A Design Framework for Analysis of Connectivity Issues for Vehicular Adhoc Network in a Geographical Information System

The integrated use of telecommunications and information is known as telematics. Telematics have been applied specifically to the use of global positioning system technology integrated with computers. Most narrowly, the term has evolved to refer to the use of such system within road vehicles, in which case the term vehicle telematics may be used. Vehicle telematics is a term used to define connected vehicles interchanging electronic data. Advances in wireless inter-vehicle communication systems enable the development of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) and create significant opportunities for the deployment of a wide variety of vehicular applications and services. This paper analyzes the connectivity of a vehicular telematics network to provide a test bed for the network design and algorithm, based on the real world movement history data of many vehicles.