Subject: [Mip4] [CFP]: IEEE WCNC 2012 Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Communications and Networks

From: "Szczechowiak, Piotr" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:03:43 -0400

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                                                CALL FOR PAPERS

                                                  IEEE WCNC 2012
                        First International Workshop on Wireless Vehicular
                                         Communications and Networks
                                                          (WVCN)

                                           April 1-4, 2012, Paris, France

                                                   http://carmesh.eu/workshop.html<http://www.wireless-days.org/>

                        Workshop proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore

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Workshop Theme: On Recent Advances on Measurements, Modeling
and Experimentation of Wireless Vehicular Communications and Networks

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Important Dates:
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Extended submission deadline:  October 10, 2011
Notification of acceptance: January 6, 2012
Camera-ready version: January 30, 2012

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Scope:
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With the increasing number of vehicles and rapid development of wireless
technologies, vehicular communications, networks and systems are becoming
more and more popular. This area of research is in its early stages and there is
still much to be done in order to realize the vision of Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS). The aim of vehicular communication systems, and thus ITS, is to
improve traffic safety, protect environment by reducing traffic congestion and
fuel consumption, and enable a plethora of new applications such as mobile
infotainment and location-based services for mobile users. To facilitate both
safety and non-safety applications, the integration of communications and
computing technologies into vehicular and transportation systems becomes a
must. These result in various types of cooperative vehicular communications
and networks: intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-roadside
(V2R), and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications.

While many conferences and workshops provide a venue to present and discuss
vehicular communication, network protocols and solutions, only few research
works addressed issues related to measurements, modeling and experimentations
in such systems. So, the primary objective of the WVCN workshop will be to discuss
the issues related to these themes.

The focus of this workshop is to serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in
all experimental, measurement and modeling aspects of vehicular communications
and networks, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area.
Submitted papers should be original and previously unpublished.

Topics of interest:
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
            * Channel and radio propagation measurement, Modeling, and simulation
            * Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, Modeling, and simulation
            * Data traffic measurement, Modeling, and simulation
            * Capacity analysis and Modeling
            * Modeling MAC, network and transport layer protocols for vehicular networks
            * Modeling user demand and telematics services characterization
            * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures
            * Innovative measurement methodologies and tools
            * Simulation and experimentation of Vehicular Communication Systems (VANET,
                        Vehicular Mesh Networks, Cellular- based Vehicular Networks, ...)
            * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different
                        testbeds/evaluation methodologies
            * Experimental evaluation of telematic applications and services
            * Design & evaluation of vehicular testbeds, prototypes and platforms
            * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments and measurement campaigns
            * Field Operational Testing (FOT) results
            * Security and QoS issues in Vehicular Communication Systems

Main Sponsor:
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IAPP CARMESH project (An FP7 Marie Curie Industry Academia Partnership Pathway project)

The IAPP CARMESH project will provide a certain number of travel grants for students, young researchers and potentially confirmed researchers (authors of accepted papers). Travel grants will also be are available for invited speakers and keynote speakers.

Technical co-Sponsors:
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IEEE ComSoc Technical sub-Committee on Vehicular Communications and Telematics Application
IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure
IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communication Software

Papers Submission:
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All submissions to WCNC 2012 WVCN Workshop should be written in English with a
maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages, Papers exceeding 6 pages will not be
accepted on EDAS, nor reviewed at all. Authors may use the standard IEEE conference
templates for LaTeX or Microsoft Word formats found at the IEEE website. Only PDF files
will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS.

Publication:
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Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEE
Xplore.

Special Issues of Journals:
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Selected best papers will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal of
Electronic Transport

Contacts:
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General co-Chairs:
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Raquel Morera, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland

Technical Program co-Chairs:
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Piotr Szczechowiak, Telcordia Poland Sp. z o.o, Poland
Marek Tluczek, Telcordia Poland Sp. z o.o, Poland
John Fitzpatrick, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane,  Université Paris-Est (LIGM Lab) & ENSIIE, France

Technical Program Committee:
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See http://carmesh.eu/workshop.html<http://www.wireless-days.org/>