Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks

丛 书 名：SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering

版本说明：1st ed. 2016

作     者：Kan Zheng Lin Zhang Wei Xiang Wenbo Wang 

I S B N：(纸本) 9783319256207 

出 版 社：Springer International Publishing 

出 版 年：2016年

摘      要：This brief examines recent developments in the Heterogeneous Vehicular NETworks (HETVNETs), integrating cellular networks with Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) for meeting the communications requirements of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS)services. Along with a review of recent literature, a unified framework of the HetVNET is presented. The brief focuses on introducing efficient MAC mechanisms for vehicular communications, including channel access protocols, broadcast/multicast protocols, the location-based channel congestion control scheme and the content-based resource allocation scheme. The cooperative communication between vehicles is discussed. This brief concludes with a discussion on future research directions, and provides the readers with useful insights into the future designs in the HetVNETs, to motivate new ideas for performance improvements in vehicular networks.