| Message from the EiC |
Welcome
to the December 2017 issue of VTS Mobile World—your last issue in 2017 for the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society newsletter. To herald this occasion, the outgoing VTS
President, Javier Gozálves, will outline some of the great achievements during
his two-year term. Javier will also
report on the recent IEEE CDMA Milestone event held at Qualcomm site. Fabrice
Labeau, our Vice President—Membership, will give a detailed report on his
portfolio and the state of VTS membership in 2017. VTS
Secretary James Irvine will report on the last VTS Board of Governors meeting
held during VTC2017-Fall in Toronto in September and also on the results of the
Society’s 2017 annual elections and the membership of Board of Governors in
2018.
This
issue of VTS Mobile World include informative technical reports on motor
vehicles, connected vehicles, mobile radio, and transportation systems—all
major activities of the Society.
It
has been a very busy and productive year for the Society. We here at VTS would
like to remind you to renew your VTS membership before the end of year. It is
also the time for sending out the call for nominations for IEEE Fellow Class of
2019. Read More... |
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| Message from President: ¡Gracias y hasta pronto! |
| Javier Gozálvez, President, 2016–7 |
President of Vehicular Technology Society Javier Gozálvez wraps
up his successful two-year term at the end of this year. On this occasion,
Javier has provided our membership with a thorough state-of-society analysis, and
passes on a great legacy to the new president in 2018. Javier will continue to
be a member of Board of Governors as Senior Past President and also as one of
the newly re-elected voting members in this year’s annual elections. Read More... |
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| IEEE CDMA Milestone event at Qualcomm |
| Javier Gozálvez |
Qualcomm receives IEEE Milestone for its
pioneering work in CDMA. Their digital cellular radio
system based upon CDMA significantly increased capacity, improved
service quality, and extended battery life; and formed the basis for the IS-95
second-generation cellular standard and major 3G mobile broadband
cellular standards. Read More... |
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| Message from Vice President—Membership Development |
| Fabrice Labeau, VP—Membership |
As
2017 draws to a close, it is time for me to reflect on my term as Vice
President—Membership
Development over the last two years. Read More... |
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| IEEE VTS Report: Board of Governors Meeting in Toronto, Canada |
| James Irvine, VTS Secretary |
IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society is administered by its Board of Governors. this
article summarizes the BoG’s third meeting of 2017—held on 26 September in Toronto, Canada, during IEEE VTC2017-Fall—is presented to the members
for their information. Read More... |
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| VTS Elections 2017: Results |
| James Irvine, VTS Secretary |
The
VTS Board of Governors consists of 15 voting members, along with various other
executive officers who are members but who do not have a vote. Five of the
voting membership are elected each year to serve for three years. Meet your
society officers for 2018. Read More... |
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| Call for Nominations for IEEE Fellow, Class of 2019 |
| Abbas Jamalipour, VTS Fellows Committee Chair |
IEEE
Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members with extraordinary
accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The next deadline for
submitting IEEE Fellow nominations is 1 March 2018, and you are invited to
consider nominating a member with such achievements. Read More... |
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| From the IEEE VTS Resource Center |
| Wireless Communications in High Speed Trains |
VTS members can enjoy the following new webinars—including Moments from IEEE VTC2017-Fall—available at
the VTS Resource Center for
free, simply sign in with your IEEE Web Account. Read More... |
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| From IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine |
| Ad Delivery and Display in Vehicular Networks: Using V2V Communications for Targeted Ads |
This
month, VTS Mobile World features an article by Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini,
Francesco Malandrino, and Matteo Sereno, from the third quarter of this year’s
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. The selection was made by Associate EiC F. Richard Yu. Read More... |
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| Connected Vehicles |
| Toward Autonomous Vehicles |
| Elisabeth Uhlemann |
Seoul
National University demonstrates automated vehicle technology on the highway. Read More... |
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| Mobile Radio |
| LTE Machine-Type Communications for IoT |
| Matthias Pätzold |
NB-IoT
communication technology provides a new solution for the last-mile data
transmission of smart water meter reading systems. Read More... |
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| Transportation Systems |
| Streetcars Return to Detroit |
| Harvey Glickenstein |
Streetcars
returned to Woodward Avenue in Detroit for the first time in 61 years with the
12 May 2017 opening of the 3.3-mi segment of the QLine from Larned Street to
West Grand Boulevard. Read More... |
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| Conference Preview |
| IEEE VPPC 2017, 11–14 December 2017, Belfort, France |
| Daniel Hissel and Samuel Hibon, General Co-chairs; Marie-Cécile Péra and Joao Trovao, TPC Co-chairs |
Organization of VPPC 2017 will be shared between FEMTO-ST CNRS Institute, FCLAB CNRS
Research Federation, University of Franche-Comte and University of Technology
Belfort-Montbéliard and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Read More... |
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| Call for Papers |
| IEEE VTM's IEEE 5G Initiative Special Issue on 5G Technologies and Applications |
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Editor-in-Chief
Abbas Jamalipour
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