Studying vehicle movements on highways and their impact on ad-hoc connectivity
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Vehicular opportunistic communication under the microscope
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Node Connectivity in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks with Structured Mobility
LCN '07 Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
The networking shape of vehicular mobility
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
On the Urban Connectivity of Vehicular Sensor Networks
DCOSS '08 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Network connectivity of VANETs in urban areas
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
A new mobility trace for realistic large-scale simulation of bus-based DTNs
Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A probabilistic model for message propagation in two-dimensional vehicular ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the seventh ACM international workshop on VehiculAr InterNETworking
Stochastic model and connectivity dynamics for VANETs in signalized road systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Driving with knowledge from the physical world
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Dynamics of Network Connectivity in Urban Vehicular Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Despite the growing interest in a real-world deployment of vehicle- to-vehicle communication, many topological features of the resulting vehicular network remain largely unknown. We still lack a clear understanding of the level of connectivity achievable in large-scale urban scenarios, of the availability and reliability of connected multi-hop paths, and of the evolution of such features over daytime. In this paper, we investigate how the instantaneous topology of the vehicular network would look like in the case of Cologne, Germany, a typical middle-sized European city. Through a complex network analysis, we unveil the low connectivity, availability, reliability and navigability of the network, and exploit our findings to derive network design and usage guidelines.