Preface of VON'08

Abstract

Welcome to the First IEEE International Workshop on Vehicular Networking (VON-08) in Jiaosi, Yilan, Taiwan. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2008). The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of wireless vehicular networking technologies. Based on shortto medium-range communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside), vehicular networks will enable vehicular safety applications including collision and other safety warnings as well as non-safety applications like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others. The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, and secure vehicular networks technologies, though, presents an extraordinary challenge to the wireless research community: a high degree of communication reliability is needed under unfavorable channel conditions. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular networks in terms of mobility behavior and applications scenarios and requirements makes vehicular networks research an exciting and demanding applicationand purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking. In its first year the workshop attracted 14 submissions from 8 different countries. Each paper went through a rigorous peer review process, with each submission receiving at least 3 reviews from members of the Technical Program Committee. In order to allocate as many papers as possible and keep the high quality of the workshop, we finally decided to accept 9 papers for oral presentations. We believe that the accepted papers provide interesting results and insights on the routing, application, and security issues of vehicular networks. We would like to thank all the people who worked hard to make this workshop a success. First and foremost we would like to express our gratitude to all the members of the Technical Program Committee for their diligent effort in providing high quality reviews before the deadline. We would also like to thank the APSCC 2008 Organizing Committee for their help and support. Special thanks are due to Pei-Ling Liu, Jong Hyuk Park, and Yan Zhang, APSCC Workshop Co-chairs, and Han-Chieh Chao, Jeffrey Tsai, and Franck Cappello, APSCC General Co-chairs for their help and guidance over the past few months. Last but not least, we would like to thank the authors for choosing to submit their publications to VON-08.