A lecture of “Vehicular Communication networks: Challenges and Opportunities” was given by Prof. ZHUANG Weihua from the University of Waterloo, Canada invited by the High Performance Network Laboratory of IACAS on Jul.30.

The lecture was comprised of two parts, first was introduction of the Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs).VANETs aim at providing communications among nearby vehicles, and between vehicles and nearby roadside equipment, with very limited or no infrastructure support. VANETs are envisioned to be a cornerstone for road safety, intelligent transportation, mobile Internet access, and many location dependent commercial applications. The growing importance of inter-vehicular communications has been recognized by governments, academia, and industry.  In comparison with general-purpose mobile ad hoc networks, VANETs have unique features that provide opportunities for optimizations, but also have complex aspects that challenge the system design and implementation, such as very fast network topology changes due to high vehicle speed.  This presentation provided an overview of the state-of-the-art in the development of VANETs, discussed research challenges, and offered some solutions to resource allocation, network control, and service provisioning in VANETs.

In the second part, ZHUANG presented her team’s research work which was focused on the network data link layer. Employing intelligent time slice distribution strategy, it reduced collision chance between terminal data packets during communications in the VANETs, which improved network efficiency and contributed greatly for VANETs.

Biography:

ZHUANG Weihua received the BEng and MEng degrees from Dalian Maritime University (China) and the PhD degree from University of New Brunswick (Canada), all in electrical engineering. She has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, since 1993, where she is a Professor and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks. Her current research focuses on resource allocation and quality-of-service provisioning in wireless networks.

ZHUANG  is presenting her research work