Scope
The VTS Propagation Committee (PC) is a standing committee of the VTS whose scope encompasses radiowave propagation issues, according to VTS Bylaws. Understanding radiowave propagation is central to the effective design and operation of modern wireless communication systems, on which an ever-increasing fraction of the world’s population relies.
The committee shall provide publications and services to the membership and to the Board as requested by the Board. Typical activities include: organizing conference workshops or special sessions (typically at VTC); organizing special sections or special issues of VTS publications (IEEE VT Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Open Journal of VT); organizing and conducting student competitions; and coordinating with other committees—both within and outside VTS—on various goals (e.g., standards, and all of the above).
Subcommittees
The committee’s technical interest are propelled by four specialized subcommittees:
Subcommittee on Propagation & Mobile Channel Theory
The Propagation and Mobile Channel Theory subcommittee focuses on the underlying science—the physics and mathematics—of propagation and wireless channel modeling. This entails incorporating new physical discoveries (e.g., advances in modeling atmospheric effects from the ITU), the effects of new materials (e.g., metamaterials) on propagation, novel mathematical techniques for representing channel effects, and analytical techniques that can be used to improve simulations and measurements.
Subcommittee on Mobile Channel Simulation & Emulation
The Mobile Channel Simulation & Emulation subcommittee focuses on computer-based techniques for representing all mobile wireless channel effects (attenuation, dispersion, spatial consistency, etc.). This encompasses ray-tracing/propagation graph modeling and the modeling of scattering from physical objects, geometric environment modeling, efficient computation of theoretically-described channel processes, effective combinations of deterministic and stochastic channel effects, AI associated acceleration of channel data generation, and the translation of computer models to hardware-software based channel emulators.
Subcommittee on Mobile Channel Measurements
The Mobile Channel Measurements subcommittee addresses experimental techniques for estimating propagation and mobile channel characteristics. This covers types of measurement equipment, channel sounding signals, antennas, experiment design for mobile settings, and measured data analysis. Considerations such as frequency band, mobile platform size and power requirements, bandwidth, and environmental conditions are also addressed.
Subcommittee on Mobile Channel Applications
The Mobile Channel Applications subcommittee work is on current and emerging applications, which are typically specialized in some way. For example, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) aims to infer position/location information from signals sent over the mobile channel, non-terrestrial networks (NTN) aim at coordinating traditional terrestrial platform communications with airborne platforms, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) aim to develop active, generally infrastructure-mounted, enhancements to combat or overcome mobile channel impairments.
Propagation Committee
Propagation Committee
The scope of this committee encompasses radiowave propagation issues. The committee shall provide publications and services to the membership and to the Board as requested by the Board.
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