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# IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

### Early Access Articles

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Displaying Results 1 - 25 of 338
• ### Novel UF-OFDM transmitter: significant complexity reduction without signal approximation

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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The upcomping 5th generation (5G) of mobile communication system aims to support multiple new services and use cases towards a flexible and unified connectivity. In order to meet the corresponding requirements, Universal-Filtered Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (UF-OFDM) was proposed to replace the existing waveform since it combines the advantages related to OFDM with better spectral p... View full abstract»

• ### Shadowing Characterization for 5 GHz Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channels

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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As one of the most important parts of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications have been widely studied because of the potential improvements it can provide in terms of traffic efficiency and traffic safety through various applications. The research on propagation characteristics for V2V channels is of primary importance, and one particular significant topi... View full abstract»

• ### On the Feasibility of Interference Alignment in Compounded MIMO Broadcast Channels with Antenna Correlation and Mixed User Classes

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper presents a generalized closed-form beamforming technique that can achieve the maximum degrees of freedom in compounded multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channels with mixed classes of multiple-antenna users. The contribution is firstly described within the context of a threecell network and later extended to the general multi-cell scenario where we also show how to determi... View full abstract»

• ### Secret Key Exchange and Authentication via Randomized Spatial Modulation and Phase Shifting

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Advances in physical layer security techniques have increasingly demonstrated their potential to replace security functionalities that are traditionally included in the upper layers of the OSI model. This has made it possible for devices with limited layer structures or/and restricted hardware components to offer security measures. In this paper, we consider Spatial Modulation (SM) systems and pro... View full abstract»

• ### Asynchronous Localization with Mobility Prediction for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Most applications of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) rely upon reliable location information of sensor nodes. However, the harsh underwater environment makes localization more challenging as compared to terrestrial sensor networks. This paper is concerned with a localization issue for UASNs, subject to clock asynchronization and node mobility. A hybrid architecture including autonomous... View full abstract»

• ### Multi-Antenna Spectrum Sensing over Correlated Nakagami-m Channels with MRC and EGC Diversity Receptions

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Increasing number of antennas are closely packed in emerging multi antenna systems and correlation among them can no-longer be ignored. In this work, such a multi antenna spectrum sensing system is investigated considering dual, triple, four and up to infinite number of correlated antenna branches. Constant, arbitrary and exponential correlation among the antenna branches are considered. Closed fo... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Distributed Pseudo TDMA Channel Access Protocol for Multi-Transmit-Receive Wireless Mesh Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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A key approach to improve the capacity of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is to equip routers with multiple transmissions or receptions (MTR) capability. Thus, the resulting MTR WMN has significantly higher network capacity because routers can activate multiple links simultaneously. This, however, requires a MTR link scheduler that maximizes network capacity or equivalently, one that is capable of d... View full abstract»

• ### Two-Phase Task Scheduling in Data Relay Satellite Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In data relay satellite (DRS) systems, one of the most important issues is the task scheduling. Most of the existing algorithms focused on the scenario of fixed task sets; however, the scheduled tasks can be constantly changing due to the various uncertain factors in the space environment. To deal with this challenge, we propose a two-phase task scheduling algorithm to enhance the performance of s... View full abstract»

• ### Physics-Based Co-simulation Platform with Analytical and Experimental Verification for Bidirectional IPT System in EV Applications

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Inductive power transfer (IPT) technology has been approved to be convenient and reliable interface for charging and discharging the electric vehicles (EVs). Precise model for such system can help designers and researchers to anticipate, optimize and evaluate its behavior amid the development. Thus, this paper presents a physics-based co-simulation platform for the bidirectional IPT system (BIPTS)... View full abstract»

• ### Virtual Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Services in Full Duplex-enabled SCNs with Mobile Edge Computing and Caching

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In the area of full duplex (FD)-enabled small cell networks (SCNs), only limited works have been done on the consideration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and caching. In this paper, a virtual FD-enabled small cell network framework with MEC and caching is investigated for two kinds of heterogeneous services, high-data-rate service and computation-sensitive service. In our proposed framework, conte... View full abstract»

• ### Integrated Power Management and Aftertreatment System Control for Hybrid Electric Vehicles with Road Grade Preview

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper presents a model based integrated strategy for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) power management and aftertreatment control systems with preview information of road grade. The HEV power management has been well studied for decades to optimize vehicle fuel economy by properly determining the power split ratio between internal combustion engine and electric motor. Meanwhile the HEV tailpipe ... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Reputation-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing via Imperfect Common Control Channel

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Due to the fast-growing usage of wireless devices, cognitive radio networks have been proposed to address the spectrum scarcity problem. As the foundation of their practical applications, designing robust and secure spectrum sensing mechanisms is of great significance. In most existing works, the common control channel (CCC) is assumed to be perfect. However, this assumption may not hold in practi... View full abstract»

• ### Wireless Energy Transfer Enabled D2D in Underlaying Cellular Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Wireless powered device-to-device (D2D) communications can prolong the lifetime of energy constrained D2D transmitters. This paper proposes an analytical model for D2D communications powered by both ambient radio frequency (RF) signals from base stations (BSs) and power beacons (PBs) in a multi-channel downlink cellular network to enhance harvested energy at D2D transmitters without changing the o... View full abstract»

• ### Development of a Bidirectional DC/DC Converter with Dual-Battery Energy Storage for Hybrid Electric Vehicle System

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This study develops a newly designed, patented, bidirectional dc/dc converter (BDC) that interfaces a main energy storage (ES1), an auxiliary energy storage (ES2), and dc-bus of different voltage levels, for application in hybrid electric vehicle systems. The proposed converter can operate in a step-up mode (i.e., low-voltage dual-source-powering mode) and a step-down (i.e., high-voltage dc-link e... View full abstract»

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper considers the uplink of multi-user massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with a mixed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architecture, in which the base station (BS) is equipped with ADCs of different resolution levels. While higher resolution ADCs reduce the quantization error to improve the performance, they also incur higher energy. This paper studies the receive energy effi... View full abstract»

• ### Road-to-Vehicle Communications with Time-Dependent Anonymity: A Light Weight Construction and its Experimental Results

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper describes techniques that enable vehicles to collect local information (such as road conditions and traffic information) and report it via road-to-vehicle communications. To exclude malicious data, the collected information is signed by each vehicle. In this communications system, the location privacy of vehicles must be maintained. However, simultaneously linkable information (such as ... View full abstract»

• ### Cluster-Oriented Device-to-Device Multimedia Communications: Joint Power, Bandwidth and Link Selection Optimization

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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While achieving promising performance, there are still many challenges for the long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) networks to offer support for the evolving multimedia services, especially in current big multimedia data era. The conventional multimedia communication schemes tend to serve all group members with the data rate supported by the receiver under the worst channel condition, which howev... View full abstract»

• ### Virtual multi-antenna array for estimating the direction of a transmitter: system, bounds and experimental results

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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A method is proposed to estimate the direction of a radio-frequency (RF) transmitter with a mobile, single-antenna receiver. By considering the received signal at several points along its trajectory, the receiver implicitly creates a virtual multi-antenna array, which can be used to estimate the direction of the transmitter. Virtual arrays differ from conventional multi-antenna arrays in two ways:... View full abstract»

• ### Exact Solution for Elliptic Localization in Distributed MIMO Radar Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Elliptic localization is a range-based positioning technique exploiting multiple transmitter-receiver pairs, each of which provides separate bistatic range (BR) measurements. In this paper, a novel computationally efficient solution for locating a single target from BR measurements in distributed MIMO radar systems is proposed. Due to nonconvex nature of the associated maximum likelihood (ML) esti... View full abstract»

• ### Multi-Objective Optimal Sizing of Hybrid Energy Storage System for Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Energy storage system (ESS) is an essential component of electric vehicles, which largely affects their driving performance and manufacturing cost. A hybrid energy storage system (HESS) composed of rechargeable batteries and ultracapacitors shows a significant potential for maximally exploiting their complementary characteristics. This study focuses on optimal HESS sizing of an example electric ve... View full abstract»

• ### Dual-side Optimization for Cost-Delay Tradeoff in Mobile Edge Computing

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Mobile code offloading (MCO) is a technology that offloads computing tasks from mobile devices to remote servers managed by code offload service providers (CSPs). Nowadays, it is recommended that the remote servers be placed on the edge of the network to support modern applications, e.g., aug- mented reality, which demand stringent and ultra-low latency or high bandwidth. To date, previous studies... View full abstract»

• ### Characteristics of $f$-norm Signal Detection in Gaussian Mixture Noise

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Performance of the $p$-norm detector was analyzed recently in additive white Gaussian noise and several analytical solutions were obtained. We developed these solutions to the case of non-Gaussian noise. Expressions for the false alarm probability $P_F$ and the detection probability $P_D$ were found in series... View full abstract»

• ### Synthesis of Hybrid Magnet Memory Machines Having Separate Stators for Traction Applications

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper proposes two novel partitioned stator (PS) memory machines (MMs) based on flux-reversal (FR) and switched-flux (SF) topologies, respectively. The proposed machines geometrically feature two separate stators with armature winding and hybrid PM excitations, i.e., NdFeB and low coercive force (LCF) PMs. The proposed PS machines can offer increased available inner stator space for hybrid PM... View full abstract»

• ### Performance of Adaptive Link Selection with Buffer-Aided Relays in Underlay Cognitive Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In this paper, we investigate the performance of a three-node dual-hop cognitive radio network (CRN) with a half- duplex (HD) decode-and-forward (DF) buffer-aided relay. We derive expressions for the average rate and symbol error rate (SER) performance of an adaptive link selection based channel- aware buffer-aided relay (CABR) scheme that imposes peak- power and peak-interference constraints on t... View full abstract»

• ### Inter-Vehicle Range Estimation from Periodic Broadcasts

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) enables vehicular communication using periodic broadcast messages. We propose to use these periodic broadcasts to perform inter-vehicle ranging. Motivated by this scenario, we study the general problem of precise range estimation between pairs of moving vehicles using periodic broadcasts. Each vehicle has its own independent and unsynchronized clock, whic... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology covers land, airborne, and maritime mobile services, vehicular electrotechnology, equipment, and systems identified with the automotive industry.

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## Meet Our Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Nei Kato, Professor
Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS)
Tohoku University
Aramaki-Aoba 6-3-09, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, JAPAN
Email: kato@it.is.tohoku.ac.jp