1st International Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Networking
(VECON 2010)
http://ait.upct.es/vecon2010/

in conjunction with the
6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing,
Networking and Communications (WiMob 2010)
http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2010/

Sheraton Fallsview Hotel and Conference Centre,
Niagara-Falls, Canada,
October 11-13, 2010.

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups
the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results
and technical contributions on the field of Vehicular Communication Systems.

Receive our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: May 16, 2010
Notification of acceptance: July 16, 2010
Camera-ready manuscripts due: July 30, 2010
Workshop date: October 12, 2010

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SCOPE
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Authors are invited to submit papers presenting technical challenges,
comprehensive in-depth tutorial surveys, standardization efforts and new
research results related to the theory or practice of vehicular
communications and networking. 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:
- Overview of state-of-the-art of vehicular communication technologies,
standards and open challenges
- Architectures and protocols for VCS
- Cooperative paradigms for vehicular communication protocols and safety
applications
- Communication and networking issues in safety-related applications
- Channel access management and resource allocation procedures in VCS
- Integration of IP protocols into the vehicular scenario
- QoS and real-time support in VCS
- Performance analysis for vehicular communications
- Simulation issues of large-scale VCS and integration of traffic-network
simulators
- Mobility models and vehicle traffic models
- Application scenarios for Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Security, encryption and privacy for vehicular systems
- Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of VCS
- Human-machine interaction in safety-related applications
- VCS support for enhanced navigation, fuel-efficiency and comfort
applications
- Networking issues including routing, addressing and transport layer in VCS
- Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques for safety-related
applications
- Wireless sensor networks for VCS Physical layer aspects and propagation
models
- Data dissemination and delay-tolerant networking techniques for VCS
- Real-world experiences and testbeds

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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Authors are kindly invited to submit their manuscripts through EDAS
Conference Management System:

http://edas.info/N8849

Manuscripts should be written in English and not exceed 8 pages (2
additional pages are possible at extra charge). They should be prepared
according to IEEE submission guidelines:

http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html

After writing the manuscript (any of the templates available here can be
used), it should be converted to .pdf and submitted in this format.

All submissions must be original contributions not published or currently
under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. All accepted
papers will be included in the WiMob 2010 main conference proceedings and
published by IEEE. Full conference registration will allow the authors of
accepted papers to attend the main conference and any organized workshop.
The workshop paper will need to have at least one author register at the
FULL conference rate.

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VECON 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Chairs:
Juan J. Alcaraz, UPCT, Spain
Esteban Egea López, UPCT, Spain

Technical Program Committe:
José María Barceló, UPC, Spain
Xavier Perez-Costa, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Christoph Mecklenbräuker, TU Wien, Austria
Vicente Casares-Giner, UPV, Spain
Vicent Pla, UPV, Spain
Carlos Bernardos, UC3M, Spain
Paolo Bellavista, Università di Bologna
Pawel Kulakowski, AGH University, Poland
Felipe García-Sanchez, UPCT, Spain
Javier Vales-Alonso, UPCT, Spain
Jacek Danda, AGH University, Poland
Oliver Yang, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Best regards,

VECON 2010 Organizing Committee