Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVnet)

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Accepted Papers (Oral)

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Dynamic Microservice Placement in Vehicular Edge Computing
Surayya A (SRM University, Andra Pradesh, India); Md Muzakkir Hussain (SRM University, Andra Pradesh, India)
Evaluating Time-to-Collision Models and Steering Feasibility for Autonomous Emergency Braking
Madhav Rajadurai (IIT Madras); Abhinav Jammi (IIT Madras); Pavel Vijay Gaurkar (IIT Madras); Mahesh V Shridhare (Madras Engineering Pvt Ltd, India); Sriram Sivaram (Madras Engineering Pvt Ltd, India); Shankar Subramanian (IIT Madras)
Q-Learning-Based Multi-UAV Path Planning with Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
Amala Sonny (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, Sr (University of Agder, Norway)
Risk Assessment of Connected Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles under Cyber Attacks
Princy Philip (IIT Madras); K b Devika (IIT Madras); Shankar Subramanian (IIT Madras)
Identifying Relevant Witnesses Using a BEV-Based Query Technique for Vehicle Collision Investigation
Siriboon Chaisawat (UNSW Sydney, Australia & National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand); Hye-young Paik (University of New South Wales, Australia); Salil S Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
NARMAD: A Novel Aerial Road Dataset with Oriented Annotations for Granular Traffic Analysis
Vatsal Prajapati (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Harshal Dave (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Vishal Patel (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Shriniwas Arkatkar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India)
Analysing Spatiotemporal Mobility Trends of Public Bicycle Sharing Scheme Using Big Data: A Metropolitan City in India
Rohit Rathod (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Parth Jhaveri (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Aninda Bijoy Paul (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Shriniwas Arkatkar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India)
Longitudinal Speed and Wheel Slip Estimation During Combined Cornering and Braking for Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles
Kausik, Giri (IIT Madras); Shravan S Devadiga (IIT Madras); Indra Mandal (IIT Madras); Pavel Vijay Gaurkar (IIT Madras); Mahesh V Shridhare (Madras Engineering Pvt Ltd, India); Sriram Sivaram (Madras Engineering Pvt Ltd, India); Shankar Subramanian (IIT Madras)
URLLC-Aware Bi-Objective User Scheduling for D2D Enabled V2X Networks
Jagadeesha R Bhat (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Omar Alfandi (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Khyati Shivakumar Salgar (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Hanusha K (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India)
Impact of Variable Speed Limit Concept at Bottleneck using Microsimulation Technique: A Case Study of Expressway
Riya Thomas (SVNIT Surat); Atif Shaikh (SVNIT Surat and MIT Academy of Engineering); Shriniwas Arkatkar (SVNIT Surat)
Integrated V2I-V2V Data Offloading for FiWi based Vehicular Communication
Akshita Gupta (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Vivek A Bohara (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi); Anand Srivastava (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology)
TRIP-AV: Transformer-Powered Vehicle Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles
Rajeev K K (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India); Satyaranjan Patra (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India); Sourav Kanti Addya (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)

Accepted Papers (Poster)

Smart Urban Transportation using Geolocation Intelligence on Automated Bus Fare Calculation using Face Verification System
Surya, B (Nandha Engineering College, India); Parveez M (Nandha Engineering College, India); S Santhosh (Nandha Engineering College, India); Geetha S (Nandha Engineering College, India); Deepa B (Nandha Engineering College, India); Jaisankar Paramasivan (Nandha Engineering College, India)
Replace Traditional FORV Scanning Systems with a MEMS-based High Actuation Angle Mirror in ToF lidars
Aruni Basu (USA)
Driver Emotion Detection and Behavior Analysis During Peak and Off-peak Traffic Conditions
Sai Sesidhar Vullapu (IIT Kharagpur); Madhumita Paul (IIT Kharagpur); Arkopal Kishore Goswami (IIT Kharagpur)
Interpretable Traffic Flow Prediction with LSTM and Graph Convolutional Networks
Om Chiddarwar (IIITDM Kurnool, India); Priyanka Mandal (SVNIT Surat); Praveen Kumar Chandaliya (SVNIT Surat); Shriniwas Arkatkar (SVNIT Surat)
ML-Based Perception and Control for Semi-Autonomous Electric Buggy in Smart Campus Environments
Anand Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Tharun Kumar Reddy Bollu (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
Offloading Compute-Heavy Workloads of an Agricultural Robot to Edge-Cloud
Amit K Patel (IIT Hyderabad); Vidya Vepoori (IIT Hyderabad); Yuvraj Chowdary Makkena (IIT Hyderabad & TiHAN); Praveen Tammana (IIT Hyderabad)
Offloading Real-Time Collision Avoidance to the Edge-Cloud: Improving Energy Efficiency in Autonomous Systems
Mohana Bathula (IIT Hyderabad); Prashanth P S (IIT Hyderabad); Yuvraj Chowdary Makkena (IIT Hyderabad & TiHAN); Praveen Tammana (IIT Hyderabad)
Time Series Forecasting of Public Bicycle Demand Using Neural Networks in an Indian Tier-II City
Pragya Verma (SVNIT Surat); Shriniwas Arkatkar (SVNIT Surat); Chetan R. Patel (SVNIT Surat)
Relative View of a Multi-Drone Swarm: An IoT-based Approach
Satwik Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India); Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
Constraint-Driven Optimization Framework for Camera Calibration and Vehicle Trajectory Extraction in Heterogeneous Traffic
Anuj Kishor Budhkar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India); Kanishka Bandopadhyay (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India); Sharif Hossain (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India)
Intelligent Road Surface Assessment: A Comparative Deep Learning Approach using YOLOv12 and RF-DETR
Tharun Kumar Reddy Bollu (IIT Roorkee, India)
DQN-Augmented V2X Communication with AoI-Based Data Freshness for Safer Autonomous Driving
Pragati Nayak (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal); Suresh Chavhan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)
High-Bandwidth Hybrid Brake Control for Enhanced Stopping of Heavy Electric Vehicles
Aneesh V A (IIT Madras); Shravan S Devadiga (IIT Madras); Pavel Vijay Gaurkar (IIT Madras); Rajesh R (IIT Madras); Gunasekaran Vivekanandan (Madras Engineering Industries Pvt. Ltd., India); Sriram Sivaram (Madras Engineering Industries Pvt. Ltd., India); Shankar Subramanian (IIT Madras)
A Meta Learning Framework for Dynamic Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Systems
Abhay Nayak (KLE Technological University, India); Aditi S K (KLE Technological University, India); Gautami Mokashi (KLE Technological University, India); Nalini Iyer (KLE Technological University, India)

Important Dates

Paper Submission deadline: ~~15^th October 2025 (AoE)~~ 30^th October 2025 (AoE)
Notification of Acceptance: ~~15^th November 2025~~ ~~20^th November 2025~~ 26^th November 2025
Camera-ready Submission: ~~30^th November 2025~~ 5^th December 2025
Workshop Date: 10^th January 2026

Workshop Overview

The 10th workshop on Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVNets) will be held in conjunction with COMSNETS 2025, highlighting the significance of Intelligent Transportation Systems—an amalgamation of cutting-edge technologies and communication used in traffic control and management systems to improve the sustainability, effectiveness, and safety of vehicular networks. This special workshop in COMSNETS 2025 aims to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners from various disciplines to share their experiences on interdisciplinary approaches to solving transportation problems. The workshop invites original papers that make contributions to the sensing, modeling, control, learning, and analysis in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles.

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructure, Connectivity, and Communications for CAVs

Vehicle to everything (V3X) and cellular V2X (C-V2X) communications
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) - service design, management, and control
Next-generation vehicular networks (5G, 6G, etc.)
Networked land/aerial vehicular systems
Integration of roadside infrastructure with intelligent vehicles
Energy-efficient driving and sustainable mobility

Sensing, Perception, and Cyber-Physical Architectures

Sensor data fusion and signal processing for multimodal inputs
Cooperative and multi-agent perception in connected environments
Advanced sensing systems, object event detection and response (OEDR) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for CAVs
Cyber-physical architectures, distributed/edge computing on CAVs
Integration of high-definition maps and onboard sensors
ML/DL/vision-language models for perception and localization

Vehicle Automation, Control, Testing and Validation

Automated driving systems (ADS) - design and deployment
Vehicle control and motion planning
AI/ML for vehicle automation and control
Simulations, digital twins and real-world testing methodologies
Verification and validation techniques

Safety, Security, and Human-Machine Interaction

Vehicular active and passive safety
Collision avoidance systems for vulnerable road users (VRUs), non-motorized traffic (NMT) and animals
Functional safety in intelligent vehicles and advanced driving assistance systems
Cybersecurity for CAVs - intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), secure and efficient over-the-air (OTA) updates, data protection
AI/ML applications for vehicle safety and uncertainty estimation in safety-critical applications
Human factors and human-machine interfaces in CAVs
Teleoperation of intelligent vehicles
Socially-aware and intention-predictive autonomous driving
Cognitive workload and driver state monitoring in shared economy

Policy, Ethics and Emerging Mobility Paradigms

Emerging mobility systems: e-mobility, air mobility, shared mobility, autonomous mobility, software-defined and cooperative vehicles, etc.
Ethical considerations, accessibility and societal acceptance of autonomous systems
Public policy, regulation, and societal issues in CAVs
Digital twins and simulation platforms for CAV design, testing and deployment
Applications of generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain to CAVs
Autonomous mobility in mixed-traffic and infrastructure-poor environments

Submission Guidelines

The ADVnet Workshop invites submission of original work, not previously published, or under review at another conference or journal.
Submissions (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) should not exceed 6 pages in length.
Reviews will be double-blind: authors’ names and affiliations must not be included in the submission.
Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on the IEEE Website; and those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed.
All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the ADVnet Workshop submission site on EDAS.
All workshop papers (both regular and invited) will appear in conference proceedings and be submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Papers can be submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/N34098

For any queries, please contact the workshop chairs at comsnets.workshop@gmail.com

Program Committee

Agnivesh P, IIT BHU
Ajinkya Mane, Stantec
Akshay Gupta, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Amit Agarwal, IIT Roorkee
Aninda Bijoy Paul, Senior Advisor (Road Safety and Compliances) at ICAT, Haryana
Anshuman Sharma, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Archak Mittal, IIT Bombay
Arunabha Banerjee, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Western Kentucky University
Bhargava Rama Chulukuri, IIT Madras
Bhupali Dutta, NIT Silchar
Darshana O, NIT Tiruchirappalli
Debanga Raj Neog, IIT Guwahati
Digvijay Pawar, IIT Hyderabad
Indrajit Ghosh, IIT Roorkee
Jiten Shah, IITRAM
Manish Bhatt, IIT Guwahati
Nandan Maiti, Postdoctoral Researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel
Narayana Raju, Postdoctoral Researcher at Delft University of Technology
Neetesh Kumar, IIT Roorkee
Ninad Gore, Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Pranab Kar, Post-doctoral researcher at University of Memphis
Pranamesh Chakraborty, IIT Kanpur
Pushpa Choudhary, IIT Indore
Ravi Kiran, IIIT Hyderabad
RB Sharmila, IIT Guwahati
Ritvik Chauhan, NIT Tiruchirappalli
Sowjanya Dhulipala, IIT Bhubaneswar
Sreedevi Indu, Delhi Technological University
Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Dromolys Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.
Tarun Rambha, IISc Bangalore
Vijay Gopal Kovvali, IISc Bangalore
VS Vinayaraj, Research Scientist, IITB
Yogeshwar Vijaykumar Navandar, NIT Calicut