-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Computer Networks Special Issue on Connected Vehicles Datum: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:46:59 -0500 Von: Syed Hassan Ahmed sh.ahmed@IEEE.ORG Antwort an: Syed Hassan Ahmed sh.ahmed@IEEE.ORG An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

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Over the past decade, advances in the Intelligent and Connected Transportation Systems (ICTS) collectively intend to trim down the fuel expenditure by avoiding congested traffic, enhancement of traffic safety whereas initiating a new application, i.e., mobile infotainment. To address individual requirements of both safety and non-safety applications in the vehicular communication technology, there is the need to build up a new communication technology for integrated solutions of ICTS. Those commodities mentioned result in several types of vehicular communications, i.e., Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I), and Vehicle-to-Roadside (V2R) communications. Due to the rapid growth in this field, various research constraints need to be addressed, e.g., reliability and latency, appropriate scalable design of MAC (Medium Access Control) and routing protocols, performance and adaptability to changes in the environment (node density and oscillation in network topology), and an evaluation and validation of vehicular communication protocols under the umbrella of coherent assumptions using simulation methodologies. To be more specific, the data retrieval in connected ITS’s itself is a great challenge in numerous ways. For example, the highly dynamic mobility of vehicles accelerates a plethora of research questions to be solved.

Potential paper submissions are likely to exploit the connectionism and emergence of networking systems in various problem-solving methods in the ICTS and vehicular communications with a focus on the data retrieval. It may also outline essential challenges, proof-of-concept studies with a direct and simulated comparison to technical solutions, and mathematical models of communication principles. Possible topics of key interest are the following ones:

• Intra-vehicle communication (e.g., vehicle-to-pedestrians, vehicle-to-portable, vehicle-to-sign) • Network and system architectures for ICTS • MAC protocols and channel management in ICTS • Physical layer and routing protocols for ICTS • Delay tolerant techniques and protocols for ICTS • Real-time optimization systems for ICTS • Modeling and theoretical proofs of communications in ICTS • Emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications with ICTS • Smart sensors and communications in ICTS • Quality-of-Service (QoS) & Quality-of-Experience (QoE) for ICTS • Information and Content-Centric Networking in ICTS • Data retrieval via software-defined ICTS • Performance evaluations of ICTS

Special Issue Timeline

Manuscript Submission Due: November 30, 2017 Author Notifications Due: January 31, 2018 Final Revisions Due: February 28, 2018 Publication: Summer 2018

Guest Editors Syed Hassan Ahmed, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. sh.ahmed@ieee.org Ali Kashif Bashir, University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark. dr.alikashif.b@ieee.org Awais Ahmad, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea. awais@ynu.ac.kr Wael Guibene, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA. wael.guibene@intel.com

For any queries, please feel free to contact Syed Hassan Ahmed.

------------------------------------------------------ Syed Hassan Ahmed, Ph.D., MIEEE Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. Email: sh.ahmed@ieee.org Web: https://sites.google.com/site/shahmedknu/ ------------------------------------------------------

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