Article by Haris Gačanin, General Chair VTC2020-Spring was originally planned to be held in Antwerpen, Belgium. However, due to the rapid development of the situation with COVID-19, this became VTS’ first virtual conference. Considering the entire situation the conference was a great success with 506 paid registrations and about 729 virtual attendees. The conference attractedRead More
Article bt Stan Thompson, former Chairman, Transportation Infrastructure and Air Quality Committee, Mooresville South Iredell Chamber of Commerce Since railways were invented in the early 1800s, hydrail has been only the third paradigm shift in traction. Today, about thirty countries have taken steps toward a transition from diesel to wireless electrification using hydrail–hydrogen fuel cell battery hybridRead More
Article by William Liu, VTS New Zealand North Chapter Chair The IEEE VTS New Zealand North Chapter currently has 17 members and is situated in Auckland, New Zealand. The current chapter officers are: William Liu, Chair Boon-Chong Seet, Vice-chair (General) Xuejun Li, Treasurer Sheikh Izzal Azid, Vice-chair (Pacific Liaison) Aniket Mahanti, Secretary The senior membersRead More
Article: Kamesh Namuduri, Chair, IEEE VTS Ad Hoc Committee on Drones IEEE VTS is pleased to announce an Innovation Challenge in Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Communications for current undergraduate and graduate college and university students. Objective—Participants engineer a working solution for coordination between two UASs to accomplish a task jointly. The objective is to demonstrateRead More
Article by Jiaqi Huang, Dongfeng Fang, Yi Qian, and Rose Qingyang Hu Full title: Recent Advances and Challenges in Security and Privacy for V2X Communications In recent studies, vehicular networks have been considered as a promising solution to achieve better traffic management and to improve the driving experience of drivers. In vehicular networks, vehicle-to-everything (V2X)Read More
Article by Abbas Jamalipour IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) is closely monitoring developments related to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Please know that our thoughts are with those affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. The health and safety of our members and volunteers is the utmost priority of our society. As a result, and due toRead More
Article by Weihua Zhuang VTS publications play a significant role in promoting R&D activities in the Society’s technical fields of interest. Our main technical journals—IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (VTM), and IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (OJVT)—provide high-quality and high-impact venues for researchers and engineers to publish new studiesRead More
Article by Bile Peng, Ke Guan, Alexander Kuter, Sebastian Rey, Matthias Pätzold, and Thomas Kuerner Full title: Channel Modeling and System Concepts for Future Terahertz Communications: Getting Ready for Advances Beyond 5G Future terahertz (THz) communications will utilize the frequency spectrum around 300 GHz. This technology provides a promising solution for future high-data-rate communications dueRead More
Article by Jiaqi Huang, Dongfeng Fang, Yi Qian, and Rose Qingyang Hu Full title: Recent Advances and Challenges in Security and Privacy for V2X Communications In recent studies, vehicular networks have been considered as a promising solution to achieve better traffic management and to improve the driving experience of drivers. In vehicular networks, vehicle-to-everything (V2X)Read More
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society has two graduate student fellowships. We are currently soliciting nominations for the awards. If you believe you are a good fit for one of the awards, please consider submitting a nomination by 10 August 2020. Daniel E. Noble Fellowship Award The Daniel E. Noble Fellowship Award promotes graduate-level study in vehicular technology,Read More
Article by Peter Chong, IEEE Press VTS Liaison IEEE Press supports a book series for IEEE Vehicular Technology Society on vehicular technology. The IEEE Press Series on Vehicular Technology focuses on books published by VTS members that would provide a more comprehensive and in-depth treatment of specific topics related to the Society’s fields of interest. Currently, theRead More
Article by Ahmet Yazar and Hüseyin Arslan Full title: A Waveform Parameter Assignment Framework for 6G with the Role of Machine Learning 5G enables a wide variety of wireless communications applications and use cases. There are different requirements associated with the applications, use cases, channel structure, network and user. To meet all of the requirements, several newRead More
Article by Weijie Yuan, Shuangyang Li, Lin Xiang, and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng Full title: Distributed Estimation Framework for Beyond 5G Intelligent Vehicular Networks In this paper, we first provide an overview of existing research on IVNs for beyond 5G (B5G) communications, while emphasizing requirements and technical approaches. To fully unleash the potential of vehicular intelligence, smart vehiclesRead More