-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT): Special Issue on Future Internet of Vehicles Datum: Fri, 24 May 2019 12:30:20 +0200 Von: chaker abdelaziz kerrache ch.kerrache@LAGH-UNIV.DZ Antwort an: chaker abdelaziz kerrache ch.kerrache@LAGH-UNIV.DZ An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

*Aims and Scope*

Thanks to the recent advancements in the fields of Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing and wireless technologies, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are evolving towards a new environment called the Internet of Vehicle (IoV).

In addition to vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) interactions, as foreseen in traditional VANETs, IoV focuses on the smart integration between humans, vehicles and things to provide not only conventional safety and infotainment applications but also advanced transportation-related services, including autonomous and green driving.

Vehicles, equipped with powerful sensors platforms, multiple wireless access technologies, storage and processing resources, become smart self-organizing and cooperative entities that produce and consume data, while also participating to fog computing services.

The potential of IoV has been acknowledged by the industrial and academic communities and many specifications targeting vehicular-to-everything (V2X) communications have been carried out by standard development organizations (SDO) such as IEEE, 3GPP and ETSI. However, several open challenges still hinder its actual deployment.

First, IoV requires robust networking solutions able to work in stable and intermittent connectivity conditions, while also supporting ad hoc opportunistic interactions, in-network caching and data-centric applications. Revolutionary approaches, such as Information Centric Networking (ICN), could be highly beneficial, but their applicability in IoV scenarios have been only partially investigated so far.

Also, the emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm, originally designed for wired environments, could be extended to turn the IoV into a flexible and programmable network with optimized resources management.

Second, it is expected that each autonomous vehicle will produce one gigabyte of data per second, including information about mobility and operation conditions and multimedia contents about the surrounding environments, e.g., from on-board safety cameras. To support big data processing, analysis and time-sensitive control mechanisms, efficient fog architectures are required. Machine learning and swarm intelligence algorithms can be integrated in the vehicular fog to further improve the service provisioning.

Moreover, with the introduction of multiple access edge computing (MEC), more MEC-oriented applications are expected to work in the V2X network. To support the seamless mobility management of those MEC-enabled applications, more effective research is needed including both architectures and mechanisms.

Third, IoV raises new security challenges, including the support of trustworthy and privacy preserving communications in presence of distributed and mobile entities, which could also have limited processing resources. In this context, blockchain mechanisms, which leverage a distributed ledger to allow transactions between peers in a network, without the need for a third-party or central trust medium, seem an attractive solution, but further feasibility and evaluation studies are needed in the context of IoV.

This special issue solicits original technical papers addressing the main research challenges in the IoV research arena.

*Topics of Interest*

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Networking solutions for V2X communications

- Cloud and Edge/Fog computing for IoV

- Social networks for IoV

- Opportunistic IoV

- Heterogeneous V2X technologies

- Modeling and Simulation frameworks for IoV

- Vehicular Named Data Networking (VNDN)

- Big data and data analytics for V2X

- MEC application-centric mobility management design in IoV

- Software-Defined Intelligent Transportation Systems

- Security, privacy, and trust in IoV

- 5G-IoV integration

- Multimedia communications in IoV over NDN and SDN

- Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of IoV communications over NDN and SDN

- NDN-based IoV clouds

- Machine learning and swarm intelligence approaches for IoV

- Testbeds and validation

This Special Issue encourages the submission of original, high-quality papers that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences. After the revision process from independent reviewers, the guest editors will make final decisions about the acceptance of the papers and select them based on originality, scientific quality and relevance to this Special Issue.

*Important Dates:*

Submission deadline: September 15th, 2019

Author Notification: November, 2019

Final Manuscript: January 2019

Publication: To be determined by the publisher

*Guest Editors:*

- *Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache*

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ghardaïa, Ghardaïa Algeria.

kr.abdelaziz@gmail.com

- *Marica Amadeo*

Department of ICT Infrastructures, and Sustainable Energy, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy.

marica.amadeo@unirc.it

- *Chengchao Liang*

Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada.

chengchaoliang@sce.carleton.ca

- *Syed Hassan Ahmed*

Department of Computer Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA.

sh.ahmed@ieee.org

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