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Among the enabling technologies, visible light communication (VLC) represents a low cost solution in the short term. In spite of the fact that vehicular communications cannot rely on the sole VLC due to the limitation provided by the light which allows communications in visibility only, VLC can however be considered to complement other wireless communication technologies which could be overloaded in dense scenarios. In this paper we evaluate the performance of VLC connected vehicles when urban crowd sensing is addressed and we compare the performance of sole vehicular visible light networks with that of VLC as a complementary technology of IEEE 802.11p. Results, obtained through a realistic simulation tool taking into account both the roadmap constraints and the technologies protocols, help to understand when VLC provides the major improvement in terms of delivered data varying the number and position of RSUs and the FOV of the receiver.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18041177","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,12]],"date-time":"2018-04-12T12:19:27Z","timestamp":1523535567000},"page":"1177","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":48,"title":["Vehicular Visible Light Networks for Urban Mobile Crowd Sensing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1094-1985","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Barbara","family":"Masini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR-IEIIT, v.le Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3500-1997","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alessandro","family":"Bazzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR-IEIIT, v.le Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5385-0813","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alberto","family":"Zanella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR-IEIIT, v.le Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3","DOI":"10.1109\/JPROC.2016.2634938","article-title":"The Car as an Ambient Sensing Platform [Point of View]","volume":"105","author":"Massaro","year":"2017","journal-title":"Proc. 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