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_id: '6428'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "The intensive use of networked embedded systems is one of the key success
factors in the automotive industry also triggering a massive shortening of innovation
cycles. Hundreds of so called Electronic Control Units (ECUs), connected by kilometers
of electrical wiring, operate in today's modern car enabling a huge variety of
new functionalities ranging from safety to comfort applications. All this functionality
can only be realized if the ECUs are able to communicate and to cooperate using
a real-time enabled communication network in the car. Today we are at the verge
of another leap forward: This in-car network is being ex- tended to not only connect
local ECUs but to connect the whole car to other cars and its environment using
Inter-Vehicle Communications (IVCs). Relying on existing wireless Internet access
using cellular networks of the third (3G) or fourth generation (4G), or novel
networking technologies that are being designed specifically for the use in the
vehicular context such as IEEE WAVE, ETSI ITS-G5, and the IEEE 802.11p protocol,
it becomes possible to use spontaneous connections between vehicles to exchange
information, promising to enable novel and sometimes futuristic applications.
Using such IVC, safety relevant information can be exchanged that could not have
been obtained using local sensors, enabling a driver to virtually see traffic
through large trucks or buildings. This new idea of networked vehicles creates
opportunities to not only increase road traffic safety but also to improve our
driving experience. Traffic jams can be prevented altogether (or at least we would
be informed of jams well in advance) - and we might even be able to enable the
driver to enjoying fully automated rides in a train-like convoy of cooperating
of vehicles on the road. Vehicular networking, the fusion of vehicles' networks
to exchange information, is the common basis on which all of these visions build
upon. Being fascinated with all the opportunities and challenges related to vehicular
networking, we have been a part of this research community for close to ten years.
In this time, many new and sometimes crazy ideas have been formulated how to connect
cars of the future. Many of these ideas have been found not suitable after thorough
investigation - yet, several survived and paved the road for what are now close
to market-ready solutions. From a research perspective, we are able to identify
many open challenges, both in the in-car and inter-vehicle communication systems.
To investigate these further, we co-organized two Dagstuhl seminars inviting leading
experts from all over the world and bringing together practitioners from industry
and scientists from research institutes and universities. In this scope, we were
able to formulate directions guiding the ongoing research activities at least
in the medium term. We also established a complementary seminar series for newcomers
to the field, which is being organized in the context of the international FG-IVC
series of seminars and organized by the German computer science and electrical
engineering societies GI and ITG. This textbook is based on a tutorial series
on the same topic presented at all the major IEEE conferences including IEEE CCNC,
IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, and IEEE VTC, as well as in the scope of Falko Dressler's
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Tours in Europe, the U.S., South America, and Asia-Pacific.
We also designed a new graduate level university class, which is being held at
different universities in Europe. This has inspired us to collect our experiences
in the form of a textbook, collecting in one place the common concepts of past
and future vehicular networking topics for a broad range of readers - from students
that want to enter this exciting new field to practitioners looking for a comprehensive
overview. This book would not have been possible without the many people that
have inspired and supported us over the last decade in our research activites
on vehicular networking - first and foremost the community centering around the
IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, the premier conference in the field. In
particular we'd like to name Prof. Ozan K. Tonguz (CMU) and Prof. Mario Gerla
(UCLA) who collaborated with us investigating some of the mentioned crazy ideas,
and finally identifying valuable and lasting solutions. The aforementioned tutorial
lectues have been prepared together with Dr. Onur Altintas (Toyota ITC) and Prof.
Claudio Casetti (Politechnico di Torino). We also wish to express our appreciation
for the support we received from the most helpful staff at Cambridge during the
preparation of this book. Finally, we would like to sincerely thank our families,
friends, and colleagues for their enduring help and support. We hope you will
enjoy reading this textbook as much as we enjoyed preparing its contents for you.
We gladly welcome any feedback and invite you to leave us a note or peruse supplementary
material we are offering on this book's companion website http://book.car2x.org/.\r\n"
author:
- first_name: Christoph
full_name: Sommer, Christoph
id: '49154'
last_name: Sommer
orcid: 0000-0002-4336-7350
- first_name: Falko
full_name: Dressler, Falko
id: '48097'
last_name: Dressler
orcid: 0000-0002-1989-1750
citation:
ama: Sommer C, Dressler F. Vehicular Networking. Cambridge University Press;
2014. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107110649
apa: Sommer, C., & Dressler, F. (2014). Vehicular Networking. Cambridge
University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107110649
bibtex: '@book{Sommer_Dressler_2014, title={Vehicular Networking}, DOI={10.1017/CBO9781107110649},
publisher={Cambridge University Press}, author={Sommer, Christoph and Dressler,
Falko}, year={2014} }'
chicago: Sommer, Christoph, and Falko Dressler. Vehicular Networking. Cambridge
University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107110649.
ieee: C. Sommer and F. Dressler, Vehicular Networking. Cambridge University
Press, 2014.
mla: Sommer, Christoph, and Falko Dressler. Vehicular Networking. Cambridge
University Press, 2014, doi:10.1017/CBO9781107110649.
short: C. Sommer, F. Dressler, Vehicular Networking, Cambridge University Press,
2014.
date_created: 2018-12-30T11:06:33Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T07:03:04Z
department:
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- _id: '7'
doi: 10.1017/CBO9781107110649
language:
- iso: eng
publication_identifier:
isbn:
- 978-1-107-04671-9
publisher: Cambridge University Press
status: public
title: Vehicular Networking
type: book
user_id: '49154'
year: '2014'
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