TS 2013 - Special Issue on Critical Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc/Sensor Networks

Telecommunication Systems, Springer
Special Issue on
Critical Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc/Sensor Networks
URL:
http://staff.iium.edu.my/**sakib/CFP_VSN_TSJ2012.pdf
Theme and Scope
For the past few decades, Vehicular ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have emerged
as a key technology serving community of peoples in various applications.
During this era, there has been a tremendous growth in this field with many
new techniques and standards have been developed for the ease and safety of
the passengers. Now, the passengers during travelling can take smart
decisions by knowing the outside environment variables such as traffic
conditions, density of the vehicles in a particular region, duration of
traffic lights in a particular areas, etc. Moreover, these passengers can
download and upload the heavy contents while travelling with the aid of the
already deployed Road Side Unit (RSUs) which are connected to Internet to
provide various services to the end users.
Modern Vehicles equipped with sensor nodes monitor and collect the data in
sparse and dense regions which can be processed for the benefit of
community of peoples, e.g., health monitoring and diagnostic systems,
safety alarms, intelligent transport systems, and environment monitoring.
The vehicles during movement, equipped with sensor nodes, can also collect
the data from human body and that data can be processed in collaboration
with the other vehicles for various medical purposes. In this case, VANETs
can also be used in Body Sensor Networks (BSNs).
However, as a new technology emerges, it throws new challenges to the
research community. Although there exist many solutions of different kinds
in the relevant areas, there is still a requirement of more efficient
solutions which can be used in wide variety of applications. Many
industrial and academic institutions have already geared up to provide
solutions for the benefits of the community. Moreover, there are many
constraints that have to be resolved before providing any standard
solution. Some examples of the constraints are; mobility of the nodes,
connectivity in sparse and dense regions, failure of nodes, network traffic
congestion and interference, etc.
Submission is solicited from researchers across the globe in the following
issues (but not limited to these):
- Efficient route selection in sparse and dense regions in presence of
mobility of the nodes
- Optimized cluster selection on the road
- Optimized access point deployment for better coverage and uninterrupted
services to all the vehicles on the road
- Security during the data dissemination
- Cache management for peer to peer (P2P) information sharing
- Load balancing in VANET/Sensor networks
- Optimized Service selection and resource discovery
- Providing QoS to various services
- Solutions to various critical applications such as health monitoring
system, safety alarms etc.
- Channel allocation and selection in VANETs
Submission Guidelines
Authors can see manuscript preparation guideline here:
http://www.springer.com/**business+%26+management/**
business+information+systems/**journal/11235
Authors are required to submit papers as an all-in-one PDF file to any of
the Guest Editors (CC to all is preferred). Please note in the subject line
of the email, "SI_VSN_2012".
Papers would be judged by the expert reviewers based on the originality,
methodology, novelty, and new innovations. Papers submitted for this
special issue must not be submitted or are under consideration for
publication anywhere. Papers presented in conferences should be
substantially enhanced for consideration (more than 30% new contents) and
should be declared at the time of submission. The conference version also
must be attached along with the main manuscript.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Due: 20 December, 2012
Notification of Acceptance/Revision/Rejection: 20 April 2013
Revised paper Submission: 15 June 2013
Final Paper Submission: 15 August 2013
Publication Date: TBA
Guest Editors
Dr. Neeraj Kumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Thapar University, Patiala (Punjab)
INDIA
Email: neeraj.kumar-AT-thapar.edu , nehra04-AT-yahoo.co.in
Dr. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
Department of Computer Science
International Islamic University Malaysia
MALAYSIA
Email: sakib.pathan-AT-gmail.com , spathan-AT-ieee.org
Dr. Elias P. Duarte Jr.
Department of Informatics
Federal University of Paraná
BRAZIL
Email: elias-AT-inf.ufpr.br
Dr. Riaz Ahmed Shaikh
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Quebec-Outaouais
CANADA
Email: riaz289-AT-gmail.com
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Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Ph.D.
Founding Head, NDC Laboratory, KICT, IIUM
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Information and Communication Technology
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Jalan Gombak, 53100, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Tel: +603-61964000 Ext. 5653, Cell: +60163910754
E-Mails: spathan-AT-ieee.org, sakib-AT-iium.edu.my
Personal URL:
http://staff.iium.edu.my/**sakib/
NDC Lab URL:
http://staff.iium.edu.my/**sakib/ndclab/