Welcome to WEEDEV 2008

Goldenes Dachl

Many people in modern societies spend a lot of time in their cars. Communication possibilities in vehicles have been restricted in the past mainly to cellular communication networks. Enabling broader communication facilities in cars is an important contribution to the global trend towards ubiquitous communications. Cars should provide access to Internet and should be able to communicate among themselves, supporting new services and applications.

The objective of this 1-day workshop is to attract the most recent developments in the area of experimental evaluation and deployment experiences on vehicular networks, and bring together active researchers in an environment that encourages discussion and exchange of ideas.

Specific topics of interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Submitted papers should have practical evaluation and/or deployment experiences as their main subject or they should use experiments to validate their modelling/analysis results.

Workshop papers will be included in the TRIDENTCOM 2008 conference proceedings.

Best workshop papers will be selected for journal publication.

Key-note Speech

The European CVIS Project and IPv6 Deployment for ITS

Abstract:
The European ITS project CVIS - Cooperation Vehicle Infrastructure System - develops a cooperative system platform to support a future world where every vehicle can communicate directly with the nearby road infrastructure and with other vehicles in the vicinity using a variety of media and with enhanced localisation.
The new Internet Protocol v6 provides a unifying communication layer which will allow ITS software developers and hardware vendors to abstract from the underlying communication technology used to access the Internet. IPv6 also integrates new functionalities, such as the ability to maintain the Internet access over different access technologies during extended periods of time, the simultaneous use of several Internet access technologies, and plug and play features to cite only a few of the enhancements. IPv6 will thus ease development, system complexity, deployment, and push forward innovation in ITS and create new markets.

Biography:
Dr. Hannes Stratil, Senior Researcher and Team Leader European Projects, EFKON Austria.
Mr. Stratil obtained a Ph.D. at the Technical University of Vienna and works for EFKON since 2006. He is author and co-author of numerous publications in the areas of Intelligent Transport Systems, Geo-routing, and Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.
Hannes Stratil is part of the management in the EC Projects CVIS, COOPERS, and SISTER, leader of development and prototyping in CVIS and COOPERS, and member of the Car2Car-Communicaiton Consortium.

Innsbruck: panoramic view to west

Workshop Programme

09:30 - 09:45 Welcome and opening from workshop chair

09:45 - 10:30 Session I

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Session II

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:15 Key-note speech: The European CVIS Project and IPv6 Deployment for ITS (Part I, Part II), by Dr. Hannes Stratil

15:15 - 15:45 Break

15:45 - 16:30 Session III

16:30 - 17:30 Panel session: "The future of vehicular communications"