Guest Editorial Special Issue on Space-Air-Ground-Integrated Networks for Internet of Vehicles

Tingting Yang, Ning Zhang, Mai Xu, Mehrdad Dianati, Fei Richard Yu

Abstract: Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is one of the most promising applications of Internet of Things (IoT) in the automotive industry, which can empower moving vehicles to exchange information with neighboring cars, roadside infrastructure, remote servers, traffic control centers, and so on. IoV expects to support a wide range of vehicular services, such as road safety, path planning, infotainment, and smart parking, which will play a vital role in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[1]</xref> – <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[3]</xref> . The main enabling platforms for IoV consist of dedicated short-range communications (DSRCs)-based networks and cellular networks (C-V2X). However, these terrestrial networks alone might not be able to support the vehicular applications well in all the cases and scenarios, due to the issues of limited coverage and capacity, as well as costly deployment.