Prof. Kan ZhengBeijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, ChinaE: zkan@bupt.edu.cn

Prof. Mischa DohlerKing's College London (KCL), UK

Prof. Periklis ChatzimisiosAlexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (ATEITHE),Greece

Prof. Tom H. LuanDeakin University, Australia

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Call for PapersIET Communications

Special Issue: Advances in Internet-of-Vehicles

With touch screens and onboard operating systems (e.g, Android auto, Apple CarPlay) becoming common practice in vehicles, the Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV), which connects vehicles with rich and novel Internet and broadband services, is evolving fast. Notably, Europe and Japan have both launched national projects to enable Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications by applying key technologies of IoV. Generally speaking, IoV technologies refer to dynamic mobile communication systems which enable the high-rate connections between vehicles and public networks, e.g., cellular networks, sensor networks, transportation systems, using the V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle), V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure), V2H (vehicle-to-human) and V2S (vehicle-to-sensor) communications. On one hand, over IoV, all the information from vehicles, roads and the sounding environments can be collected and distributed to interested vehicles and humans towards the enhanced road user experience. On the other hand, huge volumes of data can be transmitted to a common platform and processed towards reduced road congestion and improved traffic management and road safety. To make IoV a practice, many research challenges need to be addressed. For example, a HETerogeneous Vehicular NETworking (HetVNET) platform is necessary to connect all vehicles with sensors inside and outside the car using reliable and real-time communications. Cloud-based functions such as virtualization, authentication, real-time interaction, and secured storage, coupled with Big Data transmission and processing from vehicles to the cloud, also deserves in-depth studies. An integrated IoV system solution would involve vehicular data gathering, computing, scheduling, monitoring/control, management, and applications. In addition, the Fifth Generation (5G) cellular communication system is expected to speed up the deployment of IoV system. Lastly, the interactions between the communications and computation in vehicle environment are essential for the upper layer applications.

Note that the automotive industry worldwide has already shifted from developing more advanced vehicles to safe and comfortable ones, which stimulates the development of new intelligent vehicles with advanced driving control. The reliable, efficient and secured IoV applications serves the basis of futuristic intelligent transportation system and vehicles, and therefore represents a fundament research topic in the next generation mobile networks. The research on IoV, however, is still in a very early stage. There are many open issues related to the fundamental protocol design, system architecture, among other. This proposed topic is therefore timely and appropriate for the IET Communications journal. The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high quality research papers on the state of the art in the emerging technologies for IoV, the latest development in standardizations and regulations, as well as the potential IoV services and applications for improved travel efficiency and transportation management.

We invite researchers (both from industry and academia) to contribute original research articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand the IoV system design. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Important dates:

Submission deadline: Jul 1 2016

Publication Date: May 2017 All papers must be submitted through the journal’s Manuscript Central system:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-com

For enquiries regarding this Special Issue please contact the Guest Editors:

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING NOW AVAILABLE

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada

n IoV system architectures and service design n Low-latency high-reliability communication technologies for IoVn Vehicle behavior model and environment awarenessn Novel service applications and business models of IoVn Vehicle social networks in IoVn Dynamic spectrum access technologies in IoVn Cooperative driving, intelligent and autonomous vehicles n Telematics, wireless communication networks for IoV

n Mobile sensing networking in IoVn Network and information services in IoVn IoV for intelligent transportationn Efficient big data analysis for IoVn Mobile cloud computing for IoVn Security, privacy and trust in IoVn Large-scale simulation methodology and platform for IoVn Experimental systems and field test of real-world IoV system

All submissions are subject to the journal’s peer-review procedures. The authors should follow the journal’s Author Guide athttp://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/author-guide when preparing papers for submission to the Special Issue.

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