Welcome to WEEDEV 2009
Vehicular networks are considered as a novel class of wireless networks that have emerged thanks to the advances in wireless technologies and automotive industry. These networks are promising in allowing diverse communication services to drivers and passengers. Nowadays, vehicular networks technology is entering a critical phase where academia, industry and governments worldwide are investing significant time and resources on the large-scale deployment of these networks so that their benefits in the road safety and improvement of traffic flow could be leveraged. Still, a number of technical challenges need to be resolved in order that these networks could be widely deployed and used in our daily life. This motivates the need for real tests, field trials, and experimental evaluations for the different technological solutions and aspects in such networks.
This workshop aims to present and discuss the recent advances in the development of vehicular networks and their experimental evaluation and to disseminate the most advanced ideas and solutions in the field.
Specific topics of interest
WEEDEV 2009 covers the area of vehicular networks and ITS applications. This workshop intends to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present new experimental results, describe work in progress, and explore relationships among their diverse approaches.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
- Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for ITS
- Heterogeneous wireless technologies in vehicular networks and NEMO
- Mobility management in vehicular networks
- Ad hoc and mesh routing for vehicular networks
- IPv6 Address configuration for vehicular networks
- Security in vehicular communication (authentication, access control, confidentiality, services' authorization, ...)
- QoS in vehicular networks
- Geolocalisation
- Sensor networks and technologies for vehicular networks
- Smart antenna in vehicular networks
- Digital maps and location technologies
- Data collection and cooperation between vehicles
Submitted papers should have practical evaluation and/or deployment experiences as their main subject or they should use experiments to validate their modelling/analysis results.
Accepted papers will be included in the TRIDENTCOM 2009 conference proceedings and the IEEE Xplore digital library and will be indexed by EI.
International Journal Publication
Best papers of the workshop will be considered for further publication in a forthcoming Special issue (4th quarter 2009) of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology.
Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit Full Papers of up to 8 pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" (US Letter) proceedings format. The font size should be no smaller than 10 points. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper.
Templates for MS WORD and Latex users can be downloaded from the following IEEE sites:
| MS WORD 97/2000 | Latex Main File | Latex (Bibliography) |
| US Letter (DOC, 98 KB) | Unix (TAR.GZ, 655 KB) | Unix (TAR.GZ, 307 KB) |
| Windows (ZIP, 674 KB) | Windows (ZIP, 309 KB) |
LaTeX users: please use the template's conference mode. See template documentation for details
Please see the PDF Generation Instructions page (Courtesy: NSF Fastlane) for instructions on creating PDF files on various platforms. Please use Postscript Type 1 fonts and embed these fonts in the PDF file, in order to avoid printing problems due to missing fonts.
WEEDEV 2009 will use COCUS for paper submission and management. To submit your paper:
| [1] | Go to the COCUS login page. |
| [2] | If you have a COCUS account, you can log in by clicking the "Login" link at the upper right corner. Otherwise, click the "Register" link in the page to create your COCUS account. |
| [3] | After logging in, click the "Submit a paper" tab on the top. |
| [4] | Find the "WEEDEV" row, and click the "Submit a paper" link in that row. |
| [5] | In the next page, you will see the conference information. Click the "Submit a paper" link. |
| [6] | Choose Full Paper. |
| [7] | Enter the title, abstract and topic information for your paper, and click "Next." Please choose one Primary Topic and one or two Secondary Topics for your paper. These topics will help us to assign your paper to the TPC member with the right expertise and interest. |
| [8] | On the next page you will see the information you have just entered. Verify it, and if correct, click "Submit." If the information is not correct, click on the Back button of your browser and go back to the previous screen. |
| [9] | You can then upload your paper and modify the details of your submission if needed. |
