Internet of Vehicles [Scanning the Issue

Abstract

Vehicular communication networks have emerged to enable numerous vehicular data services and applications. Conventional vehicular <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ad hoc</i> networks (VANETs) are often operated in the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ad hoc</i> mode and mainly focus on road safety applications based on the connection between vehicles and roadside units (RSUs). To support vehicular communications, dedicated shortrange communication (DSRC) and car-to-car communication consortium (C2C-CC) have been initiated in the United States and Europe, respectively. With the new era of the Internet of Things (IoT), the conventional VANETs have evolved to the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In IoV, each vehicle is envisioned as an intelligent object, equipped with sensing platforms, computing facilities, control units, and storages and is connected to any entity (other vehicles, RSUs, charging/gas stations, cloud, and so on) via vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. Intelligent vehicles can take different roles, i.e., being both a client and a server, taking and providing big data services, leading to numerous new IoV applications, from assisted/autonomous driving and platooning, secure information sharing and learning to traffic control and optimization.