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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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	96
A scalable time-division-based emergency messages broadcast scheme for connected and autonomous vehicles in urban environment	80
Dynamic positioning of UAVs to improve network coverage in VANETs	75
Enhancing vehicular NOMA communication security through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces	74
Hybrid RF/VLC intelligent vehicular communications: A secrecy analysis	69
Measurement-based fading characteristics analysis and modeling of UAV to vehicles channel	66
Joint optimization of trajectory, beamforming, and power allocation in UAV-enabled WPT networks using DRL combined with water-filling algorithm	62
A Cat Swarm Optimization based transmission power minimization for an aerial NOMA communication system	62
Rec-CNN: In-vehicle networks intrusion detection using convolutional neural networks trained on recurrence plots	61
EPAKA: An efficient and privacy-preserving authenticated key agreement scheme based on physical security for VANET	58
PPORM: A PPO-assisted packet reordering mechanism of heterogeneous VANETs for enhancing goodput and stability in fog computing	57
Cognitive UAV-assisted secure and reliable communications based on robust joint trajectory and power control optimization	57
SDN-enabled vehicular networks: Theory and practice within platooning applications	52
Architecture-based governance for secure-by-design Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems	43
Joint edge caching and computation offloading for heterogeneous tasks in MEC-enabled vehicular networks	41
SoVEC: Social vehicular edge computing-based optimum route selection	40
Accident reduction through a privacy-preserving method on top of a novel ontology for autonomous vehicles with the support of modular arithmetic	38
Cellular localizability of unmanned aerial vehicles	36
Editorial Board	35
A comprehensive survey on SDN and blockchain-based secure vehicular networks	34
DSSPS: A dynamic secure service provision scheme in fog-based VANETs	33
Light security scheme for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)	31
Simultaneous representation and separation for multiple interference allied with approximation message passing in vehicular communications	30
An adaptive V2R communication strategy based on data delivery delay estimation in VANETs	29

Envelope distribution and Doppler spectrum of V2V channels at 5.9 GHz in mountainous roads	28
Sub-6 GHz V2X-assisted MmWave optimal scheduling for vehicular networks	27
General logic-operation-based lightweight group-key distribution schemes for Internet of Vehicles	27
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
Resource allocation optimization in multiuser OFDM relay-assisted underwater acoustic sensor networks	26
Hybrid mutual authentication for vehicle-to-infrastructure communication without the coverage of roadside units	25
A secure cross-layer architecture for reactive routing in vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications	25
Blockchain and AI technology convergence: Applications in transportation systems	25
Editorial Board	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
Location privacy in VANETs: Provably secure anonymous key exchange protocol based on self-blindable signatures	23
Energy and experimental trust-based task offloading in the domain of connected autonomous vehicles	22
On energy conservation for fixed-wing UAV assisted practical full-duplex relaying with service requirement and bank angle limit	22
A quantum-secure certificateless aggregate signature protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks	22
Task scheduling of computation-intensive graph jobs in UAV-assisted hybrid vehicular networks	21
PROACT: Parallel multi-miner proof of accumulated trust protocol for Internet of Drones	21
Shared group session key-based conditional privacy-preserving authentication protocol for VANETs	21
Location of fog nodes mounted on fixed-wing UAVs	21
Cloud enabled Blockchain-based secured communication in mutual intelligent transportation using neural synchronization	20
Conditional privacy-preserving and efficient distributed IoV data sharing scheme based on a hierarchical and zonal blockchain	19
Moving target defense approach for secure relay selection in vehicular networks	19
A QoS-aware adaptive cross-layer cyber-attack detection algorithm for vehicular networks	19
Editorial Board	19
Subchannel assignment for social-assisted UAV cellular networks using dynamic hypergraph coloring	19
DCFH: A dynamic clustering approach based on fire hawk optimizer in flying ad hoc networks	19
Deep-learning methods for integrated sensing and communication in vehicular networks	19
Evaluation platform for 5G vehicular communications	18
Hybrid routing for safety data with intermittent V2I connectivity	18
A trust management framework using forest fire model to propagate emergency messages in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV)	18
Channel-Independent Quantum Mapping-Substitution OFDM-Based Spatial Modulation for Physical-Layer Encryption in VLC Networks	18
Perception synergy optimization with deep reinforcement learning for cooperative perception in C-V2V scenarios	18
Editorial Board	18
Fuzzy inference system design for promoting an eco-friendly driving style in IoV domain	18
OLSR+: A new routing method based on fuzzy logic in flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs)	17
Blockchain based optimized data storage with secure communication for Internet of Vehicles considering active, passive, and double spending attacks	17
Elevation-angle based two-ray path loss model for Air-to-Ground wireless channels	17
Machine learning for autonomous vehicle's trajectory prediction: A comprehensive survey, challenges, and future research directions	16
Unmanned aerial vehicle intrusion detection: Deep-meta-heuristic system	16
Systematic threat assessment and security testing of automotive over-the-air (OTA) updates	16
Crowdsourced vehicles and UAVs for last-mile delivery application using blockchain-hosted matching mechanism	16
In-vehicle communication cyber security: A comprehensive review of challenges and solutions	16
Near optimal scheduling for opportunistic spectrum access over block fading channels in cognitive radio assisted vehicular network	15
Resource allocation and model split for energy-efficient federated split learning in Internet of Vehicles with imperfect CSI	15
Towards load balancing in IoV system: A vehicle-assisted batch verification scheme	15
Futuristic view of the Internet of Quantum Drones: Review, challenges and research agenda	15
Editorial Board	15
A security-enhanced authentication scheme for quantum-key-distribution (QKD) enabled Internet of vehicles in multi-cloud environment	15
An adaptive and multi-path greedy perimeter stateless routing protocol in flying ad hoc networks	14
Collaborative coverage path planning for UAV swarm for multi-region post-disaster assessment	14

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