IEEE WiVEC’2011
             Sep. 5-6 2011, Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, USA

                    http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2011/

          Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
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Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology
for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet
access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. The potential of
this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious
research programs worldwide in Europe, US and Asia.

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers through its
areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and Automotive
Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless vehicular communications a
reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society decided to establish a technical
symposium on wireless vehicular communications co-located with the reputed
IEEE VTC conferences.

The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications
(WiVEC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications aspects of
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Person (V2P)
communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety,
implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations
efforts and spectrum assignment.

After the past successful WiVEC editions in 2007, 2008, and 2010, the fourth
IEEE WiVEC symposium will be co-located with the 74th IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference 2011 Fall, and will take place at the Hilton Hotel in
San Francisco on the 5th and 6th of September 2011. Combined registrations
packages will be offered for WiVEC and VTC events.

All accepted papers (full length and demo papers) will be included in the
VTC 2011-Fall conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE Xplore
database.
   4th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications
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Note: VTC Fall editions are traditionally located in North America, while
VTC Spring is located in other areas of the world. Since WiVEC was originally
launched co-located with VTC Fall editions, the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Society decided that WiVEC would take place every year and a half in order
to ensure that the conference is alternatively co-located with VTC Fall and
Spring editions. This resulted in that there was no WiVEC edition in 2009.


Topics of Interest
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The WiVEC Symposium seeks original papers - not published or currently under
review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V),
vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications.
Vehicular communication areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models
* Radio resource management and interference management
* Spectrum assignment and EMC regulations
* Vehicular Networking Architectures
* Networking protocols (including ad-hoc communication, routing, geocasting, etc.) and their evaluation
* Data aggregation and dissemination strategies
* Simulation of Vehicular Communication Systems
* Scalability issues in vehicular networks.
* QoS and cross-layer optimization design
* Security, liability and privacy
* Testbeds, testing support, and field testing results
* Interworking with sensor network technologies
* In-car electronics and embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications
* Roadside infrastructure
* Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models
* Digital maps and location technologies
* Human-Machine Interface
* Applications (eCall, eTolling, traffic information systems, safety applications, wireless diagnosis, etc.)
* Standards development, business models, policies
* Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety


Submissions
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Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) or
demo papers (maximum 2 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at
http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2011/

Submission website: http://wivec2011.trackchair.com

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the
IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library.


Important Dates
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Submission Deadline (extended): 14 March 2011
Acceptance notification: 15 April 2011
Camera-ready papers due: 13 June 2011