TY - CHAP AU - José Santa AU - Rafael Toledo-Moreo AU - Benito Úbeda AU - Miguel A. Zamora-Izquierdo AU - Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta ED - Miguel Almeida Y1 - 2011-04-11 PY - 2011 T1 - Technological Issues in the Design of Cost-Efficient Electronic Toll Collection Systems N2 - This book provides an insight on both the challenges and the technological solutions of several approaches, which allow connecting vehicles between each other and with the network. It underlines the trends on networking capabilities and their issues, further focusing on the MAC and Physical layer challenges. Ranging from the advances on radio access technologies to intelligent mechanisms deployed to enhance cooperative communications, cognitive radio and multiple antenna systems have been given particular highlight. BT - Vehicular Technologies SP - Ch. 20 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/14989 DO - 10.5772/14989 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -