In the near future, most new vehicles will be equipped with shortrange radios capable of communicating with other vehicles or with highway infrastructure at distances of at least one kilometer. The radios will allow new applications that will revolutionize the driving experience, providing everything from instant, localized traffic updates to warning signals when the car ahead abruptly brakes. ...

With vehicular ad hoc networks gaining an ever-increasing interest to serve a diverse variety of applications in today’s intelligent transportation systems, it was not at all surprising for the guest editorial team to receive a handful of submissions for this special issue addressing different aspects and test-beds of vehicular networks. In sum, 8 papers were accepted to be published in the spe...

The boundary element technique is a practical problem-solving tool and useful in comparison to other currently popular alternatives. In this paper, a circular tunnel of a diameter 3.4 m is to be excavated through a clayey soil and surrounded by concrete lining of a thickness 0.2 m, so the clear internal diameter is 3.0 m. A plane strain analysis is adopted for such problem and the soil is assum...

The research world is paying a lot of attention on vehicular networks nowadays. Novel vehicular services need a suitable communication channel in order to extend in-car capabilities and, generally, be aware about surrounding events. Such networks, however, present some special features, such as high mobility or specific topologies. These properties affect the performance of applications, and mo...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) has materialized as a major research area for the last decade. Since the vehicular network does not have stable infrastructure the main focus remains on networking part, which is divided into clusters using clustering techniques to increase scalability of the network. This paper is a survey on heterogeneous approaches for a cluster based routing protocol that is...

IEEE 802.11p is one of the most promising future wireless standards due to the increasing demand of vehicular communication applications. At the time of writing, the document of the standard is in draft and much research is still required to study and improve the performance of transceivers in common vehicular scenarios. In this paper, we present a framework to evaluate the PHY layer of IEEE 80...

Most securityand privacy-preserving protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) heavily rely on time-consuming cryptographic operations which produce a huge volume of cryptographic data. These data are usually employed for many kinds of decisions, which poses the challenge of processing the received cryptographic data fast enough to avoid unaffordable reaction delay. To meet that challenge,...

Ad-hoc networks are an emerging technology with immense potential. Recent advances in high-tech sensors, communication devices and microprocessors has given rise to a growing commercial interest in ad-hoc networks for inter-vehicular communications. Most of the research in inter-vehicular communication systems has focused on driver safety, accident reporting and multi-hop routing. There is an e...

Now a day’s Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is an emerging technology. Mobility management is one of the most challenging research issues for VANETs to support variety of intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications. VANETs are getting importance for inter-vehicle communication, because they allow the communication among vehicles without any infrastructure, configuration effort, and wi...

The ad hoc wireless exchange of position and velocity information between vehicles enables a plethora of new applications that can increase the safety and efficiency of driving. Efficient and reliable flooding mechanisms for vehicular applications mandate correct and timely received positions, vehicular safety applications even more so. This work first assesses the impact of different position ...