Vehicular Social Networks PDF

Features

Provides a comprehensive guide to selected topics, both ongoing and emerging, in the area of vehicular social networks

Focuses on a new class of mobile ad hoc networks, which exploits social aspects applied to vehicular environments

Topics include social networking techniques, social-based routing techniques applied to vehicular networks, data dissemination in VSNs, architectures for VSNs, as well as novel trends and challenges in VSNs.

Summary

The book provides a comprehensive guide to vehicular social networks. The book focuses on a new class of mobile ad hoc networks that exploits social aspects applied to vehicular environments. Selected topics are related to social networking techniques, social-based routing techniques applied to vehicular networks, data dissemination in VSNs, architectures for VSNs, and novel trends and challenges in VSNs. It provides significant technical and practical insights in different aspects from a basic background on social networking, the inter-related technologies and applications to vehicular ad-hoc networks, the technical challenges, implementation and future trends.

Authors: Anna Maria Vegni, Valeria Loscrì, Athanasios V. Vasilakos