Browsing Theses by Subject "VANET"
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Anonymous, Secure and Efficient Vehicular Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)Vehicular communication networking is a promising approach for facilitating road safety, traffic management, and infotainment dissemination for drivers and passengers. However, it is subject to various malicious abuses and ... -
Assessing Mission-critical Vehicular Safety Applications under Various Network Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)Enabling communication among vehicles can facilitate the deployment of safety applications that can improve driving safety and reduce traffic-related fatalities. Assessing the reliability of these safety applications is ... -
Dynamic Time-Stable Geocast Routing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have emerged as an area of interest for both industry and research scholars because they have become an essential part of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). Many applications in ... -
Improving the VANET Vehicles' Localizatoin Accuracy using GPS Receiver in Multipath Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)The Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) has been studied in many fields since it has the ability to provide a variety of services, such as detecting oncoming collisions and providing warning signals to alert the driver. The ... -
Information Fusion Methodology for Enhancing Situation Awareness in Connected Cars Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-19)This dissertation introduces novel approaches to develop a comprehensive model to address situation awareness in the Internet of Cars, called Attention Assist Framework (AAF). The proposed framework utilizes both Low-Level ... -
Managing and Complementing Public Key Infrastructure for Securing Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-28)Recently, vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) has emerged as an excellent candidate to change the life style of the traveling passengers along the roads and highways in terms of improving the safety levels and providing a ... -
The Mobility Impact in IEEE 802.11p Infrastructureless Vehicular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-27)Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are an extreme case of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). High speed and frequent network topology changes are the main characteristics of vehicular networks. These characteristics lead to ... -
On the Performance Analysis of Cooperative Vehicular Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-08)Vehicular networking is envisioned to be a key technology area for significant growth in the coming years. Although the expectations for this emerging technology are set very high, many practical aspects remain still ... -
Popular Content Distribution in Public Transportation Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-20)Outdoor wireless networks suffer nowadays from an increasing data traffic demand which comes at the time where almost no vacant frequency spectrum has been left. A vast majority of this demand comes from popular content ... -
Scaling Laws for Vehicular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-29)Equipping automobiles with wireless communications and networking capabilities is becoming the frontier in the evolution to the next generation intelligent transportation systems (ITS). By means of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) ... -
A Secure Business Framework for File Purchasing Application in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-20)Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are gaining growing interest from both industry and academia. Driven by road safety requirements, the car manufacturers, transportation authorities and communications standards organizations ... -
Security and Privacy Preservation in Vehicular Social Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-23)Improving road safety and traffic efficiency has been a long-term endeavor for the government, automobile industry and academia. Recently, the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has allocated a 75 MHz spectrum at ... -
SNGF Selected Node Geographic Forwarding Routing Protocol for VANETs
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-31)This thesis presents a protocol for intervehicle communication for use in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET). VANET is a natural extension of mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) in which the restrictions related to power and ... -
Task-Driven Integrity Assessment and Control for Vehicular Hybrid Localization Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)Throughout the last decade, vehicle localization has been attracting significant attention in a wide range of applications, including Navigation Systems, Road Tolling, Smart Parking, and Collision Avoidance. To deliver on ... -
Tracking Vehicular Motion-Position Using V2V Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis presents the formulation and validation of tracking algorithms for vehicular motion for use in active collision prevention in V2V communications. The main objective is to estimate position and velocity of a ... -
A Trust-based Message Evaluation and Propagation Framework in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-18)In this paper, we propose a trust-based message propagation and evaluation framework to support the effective evaluation of information sent by peers and the immediate control of false information in a VANET. More specifically, ...