1st IEEE International Workshop on Environmental and Social
Impact of Vehicular Communication Systems (EVICS)

http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~dressler/evics2009/

held in conjunction with

IEEE WoWMoM 2009

June 19, 2009, Kos, Greece


Aims and Scope
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The establishment of network connections among vehicles and between vehicles and an existing network infrastructure is one of the most challenging research fields in the networking domain. Vehicles can be seen as a mobile communication infrastructure with strong dynamics w.r.t. network topology and changing communication channel conditions. The applications are manifold ranging from comfort services, e.g. traffic information systems, to safety applications, e.g. emergency warnings. Until now, the development of protocols was primarily inspired by existing Internet solutions and the advances in mobile ad hoc networking. However, the specific characteristics of vehicular networks may require quite different communication paradigms. For example, the nodes usually do not have severe power and form factor constraints, and they might be always on. On the other hand, wireless connections may not be stable for a longer time period and the network density is expected to vary from sparse to very dense networks.

This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum for novel solutions and services looking into V2V and V2I communication issues focusing on environmental aspects such as optimized CO2 emission, and road traffic shaping, i.e. optimized usage of available routes for all vehicles. Furthermore, con-cerning the drivers or users of vehicles, the service aspect is especially challenging in public trans-portation and for fleet management. The workshop will highlight the latest achievements in the research area of vehicular communication, with the goal of bringing together the different research communities. We especially target protocols and solutions besides simple "802.11+MANET" based solutions and explicitly encourage submission of scientifically sound experimental work. Authors are required to center their work around the environmental and social impacts of IVC and clearly state in the abstract how one or more of these issues are addressed in the paper.

We are looking for both technical and position papers presenting new applications for IVC that we have not seen so far, and new ways to exploit existing communication techniques for more efficient IVC. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication
* Inter-Vehicular Communication (IVC) and Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET)
* Exploiting IVC and intra-vehicular networks for improved safety
* IVC for reduced CO2 emission and road traffic shaping
* IVC algorithms, protocols, and services (MAC, routing, data dissemination, Internet-connectivity)
* IVC related security, safety, and privacy issues and conflicts
* Mobility modeling and simulation environments

Submission Guidelines
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Submission of both technical papers and position papers is encouraged. Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE in the combined WoWMoM 2009 proceedings, hence manuscripts must be formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines (max. 6 pages, IEEE 8.5x11 conference format). Submission will be handled by EDAS ().

Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline: February 20, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: April 1, 2009
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: April 10, 2009

Workshop Organizing Committee
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* Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany, dressler@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
* J?rg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, jo@netlab.tkk.fi
* Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA, ekici@ece.osu.edu