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Recent Advances in Vehicular Networking and Communications
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Recent Advances in Vehicular Networking and Communications

A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications and Networking".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (6 June 2023) | Viewed by 1404

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. António Manuel De Jesus Pereira

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Computer Science Department, School of Technology and Management, Computer Science and Communications Research Centre, Polytechnic of Leiria, Campus 2, Morro do Lena-Alto do Vieiro, Apartado 4163, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal
Interests: Internet of Things; SMART IoT Ecosystems; Internet of Unmanned Vehicles; Industry 4.0; next-generation networks and services and ambient assisted living
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Dr. Paulo Loureiro

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Computer Science and Communication Research Centre, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Campus 2, Morro do Lena—Alto do Vieiro, Apartado 4163, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal
Interests: intelligent transport systems; communication networks and protocols; security; artificial intelligence
Prof. Dr. Sílvio Priem-Mendes

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School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal
Interests: applied artificial intelligence; enterprise architectures; business analytics; intelligent transport systems and next-gen application development

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The mobility of people and goods is ensured by transport systems. A great deal of time is sometimes spent moving people and goods due to difficult traffic conditions, namely traffic congestion, transport delays, or adverse weather conditions. These conditions negatively impact people’s lives and the environment, establishing circumstances for accidents and increasing pollution.

One of the ways to alleviate the aforementioned problems has been the introduction of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs) into the road network, which have contributed to improving the safety of people and goods, increasing efficiency, and ensuring the sustainability of transport systems.

ITS technologies cover a wide range of technological areas, including vehicular communications, protocol standardization, sensors, cloud-based applications for traffic control and management, cooperative ITS applications, the dissemination of ITS implementations, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, driver-assistance systems, cybersecurity, and autonomous vehicles.

This Special Issue aims to address the latest research results on vehicular communications, smart road infrastructure deployment, services and application development, and driver assistance systems. The topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Vehicular communications;
  • Smart road infrastructure deployment;
  • ITS services and applications;
  • Connected and automated vehicles;
  • Advanced driver assistance systems;
  • In-vehicle information systems;
  • Sensor data processing, analysis and visualization;
  • Dedicated integrated circuits for ITS;
  • Big data analytics;
  • Artificial intelligence applications;
  • Cloud-based traffic management technologies;
  • Road transportation management;
  • Cybersecurity, privacy, and safety systems.

Prof. Dr. António Manuel De Jesus Pereira
Dr. Paulo Loureiro
Prof. Dr. Sílvio Priem-Mendes
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • C-ITS
  • vehicular communications
  • ITS road infrastructures deployment
  • advanced driver assistance systems
  • sensors
  • AI applications
  • traffic management
  • cybersecurity

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STARC: Decentralized Coordination Primitive on Low-Power IoT Devices for Autonomous Intersection Management
by Patrick Rathje, Valentin Poirot and Olaf Landsiedel
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2023, 12(4), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan12040056 - 11 Jul 2023
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Wireless communication is an essential element within Intelligent Transportation Systems and motivates new approaches to intersection management, allowing safer and more efficient road usage. With lives at stake, wireless protocols should be readily available and guarantee safe coordination for all involved traffic participants, [...] Read more.
Wireless communication is an essential element within Intelligent Transportation Systems and motivates new approaches to intersection management, allowing safer and more efficient road usage. With lives at stake, wireless protocols should be readily available and guarantee safe coordination for all involved traffic participants, even in the presence of radio failures. This work introduces STARC, a coordination primitive for safe, decentralized resource coordination. Using STARC, traffic participants can safely coordinate at intersections despite unreliable radio environments and without a central entity or infrastructure. Unlike other methods that require costly and energy-consuming platforms, STARC utilizes affordable and efficient Internet of Things devices that connect cars, bicycles, electric scooters, pedestrians, and cyclists. For communication, STARC utilizes low-power IEEE 802.15.4 radios and Synchronous Transmissions for multi-hop communication. In addition, the protocol provides distributed transaction, election, and handover mechanisms for decentralized, thus cost-efficient, deployments. While STARC’s coordination remains resource-agnostic, this work presents and evaluates STARC in a roadside scenario. Our simulations have shown that using STARC at intersections leads to safer and more efficient vehicle coordination. We found that average waiting times can be reduced by up to 50% compared to using a fixed traffic light schedule in situations with fewer than 1000 vehicles per hour. Additionally, we design platooning on top of STARC, improving scalability and outperforming static traffic lights even at traffic loads exceeding 1000 vehicles per hour. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Vehicular Networking and Communications)
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