On the impact of building attenuation models in vanet simulations of urban scenarios

Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 37-58

  Urquiza Aguiar, Luis ^a   Tripp Barba, Carolina ^b   Estrada Jiménez, José ^c   Igartua, Mónica Aguilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Autonomic University of Sinaloa (UAS)   (Mexico)

^c ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Building attenuation models; Propagation models; VANETs; Vehicular ad hoc networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934297063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/electronics4010037     Document Type: Article

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