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Vehicular communications are the key enabler of traffic reduction and road safety improvement referred to as cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications. Considering the numerous transmitting entities in next generation cellular…

Connected and autonomous vehicles are already right around the corner of our everyday life. One of the key technologies actualizing the connected vehicles is vehicle-to-everything communications (V2X), which has been enhanced along the…

Next-generation networks, based on SDN and NFV, are expected to support a wide array of services, including vehicular safety applications. These services come with strict delay constraints, and our goal in this paper is to ascertain to…

The development of intelligent transportation systems raises many requirements to the current vehicular networks. For instance, to ensure secure communications between vehicles, low latency, high connectivity and high data rate are required…

Small wireless cells have the potential to overcome bottlenecks in wireless access through the sharing of spectrum resources. A novel access backhaul network architecture based on a Smart Gateway (Sm-GW) between the small cell base…

Plug-and-play information technology (IT) infrastructure has been expanding very rapidly in recent years. With the advent of cloud computing, many ecosystem and business paradigms are encountering potential changes and may be able to…

The evolution of automotive technologies towards more integrated and sophisticated systems requires a shift from traditional distributed architectures to centralized vehicle architectures. This work presents a novel framework that addresses…

Vehicular communications, referring to information exchange among vehicles, pedestrians, and infrastructures, have become very popular and been widely studied recently due to its great potential to support intelligent transportation and…

The C-V2X or LTE-V standard has been designed to support V2X (Vehicle to Everything) communications. The standard is an evolution of LTE, and it has been published by the 3GPP in Release 14. This new standard introduces the C-V2X or LTE-V…

Small cells are a cost-effective way to reliably expand network coverage and provide significantly increased capacity for end users. The ultra-high bandwidth available at millimeter (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) frequencies can effectively…

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm that promises to change this state of affairs, by breaking vertical integration, separating the network's control logic from the underlying routers and switches, promoting (logical)…

Resource allocation has a direct and profound impact on the performance of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks. In this paper, we develop a hybrid architecture consisting of centralized decision making and distributed resource sharing (the…

With the rapid advancement in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, there are growing interests in related fields to leverage V2V communications for different applications. A robust leader selection algorithm is required in a number of…

The evolution of wireless communications into 6G and beyond is expected to rely on new machine learning (ML)-based capabilities. These can enable proactive decisions and actions from wireless-network components to sustain quality-of-service…

In this paper we apply the Named Data Networking, a newly proposed Internet architecture, to networking vehicles on the run. Our initial design, dubbed V-NDN, illustrates NDN's promising potential in providing a unifying architecture that…

The emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact with controllers to implement network services, such as…

The huge research interest in cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications in recent days is attributed to their ability to schedule multiple access more efficiently as compared to its predecessor technology, i.e., dedicated…

The vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been researched for over twenty years. Although being a fundamental communication approach for vehicles, the conventional VANETs are challenged by the newly emerged autonomous vehicles (AVs) which…

To operate intelligent vehicular applications such as automated driving, machine learning, artificial intelligence and other mechanisms are used to abstract from information what is commonly referred to as knowledge. Defined as a state of…

Compared with today's 4G wireless communication network, the next generation of wireless system should be able to provide a wider range of services with different QoS requirements. One emerging new service is to exploit cooperative driving…