IEEE Vehicular Technology Society requests your vote for the Election of Members to the VT Board of Governors! Full candidate biographical information is available here. Vote before 6 September 2019! Your participation in the election is essential for the Society. The BoG makes important decisions about our publications, conferences, finances and investments, educational activities, etc.Read More
Reviewed by Richard Yu, Associate EiC As an enabling technology for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), mobile edge computing (MEC) provides potential solutions for sharing the computation capabilities among vehicles, in addition to other accessible resources. In this article, the authors first introduce a distributed vehicular edge computing solution named the autonomous vehicular edge (AVE),Read More
Article by Elisabeth Uhlemann Verifying the performance and correctness of a smart factory is difficult. This is because it is more complicated to verify the functionality of a distributed system than it is to verify a centralized system. Verifying a distributed heterogeneous system such as a factory is even worse. Now imagine that the distributedRead More
Article by Matthias Pätzold On 10 September 2018, AT&T announced that Ericsson is one of its technology suppliers for the operator’s nationwide 5G network. The announcement includes plans to introduce mobile 5G in five additional cities, namely, Houston; Jacksonville, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana; and San Antonio, Texas. These new cities are in additionRead More
Article by Harvey Glickenstein The prototype of the new battery-operated FLIRT completed its demonstration trip from the Stadler grounds in Berlin’s Pankow borough to Schildow, Germany, in Brandenburg state without an external power supply. The FLIRT Akku is a full-fledged FLIRT that combines proven components with an innovative drive concept. While the traction equipment andRead More
IEEE CAVS 2019 22–23 September 2019 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA http://ieee-cavs.org/ Full paper submission: 15 April 2019 With the advances in computing and communication technologies, vehicle technology has entered a new era of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). The host of technologies that are required to enable CAVs are many and span several engineering and science disciplines.Read More
Article by Alexander M. Wyglinski, President The primary mission of IEEE VTS is to provide its members from around the world with opportunities for professional development and growth via a wide range of activities, events, and services. When it comes to events, VTS has an excellent offering of high-quality, high-impact conferences it organizes every year.Read More
Article by Nei Kato, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology In my message for this newsletter last year, I was incredibly happy to inform readers of the positive improvement in all relevant metrics for the journal for my first year as Editor-in-Chief. Since then, a lot of work was poured into the publication to reachRead More
Article by Sunil Maharaj, IEEE VTS South Africa Chapter Chair South Africa established a VTS Chapter in September 2018, chaired by Professor Sunil Maharaj from the University of Pretoria. This is the first sub-Saharan VTS Chapter on the African continent. The objective is to offer the same opportunities to industry, academia, researchers and graduate studentsRead More
Article by VTS Conference Committee IEEE VTC2019-Spring 28 April – 1 May 2019 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Register to attend now and check out these great tutorials to add to your registration! IEEE VTC2019-Fall 22–25 September 2019 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Deadline for regular papers, tutorial proposals and workshop proposals have been extended to 25 March 2019! IEEE VPPC 2019 14 – 17 October 2019 Hanoi,Read More
Article by Gordon L. Stüber, VTS Awards Committee Chair Each year, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society offers five prestigious awards that recognize outstanding Individual accomplishment. Please consider nominating an eligible candidate. Additional information about the awards, eligibility requirements for candidates, as well as nomination forms are available at the IEEE VTS website. The due date for nominationsRead More
Lectures from 1st IEEE VTS Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Summer School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Title: Formal Methods and Optimal Control Techniques for Autonomous Vehicles Speaker: Jie Fu and Raghu Cowlagi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) Description: Jie Fu: This lecture presents several fundamental concepts of formal methods that can be used to model and analyze the behaviorRead More
Article by Hicham Chaoui, Carleton University, Canada Autonomous and connected vehicle technologies are among the most active researched areas in the automotive industry because of their far-reaching impacts on our modern society. The future of mobility, deployed in part through autonomous vehicles (AVs) and connected vehicles (CVs), will change several aspects of our society inRead More