Management of emergency vehicles can be fostered within a Smart City, i.e. an urban environment in which many IoT devices are orchestrated by distributed intelligence able to suggest road users the best course action different traffic situations. By extending MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation Software), we design and test appropriate mitigation strategies when accidents occur existing ar...

Vehicular-to-anything (V2X) technology is attractive for wireless vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) because it allows for opportunistic choice of a vehicular protocol between vehicular-to-vehicular (V2V) and vehicular-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. In particular, achieving seamless connectivity in a VANET with nearby network infrastructure is challenging. In this paper, we propose a d...

Nowadays, reducing the energy and fuel consumption of road vehicles is a key issue. Different strategies have been proposed. One of them is to promote Eco-driving behaviour among drivers. Most Eco-driving tips take into account only the road stretch where the vehicle is located. However, larger improvements could be achieved if information from subsequent stretches is used. The main objective o...

Formal argument suggests that command, communication and control systems can remain stable in the sense of the Data Rate Theorem that mandates the minimum rate of control information required to stabilize inherently unstable ‘plants’, but may nonetheless, under fog-of-war demands, collapse into dysfunctional modes at variance with their fundamental mission. We apply the theory to autonomous gro...

VANET is a vehicular ad hoc network where a shortlived network is formed among the VANET nodes. VANET nodes communicate and interchange messages with other vehicular nodes either in an infrastructure or infrastructure-less network. Due to lack of fixed infrastructure, VANET is prone to varied attacks. In impersonation attack, identity of the legitimate node is stolen by an attacker. In this pap...

V2X communication communication between vehicles (V2V) and between vehicles and infrastructure (V2I) promises new methods for traffic management by supplying new data and by opening new ways to inform drivers about the current situation on the roads. Currently, V2X cooperative systems are under development, forced by both the industry and by the European Commission which supports the developmen...

Several convenience and efficiency applications have been proposed as part of recent vehicular networks (a.k.a. VANET) activities. Among these proposals, eHealth has often been studied as a time-critical application to emulate an ambulance. The Vehicle-To-Infrastructure (V2I) setting is the typical communication scenario to carry out the data in this case. From a user perspective, combining veh...

Stopping for red lights at intersections forms a major share of energy lost by a vehicle. Studies have indicated that an intelligent approach to vary speeds of vehicles to reduce stopping and idling at intersections can yield major savings in fuel and emissions. However, speed variation for eco-benefits depends on traffic congestion largely. This makes rural corridors a perfect candidate for it...