BOOK Chapter Proposal, Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, March 1, 2009

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: *March 1, 2009*
Advances in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Developments and Challenges
A book edited by Prof. Mohamed K. Watfa
University of Wollongong, UAE
To be published by IGI Global:
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=572

Introduction
A Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a non-infrastructure based network
that does not rely on a central administration for communication between
vehicles. In a Vehicular Ad Hoc Network, the overlapping transmission range
of each vehicle ensures a unified and common channel for communication
between the vehicles. The flexibility of VANETs opens the door to a myriad
of applications that contribute to the safety and comfort of the vehicle's
passengers. Unfortunately, this versatility does not come for free: there
are a large number of computer communication challenges that await
researchers and engineers who are serious about the implementation and
deployment of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. Throughout the world, there are
many national/international projects in government, industry, and academia
devoted to vehicular networks.  VANETs represent a rapidly emerging,
particularly challenging class of Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). They are
distributed, self-organizing communication networks built up by moving
vehicles, and are thus characterized by very high node mobility and limited
degrees of freedom in mobility patterns. Such particular features often make
standard networking protocols inefficient or unusable, hence the growing
effort in the development of communication protocols which are specific to
vehicular networks. Early VANET researchers, who had extensive research
experience in MANETs, were very optimistic. They thought that MANETs could
be slightly modified and tailored to suit VANET architectures.
Unfortunately, things did not turn out to their expectations. The high
mobility of communicating vehicles necessitated that protocols be vastly
revised or re-written from scratch.

Objective of the Book
A book about Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks is both timely and looked-for. In the
last few years there has been an industrial aspiration to roll out VANETs.
However, VANETs introduce a lot of challenges that only earnest academic and
industrial research can overcome. A comprehensive and unified treatment of
the intermingled aspects of VANETs in a book is required. The goal of this
book is to explore the developments and current/future challenges in the
area of vehicular networks. This book will present techniques and protocols
that satisfy the peculiar needs of VANETs. It will tackle the Wireless
Medium Access Control (WMAC) techniques that are common to all wireless
communication systems and provide special treatment of the peculiar aspects
of WMAC in VANETs. Proactive, reactive and location-aware routing techniques
will also be presented. The cross-layer dependencies in VANETs will be
discussed and will show ways in which their exploitation will eventually
lead to the optimization of communication.  This book will serve as a
powerful reference and background in the area of VANETs by tackling the
prevalent research challenges that hinder a fully deployable vehicular
network. It will have a world-wide impact on the researchers working in the
automobile industry and at universities because it will be a pioneer
reference in this field and will resonant sharply with researchers who have
been craving a unified reference in the field of Inter-Vehicular
communication.  Target AudienceThe target audience of this book is those who
are interested in VANETs and related issues including scholars, researchers,
developers and postgraduate students. In particular, this book will be a
valuable companion and comprehensive reference for graduate students who are
taking a course in VANETs.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Architecture of Vehicular networksProtocol design (low-power, multi-channel)
Routing and MAC protocols
Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Roadside
Channel Modeling
Security and privacy
Cooperative Aspects
Cross-layer optimization techniques
Safety and commercial applications
Scalability and Availability issues in Vehicular networks
Mobility and traffic models
VANETs and Sensor Networks

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 1,
2009, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and
concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will
be notified by March 15, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent
chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 1,
2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review
basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for
this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group
Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference,"  and  "IGI Publishing"
imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2010.

Important Dates:
March 1, 2009:  Proposal Submission Deadline
March 15, 2009: Notification of Proposal Acceptance
June 1, 2009:    Full Chapter Submission
July 15, 2009:   Review Result Returned
August 31, 2009:  Final Chapter Submission
October 1, 2009:   Final deadline

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document
attachment with EMAIL Subject: Chapter Proposal VANETs, "Chapter TITLE")
To:
Prof. Mohamed Watfa, Book editor
College of Informatics, University of Wollongong;
Tel.: +971 50 1143757
E-mail: mohamed.watfa11@gmail.com