Measuring the Capacity between Boats of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Author

de J dos Santos, Alyson ; de L Braga, Marcus ; Junior, Jose G. R. ; Velloso, Pedro B. ; Costa, Luis Henrique M. K.

Author_Institution

Grupo de Teleinformatica e Automacao, Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

5-9 May 2014

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

93

Abstract

Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are composed of mobile wireless communication devices on board of automobiles to help drivers in the urban traffic and on highways. In the Amazon, the waterways are the roads and the boats are the vehicles. In this paper, we investigate, through real experiments, the characteristics of links formed by boats running wireless technologies IEEE 802.11b/g in ad hoc mode in the Black river. The results show the feasibility of developing applications and services that use the contact between the boats that travel to small cities in the Amazon.

Keywords

boats; vehicular ad hoc networks; wireless LAN; Amazon; Black river; IEEE 802.11b-g; automobiles; boats; capacity measurement; highways; mobile wireless communication devices; urban traffic; vehicular ad hoc networks; waterways; Ad hoc networks; Boats; IEEE 802.11n Standard; Smart phones; Vehicles; Wireless communication; Amazon; VANETs; boats; networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC), 2014 Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Florianopolis

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBRC.2014.11

Filename

6927123