It is our pleasure to invite you to the 18th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology SCVT 2011 in the Benelux. Established in 1993, the Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux is an annual event organized by the IEEE Benelux Joint Chapter on Communications and Vehicular Technology. The Symposium is aimed at presenting and discussing the latest scientific and technical advances in communication systems and vehicular communication technology.


In the evening of Tuesday November 22, an evening session on low-power and low-radiation wireless networking will be organized. The event on Wednesday, November 23, will consist of invited talks, and oral and poster presentations of contributed papers.


You are invited to submit papers according to the deadline given below. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Physical Layer Topics:

Wideband channel modelling
Multiple antenna and MIMO systems
Advanced receiver design
Multi-user detection
Broadband access techniques
Communication theory
Coding and modulation
Software radio
Ultra Wide Band radio
Optical fiber communications
Cognitive radio
Cooperative communications
Localization
Energy efficient transmission


Networking Topics:

Wireless multimedia networks
Advanced radio resource management
Mobile networking
Quality of Service for mobile applications
Self-organizing networks
Satellite communications
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication
Vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
Personal and body area networks
Broadband fiber-to-the-home
Ad-hoc and sensor networks
Internet of Things communication
Research methodologies for performance evaluation of wireless communication systems
Energy efficient protocols
Cooperative and cognitive networking

The accepted and presented papers of the conference will be published on the IEEE Xplore.

Important dates

September 12, 2011: Paper submission deadline
October 10, 2011: Notification of acceptance
November 1, 2011: Submission of the camera-ready manuscript
November 22-23, 2011: Symposium