Insights on metropolitan-scale vehicular mobility from a networking perspective
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Hot topics in planet-scale measurement
Signs of a bad neighborhood: a lightweight metric for anomaly detection in mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 8h ACM symposium on QoS and security for wireless and mobile networks
On the characterisation of vehicular mobility in a large-scale public transport network
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Enabling delay-tolerant communications for partially connected vehicular ad hoc networks
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Analytical modeling of link duration for vehicular ad hoc networks in urban environment
Proceeding of the tenth ACM international workshop on Vehicular inter-networking, systems, and applications
On the instantaneous topology of a large-scale urban vehicular network: the cologne case
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Multi-network packet scheduling based on vehicular ad hoc network applications
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management
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Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have emerged as a serious and promising candidate for providing ubiquitous communications both in urban and highway scenarios. Consequently, nowadays it is widely believed that VANETs will be able to support both safety and non-safety applications. For both classes of applications, since a zero-infrastructure is the typical premise assumed, it is crucial to understand the dynamics of network connectivity when one operates without relying on any telecommunications infrastructure. Using the key metrics of interest (such as link duration, connection duration, and re-healing time) we provide a comprehensive framework for network connectivity of urban VANETs. Our study, in addition to extensive simulations based on a new Cellular Automata Model for mobility, also provides a comprehensive analytical framework. This analytical framework leads to closed form results which facilitate physical insight into the impact of key system parameters on network connectivity. The predictions of our analytical framework also shed light on which type of safety and non-safety applications can be supported by urban VANETs.