Nets4Cars 2011 & Nets4Trains 2011 -- Call for Paper ======================================

When: 22-24 March 2011 Where: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Submission Deadline: 14 November 2010

The 3rd International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2011, http://www.nets4cars.org) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of intra- and inter-vehicle communications (protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications.

SCOPE

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in the framework of the following main topics (not limited to):

* vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside communications * intra-vehicle communications * vehicle-to-Internet communications * new trends in VANETS, e.g. integration of electric vehicles in smart grid communications * mobility and vehicular traffic models * information collection and dissemination * analytical and simulation techniques * experimental systems and field operational testing * protocol performance enhancements * safety and non-safety related applications * recent standardization efforts and problems (e.g. 802.11p) * international harmonisation activities (e.g. Europe vs. US vs. Japan)

Nets4Trains: Nets4Cars 2011 will also host a track on Communication technologies for vehicles in the Railway Transportation (Nets4Trains). The aspiration of the 1st International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles in the Railway Transportation (Nets4Trains 2011) is to provide an international forum on the latest technologies and research challenges associated with the design and implementation of railway intra- and inter-vehicle communications (physical layer, protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications.

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of intelligent railway transportation systems and railway vehicular ad hoc networks in the framework of the following main topics:

* train-to-train communications * train-to-vehicle communications * train-to-infrastructure communications * intra-train communications * train-to-Internet communications and multimedia applications * train localisation using communication technology * mobility and traffic models * information collection and dissemination * analytical and simulation techniques * experimental systems and field operational testing * protocol performance enhancements * safety and non-safety related applications * traveller information services * multi-modal transport

SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit full papers comprising original work, not previously published, in English of max. 12 pages (or max. 8 pages for work in progress) in LNCS single-column format. All papers will be reviewed by an international program committee with appropriate expertise. Submissions must present original work that has not been previously published, and is not under submission else-where. The ideal submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. All papers submitted for review are subject to a double-blind review process, i.e. must not contain any information revealing the identity of the authors (anonymization). The final version of all papers must include a title, complete contact information for all authors, and key-words on the cover page.

A properly anonymized version of the paper has to be submitted to the Nets4Cars page at EDAS not later than the submission deadline listed below using the following link: http://edas.info/N9483

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission due: 14 Nov 2010 Notification date: 22 Dec 2010 Camera-ready due: 07 Jan 2011 Workshop: 22-24 Mar 2011

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the workshop to be held in the Munich area and published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (tbc.). Registration for the workshop by at least one of the authors and presenting the paper is a mandatory requirement for having the paper included in the proceedings.

VENUE

The workshop will be held at the premises of the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany. See http://www.dlr.de/kn

All participants of the workshop and any accompanying person may attend a free-of-charge tour though DLR after the workshop.

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (confirmed members)

* Marina Aguado, University of the Basque Country (Spain) * Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center (Japan) * Atif Alvi, LUMS (Pakistan) * Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Center (Finland) * Marion Berbineau, INRETS (France) * Mohamed Boucadair, France Telecom (France) * Torsten Braun, University of Bern (Switzerland) * Marcello Caleffi , University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy) * Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra (Portugal) * Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra (Portugal) * Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe (Germany) * Fethi Filali, Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center (Qatar) * Francisco Garcia, Agilent Technologies (UK) * Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche. Uwicore Laboratory (Spain) * Christophe Gransart, INRETS (France) * Oleg Gusikhin, Ford (USA) * Jerome Harri, EURECOM (France) * Geert Heijenk, University of Twente (Netherlands) * Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey (UK) * Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, CREATE-NET (Italy) * Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology (Finland) * Long Le, NEC Laboratories Europe (Germany) * Fei Liu, University of Twente (Netherlands) * Katrin Luddecke, DLR (Germany) * Juliette Marais, INRETS-LEOST (France) * Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University (UK) * John Murphy, University College Dublin (Ireland) * Brian Park, University of Virginia (USA) * Cristina Rico-Garcia, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany) * Matthias Rockl, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany) * Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR (Italy) * Divitha Seetharamdoo, French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS) (France) * Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany) * Tsutomu Tsuboi, Renesas Technology Corp (Japan) * Alexey Vinel, SPIIRAS (Russia) * Michelle Wetterwald, EURECOM (France) * Christian Wewetzer, Volkswagen Group (Germany) * Nawaporn Wisitpongphan, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (Thailand) * Yang Zhang, Pennsylvania State University (USA)

A PDF version of this CfP can be found at http://www.nets4cars.org/doc/CFP_Nets4Cars_2011.pdf