Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have recently been proposed as one of the promising ad hoc networking techniques that can provide both drivers and passengers with a safe and enjoyable driving experience. VANETs can be used for many applications with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. Some of the significant applications of VANETs are road safety applications including collision and other safety warning systems, driver convenience and information systems, and, in the future, intelligent traffic management systems. In the context just described, the proposed special issue shall have present current ground-breaking research and a detailed description of the state of the art of VANETs pointing to research, projects, and standardization efforts that have been done.

Authors shall be invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other journal. The topics suggested can be discussed in terms of concepts, state of the art, standards, designs, implementations, running experiments, or applications. This issue is open to original and review/survey articles as well. Vehicular communication areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer, and propagation models
* Radio resource management and interference management
* Architecture, networking protocols
* QoS and cross-layer optimization design
* Testbeds and simulation platforms
* Interworking with sensor network technologies
* In-car electronics and embedded integration of vehicular communications
* Roadside infrastructure
* Mobility management, mobility, and vehicle traffic models
* Digital maps and location technologies
* Applications, security, and privacy
* Standards development, business models, and policies
* Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety
* Scalability issues in metropolitan-wide vehicular networks

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijvt/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due August 15, 2010
First Round of Reviews November 15, 2010
Publication Date February 15, 2011

Lead Guest Editor
Syed R. Rizvi, Old Dominion University, USA

Guest Editors
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy
Shaharuddin Salleh, University of Technology, Malaysia
Mona E. Rizvi, Norfolk State University, USA
Zainab Zaidi, NICTA, Australia