(English version below)

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

Für eine Sonderausgabe von Elsevier Computer Communications suchen wir
noch bis zum 15. November nach interessanten Beiträgen aus der
Fahrzeugkommunikation. Ich würde mich sehr über zahlreiche Beteiligung
freuen!

Untenstehend habe ich unseren Call for Papers angefügt.


Beste Grüße aus Paderborn,

  Christoph Sommer



	 ** Manuscript submission deadline: 15 November 2015 **




		    Elsevier Computer Communications

			     Special Issue
			    Call for Papers

	      Multi-radio, Multi-technology, Multi-system
			Vehicular Communications


Scope
-----

Vehicular networks have rapidly evolved from their roots as an
application of mobile ad hoc networks to today's fusion of
interdisciplinary research on computer
communications. Inspired by
governments' visions of vastly improved road traffic safety and
transport efficiency and hailed as industry's enabler of a plethora of
value-added services for passengers and drivers, stakeholders are
pushing the rulemaking for an adoption of vehicular communication
technologies in newly sold cars, in turn inspiring bold research
ventures. Despite the plethora of efforts devoted to this research
field, the peculiarities of vehicular environments call into question
the capabilities of existing solutions and standard specifications to
meet the increasingly strict scalability, reliability, and quality of
experience demands of such visions. Indeed, the expected tsunami of data
to be exchanged, both to support cooperative/autonomous driving
applications and to satisfy the growing data appetite of users on
wheels, will burden the network. In such a context, the widespread
availability of
multiple radio technologies and multiple radio channels
per technology, along with complete communication systems is envisioned
to merge with sophisticated physical layer and medium access control
approaches, and emerging cognitive radio and software-defined radio
techniques, thus opening the door to new exciting research opportunities
in multi-radio, multi-technology, multi-system vehicular communications.
The goal of this special issue is to gather high-quality and unpublished
papers contributing to the evolution of vehicular networking and, in
particular, focusing on the aforementioned developments. The
contributions to this special issue may present novel ideas,
methodologies, algorithms, architectures, models, experiments.
High-quality review and survey papers are also welcomed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Multi-radio and multi-channel communications
- Multi-technology
(PAN, WLAN, long range) communications
- Multi-system (short range radio, cellular, backbone) communications
- Physical layer, medium access, and congestion control design
  from radio to visible light and beyond
- Vehicle-to-X (roadside, pedestrian, grid, in-vehicle)
  data dissemination, system integration, services, and applications
- IEEE 802.11p DSRC/WAVE, ETSI ITS-G5, ARIB standardization
- Cellular technologies for vehicular communications and/or
  vehicle-to-X (LTE-Advanced, LTE-Direct)
- New challenges in security & privacy
- Simulation tools and methodologies, analytical models, experimental
  evaluation and field operational tests
- Applications of multi-radio, multi-technology, or
  multi-system vehicular communications



Paper Submission
----------------

Please see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom for
preparation
guidelines and visit http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom to submit your
manuscript. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for
inclusion into the special issue, please select "SI: Multi-X Vehicular
Comm's" when you reach the Article Type step in the submission process.
For further information, please contact the guest editors.



Guest Editors
-------------

Claudia Campolo
  Univ. Reggio Calabria, Italy

Lin Cheng
  Trinity College, USA

Christoph Sommer
  Univ. Paderborn, Germany

Hsin-Mu "Michael" Tsai
  National Taiwan University



Journal Metrics
---------------

SNIP Impact per Paper
 2.409

SCImago Journal Rank
 1.470

Impact Factor
 1.695

5-Year Impact Factor
 1.625



Important Dates
---------------

Manuscript submission
  15 November 2015

First notification
  30 January 2016

Revised paper submission
  15 March 2016

Notification of acceptance
  30 April 2016



-- 
Dr. Christoph Sommer
Distributed Embedded Systems Group
University of Paderborn, Germany
http://www.ccs-labs.org/~sommer/