Resources management in vehicular networks

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Advances in vehicular networking technology enable novel safety, information, and entertainment applications, such as early warning of hazards, vehicular traffic information, and video streaming and Internet access. Vehicular networks consist of a number of vehicles (equipped with one or more wireless interfaces) traveling on streets/highways, capable of communicating with each other. There are three possible configurations of vehicular networks: a pure wireless ad-hoc network, wireless infrastructure, or a hybrid/integrated architecture combining the two. In the open literature, little work has been done to investigate (1) the design of the vehicular wireless infrastructure; indeed, most existing related research considers only the problem of transmitting data between vehicles and roadside APs; and (2) Quality of Service (QoS) support/assurance to support different classes of traffic while taking into account the severe fluctuation of resources in vehicular networks and the instantaneous capacity variation.