Advanced Wireless Communications and Computing of IoV in Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

The new wave of urbanization, ever more stringent environmental protection standards, and high pressure to improve the safety and efficiency of human life and travel service have made the development of a smarter and more convenient city one of the fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. Modern wireless communication technologies have been envisioned to enable key technologies to enhance city efficiency, reduce incidents, and improve the safety and convenience of human life and travel service in smart cities.

The seamless integration and convergence of wireless communication networks in urban transportation will face several technical, economic, and regulatory challenges. It is paramount to design wireless communication systems that enable participants and producers of the IoV operations to exchange information in real-time and with high reliability. In addition, it is crucial to improve the dependability and resilience of the IoV network and design a novel wireless communication architecture for data transmission between transportation participants.

This Special Issue aims to present a collection of high-quality research papers on recent developments, current research challenges, and future directions in the use of networking and communications to realize the IoV networks that are safer, more intelligent, and more efficient. Authors are encouraged to submit theoretical and practical studies relevant to the IoV in smart cities.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Communications and networking in the IoV;
• Intelligent and efficiency computing in the IoV;
• Security, privacy, and trust communication in the IoV;
• MEC networking design and optimization in the IoV;
• Beyond 5G/6G network wireless technologies in the IoV;
• Ultra-low latency communications and ultra-reliable wireless communications in the IoV;
• Dependability design and improvement of wireless communications in the IoV;
• Resilience design and improvement of wireless communications and networking in the IoV;
• Energy-efficient methods of wireless communications in the IoV;
• Applications and services with wireless communications in the IoV.

Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang
Prof. Dr. Bo Zhou
Dr. Xin Fan
Guest Editors

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• Internet of Vehicles
• communications and networking
• intelligent and efficiency computing
• security
• MEC networking
• ultra-reliable wireless communications