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Innovations in Vehicular Communication and Sensing Technologies

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicular Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 719

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School of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China
Interests: 5G/6G optical wireless communications; vehicular communications; high-speed railway communications; UAV communications

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As the most important component of future intelligent transportation systems, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is one of the most important technologies for achieving smart traffic and convenient travel for people. With the rapid development of IoV, vehicular communication and sensing techniques have recently drawn much attention. With the vigorous development and mutual integration of sensing and communication functions, advanced vehicular communication technologies, vehicular sensing technologies, and integrated vehicular sensing and communication technologies have become research hotspots in IoV, holding significant importance for the development of future intelligent transportation systems.

This Special Issue aims to put together original research and review articles on recent advances, technologies, solutions, applications, and new challenges in the field of vehicular communication and sensing technologies.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Advanced vehicle-to-vehicle communications;
  • Advanced high-speed railway communications;
  • Advanced unmanned aerial vehicle communications;
  • Advanced underwater vehicular communications.
  • Advanced vehicular sensing techniques;
  • Sensing-assisted vehicular communication techniques;
  • Communication-assisted vehicular sensing techniques;
  • Integrated vehicular sensing and communication techniques.

Dr. Jinyuan Wang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • internet of vehicles
  • vehicular communication
  • vehicular sensing
  • integrated sensing and communication

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Enabling and Enhancing Massive Multiple Input–Multiple Output Systems with Two-Dimensional Orthogonal Pattern Division Multiple Access
by Ruimai Wang, Jianguo Yao, Yanling Shi, Ziwei Liu and Xiaodong Bai
Sensors 2026, 26(11), 3491; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26113491 - 1 Jun 2026
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This paper proposes a two-dimensional orthogonal pattern division multiple access (OPDMA) technique to address key challenges in massive MIMO systems, including complex channel estimation, multipath interference, Doppler effects, and inter-antenna interference. Byleveraging optimal frequency hopping patterns with ideal autocorrelation and cross-correlation properties, constructed [...] Read more.
This paper proposes a two-dimensional orthogonal pattern division multiple access (OPDMA) technique to address key challenges in massive MIMO systems, including complex channel estimation, multipath interference, Doppler effects, and inter-antenna interference. Byleveraging optimal frequency hopping patterns with ideal autocorrelation and cross-correlation properties, constructed using a two-dimensional cyclic shift method, OPDMA eliminates the need for equalizers and channel estimation, thereby simplifying receiver design and mitigating pilot contamination. A method for constructing these patterns is introduced, based on an algebraic Costas array with a two-dimensional cyclic shift approach. The simulation results show that OPDMA significantly reduces the bit error rate (BER), simplifies system architecture, and enhances communication quality. These findings highlight OPDMA’s potential to improve performance and streamline the design of massive MIMO systems compared to traditional methods, which implies that OPDMA can be a promising low-complexity interference-suppression strategy when the optimal frequency hopping patterns design parameters match the expected Doppler shift and multipath delay. Full article
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