[Mycolleagues] CFP: Special Issue on Vehicular

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue in "On-The-Road Communications" Call for Papers Deadline - 01 April 2009   Vehicular wireless communications and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) have been identified as important technology enablers for improving vehicle safety, for enhancing vehicle traffic efficiency, and for providing comfort and convenience to drivers and passengers. The development of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) based Vehicular Ad hoc Networks is one of the most critical issues for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry. These issues concern not only automotive and ITS research communities but also the wireless communication and networking research communities. Throughout the world, there are many national and international collaboration projects on V2V and ITS by government agencies, industries, and academia. These projects are devoted to conducting research in ITS which involves drivers, passengers, roads and wireless technologies. Some projects are committed to develop prototypes of next generation vehicle communication systems (VCS). Through these research and development projects, many realize that designing reliable, efficient, scalable, robust, and secured vehicular networking technologies present extraordinary challenges. This special issue intends to disseminate the latest research results in the areas of ITS, automotive, wireless communication, and networks, and to provide a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art.   Scope of Contributions We would like to solicit papers related to technical challenges, comprehensive in-depth tutorial surveys, standardization efforts on vehicular communications, field trials of 802.11p based VANETs, security issues, channel access, routing, data dissemination, and application scenarios. Contributions from both academia and industries are welcome. Original contributions (previously unpublished and not currently under review by another publication), are solicited (but not limited to) in the following areas: Mobility models and vehicle traffic models Simulation aspects of V2V, V2I, and VCS Physical layer issues for vehicular comms (RF, radio design and propagation models) Channel access and MAC collision management Vehicular networks architectures and network protocols QoS support and real-time issues Emulation and testbeds for large-scale vehicular networks Application scenarios using VANET technologies Security, encryption and privacy for vehicular systems Standards (802.11p, CALM, P1609, etc) development and evolution Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of VANET systems Intra-vehicular sensor network and embedded system integration. Human-Machine Interface for vehicular systems Data dissemination methods Safety, enhanced navigation, and car alert mechanisms Routing issues, addressing issues, transport layer issues Vehicular collision avoidance using distributed sensing technologies Vehicular sensors Manuscript Submission Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors with affiliations, and a 250-word abstract via email to Fan Bai (fan.bai@gm.com) and C. K. Toh (ck.ieee@doctor.com). To enforce the double blind reviewing policy, authors' names and affiliations can only appear in the separate cover letter. The "Subject field" of the email must contain "IEEE WCM OTRC Paper". Articles should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/pub_guidelines.html. The following timetable will be followed: Manuscript Submission 01 Apr, 2009 Acceptance Notification 01 August, 2009 Final Manuscript 01 September, 2009 Publication Date: December, 2009 Guest Editors Dr. Fan Bai, General Motors R&D (USA) (co-lead) Prof. C K Toh, U of HONG KONG (co-lead) Dr. Russell Hsing, TELCORDIA Technologies Inc, (USA) Dr. Onur Altintas, TOYOTA ITC (Japan) Dr. Oh Hyun Seo, ETRI (Korea) --