Proactive traffic merging strategies for sensor-enabled cars

VANET'07: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-48

  Wang, Ziyuan ^a   Kulik, Lars ^a   Ramamohanarao, Kotagiri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Traffic flow control; VANET applications; Vehicular networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; DECISION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

DECISION POINT; SENSOR-ENABLED CARS; TRAFFIC FLOW CONTROL; VEHICULAR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 37849012929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1287748.1287755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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