Improving propagation modeling in urban environments for vehicular ad hoc networks

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 705-716

  Hosseini Tabatabaei, Seyed A ^a   Fleury, Martin ^b   Qadri, Nadia N ^c   Ghanbari, Mohammed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Computer Science   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Simulation; urban environment; vehicle to vehicle communication; wireless propagation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; DOUBLE REFLECTIONS; END TO END DELAY; FAST FADING; GROUND REFLECTION; LINE-OF-SIGHT; MEASUREMENT STUDY; NONLINE OF SIGHT; OBSTACLE MODELING; PACKET LOSS RATIO; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PHASE FACTOR; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; PROPAGATION MODELING; PROPAGATION MODELS; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SIMULATION; STREET SEGMENTS; URBAN ENVIRONMENT; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS CHANNEL MODELING; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

AD HOC NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PACKET LOSS; ROADSIDES; URBAN PLANNING; VEHICLES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 80052373911     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2143707     Document Type: Article

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