Intelligent Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET)

Loughborough UniversityLoughborough, United Kingdom

Course overview

Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is an emerging research area and has been attracting great attention in recent years. VANET is a special case of MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Network) and is a key part of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) framework. Nowadays, Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in VANET has emerged as a crucial component in both advanced ITS and Internet of Things (IoT) for information transmission and vehicular communication.

Due to the rapid growth of V2X technologies, a plethora of safety-aware and non-safety-aware applications have emerged, such as collision avoidance (e.g., pre-collision warning), traffic sign notification (e.g., curve speed warning), traffic management (e.g., intelligent traffic control), traffic monitoring (e.g., vehicle tracking), intervehicular entertainment, etc. The project will work on an open-source platform. Novel intelligent algorithms would be expected to be developed in VANET caching or VANE routing or VANET congestion control area (one subject area would be sufficient) and compare to benchmarks.

This project will have great potential to work with industrial collaborator national highway. 94% of Loughborough’s research impact is rated world-leading or internationally excellent. REF 2021

Key highlights

Research focus on V2X communication within Intelligent Transportation Systems
Develop novel intelligent algorithms for VANET caching, routing or congestion control
Project built on an open-source platform with benchmark comparisons
Potential collaboration with National Highways as industrial partner
94% of research impact rated world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021)

Entry requirements

Degree: 2:1 — or above

Scholarships

Alumni Bursary
10% of tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
Up to 10% of fees
Alumni Discount
UK students: £1,500 tuition fee discount for one academic year. International students: £3,000 tuition fee discount for one academic year.
Care Leaver's Scholarship
Excellence Scholarships
UK students: £3,000 off tuition fees; International students: £6,000 off tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
International Sports Student Postgraduate Bursary
Our International Sports Student Postgraduate Bursary offers a £12,000 tuition fee discount (set against the tuition fees of your chosen postgraduate taught programme ONLY).
Up to £12,000
London 10th Anniversary Award
£5,000 off tuition fees.
Up to £5,000
Loughborough Business School Scholarship
£1,500 (UK students) and £3,000 (international students) off tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
MBA Progress with Purpose Scholarship
50% of tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
Up to 50% of fees
Qatari Ghanim Al-Muftah Excellence Scholarship

Careers this course leads to

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Vehicular Networks Research Engineer
Intelligent Transportation Systems Engineer
V2X Communications Engineer
University Lecturer in Computer Science
IoT Systems Architect

Cost of study

UK/Home: £5,238 | International: £29,500

Admission

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