Intelligent Vehicular Network and Communication Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 95
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Vehicular communications, Internet-of-things involving sensing, communications, and computing systems
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Dear Colleagues,
In modern smart transportation systems, vehicles and other road users are equipped with smart sensors and are interconnected to form an Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV). This facilitates advanced vehicular applications based on multi-sensor data acquisition and processing to provide an efficient and safe transportation. Vehicles can now coordinate with other vehicles, bicyclists, pedestrians, roadside sensors, and infrastructures over vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. Hence, V2X communication is now bidirectional and extends to vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I or I2V), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P or P2V), or vehicle-to-network (V2N). V2X communications enable road users to have augmented information from other road users by incorporating various vehicular sensors and exchanging the data from those sensors over wireless.
The wireless technologies for V2X communications have evolved from Wi-Fi-based vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) to dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) to Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) communications, and other wireless technologies. Along with this, the recent advancement in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), edge/cloud computing, and artificial intelligence technologies intend to provide solutions toward intelligent vehicular networks and transportation systems. However, these technologies come with various challenges in robustness, performance efficiency, safety, and security. This Special Issue focuses on the fundamental technology, approach, and techniques for the intelligent vehicular network and communication systems. Authors are encouraged to submit their research works from theoretical, methodological, or practical focuses, such as simulation models, real-world experiments, algorithms, and applications concerning intelligent vehicular networks and communication systems.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications;
- V2I, I2V, V2P, V2N Communications;
- Internet of Vehicles;
- V2X technologies, e.g., DSRC, WiFi, 5G mmWave;
- Cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications;
- Vehicular Edge/Fog Computing;
- Intelligent vehicular computing with edge-cloud continuum;
- Resource allocation and self-adaptive vehicular communications;
- Protocols, architectures, and applications for vehicular communications;
- Integrated sensing and communications in vehicular technologies;
- AI-native and AI-assisted Intelligent vehicular communications.
Dr. Sabur Baidya
Dr. Joong-Lyul Lee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- V2X Communications
- VANET
- vehicular/edge computing
- V2V communications
- internet-of-vehicles
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