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                     UBIROADS 2009
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    2st IEEE International Workshop on ITS for an Ubiquitous ROADS
         http://www.ieee-giis.org/Workshops/ubiroads2009

             co-located with IEEE GIIS 2009
                http://www.ieee-giis.org/

                        Tunisia
              Submission: May 07, 2009
               Workshop: June 26, 2009
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UBIROADS 2009 workshop Overview

The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program is a universal initiative whose objective is to add information and communication
technology to transport infrastructure and vehicles. It aims to manage different factors in order to improve safety and comfort to
drivers/passengers, and reduce transportation times and fuel costs.
With the advances in wireless communications technology and positioning systems many applications could become a reality.

ITS topics are attracting more and more academic and industrial players.
The goal of UBIROADS'2009 is to offer a unique forum to bring together researchers and professionals from academia, government and industry to
share and discuss ideas, visions, applications and new results related to ITS issues.
 
 
Relevant topics
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Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to the following:
1. Wireless transmission: physical layer, RF level technologies for ITS communications, radio resource management, media access control
   and QoS support in ITS, antenna technologies for ITS communications.

2. Integration: embedded systems for ITS, system architectures, network architectures, cross-layer designs in ITS communications, real-time
   issues, sensors for ITS.

3. Networking: vehicle-to-vehicle V2V communications, vehicle-to-infrastructure V2I communications, Vehicle-to-Person (V2P)
   communications, algorithms and protocols for ITS and VANET, Internet access.

4. Simulation/emulation: models of traffic, scenarios and models of simulations for the road, emulation tools for ITS.

5. Experimentations: experimental platforms and testbeds for ITS, demonstrations, projects reviews, work-in-progress reports.

6. Security: authentication issues, PKI, distributed key management in VANET, confidence in VANET.

7. Applications: business models, active safety applications, passenger-oriented applications, new services for VANET, Advanced
   and Distributed Driver Assistance Systems, impact on road safety.


Submission Instructions
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Authors are encouraged to submit original contributions (maximum 6 pages, IEEE two-column conference style) in English and in a PDF format.
Paper submissions for the workshop should follow the submission guidelines for regular IEEE papers, and be submitted electronically before submission deadline, via JEMS under the GIIS 2009 symposium "IPTV Workshop" track.
Instructions and guidelines are available in GIIS 2009 Web site ( http://www.ieee-giis.org/).
Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process and accepted papers will be published in the special section of the IEEE GIIS 2009 conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore.
For all questions about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Chairs : (djamel.khadraoui@tudor.lu).

Important dates
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Submission Deadline:              May 7, 2009
Notification of acceptance:       May 21, 2009
Final paper due:                  June 7, 2009


Workshop Chairs
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  - Djamel KHADRAOUI, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
  - Timo SUKUVAARA, FMI, Finland

TPC members
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Sidi-Mohammed SENOUCI, sidimohammed.senouci@orange-ftgroup.com, Orange Labs
Nadjib ACHIR, nadjib.achir@l2ti.univ-paris13.fr, University of Paris 13, France
Hossam AFIFI, hossam.afifi@int-evry.fr  INT Evry, France
Nazim AGOULMINE, nazim.agoulmine@iup.univ-evry.fr, University of Evry, France
Mosa ALI ABU-RGHEFF, mosa@plymouth.ac.uk, Plymouth University, UK
Christian BETTSTETTER, Christian.Bettstetter@uni-klu.ac.at, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
David BINET, david.binet@orange-ftgroup.com, France Telecom R&D, France
Khaled BOUSSETTA, Khaled.Boussetta@l2ti.univ-paris13.fr, University of Paris 13, France
Raouf BOUTABA, rboutaba@uwaterloo.ca, University of Waterloo, Canada
Andrea CONTI, a.conti@ieee.org, University of Bologna, Italy
Mischa DOHLER, mischa.dohler@orange-ftgroup.com, France Telecom R&D, France
Bertrand DUCOURTHIAL, Bertrand.Ducourthial@hds.utc.fr, University of Technology of Compiegne, France
Fethi FILALI, Fethi.Filali@eurecom.fr, Eurecom, France
Mohamed Nazim GANNA, mganna@neotilus.com, Neotilus, France
Yacine GHAMRI-DOUDANE, ghamri@iie.cnam.fr, IIE Evry, France
Athanasios GKELIAS, a.gkelias@imperial.ac.uk, Imperial College, UK
Rolf KRAEMER, kraemer@ihp-microelectronics.com, IHP microelectronics, Germany
Marc LACOSTE, marc.lacoste@orange-ftgroup.com, France Telecom R&D, France
Wasim Q. MALIK, wasim.malik@eng.ox.ac.uk, University of Oxford, UK
Rahul MANGHARAM, rahul@cmu.edu, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Hassnaa MOUSTAFA, hassnaa.moustafa@orange-ftgroup.com, France Telecom R&D, France
Sooksan PANICHPAPIBOON, kpsooksa@kmitl.ac.th, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Thailand
Guy PUJOLLE, guy.pujolle@lip6.fr, University of Paris6, France
Bernhard RINNER, rinner@iti.tugraz.at, University of Klagenfurt
Athanasia TSERTOU, atsertou@staffmail.ed.ac.uk, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jean-Pierre EBERT, ebert@ihp-microelectronics.com, IHP Microelectronics, Germany
Djamel KHADRAOUI, djamel.khadraoui@tudor.lu, Centre Henri TUDOR, Luxembourg
Zineb HABBAS, zineb@univ-metz, University of Metz, France
Timo SUKUVAARA, timo.sukuvaara@fmi.fi, FMI - Finland
Carlos GALVEZ, carlos.galvez@uma.sp, University of Malaga, Spain
Salem OSMAN, osman.salem@mi.parisdescartes.fr, Paris Descartes, France
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