Call for Papers >>

The WiVeC Symposium seeks original papers—not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal—in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models
• Radio resource management and interference management
• Spectrum assignment and EMC regulations
• Architecture, networking protocols (including ad-hoc, routing, data dissemination, etc.) and their evaluation
• QoS and cross-layer optimization design
• Communications systems and technologies
• Testbeds and simulation platforms
• Interworking with sensor network technologies
• In-car electronics and embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications
• Roadside infrastructure
• Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models
• Digital maps and location technologies
• Decision and control issues
• Human-Machine Interface
• Applications (Ecall, toll collection, traffic information, wireless diagnosis, etc.)
• Security, liability and privacy
• Standards development, business models, policies (e.g., Cooperative aspects of vehicular communication)
• Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety
• Scalability issues in metropolitan-wide vehicular networks

Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) following the WiVeC template to http://wivec2008.trackchair.com.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 19 May 2008
Acceptance notification: 7 June 2008
Camera-ready papers: 14 June 2008 (no extensions)

All accepted papers will be included in the VTC 2008-Fall conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE Xplore database. A selection of the best WiVeC papers will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (http://www.ieeevtm.org).