Studies on Urban Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. Overview

   • Hongzi Zhu, Minglu Li

   Pages 1-13

3. Dealing with Vehicular Traces

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   Pages 15-21

4. Realistic Vehicular Mobility Models

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   Pages 23-39

5. Opportunistic Routing Protocols

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   Pages 41-74

6. Vehicle Tracking

   • Hongzi Zhu, Minglu Li

   Pages 75-100

7. Traffic Condition Sensing Application

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   Pages 101-117

8. Back Matter

   Pages 119-124

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With the advancement of wireless technology, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are emerging as a promising approach to realizing "smart cities" and addressing many important transportation problems such as road safety, efficiency, and convenience. This brief provides an introduction to the large trace data set collected from thousands of taxis and buses in Shanghai, the largest metropolis in China. It also presents the challenges, design issues, performance modeling and evaluation of a wide spectrum of VANET research topics, ranging from realistic vehicular mobility models and opportunistic routing, to real-time vehicle tracking and urban sensing applications. In addition to the latest research and techniques, the reader will also learn the trace-driven methodologies and tools of performance modeling and analysis, network protocol design and optimization, and network simulation, thus keeping pace with the fast moving VANET research and development.

• GPS trace
• Opportunistic routing
• Realistic vehicular mobility model
• Urban sensing
• Vehicle tracking

• , Dept. Computer Science &, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, People's Republic

  Hongzi Zhu

• Dept. Computer Science &, Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, People's Republic

  Minglu Li

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