Mobile Edge Computing for Vehicular Networks [From the Guest Editors]

Driven by the new era of the Internet of Things, vehicles are evolving from rudimentary means of travel to innovative network-based modes of transportation that promise efficiency and technological intelligence in modern society. With the aid of advanced communication, computation, and sensory units, smart vehicles offer a variety of new applications and services. However, emerging powerful applications typically require intensive computation while demanding low-delay data processing. Such applications pose critical challenges to the existing vehicular terminals and networks, especially in terms of their computational resources.