# IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

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Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s): C2
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• ### Higher Rank Principal Kronecker Model for Triply Selective Fading Channels With Experimental Validation

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1654 - 1663
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This paper proposes a higher rank principal Kronecker model (PKM) for simulating triply selective fading channels. To construct the PKM, the channel correlation matrices are decomposed using the higher order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) method. The proposed PKM-HOSVD model improves upon the original Kronecker model by using higher rank approximation of the channel correlation matrices rath... View full abstract»

• ### Real-Time Path Planning Based on Hybrid-VANET-Enhanced Transportation System

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1664 - 1678
Cited by:  Papers (25)
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Real-time path planning can efficiently relieve traffic congestion in urban scenarios. However, how to design an efficient path-planning algorithm to achieve a globally optimal vehicle-traffic control still remains a challenging problem, particularly when we take drivers' individual preferences into consideration. In this paper, we first establish a hybrid intelligent transportation system (ITS), ... View full abstract»

• ### Optimized Virtual Model Reference Control for Ride and Handling Performance-Oriented Semiactive Suspension Systems

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1679 - 1690
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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This paper proposes an optimized virtual model reference (OVMR) control synthesis method for semiactive suspension control based on ride and vehicle handling characteristics. First, we present the semiactive Macpherson suspension system as an H∞ robust output feedback-oriented control model. Then, by using the combination of a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) and genetic ... View full abstract»

• ### A Supervisory Control Strategy for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles Based on Energy Demand Prediction and Route Preview

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1691 - 1700
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This paper presents a supervisory control strategy for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles based on energy demand prediction and route preview. The aim is to minimize the fuel consumption in real-time operation. This strategy is realized through three successive steps. First, a neural network model is established to predict the energy demand of the vehicle. It reduces the complete traffic data to sev... View full abstract»

• ### Integral Sliding Mode for the Torque-Vectoring Control of Fully Electric Vehicles: Theoretical Design and Experimental Assessment

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1701 - 1715
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This paper presents an integral sliding mode (ISM) formulation for the torque-vectoring (TV) control of a fully electric vehicle. The performance of the controller is evaluated in steady-state and transient conditions, including the analysis of the controller performance degradation due to its real-world implementation. This potential issue, which is typical of sliding mode formulations, relates t... View full abstract»

• ### On the Design of Robust Energy Management Strategies for FCHEV

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1716 - 1728
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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In this paper, we analyze the limitations that impose the presence of uncertainty in the design of optimal energy management strategies (EMSs) for fuel cell (FC) hybrid electric vehicles. Using an electric powertrain constituted by a hydrogen FC and a battery bank, the fuel consumption minimization problem is analyzed in the presence of parametric uncertainty. The conditions that ensure that the n... View full abstract»

• ### A Mathematical Model for Stability Analysis of a DC Distribution System for Power System Integration of Plug-In Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1729 - 1738
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This paper proposes a systematic method for developing a model of a dc distribution system, based on the configuration of the system. The dc distribution system is assumed to host electric vehicles and photovoltaic modules, using dc-dc converters, and to integrate them with an ac power grid. The developed model is of the matrix form and, therefore, can be readily expanded to represent a dc distrib... View full abstract»

• ### Robust MIMO-OFDM System for Frequency-Selective Mobile Wireless Channels

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1739 - 1749
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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This paper presents a novel technique to enhance the robustness of space-frequency block coded (SFBC) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The proposed system shapes the channel matrix of a frequency-selective fading channel into a piecewise flat fading over each block of two adjacent subcarriers. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed scheme substantially o... View full abstract»

• ### Accurate and Efficient Algorithms for Cognitive Radio Modeling Applications Under the i.n.i.d. Paradigm

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1750 - 1765
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Given that the statistical analysis of the frequency band of interest are available, it has been shown that adaptive searching for white spaces could improve by 70% when compared with random searching. In this paper, we characterize and provide a statistical estimation of the number of channels available for opportunistic usage by secondary users (SUs) in a spectrum band. However, following the in... View full abstract»

• ### Ubiquitous, Yet Deceptive: Hardware-Based Channel Metrics on Interfered WSN Links

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1766 - 1778
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The ease of acquiring hardware-based link quality indicators (LQIs) is an alluring property for fast channel estimation in time- and safety-critical wireless sensor network (WSN) applications, such as closed-loop control and interlocking. The two rudimentary hardware-based channel quality metrics, i.e., received signal strength (RSS) and LQI, are the key constituents of channel estimation and a pl... View full abstract»

• ### Efficient Blind Detection for OFDM Systems in Selective Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1779 - 1792
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With blind detection, one can enhance the throughput of communications. However, not all blind algorithms can be applied in time-varying or frequency-selective fading channels. Furthermore, blind algorithms usually have higher complexity. In this paper, we first propose a general principle by which one can build a metric for blind detection from any pilot-assisted channel response (CR) estimation ... View full abstract»

• ### Frequency Partitioning Methods to Mitigate Cross-Tier Interference in Two-Tier Femtocell Networks

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1793 - 1805
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Femtocells are attractive candidates for future cellular systems since they can greatly improve coverage and data rates. However, severe interference may occur and hinder the improved system performance due to a large number of femtocells sharing frequency bands with the macrocell. In this paper, we consider the interference problem in two-tier femtocell networks and propose two frequency partitio... View full abstract»

• ### Compute-and-Forward: Optimization Over Multisource–Multirelay Networks

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1806 - 1818
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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In this paper, we investigate a multisource multicast network with the aid of an arbitrary number of relays, where it is assumed that no direct link is available at each S-D pair. The aim is to find the fundamental limit on the maximal common multicast throughput of all source nodes if resource allocations are available. A transmission protocol employing the relaying strategy, i.e., compute-and-fo... View full abstract»

• ### Ultrawideband Channel Estimation: A Bayesian Compressive Sensing Strategy Based on Statistical Sparsity

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1819 - 1832
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To cope with the formidable sampling rate required by Nyquist criterion, compressive sensing (CS) has been recently adopted for ultrawideband (UWB) channel estimation. In this paper, exploiting the statistical sparsity of real UWB signals in the basis formed by eigenvectors, we develop a new CS dictionary called eigendictionary, which enables the use of CS for UWB channel estimation. With respect ... View full abstract»

• ### Secrecy Rate Optimizations for a MIMO Secrecy Channel With a Cooperative Jammer

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1833 - 1847
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In this paper, we study different secrecy rate optimization techniques for a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) secrecy channel, where a multiantenna cooperative jammer is employed to improve secret communication in the presence of a multiantenna eavesdropper. Specifically, we consider two optimization problems, namely, power minimization and secrecy rate maximization. These problems are not jo... View full abstract»

• ### Performance of the 3GPP LTE Space–Frequency Block Codes in Frequency-Selective Channels With Imperfect Channel Estimation

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1848 - 1855
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Linear decoding of space-frequency block codes (SFBCs) based on the Alamouti structure with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) requires the channel to be constant across two consecutive tones. However, time-dispersive multipath fading channels exhibit frequency-selective behavior wherein the channel across two tones will vary. This paper provides analytical tools for evaluating the ... View full abstract»

• ### Client-Based Control of the Interdependence Between LTE MTC and Human Data Traffic in Vehicular Environments

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1856 - 1871
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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The interdependence between machine-type communication (MTC) and human-to-human (H2H) communication has become a major topic for the development of cellular communication systems. One example of MTC application is dynamic traffic forecast, which uses sensors that are mounted on cars as an information source (so-called extended floating car data). To reduce the impact of MTC traffic on the quality ... View full abstract»

• ### Cooperative Relay Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1872 - 1881
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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The benefits of cognitive radio networking (CRN) have been well recognized with the emerging wireless applications in recent years. While many existing works assume that the secondary transmissions are negative interferences to the primary users (PUs), in this paper, we take secondary users (SUs) as positive potential cooperators for the PUs. In particular, we consider the problem of cooperative r... View full abstract»

• ### SEP of Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Systems With Relay Selection in Nakagami- $m$ Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1882 - 1894
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The exact average bit error probability (BEP) of decode-and-forward (DF) cooperative systems with relay selection for binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) signals in Nakagami-m fading channels is derived. Two types of relay selection schemes, i.e., signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)-based relay selection and log-likelihood-ratio-based relay selection, are investigated, assuming that there are no feedback cha... View full abstract»

• ### Maximal Ratio Transmission in AF MIMO Relay Systems Over Nakagami- $m$ Fading Channels

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1895 - 1903
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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In this paper, amplify-and-forward (AF)-based cooperation in a multiple-antenna-based wireless communication system is studied. In particular, we address the problem of hop-by-hop beamforming and combining in a dual-hop AF multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) relay network with two antennas at each node over Nakagami- m fading channels for any integer values of m. The beamforming and combining ve... View full abstract»

• ### Novel Coarse Timing Synchronization Methods in OFDM Systems Using Fourth-Order Statistics

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1904 - 1917
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In this paper, the problem of coarse timing synchronization in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is investigated, and two new timing metrics with better performance are presented. The new metrics take advantage of two novel differential normalization functions that are based on the fourth-order statistics and are designed depending on the value of carrier frequency offset (... View full abstract»

• ### Position-Based Compressed Channel Estimation and Pilot Design for High-Mobility OFDM Systems

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1918 - 1929
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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With the development of high-speed trains (HSTs) in many countries, providing broadband wireless services in HSTs is crucial. Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) has been widely adopted for broadband wireless communications due to its high spectral efficiency. However, OFDM is sensitive to the time selectivity caused by high-mobility channels, which costs much spectrum or time resour... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Precoding for OFDM in Two-Way Relaying Communications

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):1930 - 1941
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This paper is concerned with the design of distributed precoding in the multiple access (MA) phase for two-way relaying communication (TWRC) systems using OFDM. The error probability analysis is conducted to establish the diversity and coding gains for three error types in the MA phase. Then, the design criteria of distributed precoding to achieve the maximum diversity and coding gains are given. ... 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