Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is promising for computation-intensive applications (such as autonomous and cooperative driving) and storage burdens (video caching) in Internet of Vehicles (IoV). It paves the way for the establishment of intelligent transportation systems and smart cities. While MEC in IoV has attracted much interest, many challenges have not been addressed, for example: how to build an efficient network framework with MEC in IoVs; how to place MEC servers to serve a massive number of users; and how to design offloading, caching and communication strategies for vehicles to boost system performance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently emerged as a powerful weapon to break through obstacles in various research areas (such as pattern recognition, image processing and natural language processing), which empowers the system to be smart enough to make decisions based on the environment’s status, even with high-dimensional inputs. In light of this potential, this special issue provides a venue for original research and review articles to all readers of the magazine regardless of their specialty.

This Special Issue (SI) will cover architectures, algorithms and technologies for AI-empowered MEC in IoV. Prospective authors from both academia and industry are invited to submit original manuscripts on topics including, but not limited to:

• AI-empowered approach to distributed MEC in IoV
• AI-empowered approach to energy-aware MEC in IoV
• AI-empowered approach to MEC-enabled traffic offloading in IoV
• AI-empowered approach to an MEC-enabled routing plan in IoV
• Architecture and framework establishment for AI-empowered MEC in IoV
• Resource management models and solutions for AI-empowered MEC in IoV
• Security and privacy-preserving approaches for AI-empowered MEC in IoV
• Novel applications based on AI-empowered MEC in IoV
• Testing and evaluation tools for AI-empowered MEC in IoV
• The future for AI-empowered MEC in IoV: challenges and open issues

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Paper Submission Guidelines.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select the “May 2021: AI-empowered Mobile Edge Computing in the Internet of Vehicles” topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 August 2020 (Extended Deadline)
Initial Decision: 30 September 2020
Revised Manuscript Due: 30 October 2020
Final Decision: 30 November 2020
Final Manuscript Due: 31 December 2020
Publication Date: May 2021

Guest Editors

Jalel Ben Othman
University of Paris-13, France

Shiqiang Wang
IBM Watson, USA

Ricky Y. K. Kwok
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Victor C.M. Leung
The University of British Columbia, Canada

Wei Sun
Volkswagen Group, China