VANET 2009 - The Sixth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET 2009)

ACM VANET 2009

Vehicle to Vehicle -- Vehicle to Roadside -- Vehicle to Internet

The Sixth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking

In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2009
Date: To be announced
Beijing, China

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE (approval pending)

http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2009/


Important Dates (tentative):
Paper Submission Deadline: April 6th
Notification of Acceptance: June 19th
Camera-Ready Deadline: July 15th

The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of vehicular inter-networking (VANET) technologies. Based on short- and medium-range communication as well as on cellular systems, vehicular inter-networking will enable vehicular safety applications (including collision and other safety warnings) as well as non-safety applications (like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others).

The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, secure, and privacy-preserving VANET technologies presents an
extraordinary challenge for the wireless research community. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular inter-networking in terms of mobility behavior, applications scenarios, and application requirements makes VANET research an exciting and demanding application- and purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking.

Furthermore, VANET present a very active field of research, development, standardization, and field trials. Throughout the world,
there are many national and international projects in government, industry, and academia devoted to VANET. These include consortia like Vehicle Safety Consortium (US), Car-2-Car Communication Consortium (Europe), and Advanced Safety Vehicle Program (Japan), standardization efforts like IEEE 802.11p (WAVE), and field trials like the large-scale Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Program (VII) in the US.

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of vehicular inter-networking (VANET). All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Channel modeling
- Modulation and coding
- Power control and scalability issues
- Medium access control protocols
- Multi-channel organization and operation
- Communication protocol design
- Safety and non-safety applications
- Vehicle-to-vehicle/roadside/Internet communication
- Simulation frameworks
- Field operational testing
- Network management
- Security issues and countermeasures
- Privacy issues


Submission Instructions

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 10 pages (single- or double-column), in font no smaller than 11 points, and must fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch) with reasonable margins. Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through a double-blind review process, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions for paper submission will be posted on the VANET 2009 web page at:
http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2009/.


Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs:

Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research, India
Andre Weimerskirch, escrypt Inc., USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America,Inc., USA
Martin Mauve, Heinrich-Heine University in D¨?sseldorf

Technical Program Committee

Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA
Fan Bai, General Motors Research, USA
Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA
Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Tamer ElBatt, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, USA
Andreas Festag, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany
Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland
Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America,Inc., USA
Frank Kargl, Ulm University, Germany
Timo Kosch, BMW, Germany
P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Research, USA
Martin Mauve, Heinrich Heine University D¨?sseldorf, Germany
Panagiotis(Panos) Papadimitratos, EPFL, Switzerland
Maxim Raya, EPFL, Switzerland
Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy
Björn Scheuermann, Heinrich Heine University D¨?sseldorf, Germany
Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research, India
Daniel Stancil, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University,USA
Pravin Varaiya, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA
Andre Weimerskirch, escrypt Inc., USA

Publicity and Web Chair:

Fan Bai, General Motors Research, USA