Rights © 2014 Jinqi Zhu et al.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), message dissemination to one or more vehicles is very challenging, due to frequent network disconnections and unc...

Wireless broadcast transmission enables Inter-vehicle or Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication among nearby vehicles and with fixed equipment, referred to as Road Side Units (RSUs). The RSUs within range establish a self-organizing network called Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET). V2V in VANETs is vulnerable cyber-attacks involving message manipulation. Thus, mechanisms should be applied ensure...

Local circuitry within layer IV whisker-related barrels is preferentially sensitive to thalamic population firing synchrony, and neurons respond most vigorously to stimuli, such as high-velocity whisker deflections, that evoke it. Field potential recordings suggest that thalamic barreloid neurons having similar angular preferences fire synchronously. To examine whether angular tuning of cortica...

Real-time traffic signal control has long been a critical way to improve congestion. Transit Signal Priority (TSP) is seen as cost-effective reduce travel time variability. Most of the previous studies develop real-time systems on vehicle basis, which unable efficiently provide preferential treatment transit vehicles. Person-based systems, transform delay computation units from passenger, have ...

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) provide an effective technology for vehicles communicating while on the road. Vehicles are organized in offering support both safety-critical messaging, multi-hop entertainment applications, and connection to internet services through Road Side Units (RSUs). Sharing data between connected can help commuting people exchange travel information, allows content de...

The rate at which neurons fire has wide-reaching implications for the coding schemes used by neural systems. Despite the extensive use of the barrel cortex as a model system, relatively few studies have examined the rate of sensory activity in single neurons in freely moving animals. We examined the activity of barrel cortex neurons in behaving animals during sensory cue interaction, during non...

As an indispensable part of intelligent transportation system, a traffic-sensitive navigation system can assist drivers in avoiding traffic congestion by providing services. The service provider (NSP) utilizes road condition information from nearby vehicles collected roadside units (RSUs) to guide vehicle through optimal route provided the This paper mainly focuses on tackling three key issues ...

Emerging Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are representing the preferred network design for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), mainly based on Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications (Held, 2007). Future vehicles will be fully networked, equipped with on-board computers with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs) (e.g., Wi-Fi, HSDPA, GPS...