Special Issue "Vehicular Networks and Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. G G Md Nawaz Ali
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Department of Applied Computer Science, University of Charleston, Charleston, WV 25304, USA
Interests: vehicular networks, V2X communication, vonnected and autonomous vehicle, broadcasting, network coding, and data analytics
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Dr. Md. Noor-A-Rahim
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School of Computer Science & IT, University College Cork, Ireland
Interests: control over wireless networks, intelligent transportation systems, industrial internet of things, DNA data storage, and machine learning
Dr. Mohammad Omar Khyam
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Electrical Engineering, Central Queensland University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Interests: signal processing and wireless communication, sensor networks, sensor data fusion, machine and deep learning, intelligent systems, internet of things
Dr. Xuejun Li
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Interests: wireless networking; wireless communications; vehicular networks; radio frequency integrated circuits; signal processing; system optimization and evolutionary computing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Early research shows that connected vehicle can save 75% of human errors in driving and reduce vehicle collisions and fatalities enormously. It also saves billions of dollars of economic losses by reducing traffic congestion time and amount of fuel consumption. The connectivity of the vehicle is achieved through vehicular networks in the forms of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication. Vehicular networks is the emerging technology for the future Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The inherent drawback of vehicular network is the intermittent connectivity due to the mobility of vehicle and the nature of lossy wireless communication (e.g., path loss, fading and shadowing). A sustainable or stable vehicular network is the key for the successful deployment of V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication in the future CAV (Connected and Autonomous Vehicle).

For a stable vehicular networks there still need of researches in sustainable vehicular communication considering underlying constraints such as lossy wireless channel, obstructed communication channel (e.g., urban canyon, big vehicles etc.), intersection communication, dense traffic situation etc.  

This special issue covers the following relevant areas, but are not limited to:

  1. Sustainable Vehicular communication
  2. V2V, V2I and V2X communication
  3. Sustainable algorithm and routing protocol
  4. Sustainable data dissemination
  5. Sustainable vehicular clustering
  6. Safe driving and intelligent transportation
  7. MAC enhancement
  8. Path loss, fading and shadowing
  9. Sustainable channel modeling
  10. State estimation

Dr. G G Md Nawaz Ali
Dr. Md. Noor-A-Rahim
Dr. Mohammad Omar Khyam
Dr. Xuejun Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • vehicular networks
  • sustainability
  • V2X communication
  • sustainable vehicular network
  • wireless communication
  • connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV)

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A Neural Network-Based Sustainable Data Dissemination through Public Transportation for Smart Cities
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10327; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410327 - 10 Dec 2020
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In recent years, there has been a big data revolution in smart cities dues to multiple disciplines such as smart healthcare, smart transportation, and smart community. However, most services in these areas of smart cities have become data-driven, thus generating big data that [...] Read more.
In recent years, there has been a big data revolution in smart cities dues to multiple disciplines such as smart healthcare, smart transportation, and smart community. However, most services in these areas of smart cities have become data-driven, thus generating big data that require sharing, storing, processing, and analysis, which ultimately consumes massive amounts of energy. The accumulation process of these data from different areas of a smart city is a challenging issue. Therefore, researchers have started aiming at the Internet of vehicles (IoV), in which smart vehicles are equipped with computing and storage capabilities to communicate with surrounding infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a subcategory of IoV as the Internet of buses (IoB), where public buses enable a service as a data carrier in a smart city by introducing a neural network-based sustainable data dissemination system (NESUDA), where opportunistic sensing comprises delay-tolerant data collection, processing and disseminating from one place to another place around the city. The objective was to use public transport to carry data from one place to another and to reduce the traffic from traditional networks and energy consumption. An advanced neural network (NN) algorithm was applied to locate the realistic arrival time of public buses for data allocation. We used the Auckland transport (AT) buses data set from the transport agency to validate our model for the level of accuracy in predicted bus arrival time and scheduled arrival time to disseminate data using bus services. Data were uploaded onto buses as per their dwelling time at each stop and terminals within the coverage area of deployed RSU. The offloading capacity of our proposed data dissemination system showed that it could be utilized to effectively complement traditional data networks. Moreover, the maximum offloading capacity at each parent stop could reach up to 360 GB with a huge saving of energy consumption. Full article
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The Role of 5G Technologies in a Smart City: The Case for Intelligent Transportation System
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 5188; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095188 - 06 May 2021
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A smart city is an urban area that collects data using various electronic methods and sensors. Smart cities rely on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and aim to improve the quality of services by managing public resources and focusing on comfort, maintenance, and [...] Read more.
A smart city is an urban area that collects data using various electronic methods and sensors. Smart cities rely on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and aim to improve the quality of services by managing public resources and focusing on comfort, maintenance, and sustainability. The fifth generation (5G) of wireless mobile communication enables a new kind of communication network to connect everyone and everything. 5G will profoundly impact economies and societies as it will provide the necessary communication infrastructure required by various smart city applications. Intelligent Transporting System (ITS) is one of the many smart city applications that can be realized via 5G technology. The paper aims to discuss the impact and implications of 5G on ITS from various dimensions. Before this, the paper presents an overview of the technological context and the economic benefits of the 5G and how key vertical industries will be affected in a smart city, i.e., energy, healthcare, manufacturing, entertainment, and automotive and public transport. Afterward, 5G for ITS is introduced in more detail. Full article
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