TY - BOOK ID - 7689618 TI - Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks AU - Zheng, Kan. AU - Zhang, Lin. AU - Xiang, Wei. AU - Wang, Wenbo. PY - 2016 SN - 3319256203 331925622X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Electrical Engineering KW - Electrical & Computer Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Vehicular ad hoc networks (Computer networks) KW - Intelligent transportation systems. KW - Advanced Road Traffic Systems KW - Advanced Transport Telematics KW - ATT (Highway communications) KW - Intelligent Road Transportation Systems KW - Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems KW - IRTS (Highway communications) KW - ITS (Highway communications) KW - IVHS (Highway communications) KW - Road Transport Informatics KW - RTI (Highway communications) KW - Vehicle Information and Communication Systems KW - VICS (Highway communications) KW - Intelligent vehicular ad hoc networks (Computer networks) KW - Inter-vehicle ad-hoc networks KW - VANETs KW - Vehicluar networks (Computer networks) KW - Electronics in transportation KW - Highway communications KW - Mobile communication systems KW - Sociotechnical systems KW - Ad hoc networks (Computer networks) KW - Intelligent transportation systems KW - Telecommunication. KW - Computer Communication Networks. KW - Communications Engineering, Networks. KW - Electric communication KW - Mass communication KW - Telecom KW - Telecommunication industry KW - Telecommunications KW - Communication KW - Information theory KW - Telecommuting KW - Electrical engineering. KW - Computer communication systems. KW - Communication systems, Computer KW - Computer communication systems KW - Data networks, Computer KW - ECNs (Electronic communication networks) KW - Electronic communication networks KW - Networks, Computer KW - Teleprocessing networks KW - Data transmission systems KW - Digital communications KW - Electronic systems KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Electronic data processing KW - Network computers KW - Electric engineering KW - Engineering KW - Distributed processing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7689618 AB - This brief examines recent developments in the Heterogeneous Vehicular NETworks (HETVNETs), integrating cellular networks with Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) for meeting the communications requirements of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS)services. Along with a review of recent literature, a unified framework of the HetVNET is presented. The brief focuses on introducing efficient MAC mechanisms for vehicular communications, including channel access protocols, broadcast/multicast protocols, the location-based channel congestion control scheme and the content-based resource allocation scheme. The cooperative communication between vehicles is discussed. This brief concludes with a discussion on future research directions, and provides the readers with useful insights into the future designs in the HetVNETs, to motivate new ideas for performance improvements in vehicular networks. . ER -