Dynamic highway congestion detection and prediction based on shock waves

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-20

  Huang, Dijiang ^a   Shere, Swaroop ^a   Ahn, Soyoung ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion detection and prediction; Traffic modeling; VANET

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; SHOCK WAVES; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICLES; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS; VIDEO CAMERAS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONGESTION DETECTION; HIGHWAY CONGESTION; SHOCK WAVE DETECTION; SHOCK WAVE VELOCITY; TRAFFIC DETECTION; TRAFFIC MODEL; VANET; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 78649284884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1860058.1860061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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