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Call for Papers
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IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
Special Issue on "Inter-Vehicular Communications"
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pdf version of this CFP is available at
<http://www.3g-wireless.net/IVC-CFP.pdf>
Wireless communications technologies (cellular phones, wireless LANs,
etc.) have enabled many of the conveniences in our lives, and also
increased our day by day productivity. Another area where there is much
potential for wireless technologies to make a tremendous impact is the
area of inter-vehicular communications (IVC). The field of IVC is also
known as vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V) and vehicular ad hoc
networks (VANET).
There are numerous emerging applications that are unique to the
vehicular setting. For example, safety applications would make driving
safer; driver information services could intelligently inform drivers
about congestion, businesses and services in the vicinity of the
vehicle, and other news. Mobile commerce could extend to the realm of
vehicles. Existing forms of entertainment may penetrate the vehicular
domain, and new forms of entertainment may emerge, all supported by the
inter-vehicular communications capabilities. These emerging services are
currently not well supported.
Numerous research challenges need to be addressed in order for
inter-vehicular communications to be widely deployed. The combination of
unique features of inter-vehicular applications and networking opens new
opportunities for many interesting research areas. The communications
networking between cars has different characteristics from other
communications networking problems. For example, because of the rapidly
changing topology as cars move around, there are similarities with ad
hoc networking scenarios. However, the constraints and optimizations are
different. Power efficiency is not as important for inter-vehicular
communications as it is for traditional ad hoc networking, since
vehicles have a powerful and rechargeable source of energy.
Vehicles in general are also constrained to move within roads (and
within lanes most of the time).
The purpose of this special issue is to showcase the variety of research
being conducted in IVC and survey the state-of-the-art in this field. We
solicit original unpublished manuscripts not currently being considered
elsewhere for publication. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to, the following:
+ Service creation and management
+ Vehicular communications applications in general
+ Navigation safety applications
+ Content distribution to vehicles
+ Vehicle data collection and harvesting
+ Role of IVC in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
+ Link and physical layer issues, algorithms and protocols
+ Cross-layer protocol design
+ Network architectures, system architectures
+ Inter-working of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure
communications
+ Network protocols and algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc.
+ Vehicle movement simulation
+ Security for IVC
+ Network management for IVC
+ Mobility management
Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style
comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. All
submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance.
Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, no more than 6
tables/figures, and no more than 15 references. Further submission
guidelines are available online at
http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html.
Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted
papers to both Daniel Wong (daniel_wong@ieee.org) and Kemal Tepe
(ktepe@windsor.ca) no later than 15 February 2006.
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Deadlines
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Manuscript due February 15 2006
Acceptance notification April 15 2006
Final manuscript due June 15 2006
Publication date October 2006
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Guest Editors
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K. Daniel Wong
(daniel_wong@ieee.org)
Malaysia University of Science and Technology
Department of Information Technology
GL33, Ground Floor, Kelana Square, 17 Jalan SS 7/26
47301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia
Kemal Tepe
(ktepe@uwindsor.ca)
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada
Wai Chen
(wchen@research.telcordia.com)
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Applied Research
One Telcordia Drive, RRC-1T209
Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-4157, USA
Mario Gerla
(gerla@cs.ucla.edu)
3732F BH
Computer Science Dept
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA