Wireless Personal Communications - Call for Papers: Challenges Of 5G Wireless Communication in Autonomous Vehicles
The automobile industry is experiencing exponential growth of self-driving features, and this trend is expected to continue. For autonomous car technology to be unlocked, many experts agree that large-scale adoption of 5G wireless technology is required. 5G network connections will have a major influence on the development of self-driving cars making them faster, smarter, and even safer than human-controlled vehicles.
Self-driving cars use hundreds of sensors. Handling, processing, and analysing this amount of data requires a much faster network, and the speeds needed to mimic the timing of human reflexes. Many researches shows that 5G, when adopted at the full scale, will offer internet speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G. Which can be used for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity. Furthermore, the technology’s low latency will make these vehicles extraordinarily safe and reliable on the roads.
As 5G requires frequencies below 6GHz (mm Wave), so most of the Wireless carriers still need to bid for higher spectrum bands. With its more limited range, highly directional radio waves, the challenge is to install extra repeaters to spread out the waves. Spreading out access to rural areas will be the next big challenge as it was with LTE. Similarly, Security, Privacy, Regulations and standards for 5G are the other common challenges in implementing 5G communication.
When considering a 5G deployment, the autonomous vehicles industry needs to get a clearer understanding of the data types being transmitted, their sensitivity to latency, and whether the data needs to be processed by itself, or against historical information. This special issue aims to discuss how 5G can make an impact on autonomous vehicles manufacturing environment, the standards and technical requirements needed to meet the demands of utilizing 5G, and the security issues that need to be addressed in planning a 5G deployment for engineers and also to standards bodies and lawmakers.
The topics of interest included, but are not limited to:
- 5G and sustainability
- 5GHz radio access technologies
- Multi-connectivity and co-existence in a 5G network
- Novel AI-based architectures, frameworks, and testbeds for 5G
- Private 5G access network by dynamic spectrum access (DSA)
- Software-defined networking for 5G
- Smart cities and transportation with 5G
- Hybrid terrestrial-satellite backhaul for 5G
- V2X access technologies
- Data-driven techniques in vehicular communication systems (5G)
- 5G New Radio (NR) solutions for V2X URLLC (ultra-reliable ultra-low latency communications)
- Full-duplex techniques for V2X
- Big data, machine learning algorithms, Network slicing solutions for V2X
- Challenges of sensors’ data dissemination in a commercial vehicular system
- 5G/B5G-based sensing solutions for autonomous cars;
- Interference and mobility management for wireless autonomous vehicles
- Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
- Protocols for vehicular networks and performance enhancements
- Mobility management, network management, traffic modelling and optimization using 5G
Important Dates
Paper submission: 30 January 2022
First round of external reviews: 30 March 2022
Revised Submission Due: 30 May 2022
Final Notification: 20 July 2022
Guest Editors:
Dr. Amit K. Gupta (this opens in a new tab), Rolls-Royce Electrical, Singapore
Dr. Geir M. Køien (this opens in a new tab), University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Norway
Dr. Ashutosh Dutta (this opens in a new tab), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), US
Dr. Nitin Jonathan Myers (this opens in a new tab), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dr. Mauro Femminella (this opens in a new tab), University of Perugia, Italy
Dr. Sheldon Williamson (this opens in a new tab), OntarioTech University, Canada
Authors should follow the WPC Journal manuscript format described at the journal site. Manuscripts should be submitted online through https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab).