# IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

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Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s): C2
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• ### Radio-Wave Propagation Prediction Model Tuning of Land Cover Effects

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3490 - 3498
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The effect of land cover is incorporated in the radio propagation prediction algorithm of Q-Rap. It is implemented by optimizing both the effective height of the land cover, hence affecting obstruction-loss calculations, and by adding terms to the basic transmission loss algorithm. A complete set of separate coefficients to these terms is determined for each land cover type. The optimization metho... View full abstract»

• ### Propagation Measurements and Analysis for Train Stations of High-Speed Railway at 930 MHz

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3499 - 3516
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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Train stations are one of the most common structures along a high-speed railway. They can block the line of sight (LOS), generate multiple reflected and scattered waves, and aggravate the fading behavior; however, these effects have been rarely investigated. This paper presents a group of 930-MHz measurements conducted on train stations of high-speed railways in China. The whole process of a train... View full abstract»

• ### Ideal Forward Error Correction Codes for High-Speed Rail Multimedia Communications

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3517 - 3529
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In recent years, application-layer forward error correction (AL-FEC), particularly rateless AL-FEC, has received much attention due to its superior performance in both transmissional and computational efficiency. Rateless AL-FEC (e.g., Raptor code or Luby transform (LT) code) can protect a large data block with an overhead somewhat close to ideal codes. In the meantime, its data processing rates o... View full abstract»

• ### Dynamic Stray Current Evaluations on Cut-and-Cover Sections of DC Metro Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3530 - 3538
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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The tunneling construction in underground DC Metro Systems is mainly based on the bored tunnel method and the cut-and-cover method. Therefore, the stray current assessments and mitigation actions should be tailored according to which method of tunnel construction is used. This paper presents a topologically accurate model for assessing the dynamic stray current picture in cut-and-cover sections of... View full abstract»

• ### Model Predictive Control for Vehicle Yaw Stability With Practical Concerns

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3539 - 3548
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This paper presents a method for electronic stability control (ESC) based on model predictive control (MPC) using the bicycle model with lagged tire force to reflect the lagged characteristics of lateral tire forces on the prediction model of the MPC problem for better description of the vehicle behavior. To avoid the computational burden in finding the optimal solution of the MPC problem using th... View full abstract»

• ### Engine On/Off Control for the Energy Management of a Serial Hybrid Electric Bus via Convex Optimization

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3549 - 3559
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Convex optimization has recently been suggested for solving the optimal energy management problem of hybrid electric vehicles. Compared with dynamic programming, this approach can significantly reduce the computational time, but the price to pay is additional model approximations and heuristics for discrete decision variables such as engine on/off control. In this paper, the globally optimal engin... View full abstract»

• ### High-Performance Vehicle Streams: Communication and Control Architecture

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3560 - 3568
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This paper presents the overall framework for high-performance vehicle streams that integrates the transportation and the communication layered architectures together. It shows the process in establishing an infrastructure for high-performance vehicles and the theoretical development and deployment of cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) for heterogeneous vehicles that is integrated with lat... View full abstract»

• ### Hybrid Thermostat Strategy for Enhancing Fuel Economy of Series Hybrid Intracity Bus

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3569 - 3579
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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The recently developed power distribution strategies in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are often hard to apply, or the mathematical backgrounds are burdened by very complicated calculations. In this paper, a new control strategy, referred to as a hybrid thermostat strategy, is proposed for a series-type HEV (SHEV). The proposed strategy has its foundation in the thermostat strategy and incorporat... View full abstract»

• ### Vehicle Behavior Analysis Using Target Motion Trajectories

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3580 - 3591
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In this paper, a real-time vehicle behavior analysis system is presented, which can be used in traffic jams and under complex weather conditions. In recent years, many works based on background estimation and foreground extraction for traffic event detection have been reported. In these studies, the vehicle images need to be accurately segmented, although uneven illumination, shadows, and vehicle ... View full abstract»

• ### An Equivalent Circuit Model With Variable Effective Capacity for $\hbox{LiFePO}_{4}$ Batteries

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3592 - 3599
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A new approach to equivalent circuit models for LiFePO4 batteries is presented in this paper. The proposed battery model is a semi-physical nonlinear dynamic model with variable effective capacity. Fuzzy logic has been used to capture the nonlinear behavior of the battery in combination with continuous-time differential equations. Fuzzy logic blocks are embedded in a state-space dynamic... View full abstract»

• ### Real-Time Optimization for Power Management Systems of a Battery/Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System in Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3600 - 3611
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Batteries mounted on electric vehicles (EVs) are often damaged by high peak power and rapid charging/discharging cycles, which are originated from repetitive acceleration/deceleration of vehicles particularly in urban situations. To reduce battery damage, the battery/supercapacitor (SC) hybrid energy storage system (HESS) has been considered as a solution because the SC can act as a buffer against... View full abstract»

• ### Comparison of Feedback Control Techniques for Torque-Vectoring Control of Fully Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3612 - 3623
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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Fully electric vehicles (FEVs) with individually controlled powertrains can significantly enhance vehicle response to steering-wheel inputs in both steady-state and transient conditions, thereby improving vehicle handling and, thus, active safety and the fun-to-drive element. This paper presents a comparison between different torque-vectoring control structures for the yaw moment control of FEVs. ... View full abstract»

• ### Randomized Switched Antenna Array FMCW Radar for Automotive Applications

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3624 - 3641
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Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) methods and switched antenna arrays (SAAs) are very attractive for application in automotive radar because of their low hardware complexity. In traditional SAA radar, the receiving antenna array elements are successively switched according to their natural spatial order [referred to as sequential SAAs (SSAAs)]. For radars using both SSAA and FMCW methods,... View full abstract»

• ### Estimation of Normalized Longitudinal Force for an Electric Cart Using Equivalent-Input-Disturbance Approach

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3642 - 3650
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Electric carts are used by many elderly people living in Japan. To guarantee driving safety under any road and weather conditions, it is very important to obtain the information needed to control the torque of the cart in a real-time fashion. A key item of information is an estimate of the normalized longitudinal force (NLF). This paper presents a method for estimating the NLF based on the equival... View full abstract»

• ### An Adaptive Backward Control Battery Equalization System for Serially Connected Lithium-ion Battery Packs

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3651 - 3660
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This paper presents an adaptive controller for a battery equalization system (BES) for serially connected Li-ion battery packs. The proposed equalization scheme consists of software and hardware parts to implement an adaptive neuro-fuzzy algorithm. The proposed combined software and hardware implementation of the adaptive neuro-fuzzy algorithm provides an offline learning ability to track the dyna... View full abstract»

• ### Evaluation Methodology and Control Strategies for Improving Reliability of HEV Power Electronic System

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3661 - 3676
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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The reliability prediction of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) is of paramount importance for planning, design, control, and operation management of vehicles, since it can provide an objective criterion for comparative evaluation of various configurations and topologies and can be used as an effective tool to improve the design and control of the overall system. This paper presents a mission-profil... View full abstract»

• ### PEACE: Polarization Enabled Active Cooperation Scheme Between Primary and Secondary Networks

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3677 - 3688
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In this paper, we present a two-phase cooperative transmission and relay scheme between a primary network and a secondary network to address spectrum underutilization and spectrum inefficiency. By placing orthogonally dual-polarized antennas (ODPAs) and enabling polarization signal processing functionalities at secondary users (SUs), the cochannel interference caused by multiple independent transm... View full abstract»

• ### Energy-Efficient Relay Selection and Resource Allocation in Nonregenerative Relay OFDMA Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3689 - 3699
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Discrete modulation in multiuser nonregenerative relay systems is less investigated in current resource allocation but is more commonly used in practical systems. In this paper, based on a set of discrete modulation levels, we formulate a joint optimization of relay selection and resource allocation under rate requirements to minimize the system transmitting power consumption and to improve energy... View full abstract»

• ### Opportunistic Stable Two-Way Relaying: With or Without Direct Link

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3700 - 3714
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In this paper, we investigate a three-node two-way relaying network over fading channels. The stability of this system is first discussed. Three protocols are then investigated in this work in terms of throughput, including the opportunistic digital network coding (ODNC) scheduling protocol, the physical network coding (PNC) protocol, and the cooperation protocol of DNC with direct link (CDNC-DL).... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Learning-Based Spectrum Allocation with Noisy Observations in Cognitive Radio Networks

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3715 - 3725
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This paper studies the medium access design for secondary users (SUs) from a game-theoretic learning perspective. In consideration of the random return of primary users (PUs), a distributed SU access approach is presented based on an adaptive carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) scheme, in which each SU accesses multiple idle frequency slots of a licensed frequency band with adaptive activity fact... View full abstract»

• ### A Queueing Characterization of Information Transmission Over Block-Fading Rayleigh Channels in the Low-SNR Regime

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3726 - 3740
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Unlike the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, fading channels suffer from random channel gains, in addition to the additive Gaussian noise. As a result, the instantaneous channel capacity varies randomly along time, which makes it insufficient to characterize the transmission capability of a fading channel using data rate only. In this paper, the transmission capability of a buffer-aide... View full abstract»

• ### Star-QAM Signaling Constellations for Spatial Modulation

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3741 - 3749
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The performance of spatial modulation (SM)-assisted multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems is highly dependent on the specific amplitude/phase modulation (APM) signal constellation adopted. In this paper, we conceive new star-quadrature amplitude modulation (star-QAM)-aided SM schemes. Our goal is to minimize the system's average bit error probability (ABEP). More specifically... View full abstract»

• ### Error Performance of Physical-Layer Network Coding in Multiple-Antenna TWRC

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):3750 - 3761
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In this paper, the error performance of physical-layer network coding (PNC) is studied in multiple-antenna two-way relay channels (TWRCs), where two users exchange their messages with the help of a relay. We assume that the TWRC system uses binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulation and that all channels are Rayleigh faded. In particular, we consider a general system model where two users may hav... 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