The vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) for intelligent transportation systems is an emerging concept to improve transportation\nsecurity, reliability, and management. The network behavior can be totally different in topological aspects because of the mobility\nof vehicular nodes. The topology can be fully connected when the flow of vehicles is high and may have low connectivity or be\ninvalid when the flow of vehicles is low or unbalanced. In big cities, the metropolitan buses that travel on exclusive lanes may\nbe used to set up a metropolitan vehicular data network (backbone), raising the connectivity among the vehicles. Therefore, this\npaper proposes the implementation of a living mobile backbone, totally ad hoc (MOB-NET), which will provide infrastructure and\nraise the network connectivity. In order to show the viability of MOB-NET, statistical analyses were made with real data of express\nbuses that travel through exclusive lanes, besides evaluations through simulations and analytic models. The statistic, analytic, and\nsimulation results prove that the buses that travel through exclusive lanes can be used to build a communication network totally ad\nhoc and provide connectivity in more than 99% of the time, besides raising the delivery rate up to 95%.
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