Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Workshop on Vehicular Networking and Intelligent Transportation systems (VENITS'18), co-located with the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018)

December 9 - 13, 2018 -- Abu Dhabi, UAE
                    
http://www.grc.upv.es/VENITS/2018/

Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE Xplore

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Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: July 1, 2018
Notification of acceptance: August 15 2018
Camera-ready version: September 15, 2018

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Scope:
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Over the years, we have witnessed the merging of wireless communications and transportation technologies. This excellent combination of two important fields has propelled our capabilities even further, allowing us to communicate anytime and anywhere, thereby improving the traffic safety, reducing the travel costs, and increasing our life quality tremendously.
Once the new Intelligent Transportation Systems are deployed, our roads and highways will be able to provide enhanced services to users through the combination of V2X and cellular communications, thus completely revolutionizing when and how we communicate, commute, and navigate, in the coming future.
Under such conditions, several issues remain open in the field on vehicular networking, including message dissemination in congested environments, Quality of Service (QoS), efficient and adaptive routing, MAC layer enhancements, mobility prediction, efficient handovers, and also in Intelligent Transportation Systems, such as efficient road traffic managing, optimal emergency services operation, etc.
This workshop is soliciting original technical papers addressing the main research challenges in the vehicular networking and the intelligent transportation systems area.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope:

- Wireless vehicular networking
- Congestion and admission control in dense vehicular networks
- Content distribution in wireless vehicular environments
- Smartphone/vehicle integration
- Service oriented architectures, service portability, P2P
- Cooperative sensing of road conditions
- Network and system architectures for mobile vehicular computing
- DSRC/WAVE communications. DSRC alternatives and supporting technologies
- Network protocols and algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc.
- Cross-layer protocol design
- Statistical analysis, prediction and management of vehicular mobility
- Multimedia communications in vehicular scenarios
- Models, simulators and tools for vehicular environments
- Communications for safety of vulnerable road users
- Communications for automated driving
- Security and trust issues in vehicular environments

Papers Submission:
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Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed six-page (double-column, 10-point font) technical paper manuscript.

Papers should be formatted in standard IEEE camera ready format and must be submitted in .pdf format on the EDAS paper submission website.
The submission link is: http://edas.info/N25062

See IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 conference website for more details: http://globecom2018.ieee-globecom.org/authors

Organization:
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General co-Chairs:
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Carlos Tavares Calafate (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Francisco J. Martinez (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Steering Committee:
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Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Bertrand Ducourthial (University of Technology of Compiegne, France)
Fawzi Nashashibi (INRIA, France)

Publicity Chairs:
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Peppino Fazio (University of Calabria, Italy)
Julio A. Sanguesa (Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain)
Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache (University of Laghouat, Algeria)

Program Committee:
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Ali Balador (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)
Annette Böhm (Halmstad University, Sweden)
Carlos Tavares Calafate (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Juan Carlos Cano (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Baldomero Coll (Miguel Hernandez University, Spain)
Floriano DeRango (University of Calabria, Italy)
Peppino Fazio (University of Calabria, Italy)
Manuel Fogue (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Piedad Garrido (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Dongkyun Kim (Kyungpook National University, South Korea)
Pietro Manzoni (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Johann Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen - IMEC, Belgium)
Francisco J. Martinez (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Manuel Ricardo (University of Oporto, Portugal)
Stefan Ruehrup (FTW - Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)
Julio A. Sanguesa (Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain)
Jose Santa (University of Murcia, Spain)
Oyunchimeg Shagdar (VEDECOM, France)
Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn, Germany)

For more information see http://www.grc.upv.es/VENITS/2018/