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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Joint optimization of trajectory, beamforming, and power allocation in UAV-enabled WPT networks using DRL combined with water-filling algorithm	116
A scalable time-division-based emergency messages broadcast scheme for connected and autonomous vehicles in urban environment	88
AALB: Application Aware Load Balancing Algorithm for Road Side Units	80
Measurement-based fading characteristics analysis and modeling of UAV to vehicles channel	70
Enhancing vehicular NOMA communication security through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces	69
Rec-CNN: In-vehicle networks intrusion detection using convolutional neural networks trained on recurrence plots	66
Hybrid RF/VLC intelligent vehicular communications: A secrecy analysis	66
Dynamic positioning of UAVs to improve network coverage in VANETs	63
EPAKA: An efficient and privacy-preserving authenticated key agreement scheme based on physical security for VANET	50
Joint edge caching and computation offloading for heterogeneous tasks in MEC-enabled vehicular networks	49
Architecture-based governance for secure-by-design Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems	46
A comprehensive survey on SDN and blockchain-based secure vehicular networks	44
Cognitive UAV-assisted secure and reliable communications based on robust joint trajectory and power control optimization	43
SDN-enabled vehicular networks: Theory and practice within platooning applications	36
Accident reduction through a privacy-preserving method on top of a novel ontology for autonomous vehicles with the support of modular arithmetic	35
Cellular localizability of unmanned aerial vehicles	35
PPORM: A PPO-assisted packet reordering mechanism of heterogeneous VANETs for enhancing goodput and stability in fog computing	35
Resource allocation optimization in multiuser OFDM relay-assisted underwater acoustic sensor networks	33
SoVEC: Social vehicular edge computing-based optimum route selection	33
DSSPS: A dynamic secure service provision scheme in fog-based VANETs	33
Hybrid mutual authentication for vehicle-to-infrastructure communication without the coverage of roadside units	32
A secure cross-layer architecture for reactive routing in vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications	32
Envelope distribution and Doppler spectrum of V2V channels at 5.9 GHz in mountainous roads	31
Light security scheme for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)	31
LGTWAFIOD: PUF and Fuzzy extractor based lightweight authentication framework for internet of drones	30

Task offloading based on lightweight identity authentication and genetic optimization for the internet of vehicles	29
Sub-6 GHz V2X-assisted MmWave optimal scheduling for vehicular networks	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	26
Blockchain and AI technology convergence: Applications in transportation systems	26
Energy-Aware Joint Task Assignment and 3D Path Planning for Cooperative Multi-UAV Networks	26
Energy and experimental trust-based task offloading in the domain of connected autonomous vehicles	25
Location privacy in VANETs: Provably secure anonymous key exchange protocol based on self-blindable signatures	24
A secure authentication framework for IoV based on blockchain and ensemble learning	24
Secrecy performance evaluation and enhancement of vehicle-to-vehicle communications in the presence of big vehicles	23
Task scheduling of computation-intensive graph jobs in UAV-assisted hybrid vehicular networks	23
A quantum-secure certificateless aggregate signature protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks	23
PROACT: Parallel multi-miner proof of accumulated trust protocol for Internet of Drones	22
Subchannel assignment for social-assisted UAV cellular networks using dynamic hypergraph coloring	22
On energy conservation for fixed-wing UAV assisted practical full-duplex relaying with service requirement and bank angle limit	21
DCFH: A dynamic clustering approach based on fire hawk optimizer in flying ad hoc networks	21
Joint vehicle clustering and dynamic power allocation optimization in sectorized 6G networks for V2X communication	21
Conditional privacy-preserving and efficient distributed IoV data sharing scheme based on a hierarchical and zonal blockchain	20
Deep-learning methods for integrated sensing and communication in vehicular networks	20
Location of fog nodes mounted on fixed-wing UAVs	19
Cloud enabled Blockchain-based secured communication in mutual intelligent transportation using neural synchronization	19
A QoS-aware adaptive cross-layer cyber-attack detection algorithm for vehicular networks	19
Shared group session key-based conditional privacy-preserving authentication protocol for VANETs	19
Channel-Independent Quantum Mapping-Substitution OFDM-Based Spatial Modulation for Physical-Layer Encryption in VLC Networks	18
Editorial Board	18
OLSR+: A new routing method based on fuzzy logic in flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs)	18
Editorial Board	18
Evaluation platform for 5G vehicular communications	18
Hybrid routing for safety data with intermittent V2I connectivity	18
Moving target defense approach for secure relay selection in vehicular networks	17
A security-enhanced authentication scheme for quantum-key-distribution (QKD) enabled Internet of vehicles in multi-cloud environment	17
Futuristic view of the Internet of Quantum Drones: Review, challenges and research agenda	17
Blockchain based optimized data storage with secure communication for Internet of Vehicles considering active, passive, and double spending attacks	17
Perception synergy optimization with deep reinforcement learning for cooperative perception in C-V2V scenarios	16
In-vehicle communication cyber security: A comprehensive review of challenges and solutions	16
Systematic threat assessment and security testing of automotive over-the-air (OTA) updates	16
Editorial Board	15
Machine learning for autonomous vehicle's trajectory prediction: A comprehensive survey, challenges, and future research directions	15
Unmanned aerial vehicle intrusion detection: Deep-meta-heuristic system	15
Resource allocation and model split for energy-efficient federated split learning in Internet of Vehicles with imperfect CSI	15
HEEFO: A Lightweight Cryptographic Trinity for Robust UAV Communication Security	15
Crowdsourced vehicles and UAVs for last-mile delivery application using blockchain-hosted matching mechanism	15
Towards load balancing in IoV system: A vehicle-assisted batch verification scheme	14
Connected and automated vehicle platoon maintenance under communication failures	14
Near optimal scheduling for opportunistic spectrum access over block fading channels in cognitive radio assisted vehicular network	14
Collaborative coverage path planning for UAV swarm for multi-region post-disaster assessment	13
Fully distributed multi-agent processing strategy applied to vehicular networks	13
Privacy-aware revocation in VANETs with a Blockchain using accumulator	13
Traffic aware adaptive neighbor discovery for vehicular networks	13
An adaptive and multi-path greedy perimeter stateless routing protocol in flying ad hoc networks	13
State-of-the-art authentication and verification schemes in VANETs: A survey	13

Energy-minimizing 3D circular trajectory optimization of rotary-wing UAV under probabilistic path-loss in constrained hotspot environments	13
On the performance of STBC-NOMA assisted overlay cognitive system under CEEs and imperfect SIC	12
Narrow band of vehicular things communication system using hybrid pelican-beetle swarm optimization approach for intelligent transportation system	12
Cost-aware task offloading in vehicular edge computing: A Stackelberg game approach	12
A tutorial on AI-powered 3D deployment of drone base stations: State of the art, applications and challenges	11
Path planning of multi-UAVs based on deep Q-network for energy-efficient data collection in UAVs-assisted IoT	11
Autonomous vehicular overtaking maneuver: A survey and taxonomy	11
DST-IDS: Dynamic spatial-temporal graph-transformer network for in-vehicle network intrusion detection system	11
CANival: A multimodal approach to intrusion detection on the vehicle CAN bus	11
Physical layer aspects of terahertz-enabled UAV communications: Challenges and opportunities	11
Distributed and collaborative system to improve traffic conditions using fuzzy logic and V2X communications	10
Editorial: 2021 Best Paper Awards	10
Hierarchical federated deep reinforcement learning based joint communication and computation for UAV situation awareness	10
Privacy-enhanced multi-region data aggregation for Internet of Vehicles	10
A state-of-the-art on federated learning for vehicular communications	10
A comparative analysis of the semi-persistent and dynamic scheduling schemes in NR-V2X mode 2	10
VERCO: A privacy and data-centric architecture for verifiable cooperative maneuvers	10
VitroBench: Manipulating in-vehicle networks and COTS ECUs on your bench	9
Orientation of a diffuse reflector for improved coverage in ID-FSOC for vehicular communications	9
Internet of drones security: Taxonomies, open issues, and future directions	9
Backscatter-enabled CR-NOMA based cooperative V2X communication with imperfect CSI	9
FSO communication system for high-speed trains under varying visibility conditions	9
VAIDANSHH: Adaptive DDoS detection for heterogeneous hosts in vehicular environments	9
Blockchain-based fast handover authentication protocol for Internet of Vehicles in small industrial parks	9
Performance analysis of RIS-assisted V2V communication under multipath interference	9
LB-CLAS: Lattice-based conditional privacy-preserving certificateless aggregate signature scheme for VANET	9
Deep learning-based receiver structure with superimposed channel estimation for autonomous underwater vehicles	9
The importance of V2X simulation: An in-depth comparison of intersection control algorithms using a high-fidelity communication simulation	9
Advancing connected vehicle security through real-time sensor anomaly detection and recovery	8
BCGS: Blockchain-assisted privacy-preserving cross-domain authentication for VANETs	8
A hybrid deep learning based intrusion detection system using spatial-temporal representation of in-vehicle network traffic	8
Dynamic offloading strategy in SAGIN-based emergency VEC: A multi-UAV clustering and collaborative computing approach	8
Editorial Board	8
An identity authentication and key agreement protocol for the internet of vehicles based on trusted cloud-edge-terminal architecture	8
A hybrid MGO-JAYA based clustered routing for FANETs	8
Maximizing the energy efficiency using M-PSO in multi-hop UAV-IRS network for improved post-disaster emergency communication services	8
Fairness aware secure energy efficiency maximization for UAV-assisted data collection in backscattering networks	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
Integrated single target sensing and multiuser communications based on zero-forcing beamforming	8
Lightweight anonymous aggregate authentication in VANET based on offline/online certificateless signcryption using one-time key	8
A coalitional security game against data integrity attacks in autonomous vehicle networks	8
Enhanced performance analysis with exact solutions for downlink-NOMA system in vehicular communications	8
Reinforcement learning based scheme for on-demand vehicular fog formation	8