A simple free-flow traffic model for vehicular intermittently connected networks

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1312-1326

  Khabbaz, Maurice J ^a   Fawaz, Wissam F ^b   Assi, Chadi M ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

^b LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Free flow; Modeling; Queueing; Traffic; Vehicular

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027925721     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2012.2188519     Document Type: Article

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