Applications of Vehicular Networks and Communications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 43
Special Issue Editors
Interests: automotive security; embedded systems; intelligent functions
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2. LORIA UMR CNRS 7503, Université de Lorraine, 54506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
Interests: cyber physical systems; artificial intelligence; multi-agent systems; autonomous vehicles; smart grid
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Interests: mobile ad hoc networks; vehicle-to-vehicle communication
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The complexity of vehicles has grown significantly as a result of different expectations for modern cars. Trends like connectivity, autonomous driving, shared mobility services, and the electrification of the powertrain have and continue to play a crucial role in a vehicle’s electronic architecture, and these trends are sometimes referred to as CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric) strategy within the automotive world. Based on this, upcoming technical trends can be foreseen. To name a few, high-performance computers are introduced to cope with rising processing demands for automated driving functions, and AI based-algorithms are in particular intended to interpret the vehicle’s environment in a safe and secure way.
In addition, various interfaces to the outside world and protocols onboard and offboard must be realized in a secure and resilient way. As an example, within the vehicle network, service-oriented architectures with a dynamic partition of services are on the horizon.
Further, the interconnection of cars to clouds via X-Over-The-Air-services (XOTA), e.g., firmware updates (FOTA), or infotainment services, and the connection to local applications (remote keys and keyless entry systems, tire pressuring, Bluetooth, etc.) surely make cars both vulnerable and attractive to security attacks. Thus, the secure design of vehicles can be seen as a strong cross-sectional trend across the abovementioned CASE strategy.
To summarize, we will soon experience a strong evolution, if not even a revolution, in vehicular information technology.
This Special Issue, Applications of Vehicular Networks and Communications, will cover actual and upcoming technical approaches for (connected) vehicles, with a special but non-exclusive focus i) on the vehicle’s security, ii) on the offboard and onboard connectivity, and iii) on algorithmic aspects for, e.g., automated resp. autonomous functions.
Prof. Dr. Reiner Kriesten
Prof. Dr. Franck Gechter
Prof. Dr. Frank Kargl
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vehicle networks
- vehicle communication
- automotive security
- resilient car networks
- Car-2-X and mobility services
- artificial intelligence in vehicle networks
- algorithms, automated drivingdriving, and functional development
