… Road accidents have been on an alarming increase despite … over an ad-hoc network
environment called vehicle ad-hoc … The VANET is a sub-class of mobile ad-hoc network (MANET)…

… Several algorithms were proposed in the past for matching road vector data; however, … ad
hoc integration. This article presents algorithms for ad hoc integration of maps in which roads …

… For each road segment in the TIGER road map, we convert the starting and ending coordinates
to x-… the map in a graph data structure in which the nodes in the graph represent the road …

… to the road and vehicle information in a network such as the traffic density, velocity, road
map, vehicle direction, and road segments. These types of protocols are called road-aware …

… handshake cannot be avoided for every hop in an ad hoc wireless route. An enhancement
… In this paper, a new MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks was introduced. …

… routing strategy for communication within vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), due to the
… receivers and acquire global road layout information from an onboard digital map. Position-…

… In [52], Belief Theory and Kalman filters are used to provide accurate position estimations
for a vehicle relative to a digital road map. In this method, the Kalman Filter is used to combine …

… A more realistic mobility model, STreet RAndom Waypoint (STRAW) [33] is also based on
the road information from the US road map by US Census Bureau. STRAW uses a simple car-…

… A complex and computationally demanding vehicular mobility model is proposed by the
ETH [14] and generates public and private vehicular traffic over real regional road maps of …

… up-to-date road status map of the local area onboard a … road map is not required, since
vehicles generate the map based upon satellite based positioning (eg GPS) and vehicular ad hoc …