Topics include but are not limited to:

• Ultra-dense small cell deployments of 5G

• Autonomous driving

• Architectures, protocols and algorithms for vehicular communications

• Software-Defined vehicular communications techniques and architectures

• Mobile Edge Computing in the context of vehicular communications

• Energy saving protocols for vehicular networks

• Dense heterogeneous network deployment architectures and solutions

• Handoff and mobility control

• Applications to Internet of Things, cloud, smart grid, vehicle to grid, and smart cities etc

• Service and QoE provisioning techniques

• Simulations tools, methodologies, and performance evaluations

• Privacy and access control.

• Security of vehicular cloud networks

• Securing autonomous driving from attacks

• Approaches for digital forensics.

• Formal aspects of Trust (specification, contexts, reasoning, analysis and decisions).

• Trust and reputation management systems (architectural element, requirements, metrics and measures, and 

• computation models).

• Security and reputation attacks and counter-measurements

• Trust establishment in distributed and high scale environment.

• Trust-based security policy management.

• Modeling and formal verifications for security, privacy and trust.