(This conference brief will be reported by next issue of IEEE ITS Magazine)

The second international conference on wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE 2009) was held in Days Inn Hotel Tongji, Shanghai, China on 12/21-22/2009. WAVE 2009 accepted 18 papers from more than 30 submissions after peer review organized by the Technical Program Committee (TPC) consisted of 32 members worldwide. More than 40 participants from United States, Japan, Korean, HongKong, Macau and China attended the conference. WAVE 2009 provided a platform for leading researchers from Industry, Government and Academia to discuss the status and research in the promising areas of WAVE, dedicated short range communications (DSRC), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), Intelligent transportation systems (ITS), Telemetric and IntelliDrive. WAVE 2009 is co-sponsored by the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST), Tongij Univesity, Shanghai Jiatong University, Shanghai University, University of Michigan, Dearborn and Connected Vehicle Proving Center (CVPC). The conference is co-chaired by Prof. Weidong Xiang, from University of Michigan, Dearborn, Dr. Giovanni Pau, from University of California, Los Angles (UCLA), and Prof. Fuqiang Liu from Tongji University.

History

The first international conference on wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE 2008) was held on 12/8-9/2008, Detroit, USA, which accepted 15 papers from total 30 submissions. The total participants of the conference are more than 60 and are from seven countries worldwide. There were more than ten keynote speeches and two tutorials in the conference. WAVE 2008 is supported by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Connected Vehicles Proving Center, and the University of Michigan, Dearborn.

The Conference Programs

The conference programs consisted of keynote speech session, tutorial session, technical program and demonstration session. There were six keynote speakers from United States, Japan, Hong Kong and China. Prof. Fei-Yue Wang, an IEEE Fellow, from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy and University of Arizona, presented a talk titled Parallel Traffic Control for Intelligent Transportation Spaces - from Vehicle to Traffic and Beyond. Prof. C.K. Toh, an IEEE Fellow, from Hong Kong University, gave a speech on Research Challenges in Intelligent Transportation Networks. Prof. Teruo Higashino, from Osaka University, had a discussion about Vehicular Mobility - towards Precise Performance Evaluation of Vehicular Communications. Dr. Jun Yamada, from Renesas Technology Corporate, talked about the Development Status of Vehicle Communications Gateway using Ultra wideband (UWB) radio. Prof. Honglin Hu, from Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications, addressed Next Generation Wireless Transmission Domain and Related Techniques. Dr. Giovanni Pau, from University of California, Los Angles, updated with recent research activities conducted at the Vehicular Lab at UCLA. Followed by the keynote speeches, Prof. Hong Nie, from University of Northern Iowa, offered participants a tutorial on Low Complexity UWB Transceiver Technologies for Intra-Vehicle Control and Communications Applications. 

In the technical program, there were 18 technical papers that were presented, of which the topics ranged from key physical technologies including channel modeling, orthogonal frequency multiplexing division (OFDM), UWB, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) to higher layer protocols and schemes such as, medium access control (MAC) protocols,  network relay and routine schemes, Quality-of-Service (QoS) and Privacy.   

Demonstrations

A real-time WAVE prototype based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) was demonstrated in the conference, which delivered live video streams among onboard units (OBUs) and roadside units (RSUs). More details about the WAVE prototype are posted on the website of www.vehi-com.com.

Thanks

We thank all TPC members, reviewers, speakers, session chairs and student volunteers of the conference. Without their supports and help, WAVE 2009 were not possible to be successfully held. Specially, we acknowledged Prof. Fuqiang Liu and his team from Tongji University for their offering tremendous efforts to organize and serve the conference. We expect to seeing the growth in attendance and interest in the third International Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE 2010).    

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