Call for Papers

Topics

This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle networking technologies, as well as their subsequent applications with a focus on safety assistance applications. Specifically, we solicit original research contributions addressing the following areas:

• Vehicular mobile ad-hoc networks
• Potential applications of vehicular networks
• Vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
• Role of V2V communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Routing protocols for V2V communications
• High-speed mobility management for V2V communications
• MAC layer issues in V2V communications
• Physical layer and RF level issues in V2V communications
• Antenna technologies for V2V communications
• Security and authentication issues in V2V communication
• Cross-layer designs
• Radio resource management and QoS support
• Mobility models and mobility management
• Experimental systems and testbeds
• Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 double-spaced pages, including references, figures and tables. All submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format to both of the workshop co-chairs:

Onur Altintas onur@jp.toyota-itc.com

and

Wai Chen wchen@research.telcordia.com

Important Dates

Full Papers due (EXTENDED)	May 25, 2005
Notification of Acceptance:	June 6, 2005
Camera-ready Manuscripts due:	June 20, 2005
Workshop Date:	July 21, 2005