VNC 2015 - Call For Papers
7th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference
16-18 December 2015 Kyoto, Japan
Vehicular networking and communication systems is an area of significant importance in our increasingly connected and mobile world. Effective vehicular connectivity techniques can significantly enhance efficiency of travel, reduce traffic incidents and improve safety, mitigate the impact of congestion, and overall provide a more comfortable experience. Towards this goal, the 2015 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications.
IEEE VNC 2015 will continue the tradition from previous editions to include a poster session to allow the authors to closely interact with, and obtain feedback from, the conference audience on new or on-going research contributions related to vehicular networking. Posters are especially suited for presenting controversial research directions that may generate discussion, or promising ideas not yet fully validated through complete extensive evaluation.
IEEE VNC 2015 will also include a demonstration session for researchers to showcase their latest prototypes with media, models, or live demonstrations. The demo session will be co-located with the poster session to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction with the conference audience. We solicit proposals for demonstrations related to vehicular networking, describing either mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries as well as universities. We especially encourage demos on validating important research issues or showcasing prototypes that demonstrate realistic applications.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Applications of vehicular networks, including ITS * Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications * Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications * Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communications (e.g., with bicyclists, pedestrians, etc.) * In-vehicle communications (wireless or wired) * Radio technologies for V2X (radio resource management, propagation models, antennas, etc.) * Protocols for vehicular networks (MAC / link layer, routing, mobility management, dissemination, transport, applications etc.) * Architectures, algorithms and protocols for data dissemination, processing, and aggregation in vehicular networks * Security, privacy, liability, and dependability in vehicular networks * Network and QoS management for vehicular networks * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks * Results from experimental systems, testbeds, and pilot studies * Impact assessments of vehicular networks on safety, transportation efficiency, and the environment * Communications related to electric and hybrid vehicles * Heterogeneous networking approaches (multi-radio, multi-application) * Integration of V2V with on-board systems and networks
Conference Venue ----------------
The conference will be hosted in Kyoto, Japan at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Kyoto, known as the Cultural Heart of Japan, was the imperial capital of Japan for over a millennium and is one of the best preserved cities in Japan. Seventeen UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites are located in and around Kyoto, 1600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto shrines, as well as countless famous gardens and palaces. At the same time, Kyoto is very much a modern city, home to close to 1.5 million people. Kansai International Airport is just 75 minutes out from the city center.
Manuscript submissions ----------------------
All paper submissions must be written in English and must be formatted in standard IEEE 2-column format. The mandatory IEEE template in Microsoft Word and LaTeX format can be found at the IEEE templates page. Only Adobe PDF files will be accepted for the review process. All submissions must be made electronically. Submission instructions are provided online.
We will consider two different categories of papers:
Full papers should describe novel research contributions and are limited in length to eight (8) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, tables, and references. Papers exceeding 8 pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at all.
Short papers should be more visionary in nature and may report on work in progress without finished results. They are meant to present novel perspectives, so as to foster discussion about innovative directions and new points of view. They are limited to at most four (4) pages including figures, tables, and references, but might in many cases be even shorter. Accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings and they will be given (a shorter) time for oral presentation at the conference, with more time dedicated to discussions.
Please note that the full paper and short paper categories target different kinds of contributions. Papers submitted to a category will not be moved to a different category: a paper will either be accepted for the category where it has been submitted, or it will be rejected. Full papers will not be "downgraded" to short papers. Therefore, please be sure to carefully assess for yourself prior to submission which is the most suitable submission category for your paper, and to make sure that the presentation in the manuscript is well suited to the aims of this category.
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Please note that for every accepted contribution, at least one person must register for the conference and present.
Poster/demo papers should be 2-page papers following standard IEEE 2-column format using 10-point font. All paper submissions must be written in English. The title of the paper should begin with either "Poster:" or "Demo:". Optionally, a poster paper submission can also include an electronic copy of the poster.
A demo paper submission should include an overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be showcased to the attendees. We also encourage the authors of the demo papers to include a link to a short 2-min demonstration video for the reviewers to facilitate the evaluation of the quality of the demonstration proposal. If a video is included, it will be downloaded by the demo co-chairs such that it can be hosted on our website to ensure the anonymity of the reviewers. The videos of accepted demonstration proposals will then also be advertised on the conference website. For all accepted demonstration proposals, the demo co-chairs will follow up with the authors to obtain requests for required equipment and/or facilities (power outlets, Internet connections, table dimensions, etc.). Demonstrations may be supported by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background, and the technical content to be demonstrated. The authors should inform the demo co-chairs if an accompanying poster will be presented.
Further submission instructions are published on the conference web site http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2015/
Important Dates for Attendees & Authors ---------------------------------------
* 4 September 2015: paper submission deadline * 26 October 2015: author notifications sent * 9 November 2015: camera ready versions due * 16 December 2015: conference begins in Kyoto, Japan
Chairs and Committees ---------------------
General Co-Chairs: Onur Altintas (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan) Frank Kargl (Ulm University, Germany)
TPC Co-Chairs: Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University, OH, USA) Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Local Arrangements: Michelle Measel (IEEE)
Finance Chair: Bruce Worthman (IEEE)
Publication Chair: Michele Segata (University of Trento, Italy)
Poster/Demo Co-Chairs: Jonathan Petit (University College Cork, Ireland) Takayuki Nishio (Kyoto University)
Web Chair: David Foerster (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany)
Program Committee: Fan Bai (General Motors) Bastian Bloessl (University of Paderborn) Maria Calderon (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino) Sandra Céspedes (Universidad de Chile) Sinem C. Ergen (Koç University) Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome Sapienza) Pedro d'Orey (NEC Europe Ltd.) Stefan Dietzel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) David Eckhoff (University of Erlangen) Andreas Festag (TU Dresden) Marco Fiore (National Research Council of Italy) Raphael Frank (University of Luxembourg) Takeo Fujii (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Javier Gozalvez (Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche) Hannes Hartenstein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Geert Heijenk (University of Twente) Teruo Higashino (Osaka University) Rasheed Hussain (Hanyang University) Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University) John Kenney (Toyota InfoTechnology Center) Nicholas Kirsch (University of New Hampshire) Tim Leinmüller (DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH) Thomas Little (Boston University) Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) C. Mecklenbräuker (Vienna University of Technology) Tamer Nadeem (Old Dominion University) Hyun Seo Oh (ETRI) Yaser P. Fallah (West Virginia University) P. Papadimitratos (KTH) Giovanni Pau (UPMC Sorbonne Universités) Jonathan Petit (University College Cork) Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna) Michele Rondinone (Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center) Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro) Björn Scheuermann (Humboldt University of Berlin) Robert Schmidt (Denso Automotive Dtld. GmbH) Elmar Schoch (AUDI AG) Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales) Miguel Sepulcre (University Miguel Hernandez of Elche) Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University) Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado) Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University) Thomas Strang (German Aerospace Center) Hsin-Mu Tsai (National Taiwan University) Kazuya Tsukamoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University) Leandro Villas (UNICAMP) Alexey Vinel (Halmstad University) W. Viriyasitavat (Mahidol University) Tam Vu (University of Colorado Denver) Andre Weimerskirch (University of Michigan) N. Wisitpongphan (University of Technology North Bangkok) Tomoyuki Yashiro (Chiba Institute of Technology) Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Hongwei Zhang (Wayne State University)
Steering Committee: Onur Altintas (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan) Wai Chen (China Mobile Research Institute) Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Thomas Luckenbach (FOKUS, Germany) Hyun Seo Oh (ETRI, South Korea) Umit Ozguner (Ohio State University, U.S.A.) Tadao Saito (Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Further Information -------------------
For further information, please refer to the conference website at http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2015/