[dbjapan] CFP: Telecommunication Systems Special Issue on "Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications"

[Scott Fowler <scott_fowler [at] ymail.com>]

Call For Papers
Telecommunication Systems
Special Issue on "Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications"


Aims and Scope

Vehicular communication and networking have been identified  as key technologies for
increasing road  safety and  transport  efficiency.
Vehicular networks aim to ensure traffic safety for  drivers, provide comfort for
passengers  and  reduce  transportation time and  fuel
consumption. The development of vehicular  communication and networking technologies
 are expected to enable many potential applications
, including automatic  collision notification  and prevention,  emergency
management,  assistances for  safe driving, real-time traffic
congestion notification,  location-based driver  information services, high-speed
tolling, vehicle tracking, automobile Internet access,
and many others.  To facilitate these applications,  many different types of
communication  and  networking would be involved, including
intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle (V-to-V), vehicle-to-roadside (V-to-R) and
vehicle-to-infrastructure (V-to-I) communications.

This  special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality,  original,
unpublished  research  covering all aspects related to
the Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications. Topics of interest
include, but not limited to, the followings:

        Availability and Scalability Issues in Vehicular Networks
        Communication Protocol Design for Vehicular Networks
        Cooperative Vehicular Communications
        Cross-layer Design and Optimization for Vehicular Networks
        Emergency Applications and Technologies in Vehicular Networks
        Green Technologies and Vehicular Networks
        Intra-vehicle, V2I, V2R, and V2V Communication Protocols
        Contention and Congestion Control for Vehicular Networks
        Multicast and Broadcast Protocols for Vehicular Networks
        Mobility, Traffic Models and Network Management for Vehicular Networks
        Modulation, Coding, and Channel Modeling for Vehicular Networks
        Multi-Channel Management for Vehicular Networks
        Network Architecture of Vehicular Networks
        Radio Resource Management and QoS Support for Vehicular Networks
        Real-time Experimental Systems and Testbeds for Vehicular Communications
        Security and Privacy Technologies for Vehicular Networks
        Services and Applications of Vehicular Networks
        Simulation Framework and Real-World Testbeds for Vehicular Networks
        Vehicular Network Performance Modeling and Analysis
        Vehicular Network Medium Access Control and Routing Protocols


Submission Guideline

Prospective  authors are invited  to  submit  research  contributions  representing
original,  previously  unpublished  work.  Submitted
papers  will  be  carefully evaluated based on originality,  significance,
technical  soundness,  and  clarity  of  exposition.  Authors 
should  follow the  Telecommunication  Systems
(http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/11235)
manuscript
format as described in the Instruction to Authors. Manuscripts (pdf and source
files) must be directly  emailed  to  the  Guest  Editors,
Chih-Yung Chang, cychang [at] mail.tku.edu.tw, and Yuh-Shyan Chen,
yschen [at] mail.ntpu.edu.tw with clear indication that  submission  is  for  the
Special Issue on "Vehicular  Communication, Networks, and  Applications",
Telecommunication Systems. All  manuscripts  should  include  a
title page containing the title of the paper, full names and  affiliations,
complete  postal  and  electronic  addresses,  phone and fax
numbers,  an  abstract,  and  some  keywords.  The  contacting  author should be
clearly identified. In addition, this special issue also
collects best papers from IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Computing,
Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2009), and IEEE Workshop
on "Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications" (VCNA-2009), Taiwan, ROC,
2009.


Important Date

Paper Submission Deadline     January 31, 2010
Acceptance Notification              April 30, 2010
Final Manuscript Due              May 31, 2010
Publication Date              December, 2010 (Tentative)


Guest Editors

Prof. Chih-Yung Chang
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Tamkang University, Taiwan
E-mail: cychang [at] mail.tku.edu.tw
       
Prof. Yuh-Shyan Chen
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taipei University, Taiwan
E-mail: yschen [at] mail.ntpu.edu.tw


Prof. Tzung-Shi Chen
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National University of Tainan, Taiwan
E-mail: chents [at] mail.nutn.edu.tw

Prof. Sherali Zeadally
Department of Computer Science and Information  Technology
University of the District of Columbia, USA
E-mail: szeadally [at] udc.edu