ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS

VANET 2005

The Second ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2005 • September 2, 2005 • Cologne, Germany

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2005/

Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: May 9, 2005   Extended to May 16, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: July 4, 2005
Camera-Ready Deadline: July 27, 2005

The goal of this workshop is to explore the development of wireless vehicular ad hoc networking (VANET) technologies. Enabled by short- to medium-range communication systems (vehicle-vehicle or vehicle-roadside), the VANET vision includes vehicular realtime and safety applications, sharing the wireless channel with mobile applications from a large, decentralized array of commercial service providers. VANET safety applications include collision and other safety warnings. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others.

Following the success of VANET 2004 held last year in Philadelphia, VANET 2005, the Second ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, will be held in Cologne, Germany, September 2, 2005, in conjunction with MobiCom 2005. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of vehicular ad hoc networks (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:

• Safety and commercial applications
• Protocol design (including low-power, cross-layer, etc.)
• Security and privacy
• Power control
• Multi-channel organization and operation
• Network management
• Modulation and coding
• Channel modeling

The opportunities for VANET are growing rapidly. In December 2003, the U.S. FCC approved 75 MHz of spectrum for Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), and the resulting DSRC system is expected to be the first wide-scale VANET in North America. In Japan, two DSRC standards have been adopted (the ARIB STD-T75 in 2001, the ARIB STD-T88 in 2004), and Japanese auto manufactures are working with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation in the third phase of an ambitious Advanced Safety Vehicle project. The German Ministry of Education and Research has sponsored the Fleetnet and Network on Wheels projects. Throughout the world, there are many national/international projects in government, industry, and academia devoted to VANETs.

Creating high-performance, highly scalable, and secure VANET technologies presents an extraordinary challenge to the wireless research community. Yet, certain limitations commonly assumed in ad hoc networks are mitigated in VANET. For example, VANET may marshal ample computational and power resources. Mobility patterns are constrained by road paths and driving speed restrictions. As opposed to sensor networks, VANET represents high resource/performance wireless technologies.

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 × 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 2005 web page at

http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2005/

Please email questions related to paper submission or the technical program to vanet2005-pc-chairs@monarch.cs.rice.edu . Please email general questions about VANET 2005 to vanet@path.berkeley.edu .

General Co-Chairs:
Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Technical Center USA
Hannes Hartenstein, Universität Karlsruhe

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
David B. Johnson, Computer Science Department, Rice University
Raja Sengupta, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.,University of California, Berkeley

Publicity Chair:
Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California, Davis

Local Arrangements Chair:
Marc Torrent-Moreno, Universität Karlsruhe

Technical Program Committee (partial list):
Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center Japan
Matthew Barth, University of California, Riverside
Costas Constantinou, University of Birmingham
Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines
Eric Feron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mario Gerla, University of California Los Angeles
Yih-Chun Hu, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Markus Jakobsson, Indiana University
Daniel Jiang, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology North America
Timo Kosch, BMW Research and Technology
Hariharan Krishnan, General Motors R&D
P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nelson Liu, University of Maryland
David Lovell, University of Maryland, College Park
Paolo Santi, Italian National Research Council (CNR)
Nitin H. Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin