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Vehicular Communications and Networking
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Significant efforts are being carried out by industry, academia and public agencies to improve driving safety, provide travel assistance, increase vehicle traffic efficiency and decrease fuel consumption by exploiting vehicular communications and networking technologies. These technologies, which are generally referred to as VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks) or by the more general term VCS (Vehicular Communication Systems), include vehicle-to-infrastructure, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and can be based on short- and medium-range communication as well as on cellular systems. The development and deployment of VCS are also considered one of the most critical issues for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry.
This special issue seeks for contributions addressing technical and research issues, development projects, standardization activities, and field trials on VCS technologies and applications. Contributions can be of theoretical or practical nature, original results or state-of-the-art surveys of interest to the VCS community, focused on communication issues or on applications. Manuscripts from both academia and industry professionals are welcomed.
This special issue also publishes extended versions of selected papers from VECON 2012 (2nd International Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Networking, http://ait.upct.es/vecon2012/), held in conjunction with WiMob 2012 (8th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications).
Dr. Esteban Egea-López
Dr. Juan J. Alcaraz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- VCS standardization activities and government policies
- Architectures and protocols for VCS
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks
- Medium access control in VCS
- Resource allocation in VCS
- Safety applications of VCS
- Simulation issues for VCS
- Mobility and vehicular traffic models
- Vehicular Traffic Management
- VCS technologies for fuel efficiency and reduced emissions
- Security, encryption and privacy for vehicular systems
- Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of VCS
- Human-machine interaction in VCS
- Driving assistance and comfort applications
- Networking aspects of VCS
- QoS and real-time support in VCS
- Physical layer aspects of the vehicular wireless link
- Cognitive radio in VCS
- Delay-tolerant techniques for VCS
- Deployment issues in VCS
- Real-world experiences and testbeds
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