IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Communication, Control, and Computation Issues in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks

The automotive industry has recently shifted from developing advanced vehicles to concentrating on safety and comfort, which stimulates the development of new intelligent vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving [item 1) in the Appendix]. However, the current technology is still far from meeting the practical requirements of autonomous driving. The existing control approaches are mainly based on expensive sensors and cameras equipped in vehicles. Thanks to the rapid development of advanced communication and computation techniques, vehicles easily communicate and cooperate to each other [item 2) in the Appendix]. Meanwhile, the control of vehicles become more reliable and cost-efficient with the communication between vehicles [item 3) in the Appendix]. Therefore, communication, computing and control (3C) will play a critical role in the development of next generation intelligent vehicular systems [item 4) in the Appendix].