Giambattista Gruosso;Alain Bouscayrol;Lucia Gauchia;Davide De Simone;Lei Zhang;Hang Zhao
{"title":"Guest Editorial: Special Section on the Vehicular Power Propulsion Conference 2025","authors":"Giambattista Gruosso;Alain Bouscayrol;Lucia Gauchia;Davide De Simone;Lei Zhang;Hang Zhao","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3607009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3607009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2459-2461"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11176788","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145141611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ricardo Serras Santos;Tiago Brogueira;Slavisa Tomic;João P. Matos-Carvalho;Marko Beko
{"title":"Toward Autonomous Target Navigation in Indoor Environments via Wireless Sensing","authors":"Ricardo Serras Santos;Tiago Brogueira;Slavisa Tomic;João P. Matos-Carvalho;Marko Beko","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3610180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3610180","url":null,"abstract":"This work addresses the problem of autonomous target navigation in indoor environments through wireless sensing. To accomplish accurate navigation, it proposes a novel yet simple localization algorithm based on basic geometry and Weighted Central Mass (WCM) by extracting range measurements from received wireless signals. To avoid obstacle collision in the considered indoor environments, the work proposes a new obstacle detection scheme that is based on wireless sensing, where abrupt signal fluctuations throughout the target's movement are exploited to detect and avoid obstructions. Therefore, integrating the two proposed solutions allows for partially autonomous target navigation in indoor environments without resorting to expensive and complex hardware, such as LiDARs or cameras. The proposed solutions are validated through both simulation and experimental test beds, that corroborate their effectiveness, both in terms of navigation and obstacle detection accuracy.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2627-2641"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11165081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Analysis of Active RIS-Aided Wireless Communication Systems Over Nakagami-$m$ Fading Channel","authors":"Leuva Bhumika Ranchhodbhai;Dharmendra Sadhwani;Rachna Singh","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3609899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3609899","url":null,"abstract":"Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a promising solution to enhance the security and reliability of wireless communication systems by intelligently reshaping the propagation environment. Although conventional passive RIS improves signal's strength through phase-shift control, its inability to amplify signals limits the overall system's performance. This limitation is addressed by the active RIS, which integrates amplification capabilities to offer significant performance enhancements. With the help of novel recursive integrals, this paper presents accurate yet analytically tractable closed-form solutions for the outage probability (OP) and the secrecy outage probability (SOP) for active RIS-aided wireless communication systems under Nakagami-<inline-formula><tex-math>$m$</tex-math></inline-formula> fading conditions. To achieve the same level of target reliability of 0.4, we demonstrate that under certain degrees of the fading severity, and at some constant value of the receiver's signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), an active RIS-aided structure with amplification gain of 10 dB help in reducing the required number of reflecting elements by nearly 90% compared to its passive counterpart. This underscores the practical and economic advantages of active RIS in terms of reduced hardware complexity and deployment cost. The number of elements needed can be further reduced by increasing the amplification gain of the active reflecting elements. Additionally, the asymptotic receiver SNR analysis is carried out which further provides an insight into the advantages of incorporating active reflecting elements into the system's design as compared to the corresponding passive elements. Precisely, for the same number of elements, the active RIS-aided systems achieve a considerable user's SNR of 40 dB as compared to the passive RIS-aided systems; for all values of the Nakagami-<inline-formula><tex-math>$m$</tex-math></inline-formula> fading parameters. All the analytical results are validated through extensive Monte-Carlo simulations.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2539-2553"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11164369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthetic Attack Dataset Generation With ID2T for AI-Based Intrusion Detection in Industrial V2I Network","authors":"Prinkle Sharma;Jaiganesh Anandan;Hong Liu;Jyoti Grover","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3609149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3609149","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (iV2I) networks are increasingly adopted in settings such as warehouses, construction sites, and smart factories to enhance automation and operational efficiency. However, these systems face growing cybersecurity risks that threaten safety-critical operations. This paper introduces a realistic synthetic dataset created using the ID2T framework, which injects malicious traffic, such as DDoS, PortScan, and memory corruption exploits, into benign communication traces collected from actual iV2I environments. The resulting hybrid dataset, combining synthetic and real-world traffic, enables the supervised training of a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network using 16 meticulously crafted flow-based features. Experimental results demonstrate high detection accuracy under both balanced and threat-specific conditions, validating the effectiveness of ID2T in modeling domain-relevant cyberattack behaviors. In addition to strong classification performance, this work demonstrates how synthetic malicious traffic generation reduces the cost and complexity of cyberattack emulation. The proposed method offers a scalable and reproducible framework for training intrusion detection systems (IDS), highlighting the critical role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in securing next-generation industrial vehicular networks.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2509-2538"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11159305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145141681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vineet Dhanawat;Varun Shinde;Rachid Alami;Adnan Akhunzada;Zaid Bin Faheem;Anjanava Biswas
{"title":"Electric Vehicles Charging Station Load Forecasting Integration With Renewable Energy Using Novel Deep EfficientBiLSTMNet","authors":"Vineet Dhanawat;Varun Shinde;Rachid Alami;Adnan Akhunzada;Zaid Bin Faheem;Anjanava Biswas","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3608287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3608287","url":null,"abstract":"The exponential increase in the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) presents significant problems to the stability of the power grid. Therefore, it is crucial to accurately anticipate the demand for EV Charging Station (CS) to address this issue. To improve forecasts and identify CS load variables, existing studies are based on load profiling, which may be difficult to obtain for commercial EV charging stations. This paper proposes an efficient deep BiLSTMNet model to solve and mitigate these problems. Energy consumption and storage at four charging stations in California are analyzed. To guarantee accuracy and uniformity, the data is preprocessed by addressing missing values and ensuring consistency. A hybrid feature selection technique integrates the Boruta algorithm and SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) values to ensure robust feature selection. The EfficientBiLSTMNet model, which integrates the EfficientNet and BiLSTM layers, is trained on the preprocessed datasets. The model's hyperparameters are optimized using an Enhanced Firefly Algorithm (EFA). The model performs a time series analysis to identify daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal patterns in EV charging demand. The integration of renewable energy sources—specifically solar and wind generation—into the EV charging infrastructure is thoroughly examined in this study, not merely as input features but as key factors influencing the stability of charging demand at various stations. Their temporal patterns and environmental dependencies are leveraged to enhance forecasting accuracy and ensure grid-aware demand management across charging stations. The proposed model's performance is evaluated using metrics such as R-squared, Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE). Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model, with an average R-squared value of 0.9, MAE of 2.15 kW, and RMSE of 2.75 kW across the four stations. The EfficientBiLSTMNet model shows superior predictive accuracy compared to traditional models, highlighting the importance of comprehensive feature selection and engineering in forecasting EV charging demand. This study provides a robust framework for predicting EV charging demand, integrating renewable energy sources to enhance the stability and sustainability of the power grid amidst the increasing penetration of EVs.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2642-2661"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11155205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José rodríguez-Piñeiro;Zhongxiang Wei;Jingjing Wang;Carlos A. Gutiérrez;Luis M. Correia
{"title":"Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Section on Current Research Trends and Open Challenges for 6G-Enabled Vehicle-to-Everything Networks","authors":"José rodríguez-Piñeiro;Zhongxiang Wei;Jingjing Wang;Carlos A. Gutiérrez;Luis M. Correia","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3597609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3597609","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2301-2304"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11153379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145011310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saddam Hussain;Ali Tufail;Haji Awg Abdul Ghani Naim;Muhammad Asghar Khan;Gordana Barb
{"title":"A Lightweight Proxy Signature Scheme for Resource-Constrained NDN-Based Internet of Vehicles","authors":"Saddam Hussain;Ali Tufail;Haji Awg Abdul Ghani Naim;Muhammad Asghar Khan;Gordana Barb","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3606652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3606652","url":null,"abstract":"Named Data Networking (NDN) is considered a future architecture for content distribution in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The primary principles of NDN, which include naming and in-network caching, are perfectly aligned with the IoV requirements for time and location independence. Despite significant research efforts, full-scale deployment remains limited due to ongoing concerns regarding trust, safety, and security within the IoV network. Moreover, traditional security algorithms proposed for IoV are complex, with high computational demands that challenge the strict real-time constraints. To minimize the computational overhead of vehicles, we proposed an RSU-empowered proxy signature scheme for NDN-based IoV. The security of the proposed scheme is proven to be Existentially Unforgeable against Adaptive Chosen-Message Attacks (EU-ACMA) under the Random Oracle Model (ROM), considering the hardness of the Hyperelliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (HCDLP). A performance analysis, which considers both computation time and communication overhead, shows that the proposed scheme effectively minimizes these factors. Besides, we applied the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) technique, namely Evaluation based on Distance from Average Solution (EDAS), to meet the particular need to prioritize data in IoV. The findings show that the proposed scheme performs better than those in the related literature.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2607-2626"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11152359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reza Jafari;Pouria Sarhadi;Amin Paykani;Shady S. Refaat;Pedram Asef
{"title":"Integrated Energy Optimization and Stability Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for an All-Wheel-Drive Electric Vehicle","authors":"Reza Jafari;Pouria Sarhadi;Amin Paykani;Shady S. Refaat;Pedram Asef","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3606120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3606120","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents an innovative solution for simultaneous energy optimization and dynamic yaw control of all-wheel-drive (AWD) electric vehicles (EVs) using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques. To this end, three model-free DRL-based methods, based on deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG), twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TD3), and TD3 enhanced with curriculum learning (CL TD3), are developed for determining optimal yaw moment control and energy optimization online. The proposed DRL controllers are benchmarked against model-based controllers, i.e., linear quadratic regulator with the sequential quadratic programming (LSQP) and sliding mode control with SQP (SSQP). A tailored multi-term reward function is structured to penalize excessive yaw rate error, sideslip angle, tire slip deviations beyond peak grip regions, and power losses based on a realistic electric machine efficiency map. The learning environment is based on a nonlinear double-track vehicle model, incorporating tire-road interactions. To evaluate the generalizability of the algorithms, the agents are tested across various velocities, tire–road friction coefficients, and additional scenarios implemented in IPG CarMaker, a high-fidelity vehicle dynamics simulator. In addition to the deployment without requiring an explicit model of the plant, the simulation results demonstrate that the proposed solution modifies vehicle dynamics and maneuverability in most cases compared to the model-based conventional controller. Furthermore, the reduction in sideslip angle, excellent traction through minimizing tire slip ratio, avoiding oversteering and understeering, and maintaining an acceptable range of energy optimization are demonstrated for DRL controllers, especially for the TD3 and CL TD3 algorithms.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2583-2606"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11150741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uplink Performance Analysis of Asynchronous Cell-Free mMIMO With Two-Layer Decoding","authors":"Siran Xu;Xiaomin Chen;Qiang Sun;Jiayi Zhang","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3606229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3606229","url":null,"abstract":"In practical cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) networks, asynchronous reception occurs due to distributed and low-cost access points (APs), where the signals arrive at each AP at different time. In this paper, we investigate uplink (UL) spectral efficiency (SE) of asynchronous CF mMIMO with spatially correlated Rician fading channel. On the basis of the availability of prior information at APs, we derive the phase-aware minimum mean square error (MMSE) and non-perceptual linear MMSE (LMMSE) estimators. To mitigate the inter-user interference, we consider a two-layer decoding method in UL transmission. For the first-layer decoding, maximum ratio (MR) precoding is employed, while the large-scale fading decoding (LSFD) method is utilized in the second-layer decoding. Meanwhile, we consider the scenario in CF mMIMO where there is a large number of user equipment (UE), resulting in high computational complexity. To address this challenge, scalable CF mMIMO (SCF-mMIMO) architecture is proposed. On the basis of MMSE and LMMSE estimators, the novel low complexity partial MMSE (P-MMSE) detector and partial LMMSE (P-LMMSE) detector are proposed for centralized combining. For distributed combining, we also proposed the novel local partial MMSE (LP-MMSE) detector and local partial LMMSE (LP-LMMSE) detector. Numerical results demonstrate that LSFD method can enhance UL SE in CF mMIMO. Furthermore, the impact of performance loss resulting from the absence of phase information is contingent upon the length of pilot. It is minimal when pilot contamination is low. Finally, the simulation results demonstrate that the SE of the proposed detectors closely approximate the optimal combining technique for both distributed and centralized combing. It is important to note that the proposed detectors preserve performance while significantly lowering complexity.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2494-2508"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11150737","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145141680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving Perception: A Survey Through Core Capabilities","authors":"Rajendramayavan Sathyam;Yueqi Li","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2025.3604823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2025.3604823","url":null,"abstract":"Foundation models are revolutionizing autonomous driving perception, transitioning the field from narrow, task-specific deep learning models to versatile, general-purpose architectures trained on vast, diverse datasets. This survey examines how these models address critical challenges in autonomous perception, including limitations in generalization, scalability, and robustness to distributional shifts. The survey introduces a novel taxonomy structured around four essential capabilities for robust performance in dynamic driving environments: generalized knowledge, spatial understanding, multi-sensor robustness, and temporal reasoning. For each capability, the survey elucidates its significance and comprehensively reviews cutting-edge approaches. Diverging from traditional method-centric surveys, our unique framework prioritizes conceptual design principles, providing a capability-driven guide for model development and clearer insights into foundational aspects. We conclude by discussing key challenges, particularly those associated with the integration of these capabilities into real-time, scalable systems, and broader deployment challenges related to computational demands and ensuring model reliability against issues like hallucinations and out-of-distribution failures. The survey also outlines crucial future research directions to enable the safe and effective deployment of foundation models in autonomous driving systems.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":"6 ","pages":"2554-2582"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11146457","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}