Recent Advances in Wireless Applications for Vehicular Communications

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of vehicular technology, beyond 5G/6G communication, and next-generation networks, vehicular communications are regarded as a key area for the future evolution of the wireless communication system. Vehicular communications, which include a variety of technologies, have been exploited and explored in the past few decades to meet the requirements of emerging wireless services highlighted by high data rates, ultra-reliability, and ultralow transmission latency. Despite those benefits, the unique application scenarios of vehicular communications, e.g., V2X/V2V communications, unmanned aerial/surface vehicle (UAV/USV) communications, vehicular ad-hoc network, etc., along with high-speed mobility and rapidly-changing channels, introduce greater challenges in the establishment of efficient and robust vehicular communication systems. This requires a great deal of fundamental research on the design of all aspects of the vehicular application, including but not limited to vehicle networking, electric vehicle (EV) transceiver design, energy efficiency management, vehicle channel analysis, VANET routing, user association, interference management, and network planning.

Moreover, by incorporating new physical layer (PHY) mechanisms such as mmWave technology, reconfigurable intelligence service (RIS), massive multiple-input–multiple-output (massive MIMO), NOMA, etc., vehicular communications show great potential to significantly raise throughput, enhance spectral and energy efficiency, and increase the capacity of the networks. Although the potential of those technologies is exciting, innovative research is urgently required to fulfill the full potential of vehicular communications, including mobility management, spectrum access, channel estimation, signal processing, interference avoidance, and resource allocation.

This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality manuscripts covering new research on topics related to vehicular communication including but not limited to:

• vehicle signal processing
• mobility management
• interference management for V2V/V2X communications
• PHY analysis
• networking
• resource allocation
• scheduling for UAV/USV communications

Dr. Yang Yang
Dr. Tao Peng
Dr. Dazhong He
Guest Editors

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• vehicular communications
• PHY analysis
• networking
• resource allocation
• interference management
• V2X communications
• UAV communications