Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are composed of vehicles equipped with advanced wireless communication devices. As a paradigm of decentralized advanced traveler information systems (ATIS), VANETs have obtained interests of researchers in both communication and transportation fields. The research in this chapter investigates several fundamental issues, such as the connectivity, the reachabili...

Two major goals of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are to improve road safety and to increase transportation efficiency. In order to achieve these goals, a reliable and efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is required. MAC protocols for VANETs must balance the delivery success rate, delay, throughput, bandwidth utilization, fairness and overhead of the transmitted packets. In this ...

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) can make roads safer, cleaner, and smarter. It can offer a wide range of services, which can be safety and non-safety related. Many safety-related VANETs applications are real-time and mission critical, which would require strict guarantee of security and reliability. Even non-safety related multimedia applications, which will play an important role in the fut...

The wide range of Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork’s (VANETs) applications, e.g., real-time video dissemination, have made VANETs an interesting field of mobile wireless communication. Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication enables users to distribute significant amount of real-time video traffic over VANETs and to alleviate congestion over LTE networks. However, the video delivery process considering ...

VANETs are the academic and industry research priorities in recent years. Security and privacy-preserving have become a bottleneck for VANETs’ future developing. There are few literatures about the architecture of VANETs privacy-protecting system. In this paper, we introduce a practical VANETs Privacy-Preserving System which aims to the prior location and identity privacy protecting. We propose...

Recently, several studies addressed security and privacy issues in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Most of them focused on safety applications. As VANETs will be available widely, it is anticipated that Internet services could be accessed through VANETs in the near future. Thus, non-safety applications for VANETs would rise in popularity. This paper proposes a novel portable privacy-preserv...

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) have recently gained considerable attention from both research and industry communities. One of the challenges posed by the study of VANETs is the definition of routing protocols design. In this paper, a realistic simulation environment is developed based on Mobility model generator for Vehicular networks (MOVE) and Network Simulator (NS2). The performance of ...

A Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) is the technology that uses moving cars as nodes in a network to create a mobile network. VANETs turn every participating car into a wireless router, allowing cars of each other to connect and create a network with a wide range. VANETs are developed for enhancing the driving safety and comfort of automotive users. The VANETs can provide wide variety of servi...

Vehicular Ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are very likely to be deployed in the coming years because of the safety requirements and thus become the most relevant form of mobile ad hoc networks. Security is the main issue in VANETs because of the main use of the VANETs is for safety related application and in that case the viability of the security may cause harm to human lives. In this paper, we addre...

The major purpose of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is to provide safety-related message access for motorists to react or make a life-critical decision for road safety enhancement. Accessing safety-related information through the use of VANET communications, therefore, must be protected, as motorists may make critical decisions in response to emergency situations in VANETs. If introducing s...