Communication Paradigms and Literature Analysis

While, in the previous chapter we have presented the general architecture of an ITS system, where communication plays a pivotal role, in this chapter, we focus on the communication aspects only, discussing all the aspects related to vehicular communications Vehicular communications are an unicum in the panorama of wireless communications, since they combine complexity of the requirements that they have to face had led to the development of new communication technologies and communication paradigms, that rely on new communication paradigm and network topology and on a mix of existing and new communication technologies.