Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks for Smart Cities

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications.- Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications for smart cities.- Medium access control protocols for VANETs.- Routing protocols for active safety in VANETs.- Geographical routing protocols for VANETs.- Architectures, algorithms and protocols design for data dissemination, processing, and aggregation in vehicular networks.- Security, privacy in vehicular networks.- QoS provisioning for vehicular networks.- Vehicular clouds: architecture design, algorithms and protocols for smart cities.- Software defined networking and virtualization for vehicles.- Vehicular social networks.- Group mobility/Platooning/Autonomous driving in smart cities.- 5G technologies for vehicular communications.- Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks.- Results from experimental systems and testbeds for VANET.

ANIS LAOUITI received his PhD in computer science from the Versailles University, France, in 2002. He had been doing his research during and after his Phd at INRIA/Hipercomteam, before he joined the TELECOM Sud-Paris, France, as an associate professor in 2006. His research interests include unicast/multicast routing protocols for MANET, and vehicle to vehicle communications. He was involved in the IETF-MANET working group and he is one of the co-authors of the OLSR routing protocol. He was involved in several national research projects such as E- compagnon project which aims to integrate ad hoc routing capacities (OLSR protocol) in new commercial multimedia products, and SMARTMESH which deals with the design of intelligent wireless sensor mesh networking for video surveillance and intrusion alarm system. Anis Laouiti was also involved in two international research projects to set up a real wireless ad hoc network testbed in collaboration with the AIT in Thailand, Dumbo 1& 2.>AMIRQAYYUM obtained his PhD in Mobile Wireless Networks from University of Paris-Sud, France in 2000. He was associated with INRIA France for the research on Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), from 1996 to 2000 and have co-authored Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol RFC (RFC-3626). He obtained his engineering degree from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. He is currently the Head of Centre of Research in Networks and Telecom (CoReNeT) at M. A. Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His current activities at CoReNeT include projects on mobility management in heterogeneous wireless networks, Quality of Service (QoS), Multicast video streaming in hybrid IPv4 and IPv6 networks, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) for active safety applications, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) design and development. He has lead many funded research projects on Mobility Management, IP Multimedia Subsystem, IPv6 and VANETs, in collaboration with several national and