Vehicular networks aim to enable communication among vehicles and between vehicles (V2V) and the roadside infrastructure (V2I). One of the basic services in vehicular communications is cooperative awareness, which is essentially the exchange of location and velocity among nearby vehicles. Cooperative awareness is used in driver assistance systems to warn the driver or influence the movement of the vehicle. This makes vehicular networks a special kind of distributed sensor and actuator networks. There are new research challenges that need to be addressed for future applications of vehicular networks. For instance, autonomous driving usually depends on the built-in sensor systems of a vehicle, how can V2V/V2I communications offer advantages to autonomous driving? In other words, the awareness of nearby vehicles or robots could be augmented by communications within the vehicular networks. This special issue aims to supply a venue for the researchers to publish their original and state-of-the-art results in advances in vehicular communications focusing on sensing and control aspects connected with V2I/V2V communication. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:


Sensor and actuator aspects in vehicular networks
Communication and control
Distributed localization and sensing
Location-based applications in mobile scenarios
Collision risk prediction based on V2I communication
Communications for autonomous driving and car platooning
Data-centric routing in mobile networks with both sparse and dense topologies
Security and privacy aspects
Vehicular cloud computing
Validation and comparison of state-of-the-art approaches
Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/ijdsn/avc/ according to the following timetable:


Manuscript Due Friday, 10 October 2014
First Round of Reviews Friday, 2 January 2015
Publication Date Friday, 27 February 2015