2009 Proceeding- General Chairs:
- Rajeev Shorey,
- André Weimerskirch,
- Program Chairs:
- Daniel Jiang,
- Martin Mauve
Welcome to the Sixth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr InterNETworking (VANET 2009) in Beijing! After the success of the previous five events, 2009 is a great year to continue this exciting and innovative workshop. The application of vehicle communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle as well as vehicle-to- roadside) technologies have been presented in several impressive large-scale demonstrations during the past year and it appears that the technology is now closer than ever before to actual deployment. The VANET technology has the ability to be an outstanding milestone of improved safety and efficiency of transportation and logistics on the roads. VANET technology is now in a critical phase where academia, industry and governments worldwide are jointly investing significant time and resources in order to understand the technology and prepare for large scale deployment. However, several technical challenges remain that require resolution.
The design of a VANET is a highly collaborative effort and one that involves multiple disciplines. Our experience has shown that this has a potential to lead to push-pulls of varying interests and requirements, both between engineering disciplines and non-engineering disciplines. One of the key objectives of VANET is to stimulate strong collaboration between different technical disciplines. It is only through a strong collaboration that it is possible to design and implement a VANET that provides the right balance of reliability, cost-efficiency, safety, security, control and privacy.
This year we received 40 submissions for the regular program of the VANET workshop. Each paper was assigned to three TPC members and received at least three reviews. While for most papers the final decision was straight forward, some papers with heterogeneous reviews were discussed thoroughly by the TPC members. At the end, the TPC accepted 12 submissions as full papers while the authors of five submissions where invited to present their work as a poster paper. Due to space constraints and given the excellent quality of this year's submissions, we had to make very tough decisions during this selection process.
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Securing VANETs: industry approaches and current research directions
Security plays a critical role in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs). In the absence of secure mechanisms, malicious parties could inject bogus information, at best robbing VANETs of their safety benefits or at worst causing accidents. Unfortunately, ...
Evaluation of VANET-based advanced intelligent transportation systems
This paper aims at enabling accurate and efficient evaluation of emerging vehicular network applications such as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). A distributed simulation platform that integrates transportation simulation and wireless network ...
A simulation study of traffic efficiency improvement based on Car-to-X communication
There are several promising applications for car-to-x communication that aim at the improvement of traffic efficiency. With the increasing maturity of car-to-x communication systems, insights into the impacts of these applications on vehicular traffic ...
PeerTIS: a peer-to-peer traffic information system
In this paper we propose a traffic information system based on the distribution of knowledge provided by the cars themselves. Prior work in this area attempted to realize this distribution via vehicular ad-hoc networks, i.e., by direct communication ...
Modeling resource sharing for a road-side access point supporting drive-thru internet
Drive-thru Internet systems are multiple-access wireless networks in which users in moving vehicles can connect to a road-side access point (AP) to obtain Internet connectivity for some period of time as the vehicles pass through the AP's coverage ...
Spatio-temporal variations of vehicle traffic in VANETs: facts and implications
Via statistical analysis of several sets of empirical data collected from realistic scenarios, we realize that exponential model is a good fit for highway vehicle traffic. This model provides a single parameter (the exponent of vehicle density λs) to ...
Stereoscopic aerial photography: an alternative to model-based urban mobility approaches
In the absence of large-scale deployments of VANETs, simulation based research is until now the only choice available to address and validate the design of protocols in the context of vehicular networks. The simulation frameworks involved in this ...
Characterization of DSRC performance as a function of transmit power
IEEE 802.11p is an emerging standard designed to provide wireless access in a vehicular environment. A major application of 802.11p-based Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) is Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) safety messaging. The US FCC has designated ...
A comparison of single- and multi-hop beaconing in VANETs
Optimizing vehicular communication strategies is important for an efficient usage of the available wireless bandwidth and also critical for the success of VANETs. In this paper we address the fundamental and practical question whether the load on the ...
A fuzzy logic based approach for structure-free aggregation in vehicular ad-hoc networks
Information aggregation is used to merge correlated data items from different nodes before redistributing them. Thus, using aggregation the number of transmissions and the communication overhead can be reduced significantly. Especially for applications ...
Design and analysis of a lightweight certificate revocation mechanism for VANET
In this paper, we propose a lightweight mechanism for revoking security certificates appropriate for the limited bandwidth and hardware cost constraints of a VANET. A Certificate Authority (CA) issues certificates to trusted nodes, i.e., vehicles. If ...
Installation and evaluation of RFID readers on moving vehicles
Due to recent technology advancements, RFID readers have been proposed for several vehicular applications ranging from safe navigation to intelligent transport. However, one obstacle to deployment is the unpredictable read performance. An RFID reader ...
Coordinated VANET experiments: a methodology and first results
Many applications for inter-vehicular communication require a very specific test situation in order to be evaluated during a real world experiment. However, in the currently prevailing free-flow experiments the intended situation for the application may ...
Using vehicular networks to collect common traffic data
State transportation departments are required to annually report various traffic statistics to the US government. Currently, this data is measured using older technologies that are susceptible to failure and are difficult to maintain and repair. In this ...
Distributed rate control algorithm for VANETs (DRCV)
This paper presents Distributed Rate Control for VANETs (DRCV), a distributed light-weight congestion control algorithm tailored for safety messages. DRCV monitors and estimates channel load and controls the packet rate of outgoing periodic packets. A ...
Adaptive message authentication for vehicular networks
- Nikodin Ristanovic,
- Panos Papadimitratos,
- George Theodorakopoulos,
- Jean-Pierre Hubaux,
- Jean-Yves Leboudec
Public key cryptography can introduce significant processing delays in vehicular communication platforms. This can lead to serious performance issues, especially in the case of multi-hop Inter-Vehicle Communication. In this paper we propose Adaptive ...
Misbehavior detection scheme with integrated root cause detection in VANET
Securing communication using broadcast authentication schemes (BAS) in V2V does not always guarantee exchange of correct and/or accurate information. Misbehavior Detection Schemes (MDS) are aimed at detecting the exchange of such information. In this ...