With the envisioned era of Internet of Things (IoTs), all aspects of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) will be connected to improve transport safety, relieve traffic congestion, reduce air pollution, enhance the comfort of transportation and significantly reduce road accidents. In IoVs, regular exchange of current position, direction, velocity, etc., enables mobile vehicles to predict an...

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are communication networks formed on the fly by radio-equipped mobile nodes without relying on any fixed infrastructure. Flooding is the simplest technique for information dissemination in ad hoc based networks, in which nodes disseminate a received message to all their neighbors. This algorithm leads to the broadcast storm problem that severely affects the energ...

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks [VANET] is one of the fastest emerging technologies for research as there are many issues and challenges to be addressed by the researchers before the technology becomes commercialized. The challenges in VANET are, designing suitable routing protocols appropriate to the traffic model, providing security of the data and emergency messages, avoiding the collision of mess...

Most reactive route discovery protocols in MANETs employ a random delay between rebroadcast route requests (RREQ) in order to avoid “broadcast storms”. However this can lead to problems such as “next hop racing”, and high redundancy in the rebroadcasting. In this paper we propose a Priority-based Route Discovery Strategy (PRDS) to address both problems. PRDS is a distributed algorithm that assi...

TV logo detection, tracking and removal play an important role in the applications of claiming video content ownership, logo-based broadcasting surveillance, commercial skipping, and program rebroadcasting with new logos. In this paper, we present a novel and robust framework using tensor method for these three tasks. First, we use tensor based generalized gradient and the OTSU binarization alg...

ODMRP (On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol) [5] [7] [1] is a popular multicast protocol for wireless ad hoc networks. The strengths of ODMRP are simplicity, high packet delivery ratio, and non-dependency on a specific unicast protocol. ODMRP floods a route request over the entire network to select a set of forwarding nodes for packet delivery. However, a single forwarding path is vulnerable to...

In mobile ad hoc network (MANET), each device is continuously move independently in any direction, and will therefore change its links to other devices continuously. Due to high mobility of nodes in the mobile ad-hoc network there will be the frequent link breakage which gives the frequent path failure and route discovery. The overhead of route discovery cannot be ignored in the Mobile ad-hoc n...

Vehicular networks are a promising application of mobile ad hoc networks. In this paper, we introduce an efficient broadcast technique, called CB-S (Cell Broadcast for Streets), for vehicular networks with occlusions such as skyscrapers. In this environment, the road network is fragmented into cells such that nodes in a cell can communicate with any node within a two cell distance. Each mobile ...

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) are self-configuring infrastructureless networks of mobile devices connected via wireless links. Each device can send and receive data, but it should also forward traffic unrelated to its own use. All need to maintain their autonomy, and effectively preserve their resources (e.g. battery power). Moreover, they can leave the network at any time. Their intrinsic dyn...