CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER

Title: Wireless Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (to be published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. USA)

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Introduction

Great achievements have been made in wireless communication technologies in recent years in order to meet the increasing needs of high-speed cordless connections in civil and military applications. The advances include WiFi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), Wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15), sensor networks, Bluetooth, mesh/ad hoc networks, RFID, mobile IP, mobile management, smart antenna, Radio-over-fiber, OFDM/OFDMA, MIMO, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and so on. These emerging technologies will significantly impact the design and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which aims to effectively provide higher vehicles safety, traffic management, and communications among vehicles and transport infrastructure. Currently, governmental institutes and societies in North America, Europe, Japan, and China, etc., are actively developing advanced wireless technologies for road, rail and maritime transport systems. For instance, the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) band has been allocated in the USA at 5.9 GHz for vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The IEEE 802.11p working group is developing enhancements of 802.11 standards to support ITS, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), vehicular telematics, and infotainment applications.

Recommended Topics (not limited to)

* Smart antenna in ITS * Millimeter-wave Radar in ITS * RFID in ITS * Radio channel modeling for ITS * IEEE 802.11p for ITS * Dedicated Short Range Communications in ITS * Wireless communications for Maritime ITS * Sensor networks and technologies for ITS * Ad hoc/mesh networks for ITS * Mobile management in ITS * Vehicular networks * Heterogeneous networks for ITS * Digital maps and location technologies

Important Dates * You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal describing the topic of your chapter. * The proposal should include the chapter organization, number of pages of the final manuscript and contact authors. * Proposal submission due: 15 Feb 2008 * Notification of proposal acceptance: 15 Mar 2008 * Full chapter submission: 15 Jun 2008 * Review report received: 15 Aug 2008 * Final version submission: 15 Sept 2008

Note: Each leading chapter author will get a free copy of the book.

Contact

Please submit chapter proposal to:

Dr. Ming-Tuo Zhou Wireless Communications Laboratory, NICT Singapore Office Email: zhou.mingtuo@ieee.org

Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang@ieee.org

Professor Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Email: ltyang@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc