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Sadek, N., Halawa, H., Daoud, R., Amer, H. and Ali, N. (2015) Heterogeneous LTE/Wi-Fi Architecture for ITS Traffic Control and Infotainment. International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles, Aachen, March 2015.

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• TITLE: A Robust Multi-RAT VANET/LTE for Mixed Control & Entertainment Traffic

  AUTHORS: Noha M. Sadek, Hassan H. Halawa, Ramez M. Daoud, Hassanein H. Amer

  KEYWORDS: Heterogeneous Networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vehicular Networks, VANET, LTE, Wi-Fi

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Transportation Technologies, Vol.5 No.2, April 10, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been receiving significant interest from various stakeholders worldwide. ITS promise major enhancements to the efficiency, safety, convenience and sustainability of transportation systems. To satisfy the diverse vehicular application requirements, this paper proposes an integration of IEEE 802.11-based VANET and LTE cellular network using mobile vehicular gateways. IEEE 802.11 g is used for V2V communications and LTE for V2I communications. A burst communication technique is applied to prevent packet losses in the critical uplink ITS traffic. A performance simulation-based study is conducted to validate the feasibility of the proposed system in an urban vehicular environment. The system performance is evaluated in terms of data loss, data rate, delay and jitter. The results indicate that the proposed Multi-RAT system offers acceptable performance that meets the requirements of the different vehicular applications.