IEEE VTS Board of Governors Election Call for Nominations Elections for five (5) members of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) for the term 2022-2024 will be held between May and July 2021. This notice serves as an open call for nominations of qualified candidates. Valid nominations will be reviewed by the VTSRead More
Initiated in the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC) 2016, the IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge has been successfully organized over four versions from 2017 to 2020. This year, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, University of Sherbrooke, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, University of Québec at Trois-Rivières, and University of Lille are proud to launch theRead More
Article by Lucas Bruck, Bruce Haycock, and Ali Emadi Full title: A Review of Driving Simulation Technology and Applications Driving simulation has become a very useful tool for vehicle design and research in industry and educational institutes. This paper provides a review of driving simulator components, including the vehicle dynamics model, the motion system, andRead More
Article by Markus Eisenbarth, Marius Wegener, René Scheer, Jakob Andert, Dominik S. Buse, Florian Klingler, Christoph Sommer, Falko Dressler, Peter Reinold, and Rafael Gries Full title: Toward Smart Vehicle-to-Everything Connected Powertrains: Driving Real Component Test Benches in a Fully Interactive Virtual Smart City In the context of increasing electrification and the automation of future mobility,Read More
Article by Gokulnath Thandavarayan, Miguel Sepulcre, and Javier Gozalvez Full title: Generation of Cooperative Perception Messages for Connected and Automated Vehicles Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) utilize a variety of onboard sensors to sense their surrounding environment. CAVs can improve their perception capabilities if vehicles exchange information about what they sense using V2X communications. ThisRead 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