2006 Proceeding- General Chairs:
- Wieland Holfelder,
- Dave Johnson,
- Program Chairs:
- Hannes Hartenstein,
- Victor Bahl
Welcome to VANET 2006, the Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks! After the success of the first two VANET workshops in 2004 and 2005, 2006 is a great year to continue this exciting workshop. The application of short- to medium-range vehicle communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle as well as vehicle-to-roadside) technologies is closer to reality than ever before, and the widespread deployment of a communications infrastructure on the roadways and in production vehicles has the potential to improve transportation and the quality of life in ways not imagined a generation ago. VANET technology is entering a critical phase, where academia, industry, and governments worldwide are investing significant time and resources to either prepare for a larger scale deployment decision or to already deploy this technology so that its many benefits in the areas of safety, improvement of traffic flow, and convenience can be leveraged:
In the United States, the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Initiative (VII) works toward deployment of advanced vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-infrastructure communications based on 5.9 Ghz Dedicated Short Range Communication Technology (DSRC). The VII Consortium, established in 2004, is working to determine the feasibility of widespread deployment and to establish an implementation strategy. The consortium consists of most major vehicle manufacturers, many State Departments of Transportation, and the US Department of Transportation. Furthermore, the Vehicle Safety Communication Consortium (VSC), a group of OEMs partnering with the US Department of Transportation, is working on next generation communication-based vehicle safety applications such as a Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems (CICAS).
In Japan, Vehicle to Infrastructure Communication for Safety and Mobility is developed in the Smartway project. Among others, one of the goals of Smartway is to enable the realization of services related to "safety and safe driving" via communication technology. Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for Safety is also looked at in the Advanced Safety Vehicle (ASV) program sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT).
In Europe, the COMeSafety program started its work within the 6th Framework Program on January 1, 2006. The project supports the eSafety Forum with respect to all issues related to vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications as the basis for cooperative intelligent road transport systems. The Car2Car Communication Consortium is a non-profit organization initiated by European vehicle manufacturers, which is open for suppliers, research organizations, and other partners. The Car2Car Communication Consortium is dedicated to the objective of further increasing road traffic safety and efficiency by means of inter-vehicle communications.
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Cooperative collision warning using dedicated short range wireless communications
The emergence of the 802.11a-based Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) standard and advances in mobile ad hoc networking create ample opportunity for supporting delay-critical vehicular safety applications in a secure, resource-efficient, and ...
Efficient coordination and transmission of data for cooperative vehicular safety applications
This paper presents a method for efficient exchanges of Data Elements between vehicles running multiple safety applications. To date, significant efforts have been made in designing lower-layer communication protocols for VANET. Also, industry and ...
Towards lightweight information dissemination in inter-vehicular networks
Vehicular ad hoc networks have recently been proposed as an effective tool for improving both road safety and the comfort experienced while driving. Vehicles may propagate information about potentially dangerous events such as lane changes or sudden ...
Decentralized discovery of free parking places
This paper proposes a topology independent, scalable information dissemination algorithm for spatio-temporal traffic information such as parking place availability using vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) based on Wireless-LAN IEEE 802.11.The algorithm ...
Impact of radio propagation models in vehicular ad hoc networks simulations
Vehicular ad hoc networks use new protocols to enable security, services and other inventive applications to be run onboard many types of vehicles. In their design phase, those protocols and applications need to be extensively simulated but most of the ...
IEEE 802.11 based vehicular communication simulation design for NS-2
DSRC is a promising IEEE 802.11 based wireless technology that enables advanced active vehicle safety, among other applications. NS-2 is a common and familiar communication simulation tool for researchers. The current NS-2 distribution package, however, ...
Improved security in geographic ad hoc routing through autonomous position verification
Inter-vehicle communication is regarded as one of the major applications of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Compared to other MANETs, these so called vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have special requirements in terms of node mobility and position-...
Efficient secure aggregation in VANETs
In VANETs, better communication efficiency can be achieved by sacrificing security and vice versa. But VANETs cannot get started without either of them. In this paper, we propose a set of mechanisms that can actually reconcile these two contradictory ...
Probabilistic validation of aggregated data in vehicular ad-hoc networks
Vehicular ad-hoc networks present great opportunity for information exchange and equal opportunity for abuse. Validating traffic information without imposing significant communication overheads is a hard problem. In this paper, we propose a solution for ...
SKVR: scalable knowledge-based routing architecture for public transport networks
Vehicular AdHoc Networks (VANET) can be treated as special kinds of Delay-tolerant Networks (DTN) where end-to-end path might never be possible. As a result, mobile adhoc (MANET) routing protocols perform poorly on DTNs. Moreover, traditional routing ...
An identity-based security framework For VANETs
We present a security framework for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), using identity-based cryptography, to provide authentication, confidentiality, non-repudiation and message integrity. Additionally it provides scalable security and privacy using ...
VanetMobiSim: generating realistic mobility patterns for VANETs
In this paper, we present and describe VanetMobiSim, a generator of realistic vehicular movement traces for telecommunication networks simulators. VanetMobiSim mobility description is validated by illustrating how the interaction between featured macro- ...
A replica distrubution scheme for location-dependent information on vehicular ad hoc networks
In this paper we propose Road-aware Skip Copy (RSC) method for distributing replicas of location-dependent data on server-less vehicular ad hoc networks in urban areas. In the RSC method, mobile nodes broadcast replicas of data item near intersections ...
Automatic IP address configuration in VANETs
Cars' high mobility and density impede the direct utilization of traditional networking techniques and protocols in vehicular networks. In this context, automatic IP address configuration is a challenging and yet unexplored issue. We propose a novel ...
Emergency related video streaming in VANET using network coding
Multimedia (e.g., video) information exchange in VANET, if feasible, will help enhance vehicle navigation safety. We show that network coding allows very reliable and efficient data dissemination and thus is suitable for multimedia safety information ...
Increasing broadcast reliability in vehicular ad hoc networks
Broadcast transmissions are the predominate form of network traffic in a VANET. However, since there is no MAC-layer recovery on broadcast frames within an 802.11-based VANET, the reception rates of broadcast messages can become very low, especially ...
