CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue on 6G: What is Next? – IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Impact Factor: 6.038)

19 November, 2018 | Publications

Article by  Javier Gozalvez, EiC VTM We are undoubtedly witnessing the transition into the 4th industrial revolution. Societies are becoming ever more data- centric and data-dependent. The increasing data-dependence of future economies poses a severe challenge on mitigating the digital divide to avoid an unequal distribution of wealth. Radical automation of industrial manufacturing processes will driveRead More

Message from the President: VTS – An International Community

5 November, 2018 | Member Updates

Article by Alexander M. Wyglinski I would like to share with all of you three recent activities designed to foster community amongst VTS members located in different parts of the world, enabling them to learn, network, and grow. The inaugural VTS event, 2018 IEEE Wireless Africa, was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during 24 – 25 SeptemberRead More

Time To Renew!

5 November, 2018 | Member Updates

F. Richard Yu, IEEE VTS Vice President—Membership Thank you very much for being a valued member of IEEE VTS. I hope you have taken advantage of some of the many opportunities and services offered by the IEEE VTS to support your professional development and growth. With the 2019 membership year quickly approaching, it is timeRead More

Call for Proposals: Host A Future VTC!

5 November, 2018 | Events & Conferences, Member Updates

Article by IEEE VTS Conference Committee The IEEE VTS Conference Committee invites the submission of proposals to host VTC during the fall season in 2020 and 2021. The fall iteration of VTC is normally held in North America, so submissions should be in keeping with that tradition. But note that all proposals, even those fromRead More

Connected Vehicles and Smart Mobility

5 November, 2018 | TA Resource Center

Title: Energy Efficiency Enhancement for Personalized and Connected Vehicles Speaker: Junmin Wang, Ohio State University Description: The recent advances in vehicle on-board computation and communication technologies have led ground transportation into a new era. In particular, the connected and smart mobility technologies such as vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, and vehicle-to-human communications have offered an unprecedented information richness and availability, whichRead More

6 GHz FCC Proceedings in the US

5 November, 2018 | Government Regulations

Article by Edward Au In early June 2018, Chairman Pai of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States previewed the FCC agenda for the remainder of the year in a blog posting [1] and indicated that he would move forward with a rulemaking on the 6 GHz band (5.925 – 7.125 GHz band) thisRead More

Toward Autonomous Vehicles

5 November, 2018 | Vehicular Technology

Article by Elisabeth Uhlemann The Japanese government aims to compile guidelines, address legal issues, and set up new safety regulations for autonomous vehicles to speed up deployment of self-driving cars in time for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. To do this, the liability in the event of an accident involving an autonomous car must beRead More

5G Indoor Mobile Systems

5 November, 2018 | Mobile Communications

Article by Matthias Pätzold Fox Sports announced that it conducted—in cooperation with the Fox Innovation Lab and partners Ericsson, Intel, and AT&T—the first test of 5G technology, streaming 4K video over 5G for broadcast in the United States at the 2018 U.S. Open on 14–17 June. The groundbreaking trial was the first available broadcast footageRead More

Automated Trains in The Pilbara

5 November, 2018 | Railroad & Mass Transit

Article by Harvey Glickenstein On 18 May 2018, Rio Tinto, one of the largest mining companies in the world, announced that the autonomously operated iron ore trains that have been tested in the Pilbara region of Western Australia as described in the March 2018 issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine have passed their tests andRead More

2018 IEEE Wireless Africa

5 November, 2018 | Events & Conferences

Article by Jae Hong Lee, 2018 IEEE Wireless Africa Treasurer and Information Contact 2018 IEEE Wireless Africa (WA), the first-ever WA, took place at the AAiT (Addis Ababa Institute of Technology) campus of Addis Ababa University, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 24 September 2018. The event attracted over 30 researchers, academics, and graduate students fromRead More

VTC2019-Spring, VTC2019-Fall and VPPC 2019

5 November, 2018 | Events & Conferences

Article by: VTS Conference Committee 2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2019-Spring The 2019 89th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference will take place 28 April – 1 May 2019 in the beautiful city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This conference is progressing quickly so please continue to monitor the conference website for updates as we post new information onRead More

Call for Papers – VTC2019-Fall in Honolulu, HI

5 November, 2018 | Uncategorized