Autonomous Vehicles, Immersive Realities and Intelligent IoT
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart System Infrastructure and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: green ICT; wireless and cellular networks; performance evaluation; deep learning; deep reinforcement learning; intelligent computing
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Interests: GPS navigation; multisensor integrated navigation; estimation theory and applications; artificial intelligence; guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Autonomous vehicles, immersive realities, and intelligent IoT are converging into a transformative ecosystem that redefines mobility, human experience, and cyber–physical infrastructure. Vehicles are evolving into intelligent agents with cooperative perception and decision-making capabilities. Immersive realities such as AR/VR/MR demand ultra-low latency, and also require adaptive rendering and seamless synchronization. Meanwhile, IoT devices are proliferating across smart cities, healthcare, and industry, introducing heterogeneity in sensing, computing, and networking.
This convergence opens new horizons for innovation and opportunity, while presenting unprecedented challenges that demand bold solutions: ensuring trustworthy V2X communication under dynamic conditions, sustaining real-time immersive experiences across distributed infrastructures, and orchestrating heterogeneous IoT resources with scalability, sustainability, and resilience. Addressing these challenges requires breakthroughs in architectures, algorithms, cross-domain collaboration, and experimental platforms that integrate mobility, immersion, and intelligence.
To realise this vision, this Special Issue seeks pioneering contributions that illuminate the path toward integrated autonomous, immersive, and intelligent ecosystems. We welcome conceptual advances, rigorous evaluations, and experimental validations that push the boundaries of what is possible. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cooperative perception, decision-making, and control in autonomous vehicles;
- Edge/fog architectures for immersive reality and real-time rendering;
- Intelligent IoT orchestration across heterogeneous infrastructures;
- Task offloading, resource autoscaling, and service migration in dynamic environments;
- Digital twins for vehicular and immersive ecosystems;
- AI-driven QoS, reliability, and resilience management in IoT-enabled systems;
- Energy sustainability and green computing for autonomous and immersive applications;
- Security, privacy, and trust in vehicular and immersive IoT networks;
- Human–machine interaction and cross-domain integration for autonomous and immersive IoT ecosystems;
- Cross-domain data analytics, traffic modeling, and classification;
- Testbeds, simulation platforms, and experimental facilities for integrated validation;
- Ethical, societal, and regulatory aspects of autonomous and immersive IoT ecosystems.
Prof. Dr. Yao-Liang Chung
Prof. Dr. Dah-Jing Jwo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autonomous vehicles
- immersive realities (AR/VR/MR)
- intelligent IoT
- V2X communication
- edge/fog computing
- 5G/6G
- digital twins
- task offloading
- resource autoscaling
- service migration
- AI-driven orchestration
- cybersecurity and resilience
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