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First ACM Workshop on
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET 2004)

http://www.path.berkeley.edu/vanet/

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in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2004

October 1, 2004, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA


Please visit the VANET 2005 Website
http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2005/

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Important Dates

  • Submission registration deadline: May 21, 2004
  • Submission deadline: May 28, 2004
  • Notification: July 30, 2004
  • Camera ready: August 13, 2004

Scope

The goal of this workshop is to explore the development of wireless vehicular ad hoc networking (VANET) technologies. The vision is safety and commercial applications enabled by short to medium range communication systems and/or networks (vehicle-vehicle or vehicle-roadside).  Such technology should provide priority for time-critical safety messages and meet the QOS requirements of other mobile e-commerce or multimedia applications.

The Federal Communications Commission allocated 75 MHz of spectrum for Dedicated Short Range Communications (vehicle-vehicle or vehicle-roadside) in October 1999. With the support of ASTM and IEEE, the first DSRC standard is quickly moving towards completion. The resulting DSRC system is expected to be the first wide-scale VANET in North America. Industry and government organizations are also supporting research of DSRC and future vehicular communication technologies. This workshop will include an industry/government panel to this effect.

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 relatively large computational resources. Ample and recharging power sources can be assumed. Mobility patterns are constrained by road paths and driving speed restrictions. VANET represents high resource/performance wireless technology.  As such, VANET can use significantly different approaches than sensor networks.

VANET applications will include on-board active safety systems leveraging vehicle-vehicle or roadside-vehicle networking. These systems may assist drivers in avoiding collisions. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others.

We invite papers from researchers on all aspects of vehicular ad hoc networks, such as new applications, networking protocols, security paradigms, network management technologies, power control, modulation, coding, channel modeling, etc. The session will bring together visionary researchers for an exciting exchange of ideas.