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Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Peek into the Future
Raj Rajkumar, George Westinghouse Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract - As higher and higher fractions of the human population live in urban areas, more people own automobiles and travel large distances rendering transportation an increasingly critical component of modern life. Unfortunately, thanks to the unique human tendency to be distracted in many ways, tens of millions of automotive accidents occur annually and more than a million lives are lost every year. Intelligent transportation systems led by innovations like vehicular communications and automation in the form of self-driving vehicles promise to dramatically alter this autoscape. In this talk, we will take an informed peek into the future of such intelligent transportation systems.

Biography - Prof. Raj Rajkumar is the George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. At Carnegie Mellon, he directs the Real-Time and Multimedia Systems Laboratory (RTML), and co-directs the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Vehicular Information Technology Collaborative Research Laboratory (VIT-CRL) as well as the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Laboratory (AD-CRL). He will also serve as the Director of the newly established University Transportation Center on Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation. He has served as the Program Chair and/or General Chair of nine international ACM/IEEE conferences on real-time systems (RTSS, RTAS), sensor networks (IPSN, INSS), cyber-physical systems (ICCPS) and multimedia computing/networking (MMCN). He has authored one book, edited another book, holds one US patent, and has more than 160 publications in peer-reviewed forums. Six of these publications have received Best Paper Awards. He has given several keynotes and distinguished lectures at several conferences and universities. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was selected as a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery in 2007, and was given an Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. Prof. Rajkumar’s work has influenced many commercial operating systems. He is the primary founder of Pittsburgh-based TimeSys Corporation, a vendor of embedded real-time Linux products and services. His research interests include all aspects of cyber-physical systems.

Coffee Break

Session: Protocol Design and Network Modeling

Analytical Modeling of Link Duration for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Urban Environment
Miao Hu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Haoqing Zhu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Minming Ni (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Chih-Yung Chang (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Error Model based Adaptive Rate Control for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
Gaurav Bansal (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA), Hongsheng Lu (University of Notre Dame, USA), John Kenney (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA), Christian Poellabauer (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Joint Power/Rate Congestion Control Optimizing Packet Reception in Vehicle Safety Communications
Tessa Tielert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Daniel Jiang (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, USA), Hannes Hartenstein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Luca Delgrossi (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, USA)

Lunch Break

Session: Security, Reliability & Availability

PAL - Privacy Augmented LTE: A Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Vehicular LTE Communication
Daniel Angermeier (Fraunhofer Research Institution AISEC, Germany), Alexander Kiening (Fraunhofer Research Institution AISEC, Germany), Frederic Stumpf (Fraunhofer Research Institution AISEC, Germany)

Reliability Analysis of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Applications based on Real World Measurements
Tetiana Zinchenko (Volkswagen AG, Germany), Hugues Tchouankem (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany), Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany), André Leschke (Volkswagen AG, Germany)

ParkingMeter: Balancing Energy Savings and Service Availability
Riccardo Crepaldi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Ryan Welsh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Session: Posters

A Cluster Based Beaconing Process for VANET
Yair Allouche (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Modeling Vehicle-to-Vehicle Line of Sight Channels and its Impact on Application-Layer Performance
Mate Boban (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Wantanee Viriyasitavat (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Ozan Tonguz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Adaptive Vehicular Routing Protocol Based on Ant Colony Optimization
Guangyu Li (University of Paris-Sud11, France)

Co-Existing Periodic Beaconing and Hazard Warnings in IEEE 802.11p-Based Platooning Applications
Annette Böhm (Halmstad University, Sweden), Magnus Jonsson (Halmstad University, Sweden), Elisabeth Uhlemann (Malardalen University, Sweden)

Coffee Break

Session: Experimental and Position Papers

Sustainable Highways with Shadow Tolls based on VANET Advertising
Pedro Gomes (University of Porto, Portugal), Fausto Vieira (University of Porto, Portugal), Michel Ferreira (University of Porto, Portugal)

MRMV: Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Radio Multi-Vehicle System for Metro-WiFi Access
Pralhad Deshpande (IBM Research India, India), Zafar A Qazi (Stony Brook University, USA), Samir R. Das (Stony Brook University, USA)

Smartphone as vehicular networks data hub

Abstract - The panel will discuss the possible role of smartphones and portable devices in establishing vehicular networks. In particular, the panelists will address relevant questions on the role of smartphones as vehicular networks data hubs: will they facilitate the adoption of the V2X technology or jeopardize it? How do we see the evolution of the M2M in LTE influencing? Will the automotive industry be fast enough in developing and introducing the technology in the market or the consumers electronics will prevail with different solutions? What are the limitations and the challenges of CE driven technologies?

Panel Moderator: Massimo Osella, General Motors Research & Development, USA

Panel Speakers:

Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai is an assistant professor in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at National Taiwan University. He received his B.S.E in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2002, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and 2010, respectively. During his Ph.D. studies, he was part of General Motors – Carnegie Mellon Collaborative Research Laboratory and spent four summers (2005-2009) as an intern researcher in Electrical and Controls Integration Laboratory at General Motors Research and Development where he worked on the design of intra-car wireless sensor networks. He returned to Taiwan to join National Taiwan University in 2010. In 2013, he received Intel Early Career Faculty Award and was the first to receive this honor in Asia. He also received National Taiwan University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2013. Dr. Tsai’s research interests include vehicular networking and communications, wireless channel and link measurements, vehicle safety systems, and visible light communications.

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 90+ 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, a Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, as well as best paper awards at ACM MobiCom 2012, ACM MobiCom 2011 and ACM MobiSys 2010. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets including the MIT Technology Review, NPR, the New York Times, and CNN TV.

Frank Kargl is professor for Distributed Systems at the University of Ulm, Germany and holds a part-time professor position at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research focuses on future self-organizing communication systems and especially their security and privacy. Since many years, he is involved in research on security and privacy of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Vehicle-to-X communication (V2X) but also investigates other topics like V2X information dissemination or applications. Currently, he is coordinator of the European FP7 project PRESERVE, which develops and field-tests a practical security solution for cooperative ITS. Frank Kargl is co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and served in the organization of events like IEEE WiVEC, IEEE VNC, ACM WiSec, and ACM VANET. He is a member of the GI, IEEE (ComSoc, ITS), and ACM (SIGMOBILE).

Robin Kravets is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the head of the Mobius group, which researches communication issues in all types of networks that are challenged by mobility, including wireless LANs, ad hoc networks, sensor network, delay and disruption tolerant networks, vehicular networks, mobile social networks and personal area networks. Her research focuses on solutions that enable effective power management, connectivity management, data transport, congestion management, location management, routing and security. Her recent research on mobile computing and wireless networking has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Google, HP Labs and Microsoft. She is currently the Technical Program Chair for MobiCom 2013, the premiere conference in mobile computing and communications and has served on numerous program and organizing committees in that area. More information can be found at http://mobius.cs.illinois.edu.