Zhengguo Sheng

University of Sussex · Department of Engineering and Design

The emergence of connected and automated vehicle technology has improved the operational efficiency of mixed traffic systems. This paper studies a two-tier trajectory optimization problem for mixed platooning to improve fuel efficiency, ride comfort, and operational safety during vehicle operations. The proposed model follows a two-tier control log...

Virtual coupling is expected to primarily improve the capacity of a railway system. Virtual coupled systems are affected by multi-source disturbances due to the complex operating environment. However, existing research only partially considers the effects of structural or external disturbances, which limits the stability and robustness of the virtu...

Data sharing in Vehicular Social Networks (VSNs) is an essential road service that assists vehicle driving and promotes intelligent transportation applications. In VSNs, vehicles regularly collect and upload valuable data to share with other vehicles. Data encryption can be employed during data uploading and sharing to prevent malicious tampering a...

With increasing emphasis on vehicular automation and traffic efficiency, the management and coordination of platoon-based systems have become important. This research introduces a unique control framework based on a behavioral stability strategy, designed to enhance the cohesion of vehicle platoons and improve their ability to resist disturbances....

Platoon-based connected vehicles have recently received increasing attention from academia and industry since they are considered promising solutions to transform our mobility society into the next generation. Vehicular communication and platoon coordination are two aspects of enabling technologies for mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled cooperativ...

The rapid development of Internet of Things has led more realization of digital twins (DT), such as healthcare, smart homes, virtual reality, etc, gesture recognition is a fundamental component of DT. Its implementation can provide users with personalized services or improved human-computer interaction, such as smart home control, in-car interactio...

Reliability is significant for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted air-to-ground (A2G) communications. In this letter, we address the reliability optimization problem by properly scheduling data transmissions under Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) channel fading. We capture the channel fading effect by the Rayleigh distribution and then formulate the A2...

Assist-as-needed (AAN) is a paradigm in rehabilitation robotics based on the fact that more active participation from human users promotes faster recovery of motor functions. Moreover, the patients and public engaged and involved in our research design stressed that in order to provide safe and patient-friendly assistance, rehabilitation robotics s...

Assist-as-needed (AAN) is a paradigm in rehabilitation robotics based on the fact that more active participation from human users promotes faster recovery of motor functions. Moreover, the patients and public engaged and involved in our research design stressed that in order to provide safe and patient-friendly assistance, rehabilitation robotics s...

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology is widely deployed at the edge of Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) to enhance their communication and computational capabilities. However, existing security and privacy preservation solutions for MEC applications in VANETs face several challenges, such as the risk of privacy exposure of vehicle authent...

Facing the requirements of intelligent vehicles for massive data processing, vehicular edge computing (VEC) utilizes computing resources deployed on the roadside infrastructure to provide proximity computing services for vehicles and forms a novel computing paradigm. Thus, vehicles can reduce the burden of local computing and improve computing effi...

Vehicle platooning technology is essential in achieving group consensus, on-road safety, and fuel-saving. Meanwhile, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication significantly facilitates the development of connected vehicles. However, the coupled effects of the longitudinal vehicle's mobility, platoon control and V2I communication may result in a...

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is a new computing paradigm that enhances vehicular performance by introducing both computation offloading and service caching, to resource-constrained vehicles and ubiquitous edge servers. Recent developments of autonomous vehicles enable a variety of applications that demand high computing resources and low latency,...

Connect autonomous vehicles (CAV) have become a core to improve the safety and efficiency of the intelligent transportation system (ITS) in the future. Under the condition of low network penetration, a single CAV could not achieve the requirement of high vehicle safety. The vehicle-edge-cloud system (VEC), which is based on the multi-source data fu...

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is a new generation of driver assistance systems developed on the basis of traditional cruise control. It has played a positive role in improving driving safety, reducing the incidence of traffic accidents, and reducing fatigue in driving. At the same time, the application of this technology can help form...

Flooding is a long-lasting environmental challenge in many regions of the world. This problem has unfortunately been worsening. Given the rapid climate change, flooding is expected to aggravate even more in the foreseeable future, which has particularly adverse impacts on critical transportation facilities. It is understood that the climate crisis...

Edge computing enables mobile users to process their applications by leveraging the computing resource of an edge server nearby and thus receives increasing attention from both academia and industry. It has been considered a promising technique for practically deploying of autonomous systems that require processing massive sensor data, such as auto...

Energy-efficiency (EE) optimization of long-term evolution (LTE) networks dedicated to vehicle-to-vehicle communications (LTE-V2V) is critical for connected vehicles. In this paper, we integrate perimeter control methodologies from transportation science into EE optimization to make vehicular communications adaptive to temporal-spatial dynamics of...

The 6G communication technologies are expected to provide fast data rates and incessant connectivity to heterogeneous networks, such as the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). However, the resulting unprecedented surge in data traffic, massive increase in the number of nodes with high mobility, and low-latency requirements give rise to serious security, pr...

With the rapid development of mobile computing, mobile-edge computing (MEC) has increasingly become an essential means to meet the computing power requirements of intelligent networked vehicles. However, users with high mobility and coupled dynamics are rarely considered in the edge computing paradigms. In this article, we studied a UAV-assisted ME...

Platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical systems have gained increasing attention due to their potentials in improving traffic efficiency, capacity, and saving energy. However, external uncertain disturbances arising from mismatched model errors, sensor noises, communication delays and unknown environments can impose a great challenge on the constrai...

As a novel computing paradigm, multiaccess edge computing (MEC) migrates computing and storage capabilities to edge nodes of the network to meet the requirements of executing computationally intensive or delay-sensitive tasks on intelligent vehicles. In addition, MEC fills the gap between cloud computing and terminals in vehicular networks. In the...

Platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical systems (VCPSs) have attracted much attention due to their potential to improve road capacity and energy efficiency. However, the comprehensive effect of the mismatched modeling dynamics and unknown disturbances can impose a great challenge on the convergence and stability of vehicle platooning. In this paper,...

How to obtain the information from massive tags is a key focus of RFID applications. The occurrence of collisions leads to problems such as reduced identification efficiency in RFID networks. To tackle such challenges, most tag collision arbitration protocols focus on scheduling tag identification with collision avoidance. However, how to effective...

Message exchange among vehicles plays an important role in ensuring road safety. Emergency message dissemination is usually carried out by broadcasting. However, high vehicle density and mobility lead to challenges in message dissemination such as broadcasting storm and low probability of packet reception. This paper proposes a federated learning b...

Message exchange among vehicles plays an important role in ensuring road safety. Emergency message dissemination is usually carried out by broadcasting. However, high vehicle density and mobility usually lead to challenges in message dissemination such as broadcasting storm and low probability of packet reception. This paper proposes a federated le...

Task offloading decision making plays a key role in enabling mobile-edge computing (MEC) technologies in Internet of Things (IoT). However, it meets the significant challenges arising from the stochastic dynamics of task queueing in the application layer and coupled wireless interference in the physical layer in a distributed multiagent network wit...

The coupled stochastic channel interferences can lead to intermittent connectivity and invalid fragment transmissions, which pose a significant challenge to guarantee the reliability of computation offloading. A wide variety of conventional approaches to making offloading decisions are based on the fundamental condition that channels are sufficient...

For vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), edge caching has attracted considerable research attention to maximize the efficiency and reliability of infotainment applications. In this article, we propose a two-layer distributed content caching scheme for VANETs by jointly exploiting the cache at both vehicles and roadside units (RSUs). Specifically,...

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are recently envisioned to provide a tremendous social impact, while they put forward a much higher requirement for both vehicular communication and computation capacities to process resource-intensive applications. In this paper, we study unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) fo...

Radio frequency identification technology has been widely used to verify the presence of items in many applications such as warehouse management and supply chain logistics. In these applications, the challenge of how to timely identify the missing tags (namely tag searching or missing tag identification) is a key focus. Existing missing tag identif...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a significant role in various 5G or Beyond-5G (B5G)-enabled Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. However, the UAV performance in an air-ground cooperative network is significantly affected by its mobility and air-to-ground (A2G) communication and computation behaviors. In this paper, a UAV-oriented computation...

The evolution of Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) has promised improvement in traffic management and road safety. However, with continuously increasing number of vehicles on road, there are numerous challenges associated with IoV. Communication among vehicles is needed to be secure and bandwidth efficient. Messages exchanged between vehicles must be auth...

This paper comprehensively discusses the cooperative communication and computation of vehicular system. Based on the cooperative transmission, an stochastic model of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication reliability is established using probability theory. Furthermore, the computation reliability is defined as a new metric for computation offloadi...

Aerial-ground cooperative vehicular networks are envisioned as a novel paradigm in B5G/6G visions. In this letter, the challenge of optimizing the global energy-efficiency (EE) of multi-UAV-aided vehicular networks in the presence of uncertain air-to-ground (A2G) channels is addressed. Specifically, we propose a maximin paradigm to characterize the...

Blockchain applications in vehicular networks can offer many advantages including decentralization and improved security. However, most of consensus algorithms in blockchain are difficult to be implemented in a Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANET) without the help of edge computing services. For example, the connectivity in VANET only remains for a sh...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been widely applied in large-scale applications such as logistics, merchandise and transportation. However, it is still a technical challenge to effectively estimate the number of tags in complex mobile environments. Most of existing tag identification protocols assume that readers and tags remain stationar...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a major enabler of Internet of Things (IoT), and has been widely applied in tag-intensive environments. Tag collision arbitration is considered as a crucial issue of such RFID system. To enhance the reading performance of RFID, numerous anti-collision algorithms have been presented in previous literatures. H...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is widely applied in massive items tagged domains. Existing medium access control (MAC) solutions primarily focus on improving slot efficiency or reducing the total number of slots. However, with pervasive applications of RFID, the time and energy consumption are increasingly important and should be considered...

The tag collision avoidance has been viewed as one of the most important research problems in RFID communications and bit tracking technology has been widely embedded in query tree (QT) based algorithms to tackle such challenge. Existing solutions show further opportunity to greatly improve the reading performance because collision queries and empt...

The tag collision avoidance has been viewed as one of the most important research problems in RFID communications and bit tracking technology has been widely embedded in query tree (QT) based algorithms to tackle such challenge. Existing solutions show further opportunity to greatly improve the reading performance because collision queries and empt...

Nowadays, with internet of vehicle developing, more and more research institute begin to research intelligent transportation systems. Vehicle-road collaborative system is a prominent one of these systems. Its main function is to percept traffic situation. Using image recognition technology is one of the methods. The advantages of this method are lo...

Identification efficiency is a key performance metrics to evaluate the ultra high frequency (UHF) based radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. In order to solve the tag collision problem and improve the identification rate in large scale networks, we propose a collision arbitration strategy termed as group-based binary splitting algorithm (...

Identification efficiency is a key performance metrics to evaluate the ultra high frequency (UHF) based radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. In order to solve the tag collision problem and improve the identification rate in large scale networks, we propose a collision arbitration strategy termed as group-based binary splitting algorithm (...

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are wireless networks formed of moving vehicle-stations, that enable safety-related packet exchanges among them. Their infrastructure-less, unbounded nature allows the formation of dense networks that present a channel sharing issue, which is harder to tackle than in conventional WLANs, due to fundamental differen...

Video transmission in Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) is an emerging technology which utilizes the multimedia inside and outside vehicles itself through Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). In IoVs, traditional multi-hop routing protocols are not adaptive to mobile environment, especially the high-mobility driving environment in which vehicles need to acc...

Content requests from mobile users are explosively increasing due to the growing popularity of mobile social activities. However, current mobile network infrastructure cannot effectively support the generated massive mobile data traffic while maintaining consistent and acceptable network performances. To deal with such a serious challenge, caching...

The emergence of vehicular networking enables distributed cooperative computation among nearby vehicles and infrastructures to achieve various applications that may need to handle mass data by a short deadline. In this paper, we investigate the fundamental problems of a cooperative vehicle-infrastructure system (CVIS): how does vehicular communicat...

Cognitive radio-enabled vehicular nodes as unlicensed users can competitively and opportunistically access the radio spectrum provided by a licensed provider and simultaneously use a dedicated channel for vehicular communications. In such cognitive vehicular networks, channel access optimization plays a key role in making the most of the spectrum r...

Passive acoustic monitoring is emerging as a promising solution to the urgent, global need for new biodiversity assessment methods. The ecological relevance of the soundscape is increasingly recognised, and the affordability of robust hardware for remote audio recording is stimulating international interest in the potential for acoustic methods for...

Efficient and effective objects identification using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is always a challenge in large scale industrial and commercial applications. Among existing solutions, the tree based splitting scheme has attracted increasing attention because of its high extendibility and feasibility. However, conventional tree splitting a...

Computation offloading is critical for mobile applications that are sensitive to computational power, while dynamic and random nature of vehicular networks makes it challenging to guarantee the reliability of vehicular computation offloading. In this letter, we propose a reliability-oriented stochastic optimization model based on dynamic programmin...

With energy scarcity and environmental pollution becoming increasingly serious, the accurate estimation of fuel consumption of vehicles has been important in vehicle management and transportation planning towards a sustainable green transition. Fuel consumption is calculated by fuel level data collected from high precision fuel level sensors. Howev...

With the continuous development of the vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), many challenges related to network security have come one after another, among which privacy issues are particularly prominent. To help each network user decide when and where to protect their privacy, we suggest creating a user-centric privacy computing system in VANET. A ris...

To address the serious challenge of satisfying explosively increasing multimedia content requests from a massive number of users in mobile networks, deploying content caching in base stations to offload network traffic while satisfying content requests locally has been regarded as an effective approach to enhance the network performance. Moreover,...

Advances in future computing and communications to support IoT are becoming more important as the need to better utilize resources and make them energy-efficient grows. As a result, it is predicted that intelligent devices and networks, including WSNs, will become the new interfaces to support future IoT applications. However, many open challenges...

Optimization of stochastic epidemic information dissemination plays a significant role in enhancing the reliability of epidemic networks. This letter proposes a multi-stage decision-making optimization model for stochastic epidemic information dissemination based on dynamic programming, in which uncertainties in a dynamic environment are taken into...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) can help reduce traffic accidents through broadcasting emergency messages among vehicles in advance. However, it is a great challenge to timely deliver the emergency messages to the right vehicles which are interested in them. Some protocols require to collect nearby real-time information before broadcasting a mes...

With the emerging automated tasks in vehicle domain, the development of in-vehicle communications is increasingly important and subjected to new applications. The use of vehicular power lines has been a promising alternative to in-vehicle communications because of elimination of extra data cables. In this paper, we focus on the latest HomePlug Gree...

The information acquisition is a key procedure of cooperative vehicle-infrastructure system (CVIS). With the advancement of computer image processing technology, more and more researchers use image recognition as the source of information acquisition. On this background, the authors develop a CVIS based on machine vision, including vehicular subsys...

Handoff decision making is critical for mobile users to reap potential benefits from heterogeneous wireless networks. This letter proposes a biologically inspired handoff decision-making method by mimicking the dynamics which govern the adaptive behavior of an Escherichia coli cell in a time-varying environment. With the goal of guaranteeing the Qu...

We present a bio-inspired unicast routing protocol for vehicular Ad Hoc Networks which uses the cellular attractor selection mechanism to select next hops. The proposed unicast routing protocol based on attractor selecting (URAS) is an opportunistic routing protocol, which is able to change itself adaptively to the complex and dynamic environment b...

This chapter introduces a real-time in-vehicle media access control (MAC) protocol based on the HomePlug GP protocol that maintains the security and reliability of HomePlug while also reducing energy consumption through power-save functionality; it has a data rate of 9.8 Mbps. It analyzes the capability of the proposed protocol to enable real-time...

Cooperation is a promising paradigm to improve spatial diversity in vehicular ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we pose a fundamental question: how the greediness and selfishness of individual nodes impact cooperation dynamics in vehicular ad-hoc networks. We map the self-interest-driven relay selection decision-making problems as an automata game fo...