-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's Datum: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:52:00 +0100 Von: Christoph Sommer sommer@CCS-LABS.ORG Antwort an: Christoph Sommer sommer@CCS-LABS.ORG An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

** now open for submissions; deadline extended to 30 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 The goal of this special issue is to gather high-quality and unpublished papers contributing to the evolution of vehicular networking and, in particular, focusing on the aforementioned developments.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 (extended!) 30 November 2015

First notification 30 January 2016

Revised paper submission 15 March 2016

Notification of acceptance 30 April 2016