4th Workshop on
Vehicle to Vehicle Communications (V2VCOM 2008)

Co-located with IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2008

Program  (pdf version is here)

  • June 3, 2008 (Tuesday), 9:00am-5:15pm
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
9:00-9:05 Opening and Welcome
  • by Onur Altintas and Wai Chen, Workshop Chairs
9:05-9:35 Keynote Speech
  • Requirements for Telecommunication Services from Automobile
    by Prof. Tadao Saito, CTO, Toyota InfoTechnology Center
9:35-10:25 Morning Session I
  • Congestion Reduction Using Ad-Hoc Message Dissemination in Vehicular Networks
    by Thomas Hewer* and Maziar Nekovee*#
    *University College London and #BT Research, United Kingdom
  • A Search Engine for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
    by Christian Wewetzer*, Murat Caliskan*, Andreas Luebke* and Martin Mauve#
    *Volkswagen Group and #University of Duesseldorf, Germany
10:25-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15: Work-in-Progress Session I:
  • Providing Over-the-horizon Awareness to Driver Support Systems
    by Martijn van Eenennaam and Geert Heijenk
    University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • A Data Dissemination Method for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks Based on Traffic Information Class and Running Condition
    by Yojiro Okada, Ryohei Hatori and Hiroshi Shigeno
    Keio University, Japan
11:15-12:05 Morning Session II
  • Vehicle Local Peer Group based Multicasting Protocol for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
    by John Lee*, Wai Chen*, Ryokichi Onishi# and Rama Vuyyuru#
    *Telcordia Technologies and #Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA, USA
  • Sensing the environment for future driver assistance combining autonomous and cooperative appliances
    by Matthias Roeckl, Jan Gacnik, Jan Schomerus, Thomas Strang and Matthias Kranz
    German Aerospace Center, Germany
12:05-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Invited Talk
  • Vehicle Participatory Urban Sensing
    by Prof. Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
1:45-3:00 Afternoon Session I
  • Testbed for Wireless Vehicle Communication: a Simulation Approach based on Three-Phase Traffic Theory
    by B.S. Kerner*, S.L. Klenov#, and A. Brakemeier*
    *Daimler Research, Germany and #Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
  • Fastest Path Determination at Lane Granularity using a Vehicle-to-Vehicle-to- Infrastructure (V2V2I) Intelligent Transportation System Architecture
    by Jeffrey Miller
    University of Alaska, USA
  • A New Approach for Evaluation of Vehicle Safety Communications with Decentralized TDMA-based MAC Protocol
    by Yukihiro Tadokoro, Kenji Ito, Junji Imai, Noriyoshi Suzuki, and Nobuo Itoh
    Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Japan
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:15 Work-in-Progress Session II:
  • A Reliable MAC Protocol for Broadcast VANETs
    by Cristina Rico Garcia, Andreas Lehner and Thomas Strang
    German Aerospace Center, Germany
  • Towards RSSI based Position Plausibility Checks for Vehicular Communication
    by Florian Friederici and Matthias Gerlach
    FOKUS, Germany
  • Time Constrained Message Delivery Probability in VANETs
    by Andreas Xeros*, Maria Andreou#, Marios Lestas*, George Papageorgiou*, Vasos Vassiliou* and Andreas Pitsillides*
    *Cyprus University and #Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
4:15-5:05 Afternoon Session II
  • Vehicle Behavior Analysis to Enhance Security in VANETs
    by Robert K. Schmidt*, Tim Leinmuller*, Elmar Schoch#, Albert Held+ and Gunter Schafer++
    *DENSO Automotive Deutschland GmBH, #Ulm University, +Daimler AG R&D and ++Technische Universitat Ilmenau, Germany
  • A distributed method for minimum delay multi-hop data delivery in vehicular network
    Ratul K. Guha, Wai Chen, Stephanie Demers and Jasmine Chennikara-Varghese
    Telcordia Technologies, USA
5:15 Workshop Closes