-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Inter-vehicular Communications Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:56:32 +0800 From: Daniel Wong daniel_wong@ieee.org Reply-To: Daniel Wong daniel_wong@ieee.org To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this CFP regardsDaniel Wong -----------------------------------Call for Papers IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Inter-Vehicular Communications"(pdf version of this CFP is available athttp://www.3g-wireless.net/IVC-CFP.pdf ) Wireless communications technologies (cellular phones, wireless LANs,etc.) have enabled many of the conveniences in our lives, and alsoincreased our day by day productivity. Another area where there ismuch potential for wireless technologies to make a tremendous impactis the area of inter-vehicular communications (IVC). The field of IVCis also known as vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V) and vehicularad hoc networks (VANET). There are numerous emerging applications that are unique to thevehicular setting. For example, safety applications would makedriving safer; driver information services could intelligently informdrivers about congestion, businesses and services in the vicinity ofthe vehicle, and other news. Mobile commerce could extend to therealm of vehicles. Existing forms of entertainment may penetrate thevehicular domain, and new forms of entertainment may emerge, allsupported by the inter-vehicular communications capabilities. Theseemerging services are currently not well supported. Numerous research challenges need to be addressed in order forinter-vehicular communications to be widely deployed. The combinationof unique features of inter-vehicular applications and networkingopens new opportunities for many interesting research areas. Thecommunications networking between cars has different characteristicsfrom other communications networking problems. For example, becauseof the rapidly changing topology as cars move around, there aresimilarities with ad hoc networking scenarios. However, theconstraints and optimizations are different. Power efficiency is notas important for inter-vehicular communications as it is fortraditional ad hoc networking, since vehicles have a powerful andrechargeable source of energy. Vehicles in general are alsoconstrained to move within roads (and within lanes most of the time). The purpose of this special issue is to showcase the variety ofresearch being conducted in IVC and survey the state-of-the-art inthis field. We solicit original unpublished manuscripts not currentlybeing considered elsewhere for publication. Topics of interestinclude, but are not limited to, the following: • Service creation and management• Vehicular communications applications in general• Navigation safety applications• Content distribution to vehicles• Vehicle data collection and harvesting• Role of IVC in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)• Link and physical layer issues, algorithms and protocols• Cross-layer protocol design• Network architectures, system architectures• Inter-working of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructurecommunications• Network protocols and algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc.• Vehicle movement simulation• Security for IVC• Network management for IVC• Mobility management Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a stylecomprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Allsubmissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, no more than 6tables/figures, and no more than 15 references. Further submissionguidelines are available online athttp://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF(preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to bothDaniel Wong (daniel_wong@ieee.org) and Kemal Tepe (ktepe@windsor.ca)no later than 15 February 2006. DeadlinesManuscript due February 15 2006Acceptance notification April 15 2006Final manuscript due June 15 2006Publication date October 2006 Guest Editors K. Daniel Wong(daniel_wong@ieee.org)Malaysia University of Science and TechnologyDepartment of Information TechnologyGL33, Ground Floor, Kelana Square, 17 Jalan SS 7/2647301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia Kemal Tepe(ktepe@uwindsor.ca)Electrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Windsor401 Sunset AvenueWindsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada Wai Chen(wchen@research.telcordia.com)Telcordia Technologies, Inc.Applied ResearchOne Telcordia Drive, RRC-1T209Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-4157, USA Mario Gerla(gerla@cs.ucla.edu)3732F BHComputer Science DeptUCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc