Call for Papers: A Special Issue of Vehicular Communications on “Security and 
Privacy in Internet of Vehicles”




Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an important part of intelligent transportation 
system. It enables information sharing and the gathering of information on 
vehicles/autonomous vehicles, roads, and their surroundings through V2X 
communications. IoV faces various security and privacy chal-lenges, for 
example, various types of attacks including jamming, tampering and 
eavesdropping.
This special issue aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial 
organizations ad-dressing emerging security and privacy issues in IoV.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
•Security framework of IoV
•Privacy-preserving data aggregation
•Trust and reputation in IoV
•Secure routing in IoV
•Secure and privacy-preserving V2X communications
•Secure vehicular fog computing
•Security in cloud based IoV
•Access control in IoV
•Vulnerability scanning technologies for IoV
•Intrusion detection technologies for IoV
•Blockchain and the IoV 
•Accountability in IoV


Important Dates
Paper submission:December 1, 2018 (Extended to December 20, 2018)
Acceptance notification:Feb 15, 2019
Final papers:Mar 15, 2019


Submission Format and Guidelines
All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain 
only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under 
review for any other journal or conference. A detailed submission guideline is 
available as “Guide to Authors” at 
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/vehicular-communications/2214-2096/guide-for-authors.
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the 
paper submis-sion system at https://www.evise.com/profile/#/VEHCOM/login. The 
authors must select as “SI –SP-IoV” when they reach the “Article Type” step in 
the submission process. 
Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors or 
the Editor-in-Chief.


Editor in Chief
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma


Guest Editors 
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China, Email: xyhu...@fjnu.edu.cn
Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK, Email: y.l...@exeter.ac.uk
Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China & Aalto University, Finland, Email: 
z...@xidian.edu.cn

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