Title: Autonet: inter-vehicle communication and network vehicular traffic

Authors: Will Recker, Wen-Long Jin, Xu Yang, James Marca

Addresses: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Transportation Studies and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. ' Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China. ' Institute of Transportation Studies and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. ' Institute of Transportation Studies and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

Abstract: With the proliferation of wireless communication technologies, inter-vehicle communication (IVC) could potentially be applied to solve ever-worsening transportation problems around the world. In this paper, we study impacts of network vehicular traffic on IVC, apply IVC to route-guidance and report preliminary field tests. These studies are intended to demonstrate the feasibility of IVC-based traveller information systems and the interaction between IVC and network vehicular traffic.

Keywords: ad hoc networks; freeway traffic; information propagation; inter-vehicle communication; traffic flow; traffic information; vehicle communication; traveller information systems; wireless networks; wireless LANS; WLANs; vehicle information.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVICS.2008.022360

International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems, 2008 Vol.1 No.3/4, pp.306 - 319

Published online: 02 Jan 2009 *

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