Emerging trends in vehicular communication networks

Abstract

The potential of connected and autonomous vehicles can be greatly magnified by the synergistic exploitation of a variety of upcoming communication technologies that may be embedded in next-generation vehicles, and by the adoption of context-aware approaches at both the communication and the application levels. In this chapter, we discuss the emerging trends, potential issues, and most promising research directions in the area of intelligent vehicular communication networks, with special attention to the use of different types of data for multi-objective optimizations, including extremely large capacity and reliable information dissemination among automotive nodes.