Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVnet)

Call for Papers

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Important Dates

Paper Submission deadline: 15^th October 2025 (AoE)
Notification of Acceptance: 15^th November 2025
Camera-ready Submission: 30^th November 2025
Workshop Date: 10^th January 2026

Workshop Overview

The 10th workshop on Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVNets) will be held in conjunction with COMSNETS 2025, highlighting the significance of Intelligent Transportation Systems—an amalgamation of cutting-edge technologies and communication used in traffic control and management systems to improve the sustainability, effectiveness, and safety of vehicular networks. This special workshop in COMSNETS 2025 aims to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners from various disciplines to share their experiences on interdisciplinary approaches to solving transportation problems. The workshop invites original papers that make contributions to the sensing, modeling, control, learning, and analysis in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles.

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructure, Connectivity, and Communications for CAVs

Vehicle to everything (V3X) and cellular V2X (C-V2X) communications
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) - service design, management, and control
Next-generation vehicular networks (5G, 6G, etc.)
Networked land/aerial vehicular systems
Integration of roadside infrastructure with intelligent vehicles
Energy-efficient driving and sustainable mobility

Sensing, Perception, and Cyber-Physical Architectures

Sensor data fusion and signal processing for multimodal inputs
Cooperative and multi-agent perception in connected environments
Advanced sensing systems, object event detection and response (OEDR) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for CAVs
Cyber-physical architectures, distributed/edge computing on CAVs
Integration of high-definition maps and onboard sensors
ML/DL/vision-language models for perception and localization

Vehicle Automation, Control, Testing and Validation

Automated driving systems (ADS) - design and deployment
Vehicle control and motion planning
AI/ML for vehicle automation and control
Simulations, digital twins and real-world testing methodologies
Verification and validation techniques

Safety, Security, and Human-Machine Interaction

Vehicular active and passive safety
Collision avoidance systems for vulnerable road users (VRUs), non-motorized traffic (NMT) and animals
Functional safety in intelligent vehicles and advanced driving assistance systems
Cybersecurity for CAVs - intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), secure and efficient over-the-air (OTA) updates, data protection
AI/ML applications for vehicle safety and uncertainty estimation in safety-critical applications
Human factors and human-machine interfaces in CAVs
Teleoperation of intelligent vehicles
Socially-aware and intention-predictive autonomous driving
Cognitive workload and driver state monitoring in shared economy

Policy, Ethics and Emerging Mobility Paradigms

Emerging mobility systems: e-mobility, air mobility, shared mobility, autonomous mobility, software-defined and cooperative vehicles, etc.
Ethical considerations, accessibility and societal acceptance of autonomous systems
Public policy, regulation, and societal issues in CAVs
Digital twins and simulation platforms for CAV design, testing and deployment
Applications of generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain to CAVs
Autonomous mobility in mixed-traffic and infrastructure-poor environments

Submission Guidelines

The ADVnet Workshop invites submission of original work, not previously published, or under review at another conference or journal.
Submissions (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) should not exceed 6 pages in length.
Reviews will be double-blind: authors’ names and affiliations must not be included in the submission.
Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on the IEEE Website; and those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed.
All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the ADVnet Workshop submission site on EDAS.
All workshop papers (both regular and invited) will appear in conference proceedings and be submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Papers can be submitted through EDAS : <TBA>

For any queries, please contact the workshop chairs at comsnets.workshop@gmail.com

Program Committee

Agnivesh P, IIT BHU
Ajinkya Mane, Stantec
Akshay Gupta, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Amit Agarwal, IIT Roorkee
Aninda Bijoy Paul, Senior Advisor (Road Safety and Compliances) at ICAT, Haryana
Anshuman Sharma, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Archak Mittal, IIT Bombay
Arunabha Banerjee, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Western Kentucky University
Bhargava Rama Chulukuri, IIT Madras
Bhupali Dutta, NIT Silchar
Darshana O, NIT Tiruchirappalli
Debanga Raj Neog, IIT Guwahati
Digvijay Pawar, IIT Hyderabad
Indrajit Ghosh, IIT Roorkee
Jiten Shah, IITRAM
Manish Bhatt, IIT Guwahati
Nandan Maiti, Postdoctoral Researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel
Narayana Raju, Postdoctoral Researcher at Delft University of Technology
Neetesh Kumar, IIT Roorkee
Ninad Gore, Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Pranab Kar, Post-doctoral researcher at University of Memphis
Pranamesh Chakraborty, IIT Kanpur
Pushpa Choudhary, IIT Indore
Ravi Kiran, IIIT Hyderabad
RB Sharmila, IIT Guwahati
Ritvik Chauhan, NIT Tiruchirappalli
Sowjanya Dhulipala, IIT Bhubaneswar
Sreedevi Indu, Delhi Technological University
Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Dromolys Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.
Tarun Rambha, IISc Bangalore
Vijay Gopal Kovvali, IISc Bangalore
VS Vinayaraj, Research Scientist, IITB
Yogeshwar Vijaykumar Navandar, NIT Calicut