IEEE JOURNAL 2010 - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Vehicular Communications and Networks

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Category IEEE JOURNAL 2010

Deadline: December 15, 2009 | Date: December 22, 2010

Venue/Country: SP, Sierra Leone

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Vehicular communications and intelligent transportation systems aim to improve traffic safety, protect environment by reducing traffic congestion and fuel consumption, and enable a plethora of new applications such as mobile infotainment. To address the special requirements of both safety and non-safety applications in the vehicle domain, there is a necessity to develop new communication technologies and find special integration solutions into vehicular and transportation systems. These result in various types of vehicular communications and networks: vehicle-toinfrastructure, vehicle-to-roadside, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. In this growing interdisciplinary field, many research challenges need to be addressed, e.g., how to characterize communication channels due to greater dynamics and higher requirements due to e.g. latency and reliability compared to conventional wireless channels, how to appropriately design medium access control (MAC) and network protocols that should essentially be scalable in performance and adaptable to environment changes due to rapid network topology changes and node density fluctuations, and how to evaluate and validate vehicular networking protocols under realistic assumptions using simulation methodologies and real-world testing. The goal of this special issue is to report on cutting-edge research achievements covering those aspects of vehicular communications and networks that are distinctively different from communication networks in general. We are seeking papers that describe high-quality, original, and unpublished contributions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Adoption and adaptation of web technologies

Application protocols and service architectures

Channel measurement, modeling, & simulation

Domain-specific security and privacy solutions

Inter-networking technologies and architectures

MAC technologies and channel management

Multiple radio integration and control

Physical layer and RF level technologies

Radio resource management, congestion control, traffic control, routing, and QoS support

Real-time experimental systems and testbeds

RF integration and SDR technologies

Safety and non-safety applications and services

Simulation methodology and performance evaluation techniques

Delay tolerant networks

Energy efficient communications

Traffic and mobility models

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors under http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website http://edas.info and must be in PDF format.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Due: December 15, 2009

First Reviews Due: March 1, 2010

Second Reviews Due and Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2010

Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2010

Publication: 4th quarter 2010

Guest Editors

Cheng-Xiang Wang

JRI-SIP, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

Heriot-Watt University

Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK

Email: cheng-xiang.wanghw.ac.uk

Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Dept. of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

University of Western Macedonia,

50100, Kozani, Greece

Email: vasilakoath.forthnet.gr

Ross D. Murch

Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,

Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Email: eermurchust.hk

Gordon Stüber

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Georgia Institute of Technology,

Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30332-0250.

Email: stuberece.gatech.edu

Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

Email: xshenbbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Wai Chen

Applied Research

Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Piscataway, New Jersey, USA 07054

Email: waichenieee.org

Timo Kosch

BMW Group Research and Technology,

Hanauer Strasse 46,

D-80992 Munich, Germany.

Email: Timo.koschbmw.de