Topics
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of intelligent transportations systems (ITS) and vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) in the framework of the following main topics (not limited to):
- vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside, vehicle-to-Internet communication protocols;
- intra-vehicle communications;
- mobility and vehicular traffic models;
- information collection and dissemination;
- analytical and simulation techniques;
- experimental systems and field operational testing;
- safety and non-safety related applications;
- recent standardization efforts and problems (e.g. 802.11p);
- overview of the activities and status of the ongoing projects;
- deployment strategies and predictions.
General Information
Nets4Cars workshop will be held on the 13th-14th of October 2009 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia) jointly with ICUMT-2009 conference.
Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Russia (Northwest) Section BT/CE/COM Joint Chapter. Papers will be included in IEEE Xplore.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in IEEE Transactions on ITS journal (approval is pending).
Workshop best paper award: Claudia Campolo, Alessandro Cortese, Antonella Molinaro (University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, IT) CRaSCH: A Cooperative Scheme for Service Channel Reservation in 802.11p/WAVE Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Final Program
13th of October (Room 4):
9:00 - 9:15: WELCOME NOTE (Fei Liu, Tsutomu Tsuboi, Alexey Vinel)
9:15 - 9:45: PLENARY TALK: In-Vehicle Wireless Communication System and Next Generation ITS Application, Tsutomu Tsuboi (Renesas Technology Corp., JP)
9:45 - 10:15: Coffee-break
10:15 - 12:35: Session I, Chair: Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, NL)
On Congestion-Aware Broadcasting in V2X Networks, Fatma Hrizi (EURECOM, FR); Fethi Filali (EURECOM, FR)
Epidemic Information Diffusion in Realistic Vehicular Network Mobility Scenarios, Claudia Barberis (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Giovanni Malnati (Politecnico di Torino, IT)
Expediency of Penetration Ratio and Evaluation of Mean Throughput for Safety and Commercial Applications in VANETs, Bhakthavathsalam Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science, IN)
12:35 - 13:20: Lunch
13:20 - 14:15: Performance Evaluation of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for Traffic Safety Applications, Alexey Vinel (SPIIRAS, RU)
14:15 - 14:45: coffee break
14:45 - 16:45: Session II, Chair: Alexey Vinel (SPIIRAS, RU)
Performance Evaluation of Inter-vehicle Communication in a Unidirectional Dynamic Traffic Flow with Shockwave, Wei Lu (University of Science and Technology of China, CN); Yuanlv Bao (University of Science and Technology of China, CN); Xiaoyan Sun (University of Science and Technology of China, CN); Zhe Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, CN)
Cell design for Next DSRC applications, Tsutomu Tsuboi (Renesas Technology Corp., JP)
CRaSCH: A Cooperative Scheme for Service Channel Reservation in 802.11p/WAVE Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Claudia Campolo (University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, IT); Alessandro Cortese (Universita degli studi "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, IT); Antonella Molinaro (University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, IT)
19:30: City bus tour
14th of October (Room 4):
9:00 - 9.45: INVITED TALK: Ford SYNC: Embracing Cloud-Based Infotainment, Oleg Gusikhin (Ford, USA)
9:45 - 10:15: coffee break
10:15 - 12:35: Session III, Chair: Fei Liu (University of Twente, NL)
High-speed infrastructure cellular network for vehicular users, Thanh-Hoa Phan (Ritsumeikan University, JP)
Hybrid Emulating Architecture for Vehicular Networks, David Gutierrez-Perez (Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, ES); Eduardo del Arco-Fernandez-Cano (Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, ES); Mark Wilby (Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, ES); Julio Ramiro (University King Juan Carlos, ES); Juan Jose Vinagre (Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, ES); Antonio Caamano (Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, ES); F. Javier Ramos (Rey Juan Carlos University, SPAIN, ES)
Localization Algorithms for Distributed Platform among Vehicles, Takeshi Tsuchiya (Waseda University, JP)
Lunch: 12:35 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:15: INVITED TALK: Assessment of Traffic Impact on Future Cooperative Driving Systems: Challenges and Considerations, Fei Liu (University of Twente, NL); Rattaphol Pueboobpaphan (University of Twente, NL); Bart van Arem (University of Twente/TNO research, NL)
14:15 - 15:30: Session IV, Chair: Oleg Gusikhin (Ford, US)
Accurate Positioning Using Short-Range Communications, Yasser Morgan (University of Regina, CA)
UWB Radio Propagation for Intra Vehicle Communications, Tsutomu Tsuboi (Renesas Technology Corp., JP)
A Multi-Broadcast Communication System for High Dynamic Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks, Andreas Lehner (German Aerospace Center, DLR, DE); Cristina Rico Garcia (German Aerospace Center (DLR), DE); Thomas Strang (German Aerospace Center (DLR), DE)
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 16:15: CLOSING NOTE AND BEST PAPER AWARD (Fei Liu, Tsutomu Tsuboi, Alexey Vinel)
19:30 Fare-the-well Party at Pulkovskaya Park Inn
TPC list
- Christer Ahlund, Lulea University of Technology (Sweden)
- Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP Research (Switzerland)
- Torsten Braun, University of Bern (Switzerland)
- Robil Daher, University of Rostock (Germany)
- Robert Eigner, Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany)
- Oleg Gusikhin, Ford (USA)
- Russell Hsing, Telcordia Technologies (USA)
- Timo Kosch, BMW (Germany)
- Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
- Fei Liu, University of Twente (Netherlands)
- Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University (UK)
- Marc Necker, Daimler AG (Germany)
- Brian Park, University of Virginia (USA)
- Vivian Prinz, Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany)
- Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR (Italy)
- Cem Saraydar, General Motors R&D, (USA)
- Markus Strassberger, BMW (Germany)
- Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
- Tsutomu Tsuboi, Renesas Technology Corp (Japan)
- Bart van Arem, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
- Alexey Vinel, SPIIRAS (Russia)
- Cheng-Xiang Wang, Heriot-Watt University (UK)
- Nawaporn Wisitpongphan, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (Thailand)
- Yunpeng Zang, RWTH Aachen (Germany)
- Yang Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Plenary talks and round table discussion
Title: In-Vehicle Wireless Communication System and Next Generation ITS Application
Speaker: Tsutomu Tsuboi, Automotive Semiconductor Business Unit, Renesas Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Speaker's bio: Tsutomu Tsuboi is currently a Chief Engineer of Vehicular Network Project, Automotive Semiconductor Business Unit, Renesas Technology Corporation, Tokyo. He has held application engineering and management positions in Semiconductor Group with Hitachi, Ltd. for a number of years. Tsuboi's particular expertise is in the area of business development and strategic alliances for communication network segment. He is extremely interested in wireless communications and is currently leading In-vehicle, V2V and V2I wireless communication systems and projects such as UWB, WAVE and WiMAX. Most recently, he focuses on the UWB/WAVE system evaluation and standardization in collaboration with automobile manufacturers, government and universities and working to promote the next generation ITS application technology in worldwide.
- 2009: Chief Engineer, Vehicular Network Project, Automotive Business Unit, Renesas Technology Corp.
- 2007: Department Manager, New Business Development Center, System Solution Business Group, Renesas Technology Corp.
- 2005: Chairman of ZigBee SIG Japan (Japanese affiliate of ZigBee Alliance)
- 2003: Senior Manager, Senior Manager, Network Project, Corporate Strategy Planning Division, Renesas Corp.
- 2000: Senior Manager, Application Engineering of Semiconductor Group, Hitachi, Ltd.
- 1997: Business Development Manager, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Alliances and Communications, Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc.
- 1987: Senior Engineer, Network Strategic Development, Semiconductor Group, Hitachi, Ltd.
- 1979: Induction Motors Electric Design Group of Hitachi Works, Hitachi, Ltd.
Abstract: Renesas introduces the Vehicle Communication Gateway (VCG) concept which combines wireless communication system such as UWB, WAVE and WiMAX for inside and outside vehicle environment. For example, Renesas' UWB system realizes in-vehicle applications such as the high-speed image data transfer, wireless audio set connection and wireless remote control using the world’s highest throughput 330Mbps (at 480Mbps mode), reliable multi-cast content distribution and robust ad-hoc communication in mesh networking. For V2V and V2I applications, Renesas provides WAVE Box (prototype) which enables seamless and high-speed network services for the safe and security system and bus location system in a local or metropolitan-area network. Tsuboi also discusses the past result of interoperability test and FOT public demo experimented in Europe and Japan and how this VCG concept best suited to the next-gen ITS application such as the intersection collision avoidance, traffic management, traveler information distribution and etc.
Title: Ford SYNC: Embracing Cloud-Based Infotainment
Speaker: Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Manufacturing, Vehicle Design and Safety Research Laboratory, USA
Speaker's bio: Oleg Gusikhin is a Technical Leader at the Ford Manufacturing, Vehicle Design and Safety Research Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation of Russian Academy of Sciences and an MBA from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan. For over 15 years he has been working at Ford Motor Company in different functional areas including Information Technology, Advanced Electronics Manufacturing, and Research & Advanced Engineering. During his tenure at Ford, Dr. Gusikhin has been involved in the design and implementation of advanced information technology and intelligent controls for manufacturing and vehicle systems. Dr. Gusikhin is a recipient of 2004 Henry Ford Technology Award. He holds 2 patens and is a co-author of 8 patent applications on advanced vehicle infotainment technology. He is an organizer and chair for the Workshop series on Intelligent Vehicle Controls within the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics and a chair of the Southeastern Michigan IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics chapter.
Abstract: In 2007, Ford in cooperation with Microsoft, introduced an in-car communication and entertainment system, SYNC. This system enables Bluetooth and USB connectivity for consumer phones and MP3 players and allows hands-free voice-activated control of brought-in devices. Since its initial introduction, there has been rapid growth of SYNC-enabled services, such as remote monitoring of vehicle health, personalized traffic reports, weather, news, and turn-by-turn directions utilizing data-over-voice technology. Furthermore, SYNC takes advantage of existing networking capabilities of smart phones/PDAs by providing a SYNC API to mobile application developers. This presentation discusses several on-going research projects that build on SYNC capabilities and advancements in information technology and consumer electronics to further enhance driver experiences. One such application, the Emotive Driver Assistant System that was revealed at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show as EVA (Emotive Voice Activation), connects the driver to internet information services in a personalized and context-aware manner. In addition, the ability to maintain connection between vehicle and internet allows outsourcing of computationally intensive tasks to a remote server and tapping into the power of cloud computing. The Intelligent Refueling Advisor (IRA) is another example application that exploits such capabilities. IRA connects vehicle CAN bus data with personalized web services that integrate predicted routes and fuel level, fuel pricing data, and forecast and optimization models to proactively advise the driver on when and where to refuel to minimize overall expenses.
Venue
Saint-Petersburg, the second biggest city in Russia, is one of the main cultural, historical and architectural centers of the country. The city was named in the honor of the saint patron of Peter The Great, who founded Petersburg in 1703. He modeled the city after European capitals and it has been referred as Russia's "Window to Europe" for a long time. For more than 200 years (till 1918) St. Petersburg was Russian capital. St. Petersburg is divided into numerous islands by rivers and canals and is often called "Northern Venice". Palaces, museums, theaters, parks and beautiful suburbs made St. Petersburg a renowned piece of the world cultural heritage.
The venue place and official hotel for the Nets4Cars-2009 is the Pulkovskaya Park Inn ****
Contact information
All questions/proposals should be sent to info@nets4cars.org