The Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology has been used in Vehicular communication to enable short-lived safety and non-safety applications based on Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). VANETs are used by spontaneously creating a wireless network of vehicles with high mobility and fixed infrastructure....

Safety applications are the highest priority services in the Vehicular Ad Hoc NETworks (VANETs). To support the highest priority service, the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is designed to provide efficient broadcast. Compared to IEEE 1609.4, a new multi-channel MAC for VANET (HER-MAC) is proposed which is more reliable in safety applications. In this paper, we propose an analytical model ...

One of the main objectives of the European TRACE project (Traffic Accident Causation in Europe, January 2006 – June 2008) was the development of methodology for the evaluation of the safety benefit of existing on-board safety applications in passenger cars with the use of mass accident data-bases only. The challenge was to evaluate passive safety applications as well as active applications and ...

Modern challenges of food science require a new understanding of the determinants of food quality and safety. Application of advanced imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has seen impressive successes and fast growth over the past decade. Since MRI does not have any harmful ionizing radiation, it can be considered as a magnificent tool for the quality control of food prod...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) are unique in their characteristics. Most of the VANET applications request one-to-many (group) communications. In this paper we discuss routing in DTN based VANET application. In our study we consider only the non-safety applications in the VANET environment. These applications request multicast routing. However the existing routing approaches which are mainly...

In this paper, an integrated inter-vehicles wireless communications and positioning system supporting alternate positioning techniques is proposed to meet the requirements of safety applications of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS). Recent advances have repeatedly demonstrated that road safety problems can be to a large extent addressed via a range of technologies including...

This article surveys protocols and applications for the driving safety and efficiency in vehicular sensor networks. Nowadays, most vehicles are equipped with Global Positioning System navigation systems in the form of a dedicated navigator or smartphone app. Also, the government regulation requires vehicles to be equipped with dedicated shortrange communication device for the communications amo...

Preliminary work on the development of measures appropriate for the safety domain is reported. Measures are expressed in the style of the Practical Software and Systems Measurement (PSM) approach, a programme sponsored by the US DoD. Proposed measures are integrated with the PSM measurement framework. Reported work has been informed by discussions within the PSM community and by concurrent work...

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