Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Also available in print.

Thesis(M.S.)--Auburn University, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references (p.100-103).

Thesis (M.S.E.C.E.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-77).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Toledo, 2009. / Typescript. "Submitted to the Graduate Faculty as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science Degree in Engineering." "A thesis entitled"--at head of title. Bibliography: leaves 80-84.

Thesis (M.S.)--Villanova University, 2009. / Computer Science Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, August 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-100).

During the route discovery process, each node receiving the route request packet (RReq) will retransmit it exactly once. A distant neighbor may accidentally receive/loose the only RReq and use it to announce a new route, although that link is inferior/superior for route reply packets (RRep) or actual message routing. Overall, the constructed route may be far from the optimal. All existing route discovery schemes (including DSR/AODV) apply retransmission during route discovery exactly once (1R). Based on a realistic physical layer model, we propose two new route discovery schemes: n-retransmission (nR, retransmitting exactly n times) and n-retransmission c-reception (ncRR), retransmitting until we either reach a total of n own retransmissions or c copies from neighbors are heard. We compare our two new scheme with the traditional one, under otherwise identical conditions (same metric, same packet reception probability on each link) and the same choices about possibly retransmitting again upon discovering a better route (R+) or discarding it (R1), generating route reply packet for every received RRep (B*), or for first and better discovered routes only (B2), and retransmitting RRep exactly once (A1), up to a maximum of three times (A3), or optimally u times decided by link quality (Au). Experimental results show that the proposed ncRR scheme (for n=2 and c=3 or c=4) achieves the best tradeoff between quality of route, success rate and message overhead in the route discovery process, followed by the nR scheme, and both of them are superior to the existing traditional schemes.

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are no longer a futuristic promise but rather an attainable technology. Vehicles are already equipped with a variety of computational devices that control or assist drivers in many tasks such as localization, safely breaking, parking and passengers entertainment. The majority of services envisioned for VANETs either require the provision of multimedia support or have it as an extremely beneficial additional feature. In particular, video streaming capabilities over VANETs are crucial to the development of interesting and valuable services. However,VANETs’ highly dynamic topology poses as a demanding challenge to the fulfillment of video streaming’s stringent requirements. The main goal on this thesis is the development of feasible solutions that support the streaming of video content over VANETs. Initially, the main issues of VANETs are explained through both a discussion of its characteristics and the results of some preliminary conclusions. Based on this understanding of VANETs’ peculiarities, three distinguishing solutions are designed REACT-DIS, REDEC and VIRTUS; the two first for video dissemination and the later for video unicast. These solutions offer a great advancement towards the provision of video streaming capabilities but packet loss is still an issue at high data rates. In order to improve the delivery ratios reached by the previous solutions, redundancy is used as an error correction mechanism. The use of redundancy is ideal for VANETs in handling packet loss as they do not require any interaction between source and receivers nodes. Sophisticated coding techniques were used for an efficient use of the increase on entropy of the information sent by the source node. It was also evaluated the selective use of redundancy solely on packets carrying the crucial information of I-frames. Although this selective approach obtained lower overall delivery ratios than when redundancy is used for all packets, the video quality obtained similar improvements under a much lower cost. The evaluation on the use of redundancy has considered the impact on the rate by which unique video content is received at end-users which is fundamental to understand the resolution of videos that can be displayed. This thesis provides several contributions as it advances the knowledge in the peculiarities of VANETs, solutions for video streaming over VANETs and the use of redundancy as an error correction mechanism for video streaming over VANETs.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / With the fast development of 5G networks and the advancement in networking technologies, more and more new technologies such as internet of vehicles (IoV) is catching our eyes. With technologies of artificial intelligence and automatic control, IoV is transformed into an intelligent transportation system (ITS). The object of this thesis is to analyze the connectivity probability issues in vehicle ad hoc networks (VANETs), which is a subset of ITS. This will be achieved by a platoon-based two dimensional model. In order to make the results more accurate and more close to real scenario, different situations will be analyzed separately, and different types of platoon will be included. In addition, other system parameters are also discussed and stimulated. The results show that many parameters like the increases of traffic density, ratio of platoon, and lane numbers will improve connectivity probability. No-leader based platoons are easier to connect to the base stations compared to leader based platoons.

Le routage dans les réseaux de capteurs, est un service essentiel qui transmet les lectures des capteurs à certains points de collecte de données dans le réseau sur la base des relais multi-saut. Cette tâche est particulièrement difficile car elle doit être réalisé d'une manière efficace au niveau de consommation de ressources et avec une quantité limitée d'informations disponible. La facilité de mise à l'échelle et l'utilisation d'information local pour fonctionner ont permis au routage géographique être considéré comme une approche prometteuse. Cependant, lors de son implémentation, certains problèmes subsistent en raison des difficultés pratiques. Dans ce travail de recherche, deux problématiques inhérentes aux protocoles de routages géographique ont été étudiés: i) Le coût associé: aux évanouissements liés aux obstacles et aux multi-trajets suivis par un signal transmis sur un canal radio, aux changements rapides des conditions physiques du canal de transmission and ii) l'administration de resources affectés à chaque noeud appartenant au réseau. Afin de résoudre ce problème, deux protocoles ont été présentés: un protocole de routage géographique avec communications coopératives, Beaconless Cooperative Geographic cross-layer protocol for ad hoc and sensor networks (CoopGeo) et un protocole de routage basé sur le principe d'extension de couverture: Relay-Aware Cooperative Routing (RACR). / In Wireless Sensor Networks, the routing task is an essential service that forwards the sensor readings to some data collection points in the network on the basis of the multi-hop relaying. The routing task is particularly challenging as it should be realized in an energy efficiency manner with limited amount of information. Geographic routing is a promising approach because of its good scalability and local information use, but when deploying such approach, some problems still remain because of some practical difficulties. In this thesis, some techniques have been explored to address two issues in geographic routing protocols: i) Cost associated to: the wireless channel impairments due to fading, mobility patterns or high dynamic environment and ii) the management of constrained resources of the nodes. To tackle these issues, two protocols were presented: a beaconless Cooperative Geographic cross-layer protocol for ad hoc and sensor networks (CoopGeo) and a Relay-Aware Cooperative Routing protocol (RACR). CoopGeo deals the wireless impairments by means of a cross-layer framework where a beaconless geographic routing approach was used to build the route not only in a local manner, but also on the y worked with a relay selection mechanism to exploit the broadcast nature of the wireless communications. The RACR protocol exploits the coverage extension as a result from node cooperation to improve the non-cooperative geographic routing. It is an alternative to scenarios where network resources like energy should be preserved while respecting a Symbol Error Rate constraint (SER).