Providing various wireless connectivities for vehicles enables the communication between and their internal external environments. Such a connected vehicle solution is expected to be next frontier automotive revolution key evolution generation intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). Moreover, are also building blocks of emerging Internet Vehicles (IoV). Extensive research activities numerous industrial initiatives have paved way coming era vehicles. In this paper, we focus on technologies...

As the rapid development of automotive telematics, modern vehicles are expected to be connected through heterogeneous radio access technologies and able exchange massive information with their surrounding environment. By significantly expanding network scale conducting both real time long term processing, traditional Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) evolving Internet Vehicles (IoV), which promises efficient intelligent prospect for future transportation system. On other hand, not only...

With the proliferation of connected devices and emerging data-hungry applications, volume mobile data traffic is predicted to have a 1000-fold growth by year 2020. To address challenge this explosion, industry academia initiated research development 5G wireless networks, which are envisaged cater massive volume, while providing ubiquitous connectivity supporting diverse applications with different quality service (QoS) requirements. support expected data, large number small cells be deployed...

In this article, an aerial-ground cooperative vehicular networking architecture is proposed. Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), forming subnetwork, aid the ground subnetwork through air-to-air (A2A) and air-to-ground (A2G) communications. UAVs can be dispatched to areas of interest collect information, transmit it vehicles. Moreover, act as intermediate relays due their flexible mobility when network partitions happen in subnetwork. With assistance UAVs, twolayer facilitate...

The ever increasing mobile data demands have posed significant challenges in the current radio access networks, while emerging computation- heavy Internet of Things applications with varied requirements demand more flexibility and resilience from cloud/edge computing architecture. In this article, to address issues, we propose a novel air-ground integrated edge network (AGMEN), where UAVs are flexibly deployed scheduled, assist communication, caching, network. Specifically, present detailed...

VANETs enable information exchange among vehicles, other end devices and public networks, which plays a key role in road safety/infotainment, intelligent transportation systems, self-driving systems. As vehicular connectivity soars, new on-road mobile applications technologies emerge, are generating an ever-increasing amount of data, requiring fast reliable transmissions through VANETs. On the hand, variety related data can be analyzed utilized to improve performance In this article, we...

Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) connects vehicles, sensors, pedestrians, mobile devices, and the Internet with advanced communication networking technologies, which can enhance road safety, improve traffic management, support immerse user experience. However, increasing number of vehicles other IoV high vehicle mobility, diverse service requirements render operation management intractable. Software-defined (SDN) network function virtualization (NFV) technologies offer potential solutions to...

In this article, we investigate a computing task scheduling problem in space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) for delay-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) services. the considered scenario, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects tasks from IoT devices and then makes online offloading decisions, which can be processed at UAV or offloaded to nearby base station remote satellite. Our objective is design policy that minimizes delay all given energy capacity constraint. To end, first...

Establishing and maintaining end-to-end connections in a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is challenging due to the high vehicle mobility, dynamic inter-vehicle spacing, variable density. Mobility prediction of vehicles can address aforementioned challenge, since it provide better routing planning improve overall VANET performance terms continuous service availability. In this paper, centralized scheme with mobility proposed for assisted by an artificial intelligence powered software-defined...

The IEEE 802.11p-based dedicated short range communication (DSRC) is essential to enhance driving safety and improve road efficiency by enabling rapid cooperative message exchanging. However, there a lack of good understanding on the DSRC performance in urban environments for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, which impedes its reliable efficient application. In this paper, we first conduct intensive data analytics V2V performance, based large amount real-world communications trace...

Technological evolutions in the automobile industry, especially development of connected and autonomous vehicles, have granted vehicles more computing, storage, sensing resources. The necessity efficient utilization these resources leads to vision vehicular cloud computing (VCC), which can offload tasks from edge or remote enhance overall efficiency. In this paper, we study problem computation offloading through (VC), where missions be offloaded executed cooperatively by VC. Specifically,...

Space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) is envisioned as a promising solution to provide cost-effective, large-scale, and flexible wireless coverage communication services. Since realworld deployment for testing of SAGIN difficult prohibitive, an efficient simulation platform requisite. In this article, we present our developed which supports various mobility traces protocols space, aerial, terrestrial networks. Centralized decentrallized controllers are implemented optimize the...

Accidents often occur at sea, so effective maritime search and rescue is essential. In the current process of sea rescue, operation efficiency large equipment low it cannot provide stable communication link. this article, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) surface (USVs) are used to form a cognitive mobile computing network for co-operative reinforcement learning (RL) plan path improve throughput. Based on scene marine grid method model area. Meanwhile, an intragroup architecture based UAVs...

Embedded with advanced sensors, cameras, and processors, the emerging automated driving vehicles are capable of sensing environment conducting automobile operation, paving way to modern intelligent transportation systems high safety efficiency. On other hand, vehicular communication networks (VCNs) connect vehicles, infrastructures, clouds, all devices modules, whereby can obtain local global information make operation decisions. Although sensing-based technologies VCNs have been...

In this paper, we investigate the opportunistic spectrum access for cognitive radio vehicular ad hoc networks. The probability distribution of channel availability is first derived through a finite-state continuous-time Markov chain, jointly considering mobility vehicles and spatial temporal usage pattern primary transmitters. Utilizing statistics, propose game-theoretic scheme to opportunistically licensed channels in distributed manner. particular, process modeled as noncooperative...

Widespread and large-scale WiFi systems have been deployed in many corporate locations, while the backhual capacity becomes bottleneck providing high-rate data services to a tremendous number of users. Mobile edge caching is promising solution relieve backhaul pressure deliver quality by proactively pushing contents access points (APs). However, how deploy cache system not well studied yet quite challenging since numerous APs can heterogeneous traffic characteristics, future conditions are...

In this paper, dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in multi-channel cognitive radio networks (CRNs) is studied. The two fundamental issues DSA, sensing and sharing, for a general scenario are revisited, where the channels present different usage characteristics detection performance of individual secondary users (SUs) varies. First, investigated, multiple SUs coordinated to cooperatively sense owned by primary (PUs) interests. When PUs' interests concerned, cooperative performed better protect PUs...

By leveraging the 5G enabled vehicular ad hoc network (5G-VANET), it is widely recognized that connected vehicles have potentials to improve road safety, transportation intelligence and provide in-vehicle entertainment experience. However, many enabling applications in 5G-VANET rely on efficient content sharing among mobile vehicles, which a very challenging issue due extremely large data volume, rapid topology change, unbalanced traffic. In this paper, we investigate prefetching...

Beam alignment (BA) is to ensure the transmitter and receiver beams are accurately aligned establish a reliable communication link in millimeter-wave (mmwave) systems. Existing BA methods search entire beam space identify optimal transmit-receive pair, which incurs significant latency on order of seconds worst case. In this paper, we develop learning algorithm reduce latency, namely Hierarchical Alignment (HBA) algorithm. We first formulate problem as stochastic multi-armed bandit with...

It is widely recognized that connected vehicles have the potential to further improve road safety, transportation intelligence and enhance in-vehicle entertainment. By leveraging 5G enabled Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANET) technology, which referred as 5G-VANET, a flexible software-defined communication can be achieved with ultra-high reliability, low latency, high capacity. Many enabling applications in 5G-VANET rely on sharing mobile data among vehicles, still challenging issue due...

In this paper, we propose a secure incentive scheme to achieve fair and reliable cooperative (SIRC) downloading in highway vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). SIRC can stimulate vehicle users help download-and-forward packets for each other consists of forwarding phase. During the phase, utilizes "virtual checks" associated with designated verifier signature ensure cooperation. Meanwhile, minimize payment risk client vehicle, partial prepayment strategy is adopted, i.e., vehicles involved...

With the emergence of a variety new wireless network types, business and QoS in more autonomic, diverse, interactive manner, it is envisioned that era personalized services has arrived, which emphasizes users' requirements service experiences. As result, QoE will become one key features 5G/future networks. In this article, we first review state art research from several perspectives, including definition, influencing factors, assessment methods, models, control methods. Then data-driven...