Vehicular communications have grown in interest over the years and are nowadays
recognized as a pillar for the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) in order to ensure an …

Wireless vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-toinfrastructure (V2I) communication holds
great promise for significantly reducing the human and financial costs of vehicle collisions. A …

Beacon or safety messages are broadcasted in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) to
disseminate network state or emergency incident information to other vehicles in the …

The emergence of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is expected to be an important step
toward achieving safety and efficiency in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). One …

Platooning, which is the idea of cars autonomously following their leaders to form a road
train, has huge potential to improve traffic flow efficiency and, most importantly, road traffic …

Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication becomes an emerging topic because of its
capability to provide efficient solution which guarantees more pleasant driving environment …

Channel congestion is one of the major challenges for IEEE 802.11 p-based vehicular
networks. Unless controlled, congestion increases with vehicle density, leading to high …

Congestion in vehicular ad hoc networks affects the performance of delay-sensitive
applications when exchanging emergency or general information sharing messages. In …

Cooperative vehicular networks require the exchange of positioning and basic status
information between neighboring nodes to support vehicular applications. The exchange of …

Cooperative inter-vehicular applications rely on the exchange of broadcast single-hop status
messages among vehicles, called beacons. The aggregated load on the wireless channel …