Vehicular Communications for Smart Cars: Protocols, Applications and Security Concerns

This book covers a wide range of topics from the smart transportation domain. It discusses protocols, applications and security concerns in various vehicular networks using examples and easy-to-understand figures. The first four chapters focus on vehicular network protocols and applications, while the remaining four chapters incorporate security, trust and privacy issues with examples from real-life cases. The book concludes with a vision of what to expect in the near future and will be an invaluable resource for anybody interested in this nascent technology and its variegated applications.

Dr. Niaz Chowdhury is a postdoctoral research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University in England.

Dr. Lewis M. Mackenzie is a senior lecturer in computing science at the University of Glasgow.