Intelligent Communication Protocol Research Articles

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Vehicular Networks in the Era of 6G: End-Edge-Cloud Orchestrated Intelligence

The articles in this special section focus on vehicular networks in the era of 6G mobile communication. With the growth of the vehicle population, vehicular networks play a key role in building safe, efficient, and intelligent transport systems and has been attracting a lot of attention from both academic and industrial communities around the world. The rise of autonomous driving technology and the prosperity of mobile applications, e.g., real-time video analytic, image-aided navigation, natural language processing, and etc, have brought tremendous pressure on current vehicular networks, e.g., high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, high reliability, high security, powerful computation capability, and massive connections. It is necessary to continue to develop vehicular networks by combining the latest research intends in other fields to meet quickly rising communication and computation demands. The upcoming 6G technology, which provides Holographic and Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled communications, together with the increasing implementation of artificial intelligence in mobile devices, will lead to a new research trend to end-edge-cloud orchestrated computing with intelligence. It means that, not only the intelligent communication protocols, but also the intelligent computing resource management and machine learning algorithms among the mobile vehicles, the edge and the cloud, should be redesigned to support the development of vehicular networks.

Cognitive communication device for vehicular networking

This paper presents intelligent Communication protocols for universal access in a proposed Vehicular Networking Device. The device can communicate on multiple frequency bands using different MAC and PHY Interfaces. The device cannot use existing routing protocols as they are limited and work in relation with a unique MAC and PHY Interface. This paper presents the communication protocols and vehicular device that extends the routing protocols to work as a Cognitive layer over multiple MAC and PHY Interface for optimum connectivity, seamless switching and Quality of Service parameters. The device is tested with three extended routing protocols AODV-MI, GOLSR-MI and SORP. The device incorporates integrated multi telecommunication technologies like GSM, Satellite, VHF, UHF, HF, Broadband Wireless and wired links.

Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Intelligent Protocols for Communication Within FMS

In this paper recent results on intelligent communication protocols (ICP) tailored for applications within flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are presented. These have been derived on the grounds of the concept of ICP emulation by using the technique of object oriented modelling and emulation programming. The resulting ICP have been tested through their application in parallel simulation of complex medium size FMS. Developed models have been derived using three alternatives: math-analytical queue, adequate Petri-net, and appropriate object-oriented models. Some of simulations results obtained illustrate this novel development in ICPs for FMSs. Copyright ©2001 IFAC

ANIMATING LOTOS SPECIFICATIONS USING AMLOG

In order to achieve a more convenient and intelligent handling of LOTOS specifications, an approach is proposed wherein specifications are translated into an appropriate equational logic language and interpreted. LOTOS has an excellent formal model for describing communication processes and equational logic languages have the capability of inferencing and data abstraction. Naturally, the marriage of LOTOS and equational logic provides a powerful framework with features that could not be realized in existing technologies. To demonstrate this potential, AMLOG is chosen as the appropriate equational logic language. Apart from rapid prototyping of specifications, some of the exciting possibilities of the new framework that are demonstrated include stepwise refinement and testing for correctness of specifications, facilities for property checking and verification of bisimulation equivalences. Also, the derivation of behavior expressions from trace histories is shown. The approach, extensible to other FDTs as well, is a step towards realizing an intelligent communication protocol specification environment.