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Call for Paper

The last few years have witnessed an unmistable converge of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANET) leading to the emergence of Intelligent Vehicular Networks (InVeNET) that promise to revolutionize the way we drive by creating a ubiquitous safe and secure environment that will eventually pervade our highways and city streets.

InVeNET 2009 has for stated goal to be a high-profile workshop that brings together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and implementation of architectures and protocols for current and future applications of VANET. We aim to provide an environment conducive of cross-fertilization between researchers from many areas, all relevant, in one way or another to the confluence of Intelligent Transportation Systems and VANET. By creative a relaxed, collegial atmosphere, the will foster a dialogue between researchers from industry and academia on the state of the art in both ITS and VANET.

We anticipate the publication of a special issue of a high-quality archival journal (IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, or IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology being likely candidates) dedicated to selected papers from the workshop.

Prospective authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts related to the theory or practice of Intelligent Vehicular Networks. Of particular interest are ITS applications that rely directly or indirectly on contributions from VANET.  Submissions are being accepted with the understanding that they describe original research, neither published nor currently under review elsewhere.

 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Vehicular network architectures and protocols
• Mobility management and topology control
• Vehicular network performance modeling and analysis
• Vehicular network medium access control and routing protocols
• Intelligent Transportation Systems and Applications
• Modeling and simulation of Intelligent Vehicular Systems
• Theoretical aspects: performance modeling and analysis
• Organizing coordination and communication
• Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning in Intelligent Vehicular Networks
• Human factors in Intelligent Vehicular Systems
• Information aggregation and dissemination in Intelligent vehicular Networks
• Localization in Intelligent Vehicular Systems
• Bayesian decision systems
• Challenges of V2V and V2I wireless communication
• Security and privacy issues in Intelligent Vehicular Systems
• Applications and case studies
• Real-word test beds

Manuscript Submission

All submissions to InVeNET must adhere to the pdf format. Submitted manuscripts should be uploaded through the EDAS conference management system, and must not exceed six (6) single-spaced, two-column pages using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (standard IEEE conference format, IEEE Latex and Microsoft Word style files are available here). Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE MASS proceedings and appear in the IEEE Digital Library.

Registration Policy

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference at the full conference rate. The participation at MASS workshops is free for all the MASS registrants - it does not require an additional workshop registration.

Important Dates

• Submission Due: May 31, 2009,  Extended to : June 7^th,2009 June 19^th,2009 (Firm)
• Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2009
• Final Manuscript due: July 31, 2009Extended to : August 15, 2009

Please send email to mass2009@cs.odu.edu with any question or comment about InVeNET 2009.