IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Special issue on Vehicular Communications and Networks

Vehicular communications and intelligent transportation systems aim to
improve traffic safety, protect environment by reducing traffic congestion
and fuel consumption, and enable a plethora of new applications such as
mobile infotainment. To address the special requirements of both safety and
non-safety applications in the vehicle domain, there is a necessity to
develop new communication technologies and find special integration
solutions into vehicular and transportation systems. These result in various
types of vehicular communications and networks: vehicle-to-infrastructure,
vehicle-to-roadside, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. In this growing
interdisciplinary field, many research challenges need to be addressed,
e.g., how to characterize communication channels due to greater dynamics and
higher requirements due to e.g. latency and reliability compared to
conventional wireless channels, how to appropriately design medium access
control (MAC) and network protocols that should essentially be scalable in
performance and adaptable to environment changes due to rapid network
topology changes and node density fluctuations, and how to evaluate and
validate vehicular networking protocols under realistic assumptions using
simulation methodologies and real-world testing. The goal of this special
issue is to report on cutting-edge research achievements covering those
aspects of vehicular communications and networks that are distinctively
different from communication networks in general. We are seeking papers that
describe high-quality, original, and unpublished contributions. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to:

- Adoption and adaptation of web technologies
- Application protocols and service architectures
- Channel measurement, modeling, & simulation
- Domain-specific security and privacy solutions
- Inter-networking technologies and architectures
- MAC technologies and channel management
- Multiple radio integration and control
- Physical layer and RF level technologies
- Radio resource management, congestion control, traffic control, routing, and QoS support
- Real-time experimental systems and testbeds
- RF integration and SDR technologies
- Safety and non-safety applications and services
- Simulation methodology and performance evaluation techniques
- Delay tolerant networks
- Energy efficient communications
- Traffic and mobility models

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described
in the Information for Authors under http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. Authors MUST
submit their manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website.

Manuscript Submission Due: December 15, 2009

First Reviews Due: March 1, 2010
Second Reviews Due and Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2010

Publication: 4th quarter 2010

Guest Editors:

Cheng-Xiang Wang
JRI-SIP, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK

Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

Athanasios V. Vasilakos
Dept. of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
University of Western Macedonia,
50100, Kozani, Greece

Wai Chen
Applied Research
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Piscataway, New Jersey, USA 07054

Ross D. Murch
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Timo Kosch
BMW Group Research and Technology,
Hanauer Strasse 46,
D-80992 Munich, Germany.

Gordon Stüber
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30332-0250.