Vehicular Networking: Automotive Applications and Beyond

Vehicular Networking: Automotive and Beyond provides an introduction to vehicular communication for Car-to-X, train-based, and aeronautics systems. Having provided an introduction to the topics, the book goes on to present a detailed discussion of dedicated technological aspects such as channel propagation and multi-hop networking strategies. By providing different views on this highly active technological field, readers can discern common characteristics as well as differences between the various uses of vehicular communication. Vehicular Networking: Automotive and Beyond emphasizes important perspectives of vehicular communication including market area, application areas, and standardization issues as well as selected topics featuring aspects of developing, prototyping, and testing vehicular communication systems. The broad scope, which includes multiple fields of application and addresses more than technology, is integrative, synergistic and emergent which makes the book unique in its approach. It offers an encompassing perspective on vehicular communication including detailed discussion of technological aspects such as channel propagation and multi-hop networking strategies.