Proceedings of the sixth ACM international workshop on VehiculAr InterNETworking

Welcome to the Sixth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr InterNETworking (VANET 2009) in Beijing! After the success of the previous five events, 2009 is a great year to continue this exciting and innovative workshop. The application of vehicle communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle as well as vehicle-to- roadside) technologies have been presented in several impressive large-scale demonstrations during the past year and it appears that the technology is now closer than ever before to actual deployment. The VANET technology has the ability to be an outstanding milestone of improved safety and efficiency of transportation and logistics on the roads. VANET technology is now in a critical phase where academia, industry and governments worldwide are jointly investing significant time and resources in order to understand the technology and prepare for large scale deployment. However, several technical challenges remain that require resolution. The design of a VANET is a highly collaborative effort and one that involves multiple disciplines. Our experience has shown that this has a potential to lead to push-pulls of varying interests and requirements, both between engineering disciplines and non-engineering disciplines. One of the key objectives of VANET is to stimulate strong collaboration between different technical disciplines. It is only through a strong collaboration that it is possible to design and implement a VANET that provides the right balance of reliability, cost-efficiency, safety, security, control and privacy. This year we received 40 submissions for the regular program of the VANET workshop. Each paper was assigned to three TPC members and received at least three reviews. While for most papers the final decision was straight forward, some papers with heterogeneous reviews were discussed thoroughly by the TPC members. At the end, the TPC accepted 12 submissions as full papers while the authors of five submissions where invited to present their work as a poster paper. Due to space constraints and given the excellent quality of this year's submissions, we had to make very tough decisions during this selection process.