Domestic Developments in Wireless Communications Standardization to Improve Vehicular Safety

Tom Kurihara is the Chair of the IEEE P1609 Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) Working Group. He is involved in TKstds Management and is an Independent Consultant. Standards Engineering and Project Management Member, US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for ISO TC204, ITS; US TAG for ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC7, Systems and Software Engineering; and US TAG for ISO Project Committee 236 (PC236), Project Management Member, ASTM, IEEE Standards Association, PMI, SAE, and SES.

Mr. Malarky is the Chief Engineer for the IVHS Division of Mark IV Industries, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He has over twenty five years of experience in communications systems and technology design & development. He is currently responsible for leading research at Mark IV IVHS and providing technical support throughout the division for the vehicle transponder market.
Although only involved with vehicle transponders for just over a year, he has been co-author to IEEE 1609.1 and a contribution member to the other IEEE 1609 and IEEE 802.11p standards, has lead the development of dual band antennas for the U.S Federal Highway Authority sponsored Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration (VII) Proof-of-Concept system, and is currently leading the development team on the Toll and Parking application software for that system.
Prior to joining Mark IV in 2006, he worked for 21 years for COM DEV, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, the largest Canadian-based designer and manufacturer of space hardware subsystems for use in communications, space science, remote sensing and military satellites, attaining the position of Staff Scientist for the company. Prior to COM DEV, he worked in the UK developing surface acoustic wave devices and electronic subsystems for radar and electronic warfare applications. Communication related highlights of his career include being the lead project engineer for a military EHF communication satellite payload demonstrator, the lead system engineer on a free-space inter-satellite optical communication system, the lead RF system engineer for development of a CDMA 1xEV-DO wireless system, and the lead on multiple communication system studies.
He received a BSc in Communications and Electronic Engineering, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

John Moring joined the TechnoCom team in 1997, where he supported most of the major US cellular carriers in their deployment of handset location technologies for E9-1-1. More recently, he is the primary author of IEEE Std 1609.3 Trial-Use Standard for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE)—Networking Services, contributor to other standards in the 1609 family, and active in the US Department of Transportation’s Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) initiative. Prior to 1997, Mr. Moring worked on a wide range of communications projects while employed at Hughes Aircraft Co., TRW, Titan Linkabit, and Pacific Communications Sciences, Inc. He has contributed to a number of wireless standards, textbooks, and conferences, has multiple vehicle-related patents pending, and teaches extension classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He looks forward to the day when his motorcycling experience will be enhanced by an advanced wireless infrastructure.
Mr. Moring received his BS in Electrical Engineering (with specializations in computers and communications) from the University of Cincinnati and his MS in Electrical Engineering (specializing in communications and signal processing) from the University of Southern California under a Hughes Fellowship.

Randy Roebuck is DSRC Program Manager at Sirit Inc. the last three years in leading the DSRC activities. Sirit is currently leading the 5.9 GHz communication verification testing efforts through VIIC (automotive), BAH (inter-operability), DIC Consortium (standards) and OmniAir (certification) activities. Randy is the private sector associate chair of OmniAir’s Device Certification committee and the lead for DSRC certification structure development. Also, he participates in IBTTA, ITS and SAE industry activities.
Randy spent 22 years at Texas Instruments in commercial and military electronics with the last eight years in the RFID group. He held senior level technical marketing and program management roles for Mobil SpeedpassTM, 3M library systems, access control product development and U.S. standard/industry activities.
He received Bachelors Mechanical Engineering from Tri-State University (Indiana) and MBA General Management from University of Dallas (Texas). Randy is registered engineer in Texas and was recognized as group member of technical staff (GMTS) at Texas Instruments.

William Whyte is CTO of NTRU Cryptosystems. He was Technical Editor of IEEE Standard 1609.2-2006, defining security techniques for DSRC/WAVE radios and services. Since the issuance of 1609.2 he has continued to be involved in the development of security for these systems. He has led projects with customers including Microsoft and Honeywell to design and review secure, trusted systems. He holds multiple patents, and has a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin and a Ph. D. from Oxford.