Vehicular Networks

CS 795/895

Dr. Michele Weigle
mweigle at cs.odu.edu

Spring 2008
TR 9:30-10:45 am
E&CS 2120

Research Project

CS 795/895 | Requirements Milestones Groups Topics | Blackboard Submitting Assignments

Requirements

Each group will give a class presentation on the background of their project (essentially a project proposal).
Each group will give a class presentation on the project itself.
Each project must contain an evaluation of the proposed approach, either through analysis or simulation.
There will be an accounting of work done and responsibilities to ensure equal (or at least fair) sharing of work.
Each group must report weekly progress with Dr. Weigle.
Each group will present to Dr. Weigle a proposal of experiments to run and metrics to be used to evaluate their project.
Papers should be submitted in PDF format, single-spaced, no longer than 10 pages (single- or double-column), and in font no smaller than 11 point.

Milestones

Group chosen - Feb 14

Topic chosen - Feb 14

Project proposal due - Feb 21
Evaluation plan due - Mar 20
Evaluation results discussed w/Dr. Weigle - Apr 10
Presentation - week of Apr 21 and Apr 28
Paper due - Apr 29 at 11:59pm

Project Proposal

You must get approval on your project topic before submitting your proposal.

Your project proposal should include the following:

Description of the problem that you are addressing
Summary of approach
Research questions that you will be attempting to answer
Evaluation tools (analysis, simulation)
Preliminary timeline for completion
Preliminary expected results

Background Presentation

Each group must give a presentation describing their project. The focus should be on background material and motivation for selecting this project (describe why it is an interesting problem). A basic description of your approach may also be outlined, but it should not take up much time in your presentation.

Each presentation should be 20-25 minutes long. If there are two members in the group, each member of the group must deliver roughly half of the presentation.

The list of papers to be discussed is due March 6. Send an email to Dr. Weigle with the full citation of each paper along with an appropriate URL. The lists will be added to the projects webpage next to the group members and topic.

The order of presentations has been added to the schedule.

Progress Reports

After submitting your project proposal, weekly progress reports are due each Thursday before class.
The progress reports should be sent to Dr. Weigle via email with the subject line Progress Report x, where x is the report number that is due.
Progress reports should include
- a summary of what each group member has done in the past week on the project
- a plan for the coming week
- any problems that arose during the previous week
The progress reports should be brief, but complete. They will be used to determine how the work was divided on the project and will count as part of your project grade.

Final Presentation

20 minutes (25 minutes MAX!)
As with other group presentations, both members of the group must speak.
Since you've already given a background presentation, you should only briefly remind the class about your project and what problem you are addressing.
The focus of the presentation should be on your approach to solving the problem, how you evaluated the problem, results you got, future work, problems/things you learned.

Final Paper

Formatted according to guidelines and templates available at IEEE (Word and LaTeX templates available).
Required heading elements: Title, Author Names, Author Affiliations (dept, university), Abstract (Index Terms are not required)
10 pt Times New Roman font, single-spaced, double-column, no more than 10 pages
Treat this as you would a conference paper -- you've read enough of them to know the general outline: Introduction (including motivation and setup of the problem), Related Work, Your Approach, Evaluation (describing simulation and results), Conclusions and Future Work.
After the Conclusions section, add a section titled 'Final Thoughts' describing your experience working on the project. What were problems you faced? What things did you learn?
As with all written work in the course, this paper must be in your own words. Even when describing related work, you must resist the urge to copy (either directly or indirectly) from the paper you are referring to.

Groups

Members Topic Reading List

Samy and Souhail Sensitivity and Reliability in NOTICE
Mahmoud Abuelela, Stephan Olariu, and Michele C. Weigle, NOTICE: Architecture for the Notification of Traffic Incidents, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring, May 2008. (submitted version, not final).
Karpiriski, M. Senart, A. Cahill, V., Sensor networks for smart roads, Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. March 2006, pp.-5-.
J.-P. Hubaux, S. Capkun, and J. Luo, The security and privacy of smart vehicles, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, 2(3), 4955, 2004.

Vijetha and Srikanth Location-Based/Location-Aware Services
M. Caiskan, D. Graupner, and M. Mauve, Decentralized Discovery of Free Parking Places, Proceedings of ACM VANET, pp. 30-39, 2006.
M. Dikaiakos, A. Florides, T. Nadeem and L. Iftode, Location-aware Services over Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks using Car-to-Car Communication, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(8), Oct 2007.

Hadi and Brian Congestion Inferencing in NOTICE
Mahmoud Abuelela, Stephan Olariu, and Michele C. Weigle, NOTICE: An Architecture for the Notification of Traffic Incidents, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring, May 2008.
JiST/SWANS. http://jist.ece.cornell.edu, 2004.
Emily Parkany and Chi Xie, A Complete Review of Incident Detection Algorithms and Their Deployment: What Works and What Doesn't, New England Transportation Consortium Report NETCR37, Feb 2005.

Danda Cross-Layer Optimization for VANETs
M.M. Artimy, W. Robertson, W. J. Philips, Assignment of dynamic transmission range based on estimation of vehicle density, VANET 05 Sept,2005
Suthaputchakun and Ganz, Priority Based Inter-Vehicle Communication in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks using IEEE 802.11e, VTC Spring, 2007.
Nathan Balon and Jinhua Guo, Increasing Broadcast Reliability in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, 2006.

Mo and Talal Traffic Light Control for Emergency Vehicles (TLC4EV)
C. Gorgorin, V. Gradinescu, R. Diaconescu, V. Cristea and L. Iftode, Adaptive Traffic Lights using Car-to-Car Communication, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring, April 2007.
Q. Huang, R. Miller, Reliable Wireless Traffic Signal Protocols for Smart Intersections, Ford Motor Company.
T. G. Magomedov, A. B. Ostrovskiy, Simulation of smart traffic lights, Saint Petersburg 2006.

Rajat and Spardha IDM/MOBIL Validation
Sommer, C.; Dietrich, I.; Dressler, F, Realistic Simulation of Network Protocols in VANET Scenarios, 2007 Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments.
Jerome Harri, Marco Fiore, Fethi Filali, Christian Bonnet, Claudio Casetti, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, A Realistic Mobility Simulator for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Research Report RR-05-150, October 2005.
Khaled Ibrahim and Michele C. Weigle, CASCADE: Cluster-based Accurate Synthetic Compression of Aggregated Data in VANETs, in submission, 2008.

Madhukesh Evaluation of Data Dissemination Protocols
Palazzi, Ferretti, Roccetti, Pau, and Gerla, How Do You Quickly Choreograph Inter-Vehicular Communications? A Fast Vehicle-to-Vehicle Multi-Hop Broadcast Algorithm, Explained, Proceedings of Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment, 2007.
Wegener Axel, Hellbruck Horst, Fischer Stefan, Schmidt Christiane, Fekete Sandor, AutoCast: An Adaptive Data Dissemination Protocol for Traffic Information Systems, Vehicular Technology Conference,2007.

Nigel Location Privacy
J. Freudiger, M. Raya, M. Felegyhazi, P. Papadiitratos, and J.-P. Hubaux, Mix-Zones for Location Privacy in Vehicular Networks, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wireless Networking for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WIN-ITS), Aug 2007.
J. Guo, J.P. Baugh, and S. Wang, A Group Signature Based Secure and Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Communication Framework, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments (MOVE), pp. 103-108, May 2007.
K. Sampigethaya, Mingyan Li, Leping Huang, and R. Poovendran, AMOEBA: Robust Location Privacy Scheme for VANET, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(8):1569-1589, Oct 2007.

Members	Topic	Reading List
Samy and Souhail	Sensitivity and Reliability in NOTICE	Mahmoud Abuelela, Stephan Olariu, and Michele C. Weigle, NOTICE: Architecture for the Notification of Traffic Incidents, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring, May 2008. (submitted version, not final). Karpiriski, M. Senart, A. Cahill, V., Sensor networks for smart roads, Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. March 2006, pp.-5-. J.-P. Hubaux, S. Capkun, and J. Luo, The security and privacy of smart vehicles, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, 2(3), 4955, 2004.
Vijetha and Srikanth	Location-Based/Location-Aware Services	M. Caiskan, D. Graupner, and M. Mauve, Decentralized Discovery of Free Parking Places, Proceedings of ACM VANET, pp. 30-39, 2006. M. Dikaiakos, A. Florides, T. Nadeem and L. Iftode, Location-aware Services over Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks using Car-to-Car Communication, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(8), Oct 2007.
Hadi and Brian	Congestion Inferencing in NOTICE	Mahmoud Abuelela, Stephan Olariu, and Michele C. Weigle, NOTICE: An Architecture for the Notification of Traffic Incidents, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring, May 2008. JiST/SWANS. http://jist.ece.cornell.edu, 2004. Emily Parkany and Chi Xie, A Complete Review of Incident Detection Algorithms and Their Deployment: What Works and What Doesn't, New England Transportation Consortium Report NETCR37, Feb 2005.
Danda	Cross-Layer Optimization for VANETs	M.M. Artimy, W. Robertson, W. J. Philips, Assignment of dynamic transmission range based on estimation of vehicle density, VANET 05 Sept,2005 Suthaputchakun and Ganz, Priority Based Inter-Vehicle Communication in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks using IEEE 802.11e, VTC Spring, 2007. Nathan Balon and Jinhua Guo, Increasing Broadcast Reliability in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, 2006.
Mo and Talal	Traffic Light Control for Emergency Vehicles (TLC4EV)	C. Gorgorin, V. Gradinescu, R. Diaconescu, V. Cristea and L. Iftode, Adaptive Traffic Lights using Car-to-Car Communication, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring, April 2007. Q. Huang, R. Miller, Reliable Wireless Traffic Signal Protocols for Smart Intersections, Ford Motor Company. T. G. Magomedov, A. B. Ostrovskiy, Simulation of smart traffic lights, Saint Petersburg 2006.
Rajat and Spardha	IDM/MOBIL Validation	Sommer, C.; Dietrich, I.; Dressler, F, Realistic Simulation of Network Protocols in VANET Scenarios, 2007 Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments. Jerome Harri, Marco Fiore, Fethi Filali, Christian Bonnet, Claudio Casetti, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, A Realistic Mobility Simulator for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Research Report RR-05-150, October 2005. Khaled Ibrahim and Michele C. Weigle, CASCADE: Cluster-based Accurate Synthetic Compression of Aggregated Data in VANETs, in submission, 2008.
Madhukesh	Evaluation of Data Dissemination Protocols	Palazzi, Ferretti, Roccetti, Pau, and Gerla, How Do You Quickly Choreograph Inter-Vehicular Communications? A Fast Vehicle-to-Vehicle Multi-Hop Broadcast Algorithm, Explained, Proceedings of Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment, 2007. Wegener Axel, Hellbruck Horst, Fischer Stefan, Schmidt Christiane, Fekete Sandor, AutoCast: An Adaptive Data Dissemination Protocol for Traffic Information Systems, Vehicular Technology Conference,2007.
Nigel	Location Privacy	J. Freudiger, M. Raya, M. Felegyhazi, P. Papadiitratos, and J.-P. Hubaux, Mix-Zones for Location Privacy in Vehicular Networks, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wireless Networking for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WIN-ITS), Aug 2007. J. Guo, J.P. Baugh, and S. Wang, A Group Signature Based Secure and Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Communication Framework, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments (MOVE), pp. 103-108, May 2007. K. Sampigethaya, Mingyan Li, Leping Huang, and R. Poovendran, AMOEBA: Robust Location Privacy Scheme for VANET, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(8):1569-1589, Oct 2007.