Roadside Networks for Vehicular Communications: Architectures, Applications, and Test Fields attempts to close the gap between science and technology in the field of roadside backbones for VCNs. This collection will be useful not only for researchers and engineers at universities, but for students in the fields of wireless communication networks, especially vehicular communication networks, and backbone networks as well.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2014, held in Halmstad, Sweden, in August 2014. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They describe the latest advancements in the field of multiple access communications with an emphasis on reliability issues, physical layer techniques, cognitive radio, medium access control protocols, and video coding.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2012, held in Maynooth, Ireland, in November 2012. The 13 full papers and 5 demo and poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on network coding, handling interference and localization techniques at PHY/MAC layers, wireless access networks, and medium access control.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles/Trains, Nets4Cars 2012 and Nets4Trains 2012, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in April 2012. The 4 full papers of the rail track and 11 full papers of the road track presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They provide an overview over latest technologies and research in the field of intra- and inter-vehicle communications (protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2011, held in Trento, Italy, in September 2011. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 40 submissions. They are divided in topical sections on cognitive radio; MAC protocols; communications theory; special session on MAC protocols for WSNs; system analysis and scheduling; and queuing systems.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars 2011and the First International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles in the Railway Transportation, Nets4Trains 2011, held in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, in March 2011. The 7 full papers of the rail track and 12 full papers of the road track presented together with a keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 and 21 submissions respectively. They provide an overview over the latest technologies and research in the field of intra- and inter-vehicle communication and present original research results in areas relating to communication protocols and standards, mobility and traffic models, experimental and field operational testing, and performance analysis.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2019, held in Colmar, France, in May 2019. The 9 full papers and 1 short paper in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The volume features contributions in the theory or practice of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and communication technologies for: - Vehicles on the road: e.g. cars, trucks and buses; - Air: e.g. aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles; and - Rail: e.g. trains, metros and trams.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2016, held in San Sebastian, Spain, in June 2016. The 13 papers presented together with 2 keynote papers, 2 invited papers, and 1 demo paper in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 initial submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: road, rail, and air.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2017, held in Toulouse, France, in May 2017. The 12 full papers presented together with 2 demo papers in this volumewere carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The volume features contributions in the theory or practice of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and communication technologies for: Vehicles on road: e.g. cars, tracks and buses; Air: e.g. aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles; and Rail: e.g. trains, metros and trams.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2015, held in Helsinki, Finland, in September 2015. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They describe the latest advancements in the field of multiple access communications with an emphasis on wireless sensor networks; physical layer techniques; resources handling and allocation; medium access control protocols and video coding.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2015, held in Sousse, Tunisia, in May 2015. The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: road; rail; and air.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2014, held in Offenburg, Germany in May 2014. The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The book also contains 4 invited papers. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: automotive issues, car-to-car, aviation issues, in-car, and infrastructures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2013, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in December 2013. The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. They describe the latest advancements in the field of multiple access communications with an emphasis on OFDM techniques, channel coding, spectrum management, medium access control protocols and different aspects of wireless access networks.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles/Trains, Nets4Cars 2013 and Nets4Trains 2013, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in May 2013. The 12 full papers of the road track and 5 full papers of the rail track presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They address topics such as intra-vehicle, inter-vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications (protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications.