Welcome to WEEDEV 2009

Washington D.C.: US Capitol

Vehicular networks are considered as a novel class of wireless networks that have emerged thanks to the advances in wireless technologies and automotive industry. These networks are promising in allowing diverse communication services to drivers and passengers. Nowadays, vehicular networks technology is entering a critical phase where academia, industry and governments worldwide are investing significant time and resources on the large-scale deployment of these networks so that their benefits in the road safety and improvement of traffic flow could be leveraged. Still, a number of technical challenges need to be resolved in order that these networks could be widely deployed and used in our daily life. This motivates the need for real tests, field trials, and experimental evaluations for the different technological solutions and aspects in such networks.

This workshop aims to present and discuss the recent advances in the development of vehicular networks and their experimental evaluation and to disseminate the most advanced ideas and solutions in the field.

Specific topics of interest

WEEDEV 2009 covers the area of vehicular networks and ITS applications. This workshop intends to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present new experimental results, describe work in progress, and explore relationships among their diverse approaches.

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.

Accepted papers will be included in the TRIDENTCOM 2009 conference proceedings and the IEEE Xplore digital library and will be indexed by EI.

International Journal Publication

Best papers of the workshop will be considered for further publication in a forthcoming Special issue (4th quarter 2009) of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology.

Keynote Speech

Abstract:
Wireless communications for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are widely considered as key enabling technologies to significantly increase traffic safety and efficiency. However, before such cooperative systems can be put into place, the proper operation of the proposed systems in real world scenarios as well as the effective impacts of cooperative vehicles on real world traffic still have to be proven. In this context, the talk gives an overview on the ongoing activities concerning the preparation of large scale field operational test in Europe and provides insights about standardization activities and vehicle integration aspects from a manufacturer's point of view.

Biography:
Markus Straßberger works as a project manager for BMW Group Research and Technology where he is responsible for projects on Car2X, including such topics as cooperative systems for active safety and new telematics services. He is being active in a number of national and international research programs, including the preparation of European field operational tests for cooperative vehicles. Since 2007, he chairs the working group Architecture and is a member of the Technical Committee of the Car-to-Car Communication Consortium.
Mr. Straßberger studied Computer Science at Technische Universität München and received his diploma degree in 2004. In 2007, he received his PhD from the computer science faculty of the University of Munich. His research interests include mobile and context aware systems as well as knowledge discovery and management.

Invited Speech

Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract:
The automobile of the future will be programmable for network-based active safety and real-time traffic congestion probing and prediction. To realize this goal, we present three contributions toward the foundations of Automotive-CPS: (a) GrooveNet - a vehicle-to-vehicle network virtualization platform that enables communication between hundreds of virtual vehicles and real vehicles on the same street map and using the same communication protocols and network algorithms. (b) Bounded Latency Broadcast Protocols for multi-hop communication of safety alerts for active networked safety and (c) AutoMatrix - a GPU-based vehicular traffic congestion simulator that can simulate over 5 million networked vehicles for real-time traffic congestion probing and prediction. Given these building blocks, we believe that Automotive-CPS wireless networks will make driving safer, more efficient and of course, more enjoyable.

Biography:
Rahul Mangharam is the Stephen J Angello Chair and Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering, with a secondary appointment in the Dept. of Computer and Information Systems, at the University of Pennsylvania. His interests are in real-time scheduling algorithms for wireless and embedded systems with applications in vehicular-to-vehicle networking, medical sensor networks and industrial control networks.
For the past five years, while at Carnegie Mellon, Rahul led the General Motors Vehicle-to-Vehicle Networking effort. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where he also received his MS and BS. in Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2007, 2002 and 2000 respectively. In 2002, he was a member of technical staff in the Ultra-Wide Band Wireless Group at Intel Labs. He was an international scholar in the Wireless Systems Group at IMEC, Belgium in 2003. He has worked on ASIC chip design at Marconi Communications (1999) and Gigabit Ethernet at Apple Computer Inc. (2000).

Workshop Programme

08:30 - 08:45 Welcome and opening from workshop chair

8:45 - 10:00 Keynote speech: Markus Straßberger

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 WEEDEV technical papers (Session I)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 WEEDEV Invited talk Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems, by Dr. Rahul Mangharam

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:20 WEEDEV technical papers (Session II)

16:20 - 16:30 Short break

16:30 - 17:30 Panel session: "Inter-Vehicular Communication: The way ahead"