Final Paper Submission for Proceedings (hard deadline) : October 2, 2009

Paper Submission Format
All final paper submissions for VNC2009 must be formatted in the standard 2-column Proceedings format. All papers are limited to 8 pages in length. Papers exceeding these limits will NOT be accepted for publication in the CD Proceedings.

Style Files and Templates
Author's style files and templates for final form papers can be found on the web sites below.

Paper Plaza support:
http://its.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php

LaTeX style files and templates:
http://its.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php

Word Templates:
http://its.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php

Electronic Submission
All submissions must be made electronically through The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Conference Management System:
http://its.papercept.net/conferences/index.html

Registration
One registration at the FULL advance registration rates must be completed by one of the authors before uploading the final version of the paper for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings.

Presentation
Papers not presented at the Conference will not be included in the IEEE Xplore database.

Scope and Purpose:

This conference will seek to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure networking technologies, and their applications.

Format:

Papers should be submitted in the standard IEEE format with a maximum page limit of eight pages.

Topics of interest are:

* Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications
* Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications
* Vehicular ad hoc networks
* Potential applications of V2V and V2I communications including ITS
* Protocols for V2V and V2I communications (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.)
* Security and authentication issues in V2V and V2I networks
* Physical layer and RF level technologies for V2V and V2I communications
* Antenna system technologies for V2V and V2I communications
* Radio resource management and QoS support for V2V and V2I communications
* Information networking over V2V, V2R and next-generation networks
* Simulation / performance evaluation techniques for V2V and V2I communications
* Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination in V2V and V2I communications
* Experimental systems and testbeds for V2V and V2I communications
* Standardization updates on V2V and V2I communications

Paper submission date: August 3, 2009
Notification of acceptance date: September 7, 2009
Final paper submission date: October 2, 2009

General Chairs:

Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan
Dr. Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Contact:

Dr. Onur Altintas
Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan
onur[at]computer.org

Dr. Wai Chen
Telcordia Technologies, USA
waichen[at]ieee.org