Cross-layer design vehicle-aided handover scheme in VANETs

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 916-928

  Chiu, Kuan Lin ^a   Hwang, Ren Hung ^a   Chen, Yuh Shyan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cross layer; delay tolerant network (DTN); l2handover; vehicular ad hoc network (VANET); WiMAX

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK; CROSS LAYER; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS; FAST HANDOVERS; HANDOVER; HANDOVER DELAY; HANDOVER LATENCY; HANDOVER SCHEMES; HIGH-SPEED; IN-VEHICLE; INTERNET ACCESS; INTERNET MULTIMEDIA; INTERNET SERVICES; L2HANDOVER; MAC LAYER; MOBILE MULTIHOP RELAYS; NETWORK TECHNIQUES; NS-2 SIMULATIONS; PASSENGER VEHICLES; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; SIMULATION RESULT; TRANSMISSION RANGES; VEHICLE AD-HOC NETWORKS; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VEHICLES; WEB SERVICES; WIMAX;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 79960545467     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: 15308677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.861     Document Type: Article

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