V2VCOM 2005 Final Program

July 21, 2005

Morning Session: 8:30 AM – 12:00 Noon

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM, Opening Remarks:

Dr. Onur Altintas and Dr. Wai Chen, Workshop Co-chairs

8:35 AM – 9:00 AM, Keynote Speech:

“Communication Technology for Vehicle Safety and Comfort”, Prof. Tadao Saito, CTO and Chief Scientist, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan

9:00 AM – 11:40 AM: V2VCOM Applications, Networking Architecture and Technologies:

1. “Local Peer Group Architecture and Organization for Vehicle Communications”, Wai Chen (Telcordia, USA), Jasmine Chennikara-Varghese (Telcordia, USA) and Shengwei Cai (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan)

2. “AdTorrent: Digital Billboards for Vehicular Networks”, Alok Nandan, Shirshanka Das, Biao Zhou, Giovanni Pau and Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

3. “Gateway Management for Vehicle to Vehicle Communication” Ryuji Wakikawa (Keio University, Japan) and Meghana Sahasrabudhe (Nokia Research Center, USA)

20-minute Break

4. “A Movement Prediction-based Routing Protocol for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications”, Hamid Menouar (HITACHI Europe, France), Massimiliano Lenardi (HITACHI Europe, France), Fethi Filali (Institut Eurecom, France)

5. “Merging Control Algorithm for Vehicles with Inter-vehicle Communications”, Yiting Liu and Umit Ozguner (The Ohio State University, USA)

6. “VaneSe - An Approach to Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Security”, Matthias Gerlach (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany)

11:40 AM – 12:00 Noon, Invited Talk:

“Intervehicle Communication and Effects on Safety and Autonomy”, Prof. Umit Ozguner, The Ohio State University, USA

12:00 Noon – 1:15 PM, Lunch Break

Afternoon Session: 1:15 PM – 5:30 PM

1:15 PM – 1:40 PM, Invited Talk:

“Aspects of Vehicular WLAN Implementation”, Mr. Roger Berg, VP DENSO LA Laboratories

1:40 PM – 2:05 PM, Invited Talk:

“Vehicle to Vehicle and Vehicle to Infrastructure Communication for Improved Safety and Mobility”, Dr. Wieland Holfelder, VP & CTO, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology North America,　Inc.

2:05 PM – 5:30 PM: V2VCOM Performance Evaluation, MAC and Physical Layer Technologies:

1. “Link Virtualization: A Framework for Simultaneous Evaluation of Multiple Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Protocols”, Wei Qian, Guevara Noubir, Xin Liu, Prathap Ramachandra (Northeastern University, USA)

2. “Generalized Random Mobility Models for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, Denizhan N. Alparslan and Khosrow Sohraby (University of Missouri, USA)

3. “Evaluation of A Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Multi-hop InterVehicle Communications in Road Traffic Environment”, Jun Kosai, Akira Yoshioka and Teruhiko Honda (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan)

20-minute Break

4. “Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 MAC Based Collision Avoidance in Vehicular Platoon”, Sumit Roy and Ching-Ling Huang (University of Washington, USA)

5. “Dynamic Packet Size Selection for 802.11 Inter-Vehicular Video Communications”, Paolo Bucciol, Enrico Masala and Juan Carlos De Martin (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

6. “Secure Wakeup on WLAN for Car to Home Applications - MagicPackets for Wireless”, Matthias Gerlach (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Carsten Tittel (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Christian Maihofer (DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany), Jens Hunerberg (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) and Bernd Bochow (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

7. “Manufacturing Tolerance Study of Highly Directive W-band Antennas for Automotive Radar and Vehicle to Vehicle Communications”, Carsten Metz (Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, USA) and Arne Jacob (Arbeitsbereich Hochfrequenztechnik - TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)

8. “Implementation of a Multi Channel Modem for DSRC system on a Signal Processing Platform for Software Defined Radio” Akihisa Yokoyama (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan) and Hiroshi Harada (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)