Congestion Control in Vehicular Network with Fair Beaconing Rate Adaptation

Abstract

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have become an emerging area of wireless ad hoc
networks in the last years. They facilitate ubiquitous connectivity between vehicles through Vehicles-to-
Vehicles (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Roadside (V2R) or Roadside-to-Vehicle (R2V) communication. VANETs aim
to improve the safety of passengers and traffic flow, reduce pollution to the environment and enables in-vehicle
entertainment applications. They have a large number of research challenging issues in both communication
and data management aspects. This special issue is focused on collecting recent advances on network protocols
and algorithms for vehicular ad hoc networks, which aims at presenting innovative and significant research on
the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of vehicular ad hoc networks. We are deeply grateful for
receiving many excellent submissions to this special issue. The review and revision processes for all papers
were carried out in a rigorous and thorough manner. Accepted papers fall into various important areas
including routing, route prediction and vehicular mobility, audio and video streaming, VANET topology
formation techniques, handover techniques, Path and channel loss, Medium Access Control Protocols and
Security.