Chapter 29
Emergency Vehicular Networks
Mario Gerla, Eun Kyu Lee, Uichin Lee and Giovanni Pau
This chapter contains information on the following concepts: Vehicle Communications, Emergency Vehicle Grid, Routing in Vehicle Network, Content Dissemination, and Security in Emergency Vehicular Network.
29.1 Introduction
In urban emergencies, vehicles play several important roles. To start, first responders must assist the victims and control the emergency using vehicles. Ambulances, police cars, and firefighters must be able to “exploit” inter-vehicular communications in the urban grid to get to destination faster and safer, without excessive impact on the residents that are not affected by the disaster. Secondly, if the disaster has knocked down ...
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