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Wireless Vehicular Networks for Car Collision Avoidance

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  • © 2013

Overview

  • Presents the vehicular wireless technology required in order to interconnect vehicles to an intelligent cooperative communicating infrastructure

  • Demonstrates how wireless technology in cars can avoid vehicular accidents by providing active roadway safety

  • Covers concrete accident scenarios and provides countermeasures based on wireless networks

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Foundations of Wireless Vehicular Networks

  2. Collisions: Causal Factors and Countermeasures

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About this book

Wireless Vehicular Networks for Car Collision Avoidance focuses on the development of the ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) in order to minimize vehicular accidents. The book presents and analyses a range of concrete accident scenarios while examining the causes of vehicular collision and proposing countermeasures based on wireless vehicular networks.The book also describes the vehicular network standards and quality of service mechanisms focusing on improving critical dissemination of safety information. With recommendations on techniques and protocols to consider when improving road safety policies in order to minimize crashes and collision risks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , ESIEE-Engineering Paris, PRiSM Laboratory-University of Versaille, NOISY LE GRAND, France

    Rola Naja

About the editor

Prof. Naja is a member of the PRiSM research group (Parallelism, Networking, Systems and Modelling - www.prism.uvsq.fr/) at University of Versailles (France) and is affiliated with the ESIEE-Engineering (École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électronique et Électrotechnique-Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Paris, France - www.esiee.fr/).

Dr. Naja obtained her PhD in Computer Networking from the Telecom ParisTech (ENST-Paris). Her research studies lie in the area of resource allocation and mobility handling in wireless mobile multiservice networks. Dr. Naja collaborated with a number of scientists on international projects: Ambience for Ambient Intelligence, Minicell For Quality of Service in UMTS, Co-Drive for Cooperative Driving and others.

She has authored highly ranked research papers published in leading international journals and in International conferences dealing with network modeling and performance, network adaptability and quality of service provisioning.

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