The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and the members of the IEEE Baltimore community would like to thank you for participating in our fall international conference in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. This is the 66th Vehicular Technology Conference.

The theme of the conference is "Portal to the Future of Mobile Technology". In addition to having a carefully selected, strong technical program, the conference features visionary plenaries from high profile speakers, and exciting tutorials that represent technical innovation and applications associated with an ever-expanding wireless industry.

Also, the new WiVec conference is co-located this year with VTC and will offer attendees the opportunity to learn and discuss the latest technology trends in vehicular-to-vehicular communications.

The VTC-2007 Fall Conference provides a venue for wireless telecommunications including digital signal processing, transmission technologies and vehicular technologies with academic and industry experts attending to exchange ideas and to discuss their latest projects. The focus is on wireless technologies for 4th generation networks and the hardware, firmware, and software that are making it all a reality.

Baltimore is a wonderful port city and is ideally located for business and pleasure. We have a full agenda to keep you involved and give you the opportunity to network and exchange ideas.

Thank you for your attendance and please enjoy the conference.

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland. A total of 732 papers were submitted in total across the tracks: land mobile radio, mobile networks, multiple antennas and space-time processing, propagation and modeling, transmission technologies, transportation systems, vehicular electronics, wireless access, wireless applications, and wireless device architectures. The Track Chairs, with the help of more than 250 Technical Program Committee members and almost 1,500 Reviewers, have assembled an outstanding technical program consisting of 420 papers from the 732 papers submitted.

We would like to thank the Track Chairs, TPC members, reviewers, and organizing committee, largely a volunteer effort, for making this program possible. Of course, we also thank the authors for their high quality submissions.

We hope you enjoy this time to learn from each other and to enjoy being with others that share a common interest. We hope you will find time to attend one of several panel sessions, intended to provoke thought on topics of practical relevance to the Vehicular Technology Society, and one of several technical tutorials offered prior to the start of the conference. We also hope you will take advantage of the 1st IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications focusing on vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, and vehicle-to-person communication being held in conjunction with the VTC conference.

In summary, we wish you a pleasant stay in Baltimore and hope you enjoy the conference.

On behalf of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. I was born in Baltimore, about the same time that the VT Society was born in Detroit. Baltimore is a beautiful location for what I’m sure will be one of the most memorable conferences in recent years. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, or VTS for short, unlike most other IEEE Societies, is built around a central theme, rather than a single technology. Our unifying theme is mobility, and our fields of interest are the technologies that support it. We are committed to all aspects of mobility, including telematics, automotive electronics, intelligent transportation systems, and wireless communications.

The organization of a large technical conference like VTC is a major endeavor that involves many people, mainly volunteers who are members of the Vehicular Technology Society. The continuing success of our conferences depends heavily on the quality work of these committed members of VTS. I thank them all for their generous commitment. A special thank you is in order to the General Chair of the IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference, Bob Shapiro; to the Technical Program co-Chairs, Greg Bottomley and Robert Heath; and to all the other members of the Organizing Committee for the skilled and thoughtful implementation of an excellent program. Finally I wish to thank all the delegates attending the conference, and urge you to take best advantage of both the conference, and the beautiful city of Baltimore.