----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                                     CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Workshop on Vehicular Networking and Intelligent Transportation systems (VENITS 2023)
co-Located with the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2023)


                              July 18-21, 2023 - Hong Kong, China
                        https://grc.webs.upv.es/events/VENITS/2023/
                     Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE Xplore

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Important Dates:
================

Submission deadline: April 5, 2023 (firm deadline)
Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2023
Camera-ready version: May 5, 2023

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NEW!
=====

We are glad to offer authors the possibility to publish selected papers in the MDPI Computers journal, special issue on Vehicular Networking and Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023 (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/9H446VIG57). The papers will be published in Open Access form with APC waived.

Scope:
======

Over the years, we have witnessed the merging of wireless communications and transportation technologies. This excellent combination of two important fields has propelled our capabilities even further, allowing us to communicate anytime and anywhere, thereby improving the traffic safety, reducing the travel costs, and increasing our life quality tremendously.
Once the new Intelligent Transportation Systems are deployed, our roads and highways will be able to provide enhanced services to users through the combination of V2X and cellular communications, thus completely revolutionizing when and how we communicate, commute, and navigate, in the coming future.
In addition, all types of autonomous vehicles, including aerial, terrestrial and maritime drones, can also support ITS systems and processes to achieve unprecedented performance, safety and services.
Under such conditions, several issues remain open in the field on vehicular networking, including message dissemination in congested environments, Quality of Service (QoS), efficient and adaptive routing, MAC layer enhancements, mobility prediction, efficient handovers, and also in Intelligent Transportation Systems, such as efficient road traffic managing, optimal emergency services operation, integration with
autonomous vehicles, etc.
This workshop is soliciting original technical papers addressing the main research challenges in the vehicular networking and the intelligent transportation systems area.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope:

- Wireless vehicular networking (aerial, terrestrial and maritime vehicles)
- Congestion and admission control in dense vehicular networks
- Content distribution in wireless vehicular environments
- Smartphone/vehicle integration
- Edge solutions for ITS
- Cooperative sensing of road conditions
- Network and system architectures for mobile vehicular computing
- DSRC/WAVE communications. DSRC alternatives and supporting technologies
- 5G/6G technologies for vehicular environments. - Network protocols and
algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc.
- Integration with aerial, terrestrial and maritime autonomous vehicles.
- UAV support for ground vehicle communications and services.
- Statistical analysis, prediction and management of vehicular mobility
- Multimedia communications in vehicular scenarios
- Models, simulators and tools for vehicular environments
- Communications for safety of vulnerable road users
- Communications for automated driving
- Security and trust issues in vehicular environments


Papers Submission:
==================

The workshop accepts novel and previously unpublished papers. Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper).

The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages. Two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages).
Submitted papers cannot have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The workshop Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail address(es).

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=venits2023

See ICDCS 2023 conference website for more details: https://icdcs2023.icdcs.org/


Organization:
=============

General co-Chairs:
==================
Carlos Tavares Calafate (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Francisco J. Martinez (University of Zaragoza, Spain)


Steering Committee:
===================
Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Bertrand Ducourthial (University of Technology of Compiegne, France)
Fawzi Nashashibi (INRIA, France)


Publicity Chairs:
=================
Peppino Fazio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Vicente Torres-Sanz (University of Zaragoza, Spain)


Program Committee:
==================

Ali Balador (Ericsson, Sweden)
Carlos Tavares Calafate (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Claudia Campolo (Reggio Calabria University, Italy)
Juan Carlos Cano (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Baldomero Coll (Miguel Hernandez University, Spain)
Floriano DeRango (University of Calabria, Italy)
Peppino Fazio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Piedad Garrido (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Dongkyun Kim (Kyungpook National University, South Korea)
Pietro Manzoni (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Johann Marquez-Barja (IMEC & University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Francisco J. Martinez (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Manuel Ricardo (University of Oporto, Portugal)
Stefan Ruehrup (FTW - Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)
Julio A. Sanguesa (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Jose Santa (Technical University of Cartagena, Spain)
Oyunchimeg Shagdar (VEDECOM, France)
Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Vicente Torres-Sanz (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

For more information see: https://grc.webs.upv.es/events/VENITS/2023/