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2nd IEEE International Symposium on
Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC’08)
21–22 September 2008, Calgary
Marriott, 110 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 5A6 Canada
http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/
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, such as the
European eSafety initiative, the US programs derived from the Intelligent
Vehicle Initiative and the Japanese InternetITS and AHS programs.
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 has decided to establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular
communications, with the first issues planned to be 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 a successful first WiVeC edition
in 2007 (http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2007/)
with over 150 participants in the 2-day event, the second IEEE WiVeC symposium
will be co-located with the 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2008 Fall
conference and will take place at the Calgary Marriott Hotel in Calgary on the
21st and 22nd of September 2008. Combined registrations packages will be
offered for WiVeC and VTC events.
All accepted papers will be included in
the VTC 2008-Fall conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE
Xplore database. A selection of the best WiVeC papers will be published in a
special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine http://www.ieeevtm.org
Authors are encouraged to submit full
papers (a maximum of five pages) through the conference web site.
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. 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.
* Architecture, networking protocols
(including ad-hoc, routing, data dissemination, etc) and their evalutation.
* QoS and cross-layer optimization
design.
* Communications systems and
technologies.
* Testbeds and simulation platforms.
* 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.
* Decision and control issues.
* Human-Machine Interface.
* Applications (Ecall, toll collection,
traffic information, wireless diagnosis etc.).
* Security, liability and privacy.
* Standards development, business
models, policies (e.g., Cooperative aspects of vehicular communication).
* Assessment of impact on transport
efficiency and safety.
* Scalability issues in
metropolitan-wide vehicular networks.
Regular Paper Submissions
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Authors are encouraged to submit full
length papers (maximum 5 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at
http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/
Accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE
Xplore digital library.
A selection of the best WiVeC papers
will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
(www.ieeevtm.org).
Important Dates for regular papers
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Paper Submission Deadline: 30 April 2008
Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2008
Camera-ready papers due: 9 June 2008
Call
for Demos
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Together
with the poster session, WiVeC will feature a demo session designed to allow
industrials and researchers to showcase their latest industrial applications
and research prototypes in WiVeC related topics. Poster and demo sessions will
be co-located to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction between
presenters and participants. Demo proposals covering innovative technologies,
platforms, analysis tools and applications related to wireless vehicular
communications are encouraged. Submissions describing both mature or innovative
systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes,
from industries or universities, are encouraged. The submitted demo proposal
should include in a maximum of 2 A4 pages following the WiVeC paper format:
1.
Title, authors and contact information.
2.
Technical content to be demonstrated.
3.
An overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the
demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be shown to attendees.
4.
Any URLs that link to screen-shots, live demos, or related information
The
authors should also email the Demo Chair with information on the equipment or
facilities required for the system demonstration (e.g., power supplies,
Internet connections, table dimensions, etc). Demonstrations could be supported
by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background
and technical content to be demonstrated. Demo participants interested to use a
poster should also inform the demos chair. Demonstrations will be selected
based on their novelty, technical quality, and attractiveness of the
demonstrated system. Accepted demonstrations will be included in IEEE Xplore
and the Conference CDROM.
Please
note that for every accepted demonstration, it is required that at least one
person registers for the conference and presents the demo. However, no
additional paper charge is needed for authors that are already presenting a
regular paper in IEEE WiVeC’08.
Important Dates for Demos
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Paper Submission Deadline: 10 May 2008
Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2008
Camera-ready papers due: 9 June 2008