1. Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Koc University – Istanbul/TURKEY
Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL) Researchers:
Nabeel Akhtar
Irem Nizamoglu
Seyhan Ucar

2. What is VANET? Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs):
Self organizing networks,
Highly mobile.
Aim is;
Increasing the safety of roads,
Increasing the comfort of the passengers.
According to communication between vehicles 2 types;
With Road Side Unit (RSU)
Between vehicles Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC)

3. Fuel Consumption of Transport Vehicles
70% of all oil consumed in US is used for transportation
More than 65% of this amount is used for personal vehicles
Passenger vehicles contribute about 20% of all US CO2 gas emissions
* U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

4. Realistic Channel Modeling
Cost of deploying a model for VANETs is huge,
Need of VANETs simulators that can completely capture the VANETs system,
Channel measurements need to be taken into account while modeling VANETs,
Different scenarios - highway, urban areas and different times of day,
Aim is to model VANETs communication using realistic channel model. Using Unit disk models, Probabilistic models and Obstacle based models.

5. Epidemic Routing Protocol
Data dissemination protocol approach for VANETs,
Epidemic and probabilistic routing,
Over IEEE p MAC protocol,

6. Cross-Layer Design
To satisfy the different kind of application requirement cluster-based heterogeneous network is required.
Vehicles form a cluster and one of the elected cluster head is responsible for relaying data to LTE network.