Radio Wave Propagation in Vehicular Environments

Leyre Azpilicueta is an associate professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences of Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico. She is involved in several professional and editorial activities, acting as a reviewer, advisory board member, associate/guest editor of top-rank journals and TPC member of international conferences. Her research interests include radio propagation, mobile radio systems, ray tracing, channel modeling, wireless sensor networks, electromagnetic dosimetry, IoT networks and devices, 5G communication systems and vehicular communications. Cesar Vargas-Rosales is a professor and leader of the research group in telecommunications at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. He is a member of the Mexican Research National System, the Academy of Engineering of Mexico, and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the IEEE Communications Society Monterrey Chapter Chair. His research interests span personal communications, 5G, cognitive radio, MIMO systems, reconfigurable networks and more. Francisco Falcone is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering at Universidad Pública de Navarra and also with the Institute for Smart Cities, Spain. From January 2018 to May 2018 he was a visiting professor at Kuwait College of Science and Technology. His research interests include artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios, wireless system analysis and context aware-IoT environments. Ana Vazquez Alejos is an associate professor at the Signal and Communications Theory Department at the University of Vigo in Spain. In 2009 she was granted with the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship developed in the New Mexico State University (NM, USA). Her research work includes radio propagation, radio channel modeling, wireless multimedia systems, waveform design, noise codes, and radar. She is associate editor and reviewer of several magazines. Raquel Fernández González, PhD in Economics since 2015 and researcher in Department of Applied Economics in University of Vigo since 2010. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Porto for 2 years. She has participated in several international research projects while she worked at CETMAR Research Foundation. Her research interests cover a range of topics related to institutional economy, aquaculture economics and natural resources management. She has been a co-author in Chapter 8 of the presented book.

Chapter 1: Introduction to vehicular communications
Chapter 2: Wireless channel properties for vehicular environments
Chapter 3: Modelling and simulation of vehicular communications
Chapter 4: Intra-vehicle short-range wireless channel characterization
Chapter 5: Inter-vehicle short-range wireless channel characterization
Chapter 6: Vehicular communications channel modelling
Chapter 7: Wireless communication system optimization
Chapter 8: Applications and case studies