Multiplayer games over Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A new application

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 531-543

  Tonguz, Ozan K ^a   Boban, Mate ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial applications; Multiplayer games; Real time applications; VANET; Vehicular networks

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; EMPIRICAL DATA; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; NEW APPLICATIONS; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS; VEHICULAR NETWORKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 77349103174     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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