Article By: Abbas Jamalipour While I write this message for the last month of year 2020, we are still waiting for a solution to the global pandemic, already several months after it was started. I hope everyone around the world will have a better year in 2021. This year was indeed one of the mostRead More
Article By: Gordon L. Stüber, VTS Awards Committee Chair VTS awards recognize those individuals and groups who contribute to and support the purposes of IEEE in general and of VTS, in an exceptionally worthy manner. Open nominations for awards are due 1 April each year, with nomination forms available on the VTS website. Normally, theRead More
Article By: Gordon L. Stüber, IEEE VTS Awards Committee Chair IEEE VTS offers six prestigious awards that recognize outstanding individual accomplishment. The IEEE VTS website provides additional information about the awards, eligibility of candidates, as well as nomination forms. Please consider nominating an eligible candidate. The due date for nominations is 1 April 2021. Nominations are welcome forRead More
Article By: Gerhard Bauch, VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee Chair IEEE Fellow recognizes IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number of new IEEE Fellows selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the totalRead More
Article by: Jiangzhou Wang; Wei Deng; Xin Li; Huiling Zhu; Manish Nair; Tao Chen; Na Yi; Nathan J. Gomes Full title: 3D Beamforming Technologies and Field Trials in 5G Massive MIMO Systems In this paper, three-dimensional (3D) beamforming characteristics and applications in fifth generation (5G) mobile communications have been studied by considering the physical structureRead More
Article by Adrian Kliks, Lukasz Kulacz, Pawel Kryszkiewicz, Hanna Bogucka, Marcin Dryjanski, Magnus Isaksson, George P. Koudouridis, and Per Tengkvist Full title: Beyond 5G: Big Data Processing for Better Spectrum Utilization This article emphasizes the great potential of big data processing for advanced user- and situation-oriented, context-aware resource utilization in future wireless networks. In particular,Read More
Article by 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 toRead More
Article by Reihaneh Ostadian, John Ramoul, Atriya Biswas, and Ali Emadi Full title: Intelligent Energy Management Systems for Electrified Vehicles: Current Status, Challenges, and Emerging Trends Powertrain electrification has heightened the need for an energy management strategy, which has been a continuing concern in the development of electrified vehicles. The energy management control unit managesRead More
Article by Chuan Xu, Zhengying Xiong, Zhenzhen Han, Guofeng Zhao, Shui Yu Full title: Link Reliability-Based Adaptive Routing for Multilevel Vehicular Networks In multilevel vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) scenario, dynamic vehicles, complex node distribution and poor wireless channel environment deteriorate the reliability of routing protocols. However, for the key issues of relay selection, existing algorithmsRead More
Article by Adrian Kliks, Lukasz Kulacz, Pawel Kryszkiewicz, Hanna Bogucka, Marcin Dryjanski, Magnus Isaksson, George P. Koudouridis, and Per Tengkvist Full title: Beyond 5G: Big Data Processing for Better Spectrum Utilization This article emphasizes the great potential of big data processing for advanced user- and situation-oriented, context-aware resource utilization in future wireless networks. In particular,Read More