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Panel : Wireless Vehicular Communications |
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The area of Wireless Vehicular Communications is enjoying a tremendous growth in recent years, as all sorts of vehicles get networked for safety, logistic and even entertainment purposes. The panel brings together experts in this area from across the world, and will cover a number of International initiatives in the area of Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure initiatives (Canada, UK, Germany and EU in general), as well as specific issues like vehicular ad hoc networking, value added services, security and interoperability |
Panel Chair: Dr. Jorge Pereira, European Commission
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Stephen Hope, International Technology and Research Relations Manager, France Telecom R&D UK Ltd
Title: Operator's Perspective on Wireless Vehicular Communications
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Biography: Stephen started his career in the Satellite Industry in 1975. He first became involved with terrestrial Mobile Communications in 1980 through working in the Military Communications Field and then moved to Cellular Communications, managing Manufacturing test of early 1G handsets. Since then he has been involved with system aspects of all the generations 2G 900 1800 2.5G 3G Cellular interspersed with Public Safety and Transport Private Mobile Radio System design.
Stephen joined Orange in the UK in 1993 as Testbed Manager and in 1994 was additionally responsible for Orange participation in various UK DTI and European Commission Research Programmes. Then, within Orange Research and Innovation and now within the Marketing and Business Eco-Structure team in France Telecom R&D UK Ltd, Stephen has been responsible for International Relations with both Academic and Industrial Research entities not just in support of Orange but also other companies with the France Telecom Group.
Stephen is Vice-Chairman of the Software Defined Radio Forum, and on the Board of Directors of the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in the UK and of innovITS – the newly established Centre of Excellence in the UK for Intelligent Transport Systems.
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Hannes Hartenstein, Universität Karlsruhe , Germany
Title: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks |
Biography: Professor Hartenstein is Professor at the Institute of Telematics, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe since 2003 where he is the head of group "Decentralized Systems and Network Services" (dsn.tm.uni-karlsruhe.de). Prior to Karlsuhe, he was a Senior Research Staff Member of NEC Europe's Network Labs in Heidelberg, Germany and NEC's project leader (2001 - 2003) for the project "FleetNet - Internet on the Road" funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Currently, he is active in the BMBF-funded project "NOW: Network on Wheels". He is also Program Co-Chair of the ACM VANET Workshop 2006 and was General Co-Chair of the ACM VANET Workshop 2005.
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Soumaya Cherkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Title: Vehicle Communications and Applications: a project of the AUTO21 Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence
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Biography: Dr. Soumaya Cherkaoui is an Associate Professor at Sherbrooke University, Canada which she joined in 1999.
Since 2000, she is also the director of INTERLAB, a research group comprising more than 12 faculty and research assistants which conducts research funded both by government and industry. Before joining Sherbrooke University as a faculty member, Professor Cherkaoui worked for industry as a project leader. She has over 40 publications in the areas of network protocols and distributed systems. Since 2005, she is the project leader of the “Vehicle Communications and Applications” project funded by the AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence, a Canadian research initiative supported by more than 110 industry, government and institutional partners.
Pr. Cherkaoui has participated as a Co-Chair, Member of Technical Committee, Session Chair, or reviewer of more than 30 conferences or referenced journals including, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, and IEEE VTC.
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Christian Weiß, DaimlerChrysler, Germany
Title: Vehicle-to-X Communications in Europe
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Biography: Dr. Weiß was born in Krumbach, Germany, in 1970. He received the Dipl.-Ing. and the Ph.D./Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology in 1995 and 2001, respectively, both from Munich University of Technology, Germany. In 1996, he worked for Siemens Ltd., Seoul, Korea, in the area of telecommunication networks. From 1997 until 2002 he was a member of the research and teaching staff at the Institute for Communications Engineering, Munich University of Technology. His work interests there included digital signal processing, information theory, error correction coding as well as reliable multimedia communications over mobile radio channels. In 2003 he joined DaimlerChrysler AG where he worked in various areas of research and development. In his current position he is manager of the vehicle-centric communication group that deals with
vehicle-to-vehicle- and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications.
Dr. Weiß held a scholarship of the Heinz-Nixdorf Foundation in 1996. His dissertation received the Texas Instruments Award in 2002. With Jens Berkmann he was jointly awarded with the ITG Award 2003 for the publication “On Dualizing Trellis-Based APP Decoding Algorithms”. He is a Member of VDE (Germany).
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