Keynote

A Mobile Systems Perspective on Vehicular Networks
Marco Gruteser, Associate Professor, WINLAB, Rutgers University

Abstract: To date the vehicular networks community has primarily focused on designing vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems that can communicate reliably in environments with high mobility and rapidly varying vehicle density. As standards for vehicular communications are maturing, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how these communication systems can and should interact with other technologies in vehicular systems. Vehicles have become rich computing systems with access to a plethora of sensors and actuators. In addition, the dazzling innovation in smartphones, mobile apps, and other mobile devices is not only providing an alternate computing and communication platform inside vehicles. It also creates demand for innovations in vehicle computing systems, such as app stores for cars. This talk will first review our work on using smartphones for traffic monitoring, using vehicle mounted sensors for identifying parking spaces, and in-car localization to reduce driver distraction. Based on lessons learned from these early projects, this talk will then identify challenges and opportunities for mobile systems research in this evolving vehicular context.

Biography: Marco Gruteser is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University and a member of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). He is a pioneer in the area of location privacy and also recognized for his work on connected vehicle applications. Beyond these topics, his 80+ peer-reviewed articles and patents span a wide range of wireless, mobile systems, and pervasive computing issues. He received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Colorado in 2000 and 2004, respectively, and has held research and visiting positions at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University. His recognitions include an NSF CAREER award, MobiCom and MobiSys best paper awards, and a Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets including NPR, the New York Times, and CNN TV.

MoViT: The Mobile Network Virtualized Testbed
Eugenio Giordano (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Lara Codeca (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Brian Geffon (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Giulio Grassi (University of Bologna, Italy) Giovanni Pau (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Experimental Evaluation of Cooperative Active Safety Applications based on V2V Communications
Miguel Sepulcre (University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain), Javier Gozalvez (University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain)

Comparing Apples and Oranges? Trends in IVC Simulations
Stefan Joerer (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Falko Dressler (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Christoph Sommer (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Time to think about a 2nd Generation of Cooperative Vehicular Systems?

Abstract: Cooperative vehicular systems are currently under evaluation worldwide in large-scale field operational tests previous to any final commercial deployment. Major research and development activities into cooperative systems have been based on the IEEE802.11p/WAVE or ITSG5 technologies operating under the 5.8-5.9GHz band, although there is a growing trend towards considering heterogeneous wireless networks for provisioning cooperative vehicular applications. Recent studies and working groups have analysed the capability of 802.11-based technologies to achieve the reliability and scalability requirements that would be needed under large-scale deployments of cooperative systems. Some of these studies have proposed improvements to current systems, while others are suggesting major revisions at all layers of the protocol stack. This panel aims to discuss with a selected group of experts and the audience, whether now that first generation cooperative vehicular systems are closer to deployment, the research community should start major efforts towards a 2nd generation of cooperative systems with higher reliability and scalability performance.

Panel Moderator: Javier Gozalvez (University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain)

Panel Speakers:

Xinzhou Wu (Qualcomm, USA) received the B.E. degree from Tsinghua University, China in 1998, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 and 2004, all in electrical engineering. From 2005 to 2006, he was a member of technical staff at Flarion Technologies, a startup company which designed and deployed the first OFDMA based WAN technology - FlashOFDM. Flarion Technologies was acquired by Qualcomm in January 2006. Dr. Wu is currently a principal engineer/manager at Qualcomm Flarion Technologies, Bridgewater, NJ. He is the one of key inventors and developers of the next generation wireless peer-to-peer networks. He holds 34 issued US patents and has more than 100 pending US patent applications, in the area of wireless communications and wireless networking. His current research interests are in distributed algorithms with applications in wireless networks, resource allocation in cellular networks, and vehicular ad hoc networks.

Riccardo Scopigno (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy) received his Laurea Degree (110/110 summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pavia in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications from the same University in 2005, obtained while working. He has matured a 16-year working experience in the Telecommunications field, becoming an internationally known expert in the area of wireless protocols and, more specifically, of vehicular communications. He was a hardware designer for TLC in Italtel-Siemens (1997-1999) and an IP network engineer for carriers in Marconi (2000-2003). He has been in Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) for 9 years and, since 2011, as head of Multi-Layer Wireless Department. He acts as ISMB’s referee in ETSI and participates in ETSI-TC-ITS; in particular he is active in WG3 and WG4, where he was also in a Specialist Task Force (STF395). He also participates in Car-to-Car Communication Consortium and Ertico. He is author of about 60 papers, most at IEEE conferences and about vehicular communications, wireless automation and propagation models. He is author of 1 patent (on the slotted protocol MS-Aloha) and 3 patent-pending techniques for VANETs georouting, VANET scalability and distributed QoS for WiFi.

Sue Bai is a senior engineer in the Automobile Technology Research department at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. Her current responsibilities are research on advanced vehicle active safety systems and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) using communications. Her area of research spans from in-vehicle navigation system with wireless communication, Telematics system design and development, to cooperative safety system research. Prior to joining Honda, she had been working on Telematics and blue-tooth hands-free system research and development at Nissan Technical Center, Farmington Hills, Michigan. Sue is currently the Honda technical leader on the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership (CAMP) Consortium. She is currently the chair-woman of the SAE DSRC Vehicle Safety Technical Committee, leading the development of the vehicle-to-vehicle safety related message and data standardization effort. Sue has M.S. degree in Computer Science from Eastern University, M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Industrial System Engineering from University of Michigan.

Geert Heijenk is an associate professor at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Between 1995, when he obtained his Ph.D., and 2003, he was working for Ericsson EuroLab, Netherlands, leading a networking research group. Geert Heijenk is steering committee member of WWIC and IEEE VNC, and vice-chair of the European COST action “Wireless Networking for Moving Objects”. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, and INRIA, Rocquencourt. His area of research is wireless networking. He is particularly interested in architectures, algorithms, and protocols for vehicular networks.

BRAVE: Bit-Rate Adaptation in Vehicular Environments
Pralhad Deshpande (Stony Brook University, USA), Samir Das (Stony Brook University, USA)

Analytically Modelling the Performance of Piggybacking on Beacons in VANETs
Wouter Klein Wolterink (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Hans van den Berg (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Exploiting Beacons for Scalable Broadcast Data Dissemination in VANETs
Ramon Schwartz (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Kallol Das (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Hans Scholten (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Paul Havinga (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Congestion Control for Vehicular Safety: Synchronous and Asynchronous MAC Algorithms
Sundar Subramanian (Qualcomm, USA), Marc Werner (Qualcomm, USA), Shihuan Liu (Iowa State University, USA), Jubin Jose (Qualcomm, USA), Radu Lupoaie (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Xinzhou Wu (Qualcomm, USA)

Content-Centric Networking: is That a Solution for Upcoming Vehicular Networks?
Marica Amadeo (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy), Claudia Campolo (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy), Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)

Feasibility of Virtual Traffic Lights in Non-Line-Of-Sight Environments
Till Neudecker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Natalya An (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Ozan Tonguz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Tristan Gaugel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Jens Mittag (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Traffic-Aware Geographic Forwarding in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Yi Xian (University of South Carolina, USA), Chin-Tser Huang (University of South Carolina, USA)

Can Mobility Predictions be Compatible with Cooperative Active Safety for VANET?
Fatma Hrizi (Eurecom, France), Jérôme Härri (Eurecom, France), Christian Bonnet (Eurecom, France)

A Novel Use of EDCA to Improve Vehicle Safety Communication
Sarah Sharafkandi (University of Minnesota, USA), Gaurav Bansal (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA), John Kenney (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA)

A Methodology for the Development of Novel VANET Safety Applications
Piotr Szczurek (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Jie Lin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Bo Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Impact of Pseudonym Subsequent Pre-computation and Forwarding in Hybrid Vehicular Networks
Joseph Benin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Julien Poumailloux (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Henry Owen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah (University of Technology of Compiegne, France)

Global Revocation for the Intersection Collision Warning Safety Application
Jason Haas (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

Analyzing Dissemination Redundancy to Achieve Data Consistency in VANETs
Stefan Dietzel (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Jonathan Petit (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Frank Kargl (Ulm University, Germany), Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Congestion-based Certificate Omission in VANETs
Michael Feiri (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Jonathan Petit (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Frank Kargl (Ulm University, Germany)

Towards the Traffic Hole Problem in VANETs
Chao Song (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China), Ming Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China), Yonggang Wen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Guihai Chen (Nanjing University, China), Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)

Policy-Based Network Management For Generalized Vehicle-To-Internet Connectivity
Joshua Hare (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA), Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA), Lance Hartung (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)

Efficient Charging Station Scheduling for an Autonomous Parking and Charging System
Julian Timpner (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany), Lars Wolf (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)

Central Misbehavior Evaluation for VANETs based on Mobility Data Plausibility
Norbert Bissmeyer (Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany), J. Njeukam (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany), Jonathan Petit (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Kpatcha Bayarou (Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany)

In VANETs we Trust? Characterizing RF Jamming in Vehicular Networks
Oscar Puñal (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Ana Aguiar (University of Porto, Portugal), James Gross (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Time-varying channel estimation for OFDM with extended observation window
Dan Shan (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA), Paul Richardson (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA), Weidong Xiang (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA), Athansios Vasilakos (University of Western Macedonia, Greece)

Experiences Using a Miniature Vehicular Network Testbed
Agoston Petz (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Chien-Liang Fok (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)