Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) enable vehicles to exchange information on traffic
conditions, dynamic status and localization, to enhance road safety and transportation …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be a powerful tool for live (interactive) remote
inspection of large-scale structures or areas of interest. Instead of manual, local, and labor …

In this paper, we study (homogeneous) predecessor-following platoons in which the vehicle-
to-vehicle (V2V) communications are affected by random packet losses. We model the …

Platooning is a promising concept used within the Intelligent Transportation System to
increase efficiency and safety of road transportation. It is based on periodically sharing the …

Since 2007, most of the world population lives in cities (UN, 2009) and the currently
available and resources are not enough to cope with the crescent demand caused by the …

Vehicular networks are a core component in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
enabling communication among vehicles for collaborative applications. One example of …

This dissertation addresses various communication and networking challenges that arise
when dealing with the design of real-time wireless networked systems operating over water …

The prospect scenario for wireless communications and networking technologies in aquatic
environments is nowadays promising. The growing interest around this subject in the last …

O congestionamento do tráfego rodoviário está a tornar-se uma questão inconveniente,
aumentando os acidentes rodoviários, o consumo de combustível e afetando a saúde dos …