# IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

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Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s): C2
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• ### Characterization of Low-Antenna Ultrawideband Propagation in a Forest Environment

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2878 - 2895
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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Impulse ultrawideband (UWB) communication promises a number of benefits for use in wireless sensor networks, particularly in forest environments, where it has the potential to provide robust operation, along with the ability to combine communications with precision position location. In this paper, we present measurement results and empirical models for UWB signal propagation in a forest environme... View full abstract»

• ### Broadband Identification of Battery Electrical Impedance for HEVs

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2896 - 2905
Cited by:  Papers (9)  |  Patents (1)
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Electrical impedance measurements provide useful information about the characteristics of a Li-ion battery. The classical method of measurement consists of performing electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) that relies on offline records of the response of the battery to a controlled current or voltage test signal. Although robust, it is considered as an expensive, complex, and very time-cons... View full abstract»

• ### Linearized Recursive Least Squares Methods for Real-Time Identification of Tire–Road Friction Coefficient

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2906 - 2918
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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The tire-road friction coefficient is critical information for conventional vehicle safety control systems. Most previous studies on tire-road friction estimation have only considered either longitudinal or lateral vehicle dynamics, which tends to cause significant underestimation of the actual tire-road friction coefficient. In this paper, the parameters, including the tire-road friction coeffici... View full abstract»

• ### Optimizing Electric Vehicle Charging: A Customer's Perspective

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2919 - 2927
Cited by:  Papers (53)
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered to be a promising solution for current gas shortage and emission problems. To maximize the benefits of using EVs, regulated and optimized charging control needs to be provided by load aggregators for connected vehicles. An EV charging network is a typical cyber-physical system, which includes a power grid and a large number of EVs and aggregators that collect... View full abstract»

• ### A New Predictive Lateral Load Transfer Ratio for Rollover Prevention Systems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2928 - 2936
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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In rollover prevention systems, a real-time lateral load transfer ratio (LTR) is typically computed to predict the likelihood of a vehicle to rollover and, hence, initiate rollover prevention measures. A traditional LTR largely relies on a lateral accelerometer signal to calculate rollover propensity. A new predictive LTR (PLTR) is developed in this paper, which utilizes a driver's steering input ... View full abstract»

• ### Clamping Force Control for an Electric Parking Brake System: Switched System Approach

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2937 - 2948
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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This paper addresses the modeling, controller design, and stability analysis of an electric parking brake system in which a screw-nut self-locking mechanism is used. The system is modeled as a state-dependent switched system according to the operating mode. A nonlinear proportional (P) clamping force controller using the measured force is proposed to enhance the performance specifications. We show... View full abstract»

• ### Engine On/Off Control for Dimensioning Hybrid Electric Powertrains via Convex Optimization

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2949 - 2962
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This paper presents a novel heuristic method for optimal control of mixed-integer problems that, for given feasible values of the integer variables, are convex in the rest of the variables. The method is based on Pontryagin's maximum principle and allows the problem to be solved using convex optimization techniques. The advantage of this approach is the short computation time for obtaining a solut... View full abstract»

• ### Instantaneous GPS–Galileo Attitude Determination: Single-Frequency Performance in Satellite-Deprived Environments

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2963 - 2976
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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New and modernized global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) are paving the way for an increasing number of applications in positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). A combined GNSS constellation will significantly increase the number of visible satellites and, thus, will improve the geometry of observed satellites, enabling improvements in navigation solution availability, reliability, and acc... View full abstract»

• ### Real-Time Parameter Estimation of PMDC Motors Using Quantized Sensors

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2977 - 2986
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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Establishing real-time models for electric motors is important when capturing authentic dynamic behavior of the motors to improve control performance, enhance robustness, and support diagnosis. Quantized sensors are less expensive, and remotely controlled motors mandate signal quantization. Such limitations on observations introduce challenging issues in motor parameter estimation. This paper deve... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal 3-D Landmark Placement for Vehicle Localization Using Heterogeneous Sensors

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):2987 - 2999
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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Optimal placement of sensors or landmarks for the localization of an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) based on range measurements is considered. The optimization relies on the Fisher information matrix (FIM). A closed-form expression of the FIM determinant is obtained for 2-D and 3-D spaces, considering heterogeneous sensors and distance-dependent ranging errors. Analytical bounds on the FIM determ... View full abstract»

• ### An Optimal Charging Method for Li-Ion Batteries Using a Fuzzy-Control Approach Based on Polarization Properties

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3000 - 3009
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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Battery charging is growing in importance as it has direct influence on battery performance and safety. This paper develops a generalized online estimation method for a charge-polarization-voltage-based resistance-capacitance ( RC) circuit model to simulate the charging behavior of Li-ion batteries. The effects of charging current, initial state of charge (SOC), initial polarization state, and agi... View full abstract»

• ### Sensorless Induction Motor Drive Using Indirect Vector Controller and Sliding-Mode Observer for Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3010 - 3018
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This paper presents a sensorless control system for an electric-vehicle (EV) induction-motor (IM) drive embedded with an indirect vector controller and a fixed-boundary-layer sliding-mode (FBLSM) observer. No speed or even voltage measurements are required. This novel FBLSM observer could accurately estimate the speed and flux even without known load torque, where chattering on estimations due to ... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Monte-Carlo-Sampling-Based Receiver for Large-Scale Uplink Multiuser MIMO Systems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3019 - 3038
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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In this paper, we propose low-complexity algorithms based on Monte Carlo sampling for signal detection and channel estimation on the uplink in large-scale multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with tens to hundreds of antennas at the base station (BS) and a similar number of uplink users. A BS receiver that employs a novel mixed sampling technique (which makes a probabilistic cho... View full abstract»

• ### Opportunistic Role Selection for Two-User Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Systems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3039 - 3061
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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In this paper, we establish a two-user opportunistic cooperative framework, where two users compete to transmit their own information to a common destination. For such a framework, by relying on the instantaneous channel conditions, either of the two users can opportunely play the role of an information source, and the other user will serve as an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay. To enhance the tran... View full abstract»

• ### Ergodic Capacity Analysis of MISO/SIMO-OFDM With Arbitrary Antenna and Channel Tap Correlation

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3062 - 3068
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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We analyze the ergodic capacity of multiple-input-single-output/single-input-multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MISO/SIMO-OFDM) systems with arbitrary antenna and channel tap correlations. Existing works in literature consider the Kronecker model of antenna and channel tap correlations for capacity analysis. However, the applicability of such a model does not hold for all ... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Analysis and Enhancement of the DSRC for VANET's Safety Applications

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3069 - 3083
Cited by:  Papers (62)
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An analytical model for the reliability of a dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) control channel (CCH) to handle safety applications in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is proposed. Specifically, the model enables the determination of the probability of receiving status and safety messages from all vehicles within a transmitter's range and vehicles up to a certain distance, respectively. ... View full abstract»

• ### User Selection for Multiuser MIMO Downlink With Zero-Forcing Beamforming

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3084 - 3097
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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In this paper, we propose a greedy user selection with swap (GUSS) algorithm based on zero-forcing beamforming for multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) downlink channels. Existing user selection algorithms such as zero forcing with selection (ZFS) have the flaws of “redundant users” and “local optimum,” which compromise the achieved sum rate. GUSS improves th... View full abstract»

• ### Network Connectivity Optimization for Device-to-Device Wireless System With Femtocells

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3098 - 3109
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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The demand for high-data-rate transmission has triggered the design and development of advanced cellular networks, such as fourth-generation (4G) Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks. However, their poor coverage and relatively high interference can significantly impair data transmission. Femtocells and device-to-device (D2D) communication are promising solutions that have recently gathered interest... View full abstract»

• ### Blind Cooperative Communications for Multihop Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3110 - 3122
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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Cooperative communications enhance the performance of wireless networks by allowing nodes to cooperate with each other to achieve spatial diversity gains. To obtain cooperation gains, appropriate relay node(s) should be selected according to network topology and channel state information (CSI). However, in ad hoc wireless networks, the CSI is random, and the network topology is dynamic. This compl... View full abstract»

• ### Outage Probability and Finite-SNR Diversity–Multiplexing Tradeoff for Two-Way Relay Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3123 - 3136
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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In this paper, we analyze the outage probability and finite-SNR diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (f-DMT) performance for two-way relay channels (TWRCs). Both amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) relay protocols are considered. The two source nodes are equipped with single antenna, and the relay is equipped with single or multiple antennas. First, we derive lower bounds of outage pro... View full abstract»

• ### A Unified Analysis of Spectral Efficiency for Two-Hop Relay Systems With Different Resource Configurations

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3137 - 3148
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this paper, we analyze in a unified way the achievable rate and spectral efficiency of multicarrier and multiantenna two-hop relay systems with an interference-free linear transceiver. We consider two kinds of decode-and-forward (DF) relay systems with three nodes. In the first kind of relay systems where only the relay node employs the full channel state information (CSI) of both the source-re... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Analysis of Dual-Hop AF Relaying Systems over Mixed $eta{-}mu$ and $kappa{-} mu$ Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3149 - 3163
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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This paper investigates the end-to-end performance of a dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying communication system where the source-to-relay and the relay-to-destination channels are subject to different fading conditions. The relay is assumed to either possess perfect channel state information (CSI) or have a fixed gain. We consider the case where the one hop's channel is subject to η... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Power Adaptation for Cooperative AF Relaying With Channel Side Information

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):3164 - 3174
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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In this paper, we develop optimal power adaptation schemes by means of power amplification coefficients at the relay for half-duplex single-relay amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative systems with channel side information (CSI) available at the relay. We consider both the orthogonal AF (OAF) and the nonorthogonal AF (NAF) transmission protocols. In particular, assuming that the relay has full knowl... 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