Paper Info
Title
Data communication in VANETs: Protocols, applications and challenges.
Abstract
VANETs have emerged as an exciting research and application area. Increasingly vehicles are being equipped with embedded sensors, processing and wireless communication capabilities. This has opened a myriad of possibilities for powerful and potential life-changing applications on safety, efficiency, comfort, public collaboration and participation, while they are on the road. Although, considered as a special case of a Mobile Ad Hoc Network, the high but constrained mobility of vehicles bring new challenges to data communication and application design in VANETs. This is due to their highly dynamic and intermittent connected topology and different application’s QoS requirements. In this work, we survey VANETs focusing on their communication and application challenges. In particular, we discuss the protocol stack of this type of network, and provide a qualitative comparison between most common protocols in the literature. We then present a detailed discussion of different categories of VANET applications. Finally, we discuss open research problems to encourage the design of new VANET solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2016.02.017
Ad Hoc Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Vehicular networks,Ad hoc networks,Survey
Open research,Mobile ad hoc network,Wireless,Computer science,Quality of service,Computer network,Wireless ad hoc network,Protocol stack,Vehicular ad hoc network,Special case,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
44
22
1.06
References 
Authors
49
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felipe D. da Cunha1866.60
Leandro Villas2694.24
Azzedine Boukerche34301418.60
Guilherme Maia419917.67
Aline Carneiro Viana549737.11
Raquel A. F. Mini624823.58
Antonio Loureiro72406197.77