# IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

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Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s): C2
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• ### Doubly Selective Underwater Acoustic Channel Model for a Moving Transmitter/Receiver

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):938 - 950
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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We propose a new method of modeling the signal transmission in underwater acoustic communications when the transmitter and receiver are moving. The motion-induced channel time variations can be modeled by sampling the transmitter/receiver trajectory at the signal sampling rate and calculating, for each position, the channel impulse response from the acoustic-field computation. This approach, howev... View full abstract»

• ### Correlation-Based Detection of OFDM Signals in the Angular Domain

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):951 - 958
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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Spectrum sensing is an essential part of future cognitive radios, as the spectrum sensor provides information about the utilization of the surrounding radio spectrum. Several approaches to implementing spectrum sensing have been proposed in the literature, one of them being the class of feature detectors. Cyclostationary feature detectors are, in general, considered to be superior in performance b... View full abstract»

• ### Vehicular Traffic Surveillance and Road Lane Detection Using Radar Interferometry

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):959 - 970
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Speed enforcement on public roadways is an important issue in order to guarantee road security and to reduce the number and seriousness of traffic accidents. Traditionally, this task has been partially solved using radar and/or laser technologies and, more recently, using video-camera based systems. All these systems have significant shortcomings that have yet to be overcome. The main drawback of ... View full abstract»

• ### Enhanced Road Boundary and Obstacle Detection Using a Downward-Looking LIDAR Sensor

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):971 - 985
Cited by:  Papers (54)  |  Patents (5)
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Detection of road boundaries and obstacles is essential for autonomous vehicle navigation. In this paper, we propose a road boundary and obstacle detection method using a downward-looking light detection and ranging sensor. This method extracts line segments from the raw data of the sensor in polar coordinates. After that, the line segments are classified into road and obstacle segments. To enhanc... View full abstract»

• ### Bond Graph Model Based on Structural Diagnosability and Recoverability Analysis: Application to Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):986 - 997
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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A controlled system can be subjected to faults, which may cause unexpected system dynamics that prevent the system objectives to be achieved. This paper introduces the problem of structural fault-tolerance analysis of actuator, sensor, and plant faults with respect to diagnosability and recoverability conditions. Existing methods in the literature usually investigate the fault tolerance of systems... View full abstract»

• ### Minimum Fuel Control Strategy in Automated Car-Following Scenarios

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):998 - 1007
Cited by:  Papers (34)
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Fuel consumption of traditional ground vehicles is significantly affected by how the vehicles are driven. This paper focuses on the servo-loop control design of a Pulse-and-Gliding (PnG) strategy to minimize fuel consumption in automated car following. A switching-based framework is proposed for real-time implementation. The corresponding controller was synthesized for ideal conditions and subsequ... View full abstract»

• ### Unified Chassis Control for the Improvement of Agility, Maneuverability, and Lateral Stability

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1008 - 1020
Cited by:  Papers (39)
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This paper describes a unified chassis control (UCC) strategy for improving agility, maneuverability, and vehicle lateral stability by the integration of active front steering (AFS) and electronic stability control (ESC). The proposed UCC system consists of a supervisor, a control algorithm, and a coordinator. The supervisor determines the target yaw rate and velocity based on control modes that c... View full abstract»

• ### Efficiency Analysis of Drive Train Topologies Applied to Electric/Hybrid Vehicles

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1021 - 1031
Cited by:  Papers (86)
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One of the most important research topics in drive train topologies applied to electric/hybrid vehicles is the efficiency analysis of the power train components, including the global drive efficiency. In this paper, two basic traction electric drive systems of electric/hybrid vehicles are presented and evaluated, with a special focus on the efficiency analysis. The first topology comprises a tradi... View full abstract»

• ### SORT-SGM: Subpixel Optimized Real-Time Semiglobal Matching for Intelligent Vehicles

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1032 - 1042
Cited by:  Papers (24)  |  Patents (1)
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The suitability of stereo algorithms for intelligent vehicle applications is conditioned by their ability to compute dense accurate disparity maps in real time. In this paper, an original stereo reconstruction system that is designed for automotive applications is presented. The system is based on the semiglobal matching algorithm (SGM), which is widely known for its high quality and potential for... View full abstract»

• ### 23-Level Inverter for Electric Vehicles Using a Single Battery Pack and Series Active Filters

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1043 - 1051
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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Cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel inverters have been conceived as an alternative to reduce total harmonic distortion (THD) in medium-voltage drives. The reduced THD makes them useful for electric vehicle (EV) applications, but the main problem with the CHB is the large amount of isolated power sources required to feed each of the H-bridges. An improved variant known as the asymmetrical CHB (ACHB... View full abstract»

• ### Electrification Potential Factor: Energy-Based Value Proposition Analysis of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1052 - 1059
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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Automotive electrification in the past decade was accompanied by infrastructural changes in the electric power industry. The dual fuel (gasoline and electricity) and dual operation (vehicle to grid (V2G) and grid to vehicle) modes of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) make them attractive to the automotive and the electric power industries. The value proposition of PHEVs from consumer and au... View full abstract»

• ### Per-Subcarrier Antenna Selection for H.264 MGS/CGS Video Transmission Over Cognitive Radio Networks

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1060 - 1073
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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In this paper, the problem of efficiently allocating wireless resources to support multiple scalable video sequences over a downlink cognitive radio network is addressed. We consider the coarse grain scalable (CGS) and medium grain scalable (MGS) extension of the H.264 standard as the encoding method and propose to perform a per-subcarrier transmit antenna selection such that spatial diversity is ... View full abstract»

• ### Code-Hopping Multiple Access Based on Orthogonal Complementary Codes

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1074 - 1083
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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Code-hopping multiple access (CHMA) is a newly emerging multiple-access technique with the potential to offer high capacity. Unfortunately, orthogonality among user signals in existing CHMA schemes can be preserved only in synchronous channels under an assumption that neither multipath interference (MI) nor multiple-access interference (MAI) exists. Exploiting their ideal orthogonality, we apply o... View full abstract»

• ### Transmit Diversity and Relay Selection Algorithms for Multirelay Cooperative MIMO Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1084 - 1098
Cited by:  Papers (41)
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In this paper, we propose a set of joint transmit diversity selection (TDS) and relay selection (RS) algorithms based on discrete iterative stochastic optimization for the uplink of cooperative multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and-forward (AF) multirelay systems with linear minimum mean square error (MSE), successive interference cancelation, and a... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Analysis of Maximal-Ratio Transmission/Receive Antenna Selection in Nakagami- $m$ Fading Channels With Channel Estimation Errors and Feedback Delay

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1099 - 1108
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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This paper focuses on multi-antenna systems that employ both maximal-ratio transmission and receive antenna selection (MRT&RAS) in independent and identically distributed Nakagami-m flat-fading channels with channel estimation errors (CEE) [or feedback quantization errors (FQE)] and feedback delay (FD). Useful statistics of the postprocessing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) such as the probability den... View full abstract»

• ### Reducing the Complexity of Quasi-Maximum-Likelihood Detectors Through Companding for Coded MIMO Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1109 - 1123
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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A companding-based transformation method is introduced to quasi-maximum-likelihood (ML) detectors, such as the QR-decomposition-based M-algorithm (QRD-M) and list sphere decoding, for coded multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in this paper. The key idea of the proposed companding technique is to compress (i.e., down-weight) the dubious observation of the accumulated branch metric by taki... View full abstract»

• ### Bit Error Probability of SM-MIMO Over Generalized Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1124 - 1144
Cited by:  Papers (170)
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In this paper, we study the performance of spatial modulation (SM) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems over generic fading channels. More precisely, a comprehensive analytical framework to compute the average bit error probability (ABEP) is introduced, which can be used for any MIMO setup, for arbitrary correlated fading channels, and for generic modulation schemes. It is shown ... View full abstract»

• ### Noise-Enhanced Blind Multiple Error Rate Estimators in Wireless Relay Networks

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1145 - 1161
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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Data detection or fusion based on output from multiple wireless links often requires channel state information (CSI) about the links' error rate (ER) performance. We consider the scenario that these links include direct source-destination (SD) links and two-hop links that require an intermediate decode-and-forward (DF) node to relay the source signal. Conventional destination-based estimators suff... View full abstract»

• ### Power Allocation Over Fading Cognitive MIMO Channels: An Ergodic Capacity Perspective

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1162 - 1173
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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This paper studies the power allocation problem for a cognitive radio (CR) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system under spectrum sharing with an existing primary radio network. In particular, the ergodic capacity maximization problem is studied in the Rayleigh fading cognitive MIMO channel under both the total transmit power constraint and a set of interference power constraints where each i... View full abstract»

• ### Circular MIMO FSO Nodes With Transmit Selection and Receive Generalized Selection Diversity

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1174 - 1181
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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Mobile free space optical (FSO) nodes have been characterized as a way to resolve movement and misalignment incompatibilities that are inherent in optical nodes. By introducing multibranch angular diversity mobility to FSO nodes, connection reliability is enhanced. In this paper, receiving branches are assumed to be circularly placed on a single plane, and transmitting branches are positioned on a... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Detection for Double STBCs Based on QR Decomposition

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1182 - 1187
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This study proposes an efficient detection algorithm for double space-time block codes (DSTBCs) to improve the algorithm of Kim et al. The proposed algorithm applies QR decomposition to the channel matrix of the DSTBC to obtain an upper triangular matrix. The diagonal entries of the upper triangular matrix contain two different values. The proposed algorithm adaptively determines the number of can... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Analysis of MIMO Channel Inversion in Rayleigh Fading

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1188 - 1196
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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The performance of eigenmode transmission over a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) Rayleigh channel under the channel inversion (CI) power allocation scheme is investigated. The moment-generating function of the reciprocal of the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived. For the special case when the minimum number of antennas at the transmitter and the receiver is two, the exact closed... View full abstract»

• ### Impact of Channel Estimation Error on the Performance of Amplify-and-Forward Two-Way Relaying

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1197 - 1207
Cited by:  Papers (61)
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In this paper, the impact of channel-state information (CSI) estimation error on the performance of an amplify-and-forward two-way multiple relay network has been investigated. In contrast to the existing literature, which assumes perfect self-interference cancellation, we consider imperfect self-interference cancellation at both sources that exchange information through multiple relays, and maxim... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

The IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology is dedicated to the publication of peer-reviewed original contributions of research regarding the theory and practice of electrical and electronics technology in vehicles and vehicular systems.

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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