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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V)"”.
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Potential impacts of connected-autonomous vehicles on congestion and safety : a look at Austin, Texas
Data is a central component of Connected-Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) systems: the advantages and potential challenges of both vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) CAV data underlie the question of wide scale CAV implementation. This report looks at the potential congestion and …
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Evaluating and Forecasting the Operational Performance of Road Intersections
… networks. It is therefore of vital importance to improve their operational performance, as that can significantly contribute towards the efficiency of the whole transport network. Traditional approaches to improve the efficiency of intersections are based on analysis of static data or expert …
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Cyber-security Aware Traffic Flow Modeling and Data Processing Power Optimization
The growing deployment of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) introduces new opportunities and challenges at the intersection of traffic engineering and cybersecurity. While CAVs leverage onboard sensors and computing to navigate their environment, the integration of vehicle to vehicle (V2V) …
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Design of a cooperative overtaking algorithm for platoons on freeways
Platooning can improve road safety, optimize traffic flow, and raise the driver’s comfort. However, when a platoon is stuck behind a slower vehicle, the total travel time is significantly increased. Overtaking as a whole platoon is a complicated maneuver and there is no communication-based …
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Efficient channel allocation and medium access organization algorithms for vehicular networking
<p>Due to the limited bandwidth available for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), organizing the wireless channel access to efficiently use the bandwidth is one of the main challenges in VANET. In this dissertation, we focus on channel allocation and media access organization for …
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Assessment framework for wireless V2V communication-based ITS applications
Inter-vehicle communication enabled by wireless technology is an emerging area of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). This technology has generated great interest among automobile manufacturers and ITS researchers alike because of its potential to improve safety and non-safety ITS …
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Channel Propagation Model for Train to Vehicle Alert System at 5.9 GHz using Dedicated Short Range Communication
The most common railroad accidents today involve collisions between trains and passenger vehicles at railroad grade crossings [1][2]. Due to the size and speed of a train, these collisions generally result in significant damage and serious injury. Despite recent efforts by projects such as …
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Cooperative Clothoidal-Estimation Based Lane Detection For Vehicle Platooning
Vehicle platooning is an advanced vehicle maneuver that allows for the simultaneous control of several vehicles traveling on the roadway cite{al2010experimental}. Automated platoons, when activated in tractor trailer convoys, have a high potential of increasing the fuel efficiency and improving the …
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Measurement Based Channel Characterization and Modeling for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication is a challenging but fast growing technology that has potential to enhance traffic safety and efficiency. It can also provide environmental benefits in terms of reduced fuel consumption. The effectiveness and reliability of these applications highly depends on …
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Non-stationary Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channel Characterization
Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication research has been growing steadily over the past decade. The V2V channel differs significantly from classic cellular wireless channels specifically in its relatively low transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) antenna heights, and that both Tx and Rx and some …
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Cooperative and Decentralized Defense in Autonomous Vehicle Networks
… transportation revolution, the emergence of Autonomous Vehicle Networks (AVNs) represents a remarkable feat of technological sophistication. It embodies a seamlessly interconnected system of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) that operate with unparalleled precision, exhibit cohesive communication …
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Energy Efficiency and Privacy in Device-to-Device Communication
… cellular networks are undeniably overloaded to meet the escalating user's demands of higher bandwidth and data rates. To meet such demands, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is regarded as a potential solution to solve the capacity bottleneck problem in legacy cellular networks. Apart from …
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Performance investigation of spatial modulation systems under realistic channel models
In order to fulfil the explosive demand for convenient wireless data access, novel wireless technologies such as the multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) have widely been used to improve the link reliability and capacity of wireless communication systems. In recent years, a new MIMO technology …
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Cellular-Assisted Vehicular Communications: A Stochastic Geometric Approach
… component of future communication systems is vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, in which vehicles along roadways transfer information directly among themselves and with roadside infrastructure. Despite its numerous potential advantages, V2V communication suffers from one inherent …
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Development of Predictive Vehicle Control System using Driving Environment Data for Autonomous Vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
In the field of modern automotive engineering, many researchers are focusing on the development of advanced vehicle control systems such as autonomous vehicle systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Furthermore, Driver Assistance Systems (DAS) such as cruise control, Anti-Lock …
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Non-Line of Sight Test Scenario Generation for Connected Autonomous Vehicle
Connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) level 4-5 use sensors to perceive their environment. These sensors are able to detect only up to a certain range and this range can be further constrained by the presence of obstacles in its path or as a result of the geometry of the road, for example, at a …
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Emergency Braking in Compact Vehicle Platoons: A Cyber-Physical Design
With the advent of autonomous driving, concepts like road trains or platoons are becoming more popular. In these arrangements, vehicles travel at separations of only 5 to 10m between them. These short inter-vehicle distances allow compacting vehicle flows resulting in increased throughput on …
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Characteristics and contributory causes related to large truck crashes (phase-II) - all crashes
In order to improve safety of the overall surface transportation system, each of the critical areas needs to be addressed separately with more focused attention. Statistics clearly show that large-truck crashes contribute significantly to an increased percentage of high-severity crashes. It is …
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Optimization of lateral position of autonomous truck platoons to improve roadway infrastructure sustainability
The adaptation rate of connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies correlates with the condition of transportation infrastructure. In fact, an aging and deteriorating infrastructure represents one of the main barriers to advancing CAV technologies. Given that only 41\% of U.S. roads meet …
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Inter-cell interference coordination in 5G ultra-dense networks
… for mobile broadband communications has led to the dense deployment of cellular networks with aggressive frequency reuse patterns. The future Fifth Generation (5G) networks are expected to overcome capacity and throughput challenges by adopting a multi-tier architecture where several …
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