IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Special Section: Graph Theory and Its Application in Vehicular Networking

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Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Special Section: Graph Theory and Its Application in Vehicular Networking
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The last two decades have witnessed unprecedented growth in
telecommunications, particularly in the area of wireless
communications. This development in telecommunications opens doors to
many sophisticated complex systems, e.g. social networks, smart grids,
vehicular networks and sensor networks, that previously were not
feasible.  Graph theory is among the most widely used tools for
modeling and analyzing the many types of interactions, relations and
dynamics in these systems. Many problems of practical interest can be
represented by graphs.

The use of graph theory in vehicular networks, or more broadly highly
dynamic networks, is of particular interest. The complex interactions
among vehicles, between vehicles and road-side infrastructure,
combined with the high mobility of vehicles and fast changing
topology, present some unique challenges in network modeling and
performance analysis, network design, resource management and
communication protocol design.

This special section aims to provide recent advances in graph theory
that are applicable to highly dynamic networks, particularly vehicular
networks, identify challenges in the area and present possible
solutions, and furthermore to unveil the significant potential of
graph theory in the domain of vehicular networks. Topics of interest
for this special section include, but are not limited to:
* Vehicular network modeling and performance analysis;
* Network architecture design;
* Vehicular technologies for vehicle-to-vehicle and
vehicle-to-infrastructure networking & services;
* End-to-end service delivery architectures, algorithms, protocols and
scalability;
* Cooperative communications;
* Quality of service;
* Resource management;
* Robust network and communication protocol design;
* Interference characterization and management;
* Localization techniques;
* Road traffic management.

Authors should follow the IEEE TVT manuscript format and submission
procedure which can be found at the IEEE TVT home page
http://transactions.vtsociety.org under Information for Authors.

Timeline:
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* Manuscript submission deadline: June 1, 2012
* Editorial decision notification: September 15, 2012
* Revision deadline: October 15, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2012
* Final manuscript due: January 15, 2013
* Publication date: first quarter of 2013

Guest Editors:
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Dr Guoqiang Mao (Corresponding Guest Editor)
The University of Sydney
Darlington, NSW 2006, Australia
Email: guoqiang.mao@sydney.edu.au

Prof. Martin Haenggi
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
E-Mail: mhaenggi@nd.edu

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