Advances in information technologies now enable the incorporation of Internet services into vehicles, allowing the transfer of digital data from the smart nodes inside the vehicle to central servers on the Internet.

Telematics Communication Technologies and Vehicular Networks: Wireless Architectures and Applications examines critical issues involved with telematics such as vehicular network infrastructure, vehicular network communication protocols, and vehicular services and applications. A defining collection of latest findings and cutting-edge solutions, this highly esteemed reference publication provides useful techniques, tools, and assessments for those involved with computer science, computer engineering, and management information systems.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Data communications inside vehicular environments
Delay tolerant vehicular networks
DTN technologies for vehicular networks
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Mobility models of vehicular networks
Routing protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks
Security attack of vehicular networks
Vehicular ad hoc networks
Vehicular embedded system architecture
Vehicular metropolitan area network systems architecture
Wireless access and GPS systems
Wireless mesh networks for traffic control

Reviews & Statements

Telematics Communication Technologies and Vehicular Networks: Wireless Architectures and Applications provides a fast and complete view of all aspects related to telematics communication technologies and vehicular networks.

– Chung-Ming Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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Editor/Author Biographies

Chung-Ming Huang received the BS degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University on 1984/6, and the MS and PhD degrees in computer and information science from The Ohio State University on 1988/12 and 1991/6. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor of Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan, R.O.C.) He also serves as (i) Director of the Promotion Center for the Telematics Consortium (PCTC), Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan, R.O.C. and (ii) Principal Project Reviewer of Industrial Development Bureau and Department of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Taiwan, R.O.C. He has published more than 200 referred journal and conference papers in wireless and mobile communication protocols, interactive multimedia systems, audio and video streaming and formal modeling of communication protocols. His research interests include wireless and mobile network protocol design and analysis, media processing and streaming, web technologies, and network applications and services.

Yuh-Shyan Chen received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Tamkang University, Taiwan, R. O. C., in June 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the National Central University, Taiwan, R. O. C., in June 1991 and January 1996, respectively. He joined the faculty of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Chung-Hua University, Taiwan, R. O. C., as an associate professor in February 1996. He joined the Department of Statistic, National Taipei University in August 2000, and joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University in August 2002. Since 2006, he has been a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University, Taiwan. Prof. Chen is now serving as chair of Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taipei University, Taiwan, ROC, and Vice Chair of Task Force on "Telecommunications" of Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society from 2007. Prof. Chen served as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (SCIE), Editorial Board of Telecommunication System Journal (SCIE), EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (SCIE), and Mobile Information Systems (SCIE). He served as Guest Editor of ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Telecommunication Systems, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, The Computer Journal, Wireless Personal Communications, International Journal of Communication Systems, and IET Communications. His paper wins the 2001 IEEE 15th ICOIN-15 Best Paper Award. Prof. Chen was a recipient of the 2005 Young Scholar Research Award, National Chung Cheng University, R.O.C.. His recent research topics include wireless communications, mobile computing, and next-generation personal communication system. Dr. Chen is a member of the IEEE Communication Society and Phi Tau Phi Society.

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