Vehicular Communications for Smart Cars

Book excerpt: This book comprehensively covers a wide range of topics from the smart transportation domain. It discusses protocols, applications, and security concerns in various vehicular networks using examples and easy-to-understand figures. The book's first four chapters focus on vehicular network protocols and applications, while the remaining four chapters incorporate security, trust, and privacy issues with examples from real-life cases. The book concludes with a vision of what to expect in the near future and will be an invaluable resource for anybody interested in this nascent technology and its variegated applications.Dr. Lewis M. Mackenzie is a Senior Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.Dr. Niaz Chowdhury is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University in England.