Vehicular networks have been the subject of much attention lately. A Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network, or VANET, is a form of mobile ad-hoc network, which provides communications among nearby vehicles and between vehicles and nearby fixed equipment, usually described as roadside equipment. Enabled by short-range to medium-range communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-roadside), the vision of vehicular networks includes real-time and safety applications, sharing the wireless channel with mobile applications from a large, decentralized array of service providers. Vehicular safety applications include collision and other safety warnings. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others.

Several factors have contributed to the surging interest in vehicular networks. In December 2003, the U.S. FCC approved 75 MHz of spectrum for Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), and the resulting DSRC system is expected to be the first wide-scale vehicular network in North America. The IEEE 1609 Family of Standards for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) has come out with standards for vehicular communications at all the layers: the MAC (IEEE 1609.4), Networking (IEEE 1609.3), Security (IEEE 1609.2) and Application layer (IEEE 1609.1).

The goal of this talk is to discuss some of the key developments in the area of vehicular networks - from standards, protocols, government efforts across the world to numerous technical challenges in the area.

Talk Outline

1. Introduction to VANETs
2. Safety and commercial applications of VANETs
3. The WAVE stack and the DSRC protocol
4. Issues in VANET Protocol design
5. Security and Privacy issues in VANETs
6. Scalability in VANETs
7. Detailed discussion of the efforts of various consortia such as VSC-A, CAMP, VII
8. Open research problems in VANETs along with proposed solutions in some of the key areas
9. Conclusion and Scope for Future Work

Biography: Rajeev Shorey took charge as the President of the NIIT University in India on 1st September 2009. Prior to that, Rajeev was the Lab Group Manager of the Vehicle Communications and Information Management Group of India Science Lab (ISL) at GM Research and Development, Bangalore. Prior to joining GM Research, Rajeev was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Research Laboratory, New Delhi from 1998 to October 2005.

Rajeev received his Ph.D in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1996. Dr. Shorey’s work has resulted in more than 50 publications in international journals and conferences and several US patents, all in the area of wireless and wired networks. He has 10 issued US patents and several pending patents to his credit.

Rajeev serves on the Editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information. He has thrice been the guest editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, including a special issue on "Vehicular Networks" that was published in October 2007. He is the editor of the book titled "Mobile, Wireless and Sensor Networks: Technology, Applications and Future Directions" published by John Wiley, US in March 2006. Rajeev was the General Chair of the Sixth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET 2009), a workshop in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2009. Rajeev has given numerous talks and seminars in industry and academia all over the world and given several Tutorials in International conferences.

For his contributions in the area of Communication Networks, Rajeev was elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2007. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM.