Vehicular opportunistic communication under the microscope

MobiSys'07: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 206-219

  Hadaller, David ^a   Keshav, Srinivasan ^a   Brecht, Tim ^a   Agarwal, Shubham ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b AirTight Networks Pvt Ltd   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

802.11 MAC bit rate selection; Opportunistic internet access; Vehicular communication

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC INTERNET ACCESS; VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICULAR OPPORTUNISTIC CONNECTIONS;

ACCESS CONTROL; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION THEORY; MESSAGE PASSING; MICROSCOPES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INTERNET;

EID: 35449001221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1247660.1247685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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