Proceeding of the 3rd GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Inter-Vehicle Communication (FG-IVC 2015)

On March 19th and 20th, twenty motivated researchers working on inter-vehicular communication (IVC) gathered in Ulm, Germany, for the third GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch on Inter-Vehicular Communication. On both days, they engaged in intensive discussions about the state of the field and future research directions. This year, the Fachgespräch's scope has been extended beyond communication, now also including cooperative driving, which is seen as one of the biggest upcoming challenges in automotive research. In cooperative driving, intelligent, self-driving vehicles use communication to provide advanced features, such as platooning. Communication can play an essential role in extending the sensing range of intelligent vehicles. We were also honored by an academic keynote on the topic of cooperative driving, given by Dr. Jonathan Petit from the University College Cork, Ireland, who addressed security challenges and solutions in smart vehicles and cooperative driving. While we are approaching day-1 deployments, for which manufacturers have expressed their commitment for 2015, research also looks at the development of more future-looking applications involving large-scale, multi-hop cooperation of vehicles. Other important areas of on-going research include security, privacy, reliability, scalable testing environments, and simulation models. The upcoming deployment also raises questions regarding the potential of standardized yet only partially implemented features such as multi-channel beaconing and heterogeneity. These and other topics were all extensively discussed among the Fachgespräch participants.3rd GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Inter-Vehicle Communication (FG-IVC 2015), Ulm, Germany, 19. - 20. März 201