» The paper submission deadline has been extended to 7 February 2012 (Final Deadline!).
» We are working on very strict deadlines:
Notification date: 12 Feb 2012
Registration and Camera-ready due: 19 Feb 2012
Submission to Springer due: 22 Feb 2012 (strict!)
» Nets4Cars & Nets4Trains 2012 will be held alongside the following three events:
» Nets4Cars & Nets4Trains 2011 was successfully held in March this year at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany. See and read online the Proceedings Book, available as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Volume 6596.
The 4th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for
Vehicles/Trains (Nets4Cars & Nets4Trains 2012) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of intra- and inter-vehicle
communications (protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models
(models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications. Nets4Cars 2012 will be held in Lithuania (25 - 27 April 2012) together with BCFIC-2012 and two COST project meetings.
SCOPE
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in the framework of the following main topics (not limited to):
- vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside communications
- intra-vehicle communications
- vehicle-to-Internet communications
- new trends in VANETS, e.g. integration of electric vehicles in smart grid communications
- mobility and vehicular traffic models
- information collection and dissemination
- analytical and simulation techniques
- experimental systems and field operational testing
- protocol performance enhancements
- safety and non-safety related applications
- recent standardization efforts and problems (e.g. 802.11p)
- international harmonisation activities (e.g. Europe vs. US vs. Japan)
Nets4Trains: Nets4Cars 2012 will also host a track on Communication technologies for vehicles in the Railway Transportation (Nets4Trains). The aspiration of the International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles in the Railway Transportation (Nets4Trains 2012) is to provide an international forum on the latest technologies and research challenges associated with the design and implementation of railway intra- and inter-vehicle communications (physical layer, protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications.
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research results related to the theory or practice of intelligent railway transportation systems and railway vehicular ad hoc networks in the framework of the following main topics:
- train-to-train communications
- train-to-vehicle communications
- train-to-infrastructure communications
- intra-train communications
- train-to-Internet communications and multimedia applications
- train localisation using communication technology
- mobility and traffic models
- information collection and dissemination
- analytical and simulation techniques
- experimental systems and field operational testing
- protocol performance enhancements
- safety and non-safety related applications
- traveller information services
- multi-modal transport
SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit full papers comprising original work, not previously published, in English of max. 12 pages (or max. 8 pages for work in progress) in LNCS
single-column format. All papers will be reviewed by an international
program committee with appropriate expertise. Submissions must present
original work that has not been previously published, and is not under
submission else-where. The ideal submission should provide an
insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept,
or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the
implementation and evaluation of a working system. All papers
submitted for review are subject to a double-blind review process,
i.e. must not contain any information revealing the identity of the
authors (anonymization). The final version of all papers must include
a title, complete contact information for all authors, and key-words
on the cover page.
A properly anonymized version of the paper has to be submitted to the
Nets4Cars page at EDAS not later than the submission deadline listed
below using the link http://www.edas.info/N11639.
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the workshop to be held in Lithuania as part of BCFIC-2012 and published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Book Series (Confirmed). Registration for the workshop by at least one of the authors and presenting the paper is a mandatory requirement for having the paper included in the proceedings.
VENUE
Hotel Novotel Vilnius Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
- Marina Aguado, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
- Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center (Japan)
- Atif Alvi, LUMS (Pakistan)
- Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Center (Finland)
- Marion Berbineau, INRETS (France)
- Mohamed Boucadair, France Telecom (France)
- Torsten Braun, University of Bern (Switzerland)
- Marcello Caleffi , University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy)
- Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
- Soumaya Cherkaoui, University of Sherbrooke (Canada)
- Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
- Robil Daher, University of Rostock (Germany)
- Thierry Ernst, INRIA (France)
- Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe (Germany)
- Fethi Filali, Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center (Qatar)
- Francisco Garcia, Agilent Technologies (UK)
- Benoît Geller, ENSTA (France)
- Javier Goikoetxea, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Spain)
- Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche. Uwicore Laboratory (Spain)
- Christophe Gransart, INRETS (France)
- Oleg Gusikhin, Ford (USA)
- Jerome Harri, EURECOM (France)
- Geert Heijenk, University of Twente (Netherlands)
- Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey (UK)
- Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, CREATE-NET (Italy)
- Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
- Uwe Kucharzyk, Bombardier Transportation (Germany)
- Long Le, NEC Laboratories Europe (Germany)
- Andreas Lehner, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany)
- Tim Leinmüller, DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH (Germany)
- Fei Liu, University of Twente (Netherlands)
- Katrin Luddecke, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany)
- Juliette Marais, INRETS-LEOST (France)
- Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University (UK)
- Markus Miche, SAP Research
- David Mottier, Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe (France)
- John Murphy, University College Dublin (Ireland)
- Augusto Neto, Universidade Federal de Goias (Brazil)
- Brian Park, University of Virginia (USA)
- Cristina Rico-Garcia, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany)
- Matthias Röckl, In2Soft / KPIT Cummins (Germany)
- Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior (Portugal)
- Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR (Italy)
- Divitha Seetharamdoo, French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS) (France)
- Axel Sikora, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg (Germany)
- Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany)
- Markus Strassberger, BMW Group Research and Technology (Germany)
- Jouni Tervonen, University of Oulu (Finland)
- Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
- Tsutomu Tsuboi, Renesas Technology Corp (Japan)
- Bart van Arem, TU Delft (Netherland)
- Anna Maria Vegni, Roma Tre University (USA)
- Alexey Vinel, SPIIRAS (Russia)
- Martine Wahl, INRETS (France)
- Michelle Wetterwald, EURECOM (France)
- Christian Wewetzer, Volkswagen Group (Germany)
- Nawaporn Wisitpongphan, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (Thailand)
- Yunpeng Zang, RWTH Aachen (Germany)
- Yang Zhang, Pennsylvania State University (USA)