IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC)

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1st IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular
Communications (IEEE
WiVeC'07) 
30th September - 1st October 2007, Baltimore, USA 
Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street,
Baltimore, MD, USA,
21202

http://www.ieee-wivec.org 

Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
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Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a
key technology
for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and
providing Internet
access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous
connectivity. The potential
of this technology has been acknowledged with the
establishment of ambitious
research programs worldwide, such as the European eSafety
initiative, the US
programs derived from the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative and
the Japanese
InternetITS and AHS programs.

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers
through its
areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and
Automotive
Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless
vehicular
communications a reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society
has decided to
establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular
communications, with
the first issues planned to be co-located with the reputed
IEEE VTC
conferences.

The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular
Communications
(WiVeC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications
aspects of
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I)
and
Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, including
implications on transport
efficiency and safety, implications on automotive
electronics, liability
issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment.

The first IEEE WiVeC symposium will be collocated with the
66th IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference and will take place at the
Renaissance
Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore on the 30th September and 1st
October 2007.
Combined registrations packages will be offered to attendees
to WiVeC and
VTC conferences.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the
IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital
library. A selection of
the best five WiVeC papers will be published in a special
issue of the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Magazine www.ieeevtm.org. Authors are
encouraged to
submit full papers (a maximum of five pages) through the
conference web
site.


Topics of interest
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The WiVec Symposium seeks original papers - not published or
currently under
review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the
area of
vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I),
and
vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications. Areas of
interest include,
but are not limited to:

* RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and
propagation models.
* Radio resource management and interference management.
* Spectrum assignment and EMC regulations.
* Architecture, networking protocols (including ad-hoc,
routing, data
dissemination, etc) and their evalutation.
* QoS and cross-layer optimization design.
* Communications systems and technologies.
* Testbeds and simulation platforms.
* Interworking with sensor network technologies.
* In-car electronics and embedded integration of wireless
vehicular
communications.
* Roadside infrastructure.
* Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models.
* Digital maps and location technologies.
* Decision and control issues.
* Human-Machine Interface.
* Applications (Ecall, toll collection, traffic information,
wireless
diagnosis etc.).
* Security, liability and privacy.
* Standards development, business models, policies (e.g.,
Cooperative
aspects of vehicular communication).
* Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety.
* Scalability issues in metropolitan-wide vehicular
networks.


Submissions
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Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum
5 pages)
following the submission guidelines provided at
www.ieee-wivec.org Accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings published
by the IEEE and
will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. 

A selection of the best five WiVeC papers will be published
in a special
issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
(www.ieeevtm.org).


Organizing Committee (to be completed)
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General Co-Chairs: 
- Mario Gerla, University of California (UCLA), USA
- Javier Gozalvez, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
- Fan Bai, General Motors, USA
- Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruhe University, Germany

Speakers Chair
- Timo Kosch, BMW, Germany

Panel Chair
- Jim Misener, PATH Berkeley, USA

Finance Chair:
- James Irvine, University of Strathclyde, UK

	
Important Dates 
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Paper Submission Deadline, 15 April 2007
Notification of acceptance, 22 May 2007
Camera-ready papers due, 8 June 2007

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