[Mycolleagues] Wiley WCMC Special Issue on Emerging Techniques for Wireless Vehicular Communications

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley Publication)

Special Issue: Emerging Techniques for Wireless Vehicular Communications
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Wireless vehicular communications have attached much attention for
improving road safety, intelligent management and data exchange
services, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless
pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity. Throughout the world, many
national or international projects in government, industry, and
academia have been devoted to the establishment of ambitious research
programs, such as the European eSafety initiative, the German Ministry
of Education and Research sponsored Wheels project, the US programs
derived from the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative, and the Japanese
InternetITS and AHS programs.

The field of wireless vehicular communications can be typically
identified as vehicle-to-person communications,
vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, vehicle-to-vehicle
communications, and vehicular communication networks. The combination
of unique features of wireless vehicular communications and networking
issues opens new opportunities for many interesting research areas,
for example, real time safety applications, and intelligent diver
information services. In order for universal realization of wireless
vehicular communications, many research challenges still need to be
addressed to create good-performance, highly scalable, robust and
secure vehicular technologies.

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Topics
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The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of
high-quality research papers that report the latest research advances
and surrey the-state-of-the-art in this fast developing field.
Original papers are solicited in all aspects of vehicular
communications, including physical layer issues, architectures,
protocol designs, enabling technologies, theoretical studies,
practical applications, and experimental prototypes. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

*Architectures for wireless vehicular communications
*RF technologies and antenna design
*Channel measurements and modeling
*Signal processing techniques
*Physical and MAC layer technologies
*Radio resource management and QoS support
*High-speed mobility management
*Routing protocols and congestion control schemes
*Cross-layer design and optimization
*Ad-hoc networks and other novel network configurations
*Security and authentication issues in vehicular communications
*Doppler shift study, evaluation and estimate, time and frequency
synchronizations, and channel estimation
*Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access technologies
*Digital maps and location technologies
*In-car electronics and embedded integration for wireless vehicular
communications
*Regulation and business models
*Testbed, experiment, implementation standards, and practical applications

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Schedule
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Submission due date: 31 January 2009
Notification of first round review: 30 April 2009
Submission of revised paper: 31 May 2009
Notification of final acceptance: 31 July 2009
Final manuscript due date: 31 August 2009
Publication date: 4th quarter, 2009

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Submission & Review Instruction
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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing operates an online
submission and peer review system that allows authors to submit
articles online and track their progress via a web interface. Papers
may be submitted electronically (Postscript or PDF files only) to the
following addresses http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wcm and navigate
to the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing online submission
site. Authors must specify the special issue title they are submitting
to, in the box designated for that.

Detailed instructions to authors can be found in:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html

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Guest Editors
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Lingyang Song
Philips Research Cambridge
UK, CB4 0FY
Email: lingyang.song@philips.com

Athanasios Vasilakos
Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
University of Western Macedonia
GR 50100 Kozani, GREECE
Email: vasilako@ath.forthnet.gr

Bingli Jiao
Department of Electronics
Beijing University
Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
Email: jiaobl@pku.edu.cn

Junyi Wang
Ubiquitous Mobile Communication Group
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
3-4 Hikarino-oka Yokosuka, 239-0847, Japan
Email: junyi.wang@nict.go.jp

Wai Chen
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Applied Research
One Telcordia Drive, RRC-1T209
Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-4157, USA
Email: wchen@research.telcordia.com
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