MOVE WORKSHOP --- INFOCOM 2007

Organizers:	Prof. Ozan Tonguz (CMU) Dr. Varsha Sadekar (General Motors)
Publicity Committee:	Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen (Univ. of Waterloo) Dr. Rajeev Shorey (General Motors, India) Prof. Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University)
Steering Committe:	Prof. Ozan Tonguz (CMU) Prof. Chunming Qiao (SUNY/Buffalo) Prof. Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University)

Traffic congestion, delays, and accidents in the transportation systems have caused significant loss of lives, waste of energy, and loss in productivity. To improve the safety, security and efficiency of the transportation systems and enable new mobile services and applications for the traveling public, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been developed, which apply rapidly emerging information technologies in vehicles and transportation infrastructures. The development of inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle mobile mesh and ad hoc networks is one of the most challenging and critical issues for the ITS industry, which also sparks numerous interests in the communications and networking research community.

This workshop on MOVE (MObile Networks for Vehicular Environments) will include and solicit contributions focusing on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V), and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications and networking. In addition, research issues pertaining to DSRC standards, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), as well as wireless sensor networks within cars are also topics of interest for our workshop. The objective of this workshop is to disseminate the state-of-the-art R&D results in this fast-moving research area, to facilitate the deployment of vehicular communications networks, and to bring together people from both academia and industry, with the goal of fostering interaction among them to promote further research interests and activities to enable new transportation products and services, e.g., advanced traffic management, vehicle control, safety control, and networking and information services for users on the road.

Furthermore, some major automotive companies have also expressed an interest to sponsor/participate in such a workshop. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

· Routing protocols for active safety in VANET

· Other emerging applications such as content distribution, infotainment, Internet access, etc.

· Challenges of V2V, V2I, and I2V wireless communication

· Use of wireless technology within cars

· Security issues in VANET and trustworthy networking

· Propagation issues

· Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless communication technologies

· Vehicular network architecture and protocol

· Vehicular network performance modeling and analysis

· Vehicular network medium access control and routing protocols

· Vehicular network flow and congestion control

· Quality of Services (QoS) provisioning in wireless-enabled ITS systems

· Traffic management, vehicle control, and safety related applications for ITS systems

· Networking and information services for users on the roads (by automobiles, trains, planes, or ships)

· Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular ad hoc networks

· Mobility management and intersystem handovers

· Simulations models and testbeds for VANET

· Implementation and field tests of VANET systems

· Potential modifications needed to improve the DSRC standard

· Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems

We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit extended abstracts (3 pages or less) summarizing their original contributions (the reported results should not be under consideration in any other journal or conference) according to the following schedule:

PAPER SUBMISSION:

· Paper due date: April 1, 2007 (Email your abstract to tonguz@ece.cmu.edu with the subject line "VANET at Infocom'07")

· Acceptance notification: April 9th, 2007

· Camera-ready paper (6 pages) due date: April 30, 2007

Accepted papers will appear on the IEEE Explore database. Selected papers from the workshop may be considered for publication in the following Special Issues: IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols, 2007; and IEEE Wireless Communications, Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networking, 2007.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sami Ayyorgun	Los Alamos National Laboratory, US
Fan Bai	General Motors, US
Gerardo Castanon	Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico
Eylem Ekici	Ohio State University, US
Anthony Ephremides	University of Maryland at College Park, US
Gianluigi Ferrari	University of Parma, Italy
Fethi Filali	Eurecom, France
Aura Ganz	University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US
Mario Gerla	University of California at Los Angeles, US
Zygmunt Haas	Cornell University, US
David Hunter	University of Essex, UK
Ahmed Kamal	Iowa State University, US
Timo Kosch	BMW
Bhaskar Krishnamachari	University of Southern California
Jean-Yves Le Boudec	EPFL, Switzerland
Ken Laberteaux	Toyota
Luca Delgrossi	Daimlerchrysler
Erran Li	AT&T Labs, US
Muriel Medard	MIT, US
Eytan Modiano	MIT, US
Pri Mudalige	General Motors, US
Tamer Nadeem	Siemens
Sooksan Panichpapiboon	King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Thailand)
Chunming Qiao	State University of New York at Buffalo, US
Raj Rajkumar	Carnegie Mellon University, US
Varsha Sadekar	General Motors, US
Sherman Shen	University of Waterloo, CA
Rajeev Shorey	General Motors, India
Ozan Tonguz	Carnegie Mellon University, US
Stavros Toumpis	University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Shahrokh Valee	University of Toronto, CA
Jia Li	Oakland University, MI
Nawaporn Wisitpongphan	Carnegie Mellon University, US
Ariton Xhafa	Texas Instruments, US
Weihua Zhuang	University of Waterloo, CA