CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Vehicular Networks  

Vehicular networks are a subject of much attention lately. In December 2003, the U.S. FCC approved 75 MHz of spectrum for Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), and the resulting DSRC system is expected to be the first wide-scale vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) in North America. In Japan, two DSRC standards have been adopted (the ARIB STD-T75 in 2001, the ARIB STD-T88 in 2004), and Japanese auto manufactures are working with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation in the third phase of an ambitious Advanced Safety Vehicle project. The German Ministry of Education and Research has sponsored the Fleetnet and Network on Wheels projects. Throughout the world, there are many national/international projects in government, industry, and academia devoted to vehicular networks. 

The goal of this special issue is to explore developments in the area of vehicular networks. Enabled by short- to medium-range communication systems (vehicle-vehicle or vehicle-roadside), the vision of vehicular networks includes real-time and safety applications, sharing the wireless channel with mobile applications from a large, decentralized array of commercial service providers. Vehicular safety applications include collision and other safety warnings. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others. Creating high-performance, highly scalable, robust and secure vehicular networking technologies presents an extraordinary challenge to the wireless research community. Original contributions previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following:

•Architecture of Vehicular networks •  Protocol design(low-power, multi-channel, etc.)
•Vehicle-to-Vehicle   

•  PHY, MAC, Network Layer (Routing protocols)
•Vehicle-to-Roadside    •  Channel Modeling
•Security and privacy     •  Cooperative aspects of vehicular communication
•Cross-layer optimization techniques    •  Scalability and Availability issues in Vehicular networks
•Mobility and traffic models  •  Safety and commercial applications

Authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors on the inside back cover of any issue of J-SAC. There will be one round of reviews and acceptance will be limited to papers needing only moderate revisions. Prospective authors should submit a pdf version of their complete manuscript (which should be compressed if the file size exceeds 1 Mbyte) via email to http://edas.info/4985 according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Submission February 23, 2007
Acceptance Notification  May 15, 2007
Final Manuscript Due to Publisher: July 1, 2007
Publication Date: 3rd Quarter 2007

      Guest Editors

Rajeev Shorey Farooq Anjum Sunghyun Choi Virgil Gligor
GM Research  Telcordia Research Seoul National University University of Maryland
Bangalore, India NJ, USA Korea College Park
rajeev.shorey@gm.com  fanjum@telcordia.com schoi@snu.ac.kr gligor@eng.umd.edu
Ralf. G. Herrtwich Jean Pierre Hubaux P. R. Kumar,  
Daimler Chrysler EPFL, Lausanne Dept of Electrical & Computer Eng  
Berlin Switzerland Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign  
jean-pierre.hubaux@epfl.ch prkumar@uiuc.edu