Recently there is a strong interest in developing networking techniques and important applications for moving vehicles, to enable wireless communication between roadside and vehicles or between two vehicles. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and vehicular sensor networks (VSNs) using all kinds of wireless technologies have recently received considerable attention.

The goal of this special issue is to explore the development of vehicular ad hoc and sensor network technologies about communication, networking, and applications.

Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to:

Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication
Communication protocol
Channel modeling
Modulation and coding
Power control and scalability issues
Multi-channel organization and operation
Security issues
MAC protocol
Routing protocol
Mobility management
Network management
Safety and non-safety applications
Simulation frameworks & real-world testbeds

Guest Editors

Prof. Han-Chieh Chao Prof. Yuh-Shyan Chen Dr. Seppo Hämaläinen
(Corresponding Editor) Department of Computer Science Nokia Siemens Networks
Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Information Engineering Research, Technology &
National Ilan University National Taipei University Platforms
Taiwan Taiwan Finland
hcc@niu.edu.tw yschen@mail.ntpu.edu.tw seppo.hamalainen@nsn.com

Series Editor:
Professor Habib F. Rashvand
IET Communications
E-mail: h.rashvand@warwick.ac.uk

Submission Details: Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Manuscripts should not exceed 4000 words (excluding references, tables and figures).

Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-com. A guide for authors for preparing papers is available online at http://www.ietdl.org/journals/doc/IEEDRLhome/ info/journals/proceedings/submissions.jsp.
Contributing authors might be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue.

Important Dates:

Submission: February 1, 2009
First Acceptance: April 31, 2009
Amended versions: July 24, 2009
Publication date: 4th Quarter 2009/1st Quarter 2010 (Tentative)