Article by: Abbas Jamalipour, IEEE VTS President, 2020 The 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. AsRead More
The 2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2020-Fall will be held 4 – 7 October in Victoria, B.C., Canada. This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society will bring together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology. VTC2020-Fall in VictoriaRead More
The 2020 IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference (IEEE VPPC 2020) will be held 26 – 29 October in Gijón, Spain. The conference will bring together practicing engineers, researchers and other professionals for interactive and multidisciplinary discussions on electrified vehicle power, propulsion and related technologies. Our main goal is to connect green e-motion worldwide inRead More
Title: Multi-Sensor Data Fusion for Self-Driving Cars Speaker: Thanuka Wickramarathne, UMass Lowell Description: In this lecture, we explore the notions of multi-sensor data fusion that are applicable to autonomous vehicles operating in dynamic environments. The lecture will begin with a brief introduction to data fusion covering data fusion-levels and architectures for autonomous vehicles; environment perception data andRead More
Article by Matthias Pätzold The June 2019 edition of “Ericsson Mobility Report” presents a glimpse of the impressive progress in the mobile telecommunication market, now on the verge of deploying 5G. The report forecasts 1.9 billion 5G subscriptions by the end of 2024. That’s up from 1.5 billion forecast in the November 2018 edition, anRead More
Article by Elisabeth Uhlemann In 1999, the FCC reserved 75 MHz of spectrum in the 5.9-GHz band for automakers to develop technology that allows vehicles to communicate with each other. DSRC was developed with this aim and includes V2V, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communications, collectively referred to as V2X technologies. However, due to spectrumRead More
Article by Harvey Glickenstein The Metro North West Line is Stage 1 of Sydney Metro and includes 22 mi of track, 13 stations, and a depot. The line will provide a train every 4 min in each direction during peak hours. Under a contract awarded by Northwest Rapid Transit in September 2014, Alstom is responsibleRead More
Article by Gerhard Bauch, VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee Co-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 Javier Gozalvez, VTS Nominations Cmte Chair Each elected member of the VTS Board of Governors serves a three-year term. With a total of 15 elected members, 1/3 come up for election each year. As you may know, a ballot for the elections of five members to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Board ofRead More
Article by Lin Cai, Jianping Pan and Peiyuan Guan The IEEE Joint VTS/ComSoc Chapter in the Victoria Section hosted a students’ career panel, titled “What’s Beyond the Island?”, in the morning of 23 August 2019. The panel invited seven panelists from academic, industrial, and government research labs: Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi (Tohoku University) Prof. Dingyi FangRead More
Title: Fundamentals of Connected Vehicles Speaker: Alex Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Description: This presentation will consist of the following modules: (1) Wireless connectivity in vehicular environments: Compared to other transmission environments, vehicular wireless networks operating in temporally and spatially dynamic topologies are very challenging to implement. Given the requirements of these networks to possess low latencyRead More
Article by Haris Gačanin Title: Autonomous Wireless Systems with Artificial Intelligence: A Knowledge Management Perspective Abstract: This article discusses technology and opportunities available to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in the design of autonomous wireless systems. A vision is presented for knowledge-driven wireless operation by means of AI disciplines, such as sensing, reasoning, knowledge management, andRead More