Vehicular Communications

Achieving reliable connectivity in heterogeneous vehicular networks is a challenging task, owing to rapid topological changes and unpredictable vehicle speeds. As vehicular communication demands continue to evolve, multipath connectivity is ...

Based on the characteristics of the 5 G standard defined in Release 17 by 3GPP and that of the emerging Beyond 5 G (or the so-called 6 G) network, cyber-physical systems (CPSs) used in smart transport network infrastructures, such as connected ...

We consider the problem of k agents using a communication channel restricted to n transmission slots. Each agent aims to broadcast its message repetitively so that at least one copy of it avoids collision, where the agent cannot observe channel ...

Moving networks comprising of moving small cells (MoSCs) is an emerging technology that provide ubiquitous connectivity to the cellular users in vehicular environment. MoSCs are the small cells deployed on the top of vehicles (city buses, trains, ...

This paper investigates an in-band full-duplex (IBFD) relaying, where a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is dispatched as an amplify-and-forward relay to forward data from a source to a destination. By considering ideal and practical IBFD ...

Connected and automated vehicles bring the capability to generate traffic data for intersection control applications. Unfortunately, for various reasons, such as signal blocking and interference, vehicles may experience communication failures ...

• An estimator of communication reliability for road intersection control is proposed.
• The estimator is verified by evaluating the prediction accuracy in simulation experiments.
• Benefits of the estimator are showcased by emergency ...

Empowered by the capabilities provided by fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is heading from concept to reality. Given the nature of high-mobility and high-density for vehicle ...

The increased demand for automobile applications and connected-vehicles in the market has prompted much research into intelligent automotive antennas. Connected-vehicles are being used to change automotive technology and serve as a framework for ...

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) enables precise modulation and directional transmission of signals by controlling the phase and amplitude of electromagnetic waves, thus solving the problems of signal fading, multipath effects, and ...

Physical-layer encryption has lately been highlighted as a promising security approach for visible light communications (VLC). Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is the main structural entity of multiple-carrier modulation in most ...

With the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and autonomous driving technology, wireless communication between UAV and vehicles has become one of the hotspots in the research of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). ...

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) systems improve road safety through coordination among vehicles, but they are vulnerable to impersonation attack due to their broadcast communication nature. Existing cryptographic authentication approaches are ...

With the increasing number of connected vehicles on the road, vehicular communications have become an important research area. Federated learning (FL), a distributed machine learning technique that enables learning from distributed data sources ...

Spectrum scarcity is one of the main challenges of future wireless technologies. When looking at vehicle-to-everything (V2X), this is amplified as spectrum sharing could impact road safety and traffic efficiency. It is therefore of particular ...

Despite its significant role in providing and developing reliable and safe intelligent transportation services, the Internet of Vehicles faces several challenges and security threats, such as co-channel interference (CCI), node self-interference (...

In Location-Based Service (LBS), the vehicle user sends query messages, such as the nearest health centre, restaurant, etc., to the service provider for efficient and accurate service. The service provider gathers data regarding the received ...

The future of mobility is cooperative, connected, and autonomous leading to new technological challenges in the development of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). Therefore, Vehicle to Everything (V2X) and, more specifically, ...

The advent of the next generation of connected and autonomous cars offers immense opportunities for both users as well as service providers. In particular, fiber-wireless (FiWi) based vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) network can facilitate some of ...

This work presents a resource management framework for optimizing the sum-rate in a sparse code multiple access (SCMA)-assisted UAV downlink system. We formulate two optimization problems for maximizing the overall sum-rate: the first problem ...

In Internet of Things (IoT) systems, sensor nodes are frequently placed in remote and unattended locations to monitor environmental data. One significant challenge is ensuring the timely and efficient transmission of data generated by these ...

In this work, we investigate a longitudinal platooning control problem of heterogeneous vehicles with a focus on external unknown disturbances, parameter uncertainties and intermittent communications. When vehicle platooning encounter ...

Congestion is caused by the continually expanding number of vehicles worldwide. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) could be used to build a system that efficiently uses the existing infrastructure and current technological advancements. ...

The concepts of future mobility such as autonomous, connected, electric and shared vehicles are bringing a huge revolution to the automotive sector. We are seeing technologies typical from data centers fully embedded into vehicles, shifting from ...

Intelligent assisted driving is an important application in vehicular edge computing networks (VECNs). In the intelligent transportation system (ITS), a group of moving vehicle users need to be coordinated to complete complex vehicular ...

To establish reliable connection between Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) devices and terrestrial data centers, this work first proposes a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided multihop underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC)...

Due to its controllable maneuverability, wide coverage, and low cost, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has great potential in post-disaster rescue, cargo transport and emergency communication. Considering its limited onboard energy, energy-efficient ...

With the rapid development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV), crowd-sensing based on IoV is widely used in various fields. Traditional crowd-sensing uses a third-party service platform for information interaction, which has problems of worker ...

• Use blockchain to complete worker information interaction and decentralized storage.
• Realize workers' personalized privacy settings to safeguard sensing data quality.
• Combine Geohash encoding and order-preserving encryption to ...

In recent years, Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs) have gained significant attention among researchers due to the widespread applications and increasing popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). As technology advances and more research is ...

With the constant development of wireless communication technologies, the Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) will become an inevitable paradigm for intelligent transportation systems. Privacy-preserving and authentication security has been a core ...