V2X Communications for Connected Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are no longer a concept from science fiction; rather, they are imminent, if not already integrated, in our everyday life. As enabling technology for most traffic-related issues ranging from in-vehicle entertainment to safety-critical applications, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications are considered to be one of the core technologies enabling ITS. Meanwhile, due to the dynamic nature of a V2X environment, mainly attributed to the mobility of vehicles, the development of V2X communications has raised a plethora of interesting research questions. As an effort to expedite the public’s understanding of the V2X communications, we are delighted to announce this Special Issue, where we look forward to receiving interesting ideas from you.

We welcome the submission of any unpublished original research related to the theme of “Vehicular Networks and Communications”. The articles are encouraged to discuss the following topics but are not limited to:

• V2X Communications, V2V, V2R, V2P, V2I, V2S;      
• Radar, LIDAR, SONAR;        
• Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality;       
• Routing, Data Dissemination, Data Aggregation, Path Section, Optimization; 
• Medium Access Protocols, Congestion Control, Prioritization Techniques;    
• Green Computing, Energy Consumption, Energy Harvesting, Lifetime Maximization;
• Secure Communications, Security Optimization, Distributed Security;        
• Privacy Preservation, Privacy Loss;
• Video Transmission, Video Encoding/Decoding, Video Compression;
• Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Cloud Computing, Distributed Computing;·
• Localization, Geographic, GPS outage, GPS free, GPS-assisted;
• Propagation Modelling, Interference, Path Loss Modelling.

Dr. Seungmo Kim
Dr. Thomas Moon
Dr. Jounsup Park
Guest Editors

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