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Journal of Communications (JCM, ISSN 1796-2021)
Special Issue on Road and Vehicular Communications and Applications

The promise of safer roads and enhanced driver experience enabled by radio communication of location and
traffic information among vehicles (V2V), as well as between vehicles and roadside infrastructure (V2I), has
attracted researchers for a long time. Generally, progress has been relatively slow until a significant boost in the
last few years became possible thanks to recent developments in standardization and enabling technology. The
progress achieved in the development of the IEEE 802.11p standard for the PHY and MAC communication layers
and the IEEE 1609 suite of standards defining higher-layer functionalities, such as resource management and
security, and the allocation of spectrum in the Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) band in several
countries, have led to growing experimental testbed evaluation of related technologies by industry and state road
authorities. Despite these advances, the space of road and vehicular communications is in its infancy compared
to more mature applications such as Wi-Fi or cellular networks, in both the fundamental research and the
practical sense. There are many open questions remaining, ranging from physical-layer issues of the wireless
channel behavior in the highly dynamic and interference-prone outdoor road environment, to specialized
solutions for channel access, routing and mobility management, and to novel communication paradigms that go
beyond the traditional point-to-point exchange of messages (e.g. geocasting). Above all, it is not yet clear which
of the wealth of potential applications, ranging from safety and collision avoidance to driver assistance to traffic
management to passenger infotainment, will take hold in the market and prove to be popular with the public.

The Special Issue on Road and Vehicular Communications and Applications is soliciting original contributions
on related advances in theoretical research, standardization work, experimental evaluation, and practical
implementation and deployment. Submissions reporting on accomplished results as well as detailed surveys of
the state-of-the-art are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

    •        Wireless channel behavior in the road and vehicular environment
    •        Transceiver design for vehicles and roadside infrastructure
    •        Medium-access protocols for vehicular communication
    •        Protocols and algorithms for vehicular networks (VANET)
    •        Cooperative communication and relaying
    •        Opportunistic routing and forwarding
    •        Location, navigation and mobility management
    •        Geographical routing methods
    •        Security and privacy in vehicular communications
    •        V2V and V2I communications
    •        Intra-vehicle wireless communication
    •        Public transport communication systems
    •        DSRC/WAVE standards
    •        Experimental evaluation and testbed deployments
    •        Applications of road and vehicular communications in safety and traffic management


Submission

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. Submissions should follow the author guidelines
of Journal of Communications and the complete instructions for prospective authors can be found at http://www.
academypublisher.com/jcm/forauthors.html. For further questions or inquiries, please contact the corresponding
guest editor (Lavy Libman, l.libman@usyd.edu.au).


Important Dates

    Submission Deadline:             March 15, 2010
    Author Notification:                    July 15, 2010
    Final Manuscript due:               August 10, 2010
    Tentative Publication Date:     September 2010

Guest Editors