Most Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) network protocols are evaluated by simulation. However in
most network simulators, the physical layer suffers from a lack of realism. Therefore, realistic …

Vehicular networks have a diverse range of applications that varies from safety applications
to comfort applications. Clustering in VANETs is of crucial importance for addressing the …

Vehicular communications is gradually becoming mature after decades of exciting
developments and thriving advances. Resultantly, these advances have opened new …

Vehicular networks form a growing field of wireless technology that pays attention to a wide
range of applications, from infotainment to safety applications. One of the most vital …

A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is made through implementing the principles of mobile
ad hoc networks (MANETs) in the vehicle's domain. With the increasing number of people …

Today's advanced simulators facilitate thorough studies on vehicular ad hoc networks
(VANETs). However, the choice of the physical layer and the mobility models in such …

This chapter first describes the main aspects of the wireless vehicular ad‐hoc network
(VANET) channel and underlines its central role in VANET communications. It presents the …

Recently, the wireless networks, particularly the wireless sensor networks (WSN) occupy an
important place in several application areas due to the progress in microelectronics and …

V2V and V2I channel modeling became recently more of interest. To provide realistic radio
channels either expensive measurements or complex ray tracing simulations are mostly …

Ray tracing is a powerful tool to obtain deterministic characterizations of communication
channels and can be applied to predict the evolution of channels with high level of mobility …