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CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************************** 1st International Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Applications (VCA 2012) June 19th, 2012, Ayia Napa, Cyprus http://secan-lab.uni.lu/vca2012/ ********************************************************************************** In conjunction with Med-Hoc-Net 2012 11th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 19 - 22 June 2012 http://medhocnet2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ The goal of this workshop is to give an interdisciplinary overview on recent advances in the area of vehicular inter-networking technologies and related applications. Over the last few years, significant efforts are being carried out by industry, academia and government agencies to improve driving safety, increase vehicle traffic efficiency and decrease fuel consumption by exploiting vehicular communications and networking technologies. These technologies, which are generally referred to as VANET (Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks), include Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I), Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications and can be based on short- and medium-range communication as well as on cellular systems. This workshop will include and solicit contributions addressing technical and research issues, development projects, standardization activities, and field trials on VANET technologies and applications. The objective is to disseminate state-of-the-art results in this highly active research area, to highlight interdisciplinary challenges in the development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), to share lessons learned from field trial experiences and to bring together people from both academia and industry, with the goal of facilitating interaction among them to promote further research activities and conduct joint research on services such as; advanced traffic management, safety control, comfort applications and networking and information services for users on the road. Scope of Contributions: Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of vehicular communications and applications. All submissions must be original contributions not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- * Communication protocol design and network management * Channel modeling, modulation and coding * Congestion control and scalability issues * Medium access control protocols * Multi-channel organization and operation * Traffic management and flow optimization techniques * Vehicle or traffic-related smartphone apps * Safety and non-safety applications * Vehicle-to-vehicle/roadside/Internet communication * Simulation frameworks * Security issues and countermeasures, and privacy issues * Telematics applications * Electric vehicle applications * Networking to reduce energy consumption * Wireless in-car networks * Systems that reduce driver distraction * Real-world testbeds Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will appear in IEEExplore. Important dates: ---------------- Workshop date and place: Ayia Napa, Cyprus, June 19th 2012 Paper submission deadline: March 5th, 2012 Notification of acceptance: April 16th, 2012 Camera ready version: May 1st, 2012 Authors are invited to submit full papers written in English, with a maximum of eight (8) printed pages, including figures, tables& references in IEEE double-column format. Submissions must present original work that has not been previously published, and is not under review elsewhere. All articles will be reviewed for scientific quality by the Technical Program Committee and external reviewers. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, on-line via the EDAS system (http://edas.info/N11539). Steering Committee: ------------------- Prof. Dr. Mario Gerla, University of California Los Angeles, US Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Technical Program Committee Chairs: ----------------------------------- Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, US Raphael Frank, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Technical Program Committee Members: ------------------------------------ Claude Chaudet, Telecom Paris Tech, France Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Falko Dressler, University of Innsbruck, Austria Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon, France Markus Forster, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Houda Labiod, Telecom Paris Tech, France Gustavo Marfia, Università di Bologna, Italy Nicolas Navet, INRIA Lorraine, France Jean-Louis Rougier, Telecom Paris Tech, France Thomas Scherer, Telindus, Luxembourg Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, US Radu State, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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