CALL FOR PAPERS

VANET 2004

First ACM Workshop on
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET)

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

in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2004

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

 

 SIGMOBILE

Important Dates

Submission deadline:
May 28, 2004

Notification:
July 16, 2004

Camera ready:
August 6, 2004


General Co-Chairs

Ken Laberteaux
Toyota Technical Center,
U.S.A., Inc.

Raja Sengupta
Univ. of California, Berkeley

Program Co-Chairs

Chen-Nee Chuah
Univ. of California, Davis

Daniel Jiang
DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology North America, Inc.

Technical Program Committee

Elizabeth Belding-Royer
Costas Constantinou
Mario Gerla
Dipak Ghosal
Hannes Hartenstein
Ahmed Helmy
Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Markus Jakobsson
Dave Johnson
Norio Komoda
Hariharan Krishnan
Christopher Rose
Kang Shin
Nitin Vaidya
Pravin Varaiya
Susanne Wetzel
Adam Wolisz
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.

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of VANET. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another 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
  • Multi-channel organization/operation
  • Network management
  • Power control
  • Modulation and coding
  • Channel modeling

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 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 technology.

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.

Submission Instructions

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper. Papers must meet the following restrictions: No longer than 10 pages (single or double column); in font no smaller than 11 points; must fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch) with reasonable margins.

Instructions for electronic submission of papers will be posted at http://www.path.berkeley.edu/vanet/. Please email all questions to vanet@path.berkeley.edu.