Infotainment Systems on Fast Forward

The field of in-vehicle infotainment systems covers a wide variety of digital applications, including internal connectivity, entertainment, external communications, navigation services, and radio. This book contains 89 papers covering the past eight years (2000-2007) of engineering developments related to infotainment systems. The book also includes Ronald K. Jurgens introduction (Infotainment Systems on Fast Forward) and a concluding section on future trends which features papers on future security needs, virtualization architectures, operating system requirements, network architectures, and data-reduction protocols.