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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Labhesh Patel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sanjeev Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mukul Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Burke, VA (US);
Labhesh Patel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sanjeev Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mukul Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Burke, VA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method includes providing a roadside apparatus to communicate with vehicle nodes associated with vehicles in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a range of control of the roadside apparatus. Based on real-time location and direction information received from a particular vehicle node associated with a particular one of the vehicles, a specific neighboring roadside apparatus whose range of control is next to be entered by the particular vehicle is identified. Handover information is communicated to the specific neighboring roadside apparatus, and the particular vehicle node is communicatively connected to the specific roadside apparatus before disconnection from the roadside apparatus.