OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Vehicular Communications is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Attack detection based on invariant state set for SDN-enabled vehicle platoon control system	107
AALB: Application Aware Load Balancing Algorithm for Road Side Units	99
A scalable time-division-based emergency messages broadcast scheme for connected and autonomous vehicles in urban environment	81
Enhancing vehicular NOMA communication security through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces	78
Joint optimization of trajectory, beamforming, and power allocation in UAV-enabled WPT networks using DRL combined with water-filling algorithm	75
Hybrid RF/VLC intelligent vehicular communications: A secrecy analysis	70
A Cat Swarm Optimization based transmission power minimization for an aerial NOMA communication system	69
Dynamic positioning of UAVs to improve network coverage in VANETs	68
Measurement-based fading characteristics analysis and modeling of UAV to vehicles channel	63
Rec-CNN: In-vehicle networks intrusion detection using convolutional neural networks trained on recurrence plots	62
SDN-enabled vehicular networks: Theory and practice within platooning applications	60
EPAKA: An efficient and privacy-preserving authenticated key agreement scheme based on physical security for VANET	60
SoVEC: Social vehicular edge computing-based optimum route selection	57
Architecture-based governance for secure-by-design Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems	56
Cognitive UAV-assisted secure and reliable communications based on robust joint trajectory and power control optimization	43
Accident reduction through a privacy-preserving method on top of a novel ontology for autonomous vehicles with the support of modular arithmetic	41
Joint edge caching and computation offloading for heterogeneous tasks in MEC-enabled vehicular networks	41
PPORM: A PPO-assisted packet reordering mechanism of heterogeneous VANETs for enhancing goodput and stability in fog computing	41
Cellular localizability of unmanned aerial vehicles	37
A comprehensive survey on SDN and blockchain-based secure vehicular networks	36
A secure cross-layer architecture for reactive routing in vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications	35
DSSPS: A dynamic secure service provision scheme in fog-based VANETs	34
Light security scheme for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)	31
An adaptive V2R communication strategy based on data delivery delay estimation in VANETs	30
Simultaneous representation and separation for multiple interference allied with approximation message passing in vehicular communications	30

Envelope distribution and Doppler spectrum of V2V channels at 5.9 GHz in mountainous roads	29
Resource allocation optimization in multiuser OFDM relay-assisted underwater acoustic sensor networks	29
General logic-operation-based lightweight group-key distribution schemes for Internet of Vehicles	29
Hybrid mutual authentication for vehicle-to-infrastructure communication without the coverage of roadside units	28
UAV-assisted wireless communications in the 6G-and-beyond era: An extensive survey on characteristics, standardization and regulations, enabling technologies, challenges, and future directions	27
Sub-6 GHz V2X-assisted MmWave optimal scheduling for vehicular networks	27
Blockchain and AI technology convergence: Applications in transportation systems	27
A secure authentication framework for IoV based on blockchain and ensemble learning	26
A quantum-secure certificateless aggregate signature protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks	25
Editorial Board	25
Location privacy in VANETs: Provably secure anonymous key exchange protocol based on self-blindable signatures	24
Secrecy performance evaluation and enhancement of vehicle-to-vehicle communications in the presence of big vehicles	24
Energy and experimental trust-based task offloading in the domain of connected autonomous vehicles	23
Cloud enabled Blockchain-based secured communication in mutual intelligent transportation using neural synchronization	23
Shared group session key-based conditional privacy-preserving authentication protocol for VANETs	23
Location of fog nodes mounted on fixed-wing UAVs	22
Conditional privacy-preserving and efficient distributed IoV data sharing scheme based on a hierarchical and zonal blockchain	22
DCFH: A dynamic clustering approach based on fire hawk optimizer in flying ad hoc networks	22
Deep-learning methods for integrated sensing and communication in vehicular networks	21
A QoS-aware adaptive cross-layer cyber-attack detection algorithm for vehicular networks	21
PROACT: Parallel multi-miner proof of accumulated trust protocol for Internet of Drones	20
Task scheduling of computation-intensive graph jobs in UAV-assisted hybrid vehicular networks	20
On energy conservation for fixed-wing UAV assisted practical full-duplex relaying with service requirement and bank angle limit	20
Hybrid routing for safety data with intermittent V2I connectivity	19
A trust management framework using forest fire model to propagate emergency messages in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV)	19
Subchannel assignment for social-assisted UAV cellular networks using dynamic hypergraph coloring	19
Channel-Independent Quantum Mapping-Substitution OFDM-Based Spatial Modulation for Physical-Layer Encryption in VLC Networks	19
Perception synergy optimization with deep reinforcement learning for cooperative perception in C-V2V scenarios	19
Editorial Board	19
Editorial Board	19
Fuzzy inference system design for promoting an eco-friendly driving style in IoV domain	19
Moving target defense approach for secure relay selection in vehicular networks	19
Futuristic view of the Internet of Quantum Drones: Review, challenges and research agenda	18
Systematic threat assessment and security testing of automotive over-the-air (OTA) updates	18
Blockchain based optimized data storage with secure communication for Internet of Vehicles considering active, passive, and double spending attacks	18
Unmanned aerial vehicle intrusion detection: Deep-meta-heuristic system	18
In-vehicle communication cyber security: A comprehensive review of challenges and solutions	17
A security-enhanced authentication scheme for quantum-key-distribution (QKD) enabled Internet of vehicles in multi-cloud environment	17
Resource allocation and model split for energy-efficient federated split learning in Internet of Vehicles with imperfect CSI	17
Evaluation platform for 5G vehicular communications	16
Crowdsourced vehicles and UAVs for last-mile delivery application using blockchain-hosted matching mechanism	16
OLSR+: A new routing method based on fuzzy logic in flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs)	16
Editorial Board	15
Machine learning for autonomous vehicle's trajectory prediction: A comprehensive survey, challenges, and future research directions	15
Towards load balancing in IoV system: A vehicle-assisted batch verification scheme	15
Near optimal scheduling for opportunistic spectrum access over block fading channels in cognitive radio assisted vehicular network	15
Energy-minimizing 3D circular trajectory optimization of rotary-wing UAV under probabilistic path-loss in constrained hotspot environments	15
An adaptive and multi-path greedy perimeter stateless routing protocol in flying ad hoc networks	15
Collaborative coverage path planning for UAV swarm for multi-region post-disaster assessment	15
Connected and automated vehicle platoon maintenance under communication failures	15

Fully distributed multi-agent processing strategy applied to vehicular networks	15
On the performance of STBC-NOMA assisted overlay cognitive system under CEEs and imperfect SIC	14
Narrow band of vehicular things communication system using hybrid pelican-beetle swarm optimization approach for intelligent transportation system	14
Privacy-aware revocation in VANETs with a Blockchain using accumulator	14
CANival: A multimodal approach to intrusion detection on the vehicle CAN bus	14
State-of-the-art authentication and verification schemes in VANETs: A survey	14
DST-IDS: Dynamic spatial-temporal graph-transformer network for in-vehicle network intrusion detection system	14
Autonomous vehicular overtaking maneuver: A survey and taxonomy	13
A tutorial on AI-powered 3D deployment of drone base stations: State of the art, applications and challenges	13
Cost-aware task offloading in vehicular edge computing: A Stackelberg game approach	13
Path planning of multi-UAVs based on deep Q-network for energy-efficient data collection in UAVs-assisted IoT	12
Hierarchical federated deep reinforcement learning based joint communication and computation for UAV situation awareness	12
Internet of drones security: Taxonomies, open issues, and future directions	12
A state-of-the-art on federated learning for vehicular communications	12
Deep learning-based receiver structure with superimposed channel estimation for autonomous underwater vehicles	12
Privacy-enhanced multi-region data aggregation for Internet of Vehicles	12
Security of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks using blockchain: A comprehensive review	12
Physical layer aspects of terahertz-enabled UAV communications: Challenges and opportunities	11
A comparative analysis of the semi-persistent and dynamic scheduling schemes in NR-V2X mode 2	11
Vehicle as a Computational Resource: Optimizing Quality of Experience for connected vehicles in a smart city	11
Firefly inspired robust cooperative and secure QoS provisioning framework for vehicular networks in multi-service environment	10
Advancing connected vehicle security through real-time sensor anomaly detection and recovery	10
VAIDANSHH: Adaptive DDoS detection for heterogeneous hosts in vehicular environments	10
Distributed and collaborative system to improve traffic conditions using fuzzy logic and V2X communications	10
Editorial: 2021 Best Paper Awards	10
Blockchain-based fast handover authentication protocol for Internet of Vehicles in small industrial parks	10
VERCO: A privacy and data-centric architecture for verifiable cooperative maneuvers	10
Performance analysis of RIS-assisted V2V communication under multipath interference	10
A coalitional security game against data integrity attacks in autonomous vehicle networks	10
Integrated single target sensing and multiuser communications based on zero-forcing beamforming	9
V2V-CoVAD: A vehicle-to-vehicle cooperative video alert dissemination mechanism for Internet of Vehicles in a highway environment	9
Orientation of a diffuse reflector for improved coverage in ID-FSOC for vehicular communications	9
A hybrid MGO-JAYA based clustered routing for FANETs	9
The importance of V2X simulation: An in-depth comparison of intersection control algorithms using a high-fidelity communication simulation	9
FSO communication system for high-speed trains under varying visibility conditions	9
Backscatter-enabled CR-NOMA based cooperative V2X communication with imperfect CSI	9
BCGS: Blockchain-assisted privacy-preserving cross-domain authentication for VANETs	9
VitroBench: Manipulating in-vehicle networks and COTS ECUs on your bench	9
An identity authentication and key agreement protocol for the internet of vehicles based on trusted cloud-edge-terminal architecture	8
Editorial Board	8
LB-CLAS: Lattice-based conditional privacy-preserving certificateless aggregate signature scheme for VANET	8
Reinforcement learning based scheme for on-demand vehicular fog formation	8
Fastening the initial access in 5G NR sidelink for 6G V2X networks	8
A hybrid deep learning based intrusion detection system using spatial-temporal representation of in-vehicle network traffic	8
The k-hop V2V data offloading using the predicted utility-centric path switching (PUPS) method based on the SDN-controller inside the multi-access edge computing (MEC) architecture	8