A resilient and scalable flocking scheme in autonomous vehicular networks

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 126-136

  Xiong, Naixue ^a   Vasilakos, Athanasios V ^b   Yang, Laurence T ^c   Pedrycz, Witold ^d   Zhang, Yan ^e   Li, Yingshu ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicular networks; Collision avoidance; Flocking; Mobile unmanned vehicles; VANET

Indexed keywords

AD HOC WIRELESS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS VEHICULAR NETWORKS; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; DECENTRALIZED COORDINATION; ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION; INFORMATION COMPLETENESS; KEY OPERATIONS; MISSION CRITICAL; MOBILE VEHICLE; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PROCESSING OVERHEAD; ROAD SAFETY; SELF MANAGEMENT; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATION; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS; VEHICULAR NETWORKS;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COORDINATION REACTIONS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 76549128687     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-009-0168-3     Document Type: Article

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