Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments
Call for Papers
Wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) technology comes into sight as a state-of-the-artsolution to contemporary vehicular communications, which is anticipated to be widely applied in thenear future to radically improve the transportation environment in aspects of safety, intelligentmanagement, and data exchange services. WAVE systems will fundamentally smooth the progress ofintelligent transportation systems (ITSs) by providing them with high-performance physical platforms. WAVEsystems will build upon the IEEE 802.11p standard, which is still active and expected to be ratified inApril, 2009. Meanwhile, the VHF/UHF (700MHz) band vehicular communication systems are attracting increasingly attention recently.
The fast varying and harsh vehicular environment brings about several fresh research topics on thestudy of WAVE systems and future vehicular communication systems, which include physical layerchallenges associated with mobile channels, capacity evaluation, novel network configuration, effectivemedia access control (MAC) protocols, and robust routing and congestion control schemes.
The objective of this special section is to gather and circulate recent progresses in this fastdeveloping area of WAVE and future vehicular communication systems spanning from theoreticalanalysis to testbed setup, and from physical/MAC layers' enabling technology to network protocol.These research and implementation activities will be considerably helpful to the design of WAVE andfuture vehicular communications systems by removing major technical barriers and presentingtheoretical guidance. This special issue will cover, but not limited to, the following main topics:
- 700MHz/5.8GHz vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)/vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) single-input single-output(SISO)/MIMO channel measurement and modeling, channel spatial and temporalcharacteristics exploration
- Doppler shift study, evaluation and estimate, time and frequency synchronizations, channelestimate and prediction
- Utilization of MIMO, space-time coding, smart antenna, adaptive modulation and coding
- Performance study and capacity analysis of V2V and V2I communications operating over both5.8GHz and 700Mz
- Software radio, cognitive radio, and dynamic spectrum access technologies applied to WAVE andfuture vehicular communication systems
- Mesh network and other novel network configurations for vehicular networks
- Efficient MAC protocols development
- Routing algorithms and congestion control schemes for both real-time traffic warning messagebroadcasting and high-speed data exchange
- Cross-layer design and optimization
- Testbed or prototype activities
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking's Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable.
| Manuscript Due | April 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | July 1, 2008 |
| Publication Date | October 1, 2008 |
Guest Editors:
- Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan