Advances in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)

Dear Colleagues,

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have gained significant attention from governments, academia, and industry with the emergence of new technologies, e.g., 5G, B5G, 6G, AI, ML, blockchain, and cloud/edge computing. VANETs are an important research domain and are still facing various challenges and new development trends. Therefore, many national and international projects are devoted to VANETs.

This Special Issue provides a platform to present and discuss recent advances and current research, projects, issues, and the standardization of VANET technologies by addressing new VANET techniques, protocols, mechanisms, frameworks, architectures, applications, and systems. Therefore, we are seeking original contributions in areas including, but not limited to:

• Efficient, reliable, resilient, and secure VANETs;
• V2V, V2I, and V2X communications;
• Authentication, privacy, and security issues;
• Collision avoidance;
• Safety warning systems and applications;
• VRU protection and safety;
• Context and/or cooperative awareness;
• Platooning/convoying;
• Autonomous and cooperative driving;
• Connected vehicles;
• Offloading strategies;
• Intelligent traffic management systems;
• Intelligent transport systems;
• mmWave and THz systems;
• 5G, B5G, and 6G applications;
• Mission-critical services (MCX) in VANETs;
• Proximity-based and cooperation-based services;
• Joint communications and sensing (JC&S) for VANETs;
• Physical layer design for VANETs;
• MAC layer design for VANETs;
• Antenna systems, propagation, and RF design;
• Energy consumption/efficiency in VANETs.

Prof. Dr. Norman Franchi
Dr. Mohamed Khalaf-Allah
Dr. Maximilian Lübke
Guest Editors

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