Sensor and Communication Systems Enabling Autonomous Vehicles

Dear colleagues,

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have become a reality and represent a huge leap forward to improve our quality of life and traffic safety around the world. Driverless vehicles are a result of major advancements in both sensing and computation areas. By adding new communication capabilities, autonomous vehicles’ performance can even be improved. Further research efforts are required in the fields of vehicular networking, sensing, and autonomous driving, ranging from developments in sensors to computer vision or the use of 5G in self-driving vehicles.

This Special Issue focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of smart sensing and communication issues, especially addressing autonomous vehicles. The objective is to provide an overview of the state of the art in the technological aspects of sensing, communications, computer vision, and artificial intelligence applied to CAVs.

More specifically, this Special Issue is seeking high-quality original contributions, soliciting high-level technical papers addressing the main research challenges related to the autonomous vehicles, sensing, and communications areas. Possible contributions should consist of original theoretical or practical analyses, never published elsewhere, and validated by simulations or real testbeds.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Autonomous driving;
• Vehicular sensor networks;
• Sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles;
• 5G in vehicular networking;
• Multimedia communications in vehicular scenarios;
• Computer vision for autonomous vehicles;
• Content distribution in vehicular environments;
• Vehicular cloud computing and networking;
• Advanced services through vehicular communications;
• Security, trust, and privacy in vehicular communications;
• Models, simulators, and tools for intelligent transportation systems.

Prof. Francisco J. Martinez
Prof. Celimuge Wu
Prof. Syed Hassan Ahmed
Prof. Johann M. Marquez-Barja
Guest Editors

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