This book focuses on emerging technologies in the field of Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITSs) namely efficient information dissemination
between vehicles, infrastructures, pedestrians and public transportation
systems. It covers the state-of-the-art of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
(VANETs), with centralized and decentralized (Peer-to-Peer)
communication architectures, considering several application scenarios.
With a detailed treatment of emerging communication paradigms, including
cross networking and distributed algorithms. Unlike most of the existing
books, this book presents a multi-layer overview of information
dissemination systems, from lower layers (MAC) to high layers
(applications). All those aspects are investigated considering the use
of mobile devices, such as smartphones/tablets and embedded systems,
i.e. technologies that during last years completely changed the current
market, the user expectations, and communication networks. The presented
networking paradigms are supported and validated by means of extensive
simulative analysis and real field deployments in different application
scenarios.
This book represents a reference for professional technologist,
postgraduates and researchers in the area of Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITSs), wireless communication and distributed systems.