effects on habitat selection by raptors are still poorly understood. In this paper, we analyzed raptors' foraging habitat selection in response to conventional roads and high capacity motorways at the land...

Increasing the popularity of SIP based services (VoIP, IPTV, IMS infrastructure) lead to concerns about its ‎security. The main signaling protocol of next generation networks and VoIP systems is Session Initiation Protocol ‎‎(SIP). Inherent vulnerabilities of SIP, misconfiguration of its related components and also its implementation ‎deficiencies cause some security concerns in SIP based infra...

In developed economies, electronic communication infrastructures are crucial for daily public, private, and business interactions. Cellular systems are extensively used for business communications, private interaction, and in some cases, public information services, via such uses as mass SMS messaging. The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is at the core of all communications platforms. ...

In this chapter we show that the organization of the communication and memory infrastructures is critical in today’s complex systems-on-chip (SOCs). We further show that resource management in the form of scheduling or arbitration is common to them both. The increasing importance of these issues is illustrated by following the evolution of an advanced set-top box and highdefinition digital TV a...