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London Luton Airport (LLA) welcomed the news that East Midlands Railway (EMR) is to introduce a new half-hourly, nonstop rail service between the London St. Pancras rail station and the Luton Airport Parkway station on the periphery of LLA. EMR will introduce the new service as part of the May timetable change, and it is the first significant step toward a separately branded "Luton Airport Express"

At no time in recent history has there been such a dire need for information and communications technology (ICT) in nearly all walks of life. Gaps left open by the COVID-19 pandemic have been filled thanks to the opportunities offered by ICT: health, education, entertainment, delivery services, and a plethora of other sectors of the global economy have had to rely on remote connectivity not just to

The past year has taught us to expect the unexpected. While digital meetings have gotten increased momentum, the pandemic has put most other platforms for technical development on hold. I have written before in this column about the fact that autonomous vehicles are emerging. A few years ago, there was a sort of mental setback when several companies pioneering autonomous vehicle testing said that the

To operate intelligent vehicular applications such as automated driving, mechanisms including machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and others are used to abstract knowledge from information. Knowledge is defined as a state of understanding obtained through experience and analysis of collected information, and it is promising for vehicular applications. However, to achieve its full potential

Laser intersatellite links (LISLs) are envisioned between satellites in upcoming satellite constellations, such as the one in phase I of SpaceX's Starlink. Within a constellation, satellites can establish LISLs with other satellites in the same orbital plane (OP) or in different OPs. We present a classification of LISLs based on the location of satellites within a constellation and of LISLs' duration

Different architectures for hybrid powertrains exist. Traditionally, to compare their efficiency, one energetic model is developed per architecture and is optimized. Today, this heuristic approach can be replaced by a systematic method that explores all the possibilities in a defined search space. This article presents hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) optimization and comparison using an automatic methodology

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An automated vehicle is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving safely with minimum or no input from human beings. Recent literature, industry projects, and prototypes have revealed its potential to improve transportation efficiency due to better synchronization of vehicle movements and to improve safety by potentially reducing the number of accidents, injuries, and fatalities

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The substantial increase in the number of base stations (BSs) compels researchers to focus on spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) in wireless networks. To this end, we propose an intracell frequency band exiling (ICE) technique as a promising solution for green wireless networks. In the proposed technique, operating frequency bands of mobile users are assigned from upper frequency bands

Future denser air-ground vehicle networks (AGVNs) face challenges such as resource allocation, mobility management, secure transmission, and so on. At the same time, surveillance is a must for modern air traffic management. This motivates us to find opportunities in the aerial vertical by forming a conceptual surveillance plane for aerial vehicles. In this article, we propose an enhanced software-defined

Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for data collection are a promising means to extend Internet-ofThings (IoT) networks into remote and hostile areas, and areas with no access to power supplies. Adequate design of velocity control and communication decisions of UAVs is critical to minimize the data packet losses of ground IoT nodes resulting from overflowing buffers and transmission failure

AI heralds a step-change in the performance and capability of wireless networks and other critical infrastructures. However, it may also cause irreversible environmental damage due to their high energy consumption. Here, we address this challenge in the context of 5G and beyond, where there is a complexity explosion in radio resource management (RRM). On the one hand, deep reinforcement learning (DRL)

Research about online failure prediction of rail vehicle core components (such as wheels, bearings, and bogies) based on big data and artificial intelligence (AI) has become popular in view of its role of improving rail vehicle operation safety. The recent vibration energy harvesting sensor network relieves sensor nodes' dependence on wired power, which provides a green and low-cost way of collecting

Electromagnetic (EM) disturbances and compatibility issues are the most common problems affecting communication and signaling systems. The duration of field testing to solve these railway EM interference (EMI) problems may vary between three and 12 months, with the cost of the complete process between €25,000 and €1.5 million [1]. Currently, the railway industry demands the building of strategies and

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Every year the Vehicular Technology Society looks to sponsor and formally recognize individuals, chapters, and writings that exemplify the spirit of advancing land, airborne and maritime mobile services. To view the full detailed listing of each award and past recipients, please visit our Awards page on the website. Nominators should utilize the forms associated with each award on the website. Award

Caching at the network edge can significantly reduce users’ perceived latency and relieve backhaul pressure, hence invigorating a new set of innovations toward latency-sensitive applications. Nevertheless, the efficacy of caching policies relies on the users’ content preference to be 1) known a priori and 2) highly homogeneous, which is not always the case in the real world. In this article, we explore

To provide efficient, safe, and secure access to the airspace, the European Union has launched a set of new services called U-space that allow for the support of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) management and conflict prevention for flights in the airspace. These services are based on communication technology, which is expected to be the key enabler to unlock the underlying potential of UAV operations

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High-fidelity content distribution and other emerging applications of 5G and beyond-5G mobile broadband networking can put massive load on the core and radio access network (RAN). To address this, direct device-to-device (D2D) communication has recently become a first-class citizen of these networks. While information-centric vehicular networking (ICVN) based on fog computing can exploit such D2D links

The contemporary automotive market is undergoing rapid changes that will inevitably revolutionize the road transportation sector in the years to come. Alongside electric vehicles and sophisticated vehicular communication systems, autonomous driving (AD) is emerging as a game-changing technology of the near future. To enable this cutting-edge functionality, passenger vehicles are equipped with various

Joint communication and radar/radio sensing (JCAS), also known as dual-function radar communications, enables the integration of communication and radio sensing into one system, sharing a single transmitted signal. The perceptive mobile network (PMN) is a natural evolution of JCAS from simple point-to-point links to a mobile/cellular network with integrated radio-sensing capability. In this article

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From its conception, 5G has been designed to support a wide variety of service types, ranging from enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) to ultrareliable low-latency communications (URLLC). To overcome the disparity of their requirements, a number of radio resource management (RRM) solutions have been proposed, among which multiconnectivity (MC) may be highlighted: that is, the aggregation of radio resources

Reports on the impact of 5G mobile communications in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ericsson expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to exceed 190 million by the end of 2020 and 2.8 billion by the end of 2025. The forecast is included in the June 2020 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report [1], along with projections for data traffic growth and regional 5G subscriptions. The report also

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The articles in this special section focus on the evolution of automotive engineering that deploy 6G networks. The continuous evolution of network technology and the digitization of the economy are key drivers for defining the expected 6G networks. Academia and industry have made tremendous strides during the past few years to shift the networking paradigm from human-centric communication to machine-type

In this article, we present our vision of the application scenarios, performance metrics, and potential key technologies of 6G wireless communication networks. We then comprehensively survey 6G wireless channel measurements, characteristics, and models for all frequency bands and all scenarios, focusing on millimeter-wave (mm-wave), terahertz, and optical wireless communication channels under all spectra;

Terahertz (THz)-band communications are currently being celebrated as a key technology that could fulfill the increasing demands for wireless data traffic in 6G wireless communications. Many challenges, such as high propagation losses and power limitations, which result in short communication distances, have yet to be addressed for this technology to be realized. Ultramassive multiple-input, multiple-output

Employing massively distributed antennas brings radio access points (RAPs) closer to users, enabling aggressive spectrum reuse that can bridge gaps between the scarce spectrum resource and extremely high connection densities in future wireless systems. Examples include the cloud radio access network (C-RAN), ultradense network (UDN), and cell-free massive multiple-input, multiple-output (CF-mMIMO)

5G radio for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) and beyond5G concepts at 0.1-1 THz can exploit angle and delay measurements for localization through an increased bandwidth and large antenna arrays, but they are limited in terms of blockage caused by obstacles. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are seen as a transformative technology that can control the physical propagation environment in which they

Recent advances in programmable metasurfaces, known as software-defined metasurfaces (SDMs), offer a paradigm shift from uncontrollable to fully tunable and customizable wireless propagation environments, enabling a plethora of new applications and technological trends. To explore this cutting-edge technological concept, we review the architecture and electromagnetic (EM) wave manipulation functionalities

In this article, we introduce Wireless 2.0, the future generation of wireless communication networks, in which the radio environment becomes controllable and intelligent by leveraging the emerging technologies of reconfigurable metasurfaces (RMSs) and artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, we emphasize AI-based computational methods and commence with an overview of the concept of intelligent

The classical approach of avoiding or ignoring interference in wireless networks cannot accommodate the ambitious quality-of-service (QoS) demands of ultradense cellular networks (CNs). However, recent ground-breaking information-theoretic advances have changed our perception of interference from that of a foe to a friend. This article aims to shed light on harnessing the benefits of integrating modern

6G networks are expected to provide extremely high capacity and satisfy emerging applications, but current frequency bands may not be sufficient. Moreover, 6G will provide superior coverage by integrating space/air/underwater networks with terrestrial networks, given that traditional wireless communications are not able to provide high-speed data rates for nonterrestrial networks. Visible light communication

Airborne base stations (BSs) (carried by drones) have a great potential to enhance the coverage and capacity of 6G cellular networks. However, one of the main challenges facing the deployment of airborne BSs is the limited available energy at the drone, which curtails the flight time. In fact, most current unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can only operate for a maximum of 1 h. The need to frequently