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 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
Extended paper submission deadline: June 30, 2020 ————————————————————————————————————- 3rd IEEE Connected and Automated Vehicles Symposium (IEEE CAVS 2020) 4-5 October 2020, Victoria, Canada, https://events.vtsociety.org/ieee-cavs-2020/ ————————————————————————————————————– Due to the wide extent of the impact from the COVID-19, the Vehicular Technology Society will be relaxing its standard requirements for onsite presentation of papers for authors whose travelRead More
Article by Gary Touryan, IEEE VTS VP—Land Transportation The VTS Land Transportation Division actively manages the development of transit and rail standards through Working Groups organized by subject matter experts. These standards are used by transit and rail agencies in the United States and Canada for the design, manufacturing, construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and maintenanceRead More
Article by Tom Kurihara, IEEE VTS Standards Committee Chair The VTS standards program continues to be active despite the current travel and meeting restrictions imposed by governments around the world. The VTS Standards Committee and its Working Groups are creating new opportunities for VTS member participation. Meetings have been conducted under the recent safety guidelines:Read More
Article by Alvin Chin, VTS Chicago Chapter Chair The IEEE VTS Chicago Chapter has 73 members and is situated in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The current chapter officers are: Alvin Chin, Chair Kevin Stutenberg, Vice-chair Ziru Chen, IEEE VTS Young Professionals Chair The Chapter typically holds a minimum of 6 meetings per year. Past lecture topicsRead More
Title: Electrified Vehicle Technologies, A Road Path Towards Zero Emissions Speaker: Yue-Yun Wang, Technical Fellow at General Motors Company Description: This video gives an overview of electrified vehicle technologies, including mild hybrid, PHEV, strong hybrid, electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. Among those, more details are discussed around a P2 mild hybrid architecture, and a power split energy managementRead More
Article by David W. Sundin and Sebastian Sponholtz Full title: Thermal Management of Li-Ion Batteries with Single-Phase Liquid Immersion Cooling Development of effective thermal management techniques is essential in enabling further technical advances and wide public acceptance of lithium-ion based battery electrical storage. Both stationary battery arrays and electric vehicle (EV) batteries are pressed toRead More
Article by H. V. Abeywickrama, Y. He, E. Dutkiewicz, B. A. Jayawickrama and M. Mueck Full title: A Generic Spatiotemporal Scheduling for Autonomous UAVs: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach Considerable attention has been given to leverage a variety of smart city applications using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The rapid advances in artificial intelligence can empower UAVsRead More
Article by Shuqing Zeng, VTS Ad Hoc Committee on Autonomous Vehicles Chair The VTS Ad Hoc Committee on Autonomous Vehicles is seeking volunteers to fill positions as Vice-Chair and Members. Any current IEEE or VTS member may apply. Selected volunteers will initiate related projects within VTS that focus on autonomous vehicles, and take other actionsRead More
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 outbreak. The health and safety of our members and volunteers is of the utmost priority to our Society. As a result, and due to the unprecedented situation with theRead More