TRxITS 2011 - Workshop on Transceiver Design for Intelligent transportation system (ITS) (TRxITS)

Wireless intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) comprise a growing and promising research topic with the potential to improve driving safety, reduce traffic congestion and fuel consumption and support information services in vehicles. Applications designed for ITSs face several difficulties resulting from imperfect standardization or limitations on manufacturing technologies. Although the recent global economic downturn has restrained the scope of the automobile industry, active research still continues in this area, and new technologies are being proposed by research teams in industry and academia.

Future ITS technology which includes vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication will be operated for safety-related applications or non-safety ing applications. In recent years, key players, such as automobile companies and government agencies, are investing heavily in the advanced researches. These research efforts primarily focus on the ITS scenarios and standardization of telematics. Until recently, there has been little systematic testing and few standardized certification procedures, and the baseband transceiver structures have rarely been investigated. The development of “Green ITS” is also included in this workshop. The use of energy-efficient modulation techniques or other low-power transceiver designs can prolong battery life in pedestrian handheld equipment and can reduce power consumption in roadside units (RSUs).

Because of several of ITS system equipment prototypes have been produced and some emulation environments are deployed. Several technical reports based on field trials have demonstrated the system performance has room for improvement. Especially most of the current solutions for ITS system may not consider the high mobility scenario or fast handover. Although there may have existing techniques can solve these difficulties, the hardware may too complicate to make sure the system can work stable.

The primary goal of this workshop is to spur research progress by serving as a forum in which both academics and industrial researchers can share experiences and report original works regarding all aspects of hardware implementation or baseband techniques. Our intention is to promote various studies on real-world implementations and to investigate possible solutions for upcoming standards. This workshop also addresses the numerous significant standardization efforts to date (IEEE 802.11p, p1609, TIA TR48, etc.) and some alternatives or improved systems.