5G Network Solutions for Automotive Services
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 4823
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Interests: intelligent transportation; sensing and distributed systems
Interests: user mobility characterization; mobile traffic data mining and analysis; privacy in mobile traffic datasets
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Dear Colleagues,
When compared to current cellular systems, fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks are expected to support a more broadened range of services. Among those, automotive applications play a major role: The technological transformation vehicles are undergoing paves the road for new compelling communication-driven use cases. As a matter of fact, cars are turning into mobile communication hubs that embed a growing variety of radio network interfaces, which enable services for improved road safety, more effective traffic management, or smart real-time navigation and infotainment. In addition, automated driving offers new opportunities for integration of the telecom and automotive industries: self-driving vehicles will progressively complement onboard sensing with cooperation capability, which will entail stringent requirements on the performance of the network.
Overall, emerging automotive services are expected to dramatically increase the mobile traffic demand generated by moving vehicles, in terms of both capacity and quality of service. And they shall achieve this while addressing the inherent exacting issues of the automotive environment, including support for fast mobility, robustness to intermittent connectivity, adaptability to very heterogeneous user densities, and general scalability. In the light of these considerations, it is not surprising that the automotive sector has been identified as a critical environment where 5G will be challenged [1]. It is therefore of paramount importance that suitable networking solutions are conceived and deployed to address the needs of high-speed vehicular users [2].
This Special Issue invites original research papers on new algorithms, protocols, architectures and solutions for future-generation mobile networks that are specifically designed to support automotive services. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- 5G MIMO solutions for automotive services
- 5G Radio resource allocation for automotive services
- 5G Scheduling for automotive services
- 5G coverage and antenna positioning in automotive environments
- 5G infrastructure planning and deployment for automotive services
- Network slicing for automotive verticals
- Co-existence and integration of 5G with other access technologies in automotive environments
- 5G network security mechanisms for automotive environments
- Device-to-device (D2D) communication for automotive services
- Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P), and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)
- Communication between vehicles and vulnerable users (bikes)
- Integration of network-assisted and non-network assisted V2V channel access mechanisms
- 5G context awareness in automotive environments
- Automotive service discovery functions
- Requirements of 5G for next-generation automotive services
- Ultra-reliable and low-latency V2X communication for automotive services
- 5G solutions targeting automated and autonomous driving
- Performance evaluation of 5G networks for automotive services
- Simulation of 5G networks for automotive services
- Platforms and experiments of 5G networks for automotive services
- Cost-benefit tradeoff evaluation of 5G solutions in automotive environments
References
[1] 5G Automotive Association (Ertico/5GPPP), "5G Automotive Vision", October 2015
[2] 3GPP TR 22.886, "Study of Enhancement of 3GPP Support for 5G V2X Services", v15.1.0, March 2017
Dr. Sébastien Faye
Dr. Marco Fiore
Prof. Dr. Fabrício A. Silva
Guest Editors
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