Aims and Scope

Vehicular communication and networking have been identified as key technologies for increasing road safety and transport efficiency. Vehicular networks aim to ensure traffic safety for drivers, provide comfort for passengers and reduce transportation time and fuel consumption. The development of vehicular communication and networking technologies are expected to enable many potential applications, including automatic collision notification and prevention, emergency management, assistances for safe driving, real-time traffic congestion notification, location-based driver information
services, high-speed tolling, vehicle tracking, automobile Internet access, and many others. To facilitate these applications, many different types of communication and networking would be involved, including intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle (V-to-V), vehicle-to-roadside (V-to-R) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V-to-I) communications.
This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality, original, unpublished research covering all aspects related to the Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the followings:

Availability and Scalability Issues in Vehicular Networks

Communication Protocol Design for Vehicular Networks

Cooperative Vehicular Communications

Cross-layer Design and Optimization for Vehicular Networks

Emergency Applications and Technologies in Vehicular Networks

Green Technologies and Vehicular Networks

Intra-vehicle, V2I, V2R, and V2V Communication Protocols

Contention and Congestion Control for Vehicular Networks

Multicast and Broadcast Protocols for Vehicular Networks

Mobility, Traffic Models and Network Management for Vehicular Networks

Modulation, Coding, and Channel Modeling for Vehicular Networks

Multi-Channel Management for Vehicular Networks

Network Architecture of Vehicular Networks

Radio Resource Management and QoS Support for Vehicular Networks

Real-time Experimental Systems and Testbeds for Vehicular Communications

Security and Privacy Technologies for Vehicular Networks

Services and Applications of Vehicular Networks

Simulation Framework and Real-World Testbeds for Vehicular Networks

Vehicular Network Performance Modeling and Analysis

Vehicular Network Medium Access Control and Routing Protocols