2008 International Workshop on Wireless Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WITS-08) will be held in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN 2008) on December 13th ~ 15th, 2008, in Hainan Island, China. http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/.

Scope

A number of wireless communications technologies have been developed in recent years to meet the increasing needs of high-speed cordless connections in civil and military applications. The advances include WiFi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), Wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15), sensor networks, Bluetooth, mesh/ad hoc networks, RFID, mobile IP, mobile management, smart antenna, Radio-over-fiber, OFDM/OFDMA, MIMO, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and so on. These emerging technologies will significantly impact the design and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which aims to effectively provide higher vehicles safety, traffic management, and communications among vehicles and transport infrastructure. Currently, governmental institutes and societies in North America, Europe, Japan, and China, etc., are actively developing advanced wireless technologies for road, rail and maritime transport systems. For instance, the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) band has been allocated in the USA at 5.9 GHz for vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The IEEE 802.11p working group is developing enhancements of 802.11 standards to support ITS, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), vehicular telematics, and infotainment applications.

This workshop covers the area of wireless communications technologies for ITS applications. It will bring together researchers to present new results and describe work in progress to reflect the latest advances in the state of the art in design, modeling, simulation, and applications of this area.

Topics

This workshop covers the area of wireless communications technologies for ITS applications. This workshop intends to bring together researchers, engineers, and students to present new results, describe work in progress, and explore relationships among their diverse approaches. The topics of the workshop cover, but not limited to, the following:

• Smart antenna in ITS
• Millimeter-wave Radar in ITS
• RFID in ITS
• Radio channel modeling for ITS
• IEEE 802.11p for ITS
• Dedicated Short Range Communications in ITS
• Wireless communications for Maritime ITS
• Sensor networks and technologies for ITS
• Ad hoc/mesh networks for ITS
• Mobile management in ITS
• Vehicular networks
• Heterogeneous networks for ITS
• Digital maps and location technologies 

Submission

Authors are invited to submit original papers: They must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have
submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings.

All accepted papers in WITS-08 will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society(IEEE CS), included in
IEEEXplore database and indexed by EI. Papers must be prepared with only PDF. Please use IEEE CS paper format (See website to download the template in MSWORD or LaTeX). Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper), 6 pages (regular paper) or 8 pages (full paper: 2 pages extra chage). Submissions must not exceed 8 pages, including tables, references and figures, with only PDF. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the workshop.

 The submission should be done according to the guidelines on http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/. The extended versions of the accepted and presented selected papers will be published in one of the special issues below

• Springer Journal of Cluster Computing (SCIE), Special Issue on "Algorithm and Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks" 
• Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems  (IJAACS), Special Issue on “Cognitive Radio Systems” 

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2008
Camera Ready Due: September 1, 2008
Workshop Date: December 13-15, 2008

Organizing Committee

Dr. Yan Zhang (General Chair)
Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Email: yanzhang[AT]ieee.org

Dr. Thanos Vasilakos (General Co-Chair)
University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Email: vasilako[AT]ath.forthnet.gr

Dr. Ming-Tuo Zhou (TPC Chair)
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Singapore
Email: zhou.mingtuo[AT]ieee.org

Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa (TPC Co-Chair)
France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France
Email: hassnaa.moustafa[AT]orange-ftgroup.com

Technical Program Committee

Bertrand Ducourthial, UTC, France
Tim Leinmüller, DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland
Maria Kihl, Lund University - Sweden
Christian Maihöfer, Daimler AG
Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, France Telecom (Orange Labs), France
Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc
Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain
Yuh-Shyan Chen, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Carlos J. Bernardos, University of Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M), Spain
Ryuji Wakikawa, Keio University, Japan
Hamid Menouar, HITACHI Europe, France
Minghui Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Miguel Sepulcre, University Miguel Hernández, Spain
Yun Li, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Eric Bouillet, IBM, USA
Maria Calderon, University of Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M), Spain
Wenhui Zhang, NEC Germany
Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Jean-Marie BONNIN, Telecom Bretagne, France
Thierry Ernst, INRIA, France