General information
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) are wireless ad-hoc networks formed among vehicles on the roads equipped with short range wireless communication devices. Such networks are particularly attractive because of their potential to improve comfort and safety of people in modern urban and highway situations. With the increase of the number of people depending on cars and road infrastructures, VANETs have the potential to optimize traffic conditions, and to reduce congestions and pollution.
In University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest we conduct a number of research projects on VANETs. These projects are developed in joint collaboration with the Disco Lab Laboratory from Rutgers University, USA.
These projects propose the research and development of original models, methods and techniques targeting traffic quality. Such solutions target Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and VANET networks. The characteristics of these systems pose new challenges for researchers, especially because of the dynamic connectivity of VANET nodes, their geographical distribution and the volatility of the involved resources. The proposed methods and techniques will target the increase of traffic safety, air-pollution control and the decrease of congestions in urban environments. Also we target the development of protocols and technologies for the middleware, sustaining the efficient data transport, increased security and optimized fault tolerance.
Publications (Selection) [top]
Journals
in Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series,
Helmer, Sven, Poulovassilis, Alexandra, Xhafa, Fatos (Eds.), Ed. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-19723-9, Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2011, Volume 347/2011, pp. 11-45, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19724-6_2.
in International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing (IJSSC), vol. 1, issue 1, 2011, pp. 43-58. DOI: 10.1504/IJSSC.2011.039106
Papers
in Proc. of 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC-2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
in Proc. of 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC-2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
in Proc. of 18th International Conference on Control Systems and Computing Science (CSCS-18), Bucharest, Romania, May 2011, pp. 529-537, ISBN: 2066-4451.
in Proc. of 16th Annual Scientific Conference on Web Technology, New Media, Communications and Telematics Theory, Methods, Tools and Applications (Euromedia'2011), London, UK, April 2011, pp. 43-50.
in Proc. of 12th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2010), Timisoara, Romania, September 2010, pp. 321-330, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4324-6.
in Proc. of 2010 IEEE 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2010), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 2010, pp. 479-483, ISBN: 978-4244-8229-0.
in Proc. of the 2009 IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2009-Spring), Barcelona, Spain, April 2009, pp. 1-5.
Team [top]
Current members:
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Liviu Iftode - Prof., Rutgers University, USA. Valentin Cristea - Prof., UPB, Romania. Ciprian Dobre - Dr., UPB, Romania. Catalin Gosman - Stud. UPB, Romania. Eugen Podaru - Stud. UPB, Romania. Olimpia Ardelean - Stud. UPB, Romania. |
Vlad-Alexandru Dragoi - Stud. UPB, Romania. Antonio-Gabriel Sturzu - Stud. UPB, Romania. Narcis Tanase - Stud. UPB, Romania. Virgiliu-Radu Diaconu - Stud. UPB, Romania. Claudiu Iulian Tudoras - Stud. UPB, Romania. Urda Daniel - Stud. UPB, Romania. |
Former members:
Alexandru Stefanescu - Stud. UPB, Romania. Fratila Catalin Ionut - Stud. UPB, Romania. Mihaela Teler - Stud. UPB, Romania. Sinziana Mazilu - Stud. UPB, Romania. Alexandru Ciminian - Stud. UPB, Romania. Mihai Cosmin Rotaru - Stud. UPB, Romania. George Cristian Tudor - Stud. UPB, Romania. Alexandru Grama - Stud. UPB, Romania. Adriana Szekeres - Stud. UPB, Romania. |
Ovidiu-Iulian Gavril - Stud. UPB, Romania.
George-Cristian Serban - Stud. UPB, Romania. Ana Gainaru - Stud. UPB, Romania. Andrei Ichimescu - Stud. UPB, Romania. Liviu Iacob - Stud. UPB, Romania. Cristian Aurelian Petroaca - Stud. UPB, Romania. Raluca St. Diaconescu - Stud. UPB, Romania. Cristian Gorgorin - Stud. UPB, Romania. Victor Gradinescu - Stud. UPB, Romania. |
Contact [top]
For more information please contact:
Prof.dr.eng. Valentin Cristea - University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania.
Lect.dr.eng. Ciprian Dobre - University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania.