@article{33bf1f7d42f04ccb9579372117d4cb7a,
title = "Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Dependable Wireless Vehicular Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)",
author = "Muhammad Alam and Ammar Rayes and Xiangjian He and Mohammed Atiquzzaman and Jaime Lloret and Tsang, \{Kim Fung\}",
note = "Funding Information: Mohammed Atiquzzaman received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and electronics from the University of Manchester, U.K., in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He currently holds the Edith J. Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship with the School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, USA. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Air Force, Cisco, and Honeywell. He co-authored Performance of TCP/IP Over ATM Networks and has authored over 270 refereed publications. His current research interests are in areas of transport protocols, wireless and mobile networks, ad hoc networks, satellite networks, power-aware networking, and optical communications. He Co-Chaired the IEEE High Performance Switching and Routing Symposium (2003, 2011), IEEE GLOBECOM and ICC (2014, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2007, and 2006), IEEE VTC (2013), and SPIE Quality of Service Over Next Generation Data Networks conferences (2001, 2002, and 2003). He was the Panels Co-Chair of INFOCOM{\textquoteright}05, and has been on the program committee of many conferences, such as INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, ICCCN, ICCIT, Local Computer Networks, and serves on the review panels at the National Science Foundation. He is the current Chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Communications Switching and Routing. He received the IEEE Communication Society{\textquoteright}s Fred W. Ellersick Prize and the NASA Group Achievement Award for outstanding work to further NASA Glenn Research Center{\textquoteright}s efforts in the area of the Advanced Communications/Air Traffic Management{\textquoteright}s Fiber Optic Signal Distribution for Aeronautical Communications project. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, the founding Editor-in-Chief of Vehicular Communications, and serves/served on the editorial boards of many journals, including IEEE Communications Magazine, Real Time Imaging Journal, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, Journal of Sensor Networks, and International Journal of Communication Systems.",
year = "2018",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1109/TITS.2018.2808778",
language = "English",
volume = "19",
pages = "949--952",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems",
issn = "1524-9050",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "3",
}