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Porto, Portugal is a vibrant, beautiful city that hosted this year’s spring conference, VTC2018-Spring, held 3–6 June 2018 at the Porto Palacio Hotel.
The four-day event recorded 644 registrants and invited guests, with impressive contributions from the Honorary Chair, Augusto Albuquerque (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal) and João Barros (Founder and CEO, Veniam).
Other noteworthy speakers included Reinaldo Valenzuela (Director, Nokia Bell Labs, USA), Vladimiro Feliz (Head of Smart Cities & ICT Director, CEiiA, Portugal), Simone Redana (Head of Mobile Network Architecture and Systems Research Group, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany), and the Portuguese Secretary of State for Industry, Ana Teresa Lehmann. It was an impressive lineup of inspiring keynote speakers.
Augusto Albuquerque |
João Barros
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The conference started on Sunday, 3 June with 11 workshops available for delegates with a wide range of topics such as an array of 5G discussions, cyber security, and communications mobility. Participants looking for a more intensive learning experience, could elect to attend one of the four tutorials offered the same day.
Instruction on traffic awareness and 5G radio access, 5G cellular localization, autonomous networks, and when big data meets intelligent transportation were all available for selection. The next three days were filled with an impressive list of plenary speakers and topics, followed by oral presentations of approximately 290 papers and 70 posters, including highlights of publications in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
A full industry program was also available Monday through Wednesday highlighting issues and advances in 5G, autonomous and connected vehicles, and connected cities within a connected world.
A wide range of companies were involved in the program’s panels including Huawei Technologies, Nokia Bell Labs, Efacec Group, Ericsson, Vodafone, Bosch, Hutchison, InterDigital, Altice Labs, Orange Labs, Deutsche Telekom, Qualcomm, Peugeot, Veniam, Audi, Nissan, CEiiA, imec, TNO IC, Samsung, Toshiba, Cisco, and Silex Inside. The discussions were quite engaging, often leading to productive audience participation.
On Tuesday, conference goers were treated to a visit, with optional cellar tours, of Tres Seculos—a winery in the historic Port wine cellar district of Porto where the spring banquet was held. Additionally, a four-course dinner was served and then guests were entertained by local artists performing the Portuguese traditional music known as Fado. The evening was a relaxing and interesting, cultural and fun experience.
During VTC, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society recognized the technical accomplishments of two outstanding individuals, Dr. Richard Yu and Dr. Yang Yang, for achieving the distinction of becoming IEEE Fellows. To become an IEEE Fellow, one must have technical accomplishments and contributions with significant impact on society, among other requirements. We congratulate Dr. Yu and Dr. Yang for their tireless work that awarded them this distinguished honor.
Dr. Yang Yang receives his IEEE Fellows Award. |
Dr. Richard Yu receives his IEEE Fellows Award.
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VTC2018-Spring also recognized outstanding technical contributions in the form of two best papers for the conference. The Best Paper award went to co-authors Haijun Zhang, Ning Yang, Keping Long, Miao Pan, George K. Karagiannidis, and Arumugam Nallanathan for their work on “Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for Secure NOMA Networks”.
The Best Student Paper award went to co-authors Benjamin Sliwa, Thomas Liebig, Robert Falkenberg, Johannes Pillmann and Christian Wietfeld for their research paper titled “Efficient Machine-type Communication using Multi-metric Context-Awareness for Cars used as Mobile Sensors in Upcoming 5G Networks” which was presented to first author Benjamin Sliwa, who presented the paper on behalf of his colleagues.
Best Paper Award accepted by Ning Yang. |
Best Student Paper Award
accepted by Benjamin Sliwa.
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We all extend a special thanks to VTC2018-Spring General Chair, IEEE VTS VP—Conferences, and Porto native J. R. Cruz, for his hard work and dedication to the quality of the social program, as well as his continued high expectations for the integrity of the technical program.
Late August 2018: IEEE VTC2018-Fall, VPPC 2018, and CAVS will be held in Chicago, USA, August 27–30. There is still time to register and receive the early bird discount!
For all those interested in attending future editions of VTC, please check out the following:
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VTC2019-Spring
IEEE VTC2019-Spring will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For additional information and important dates, visit the link above |
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VTC2019-Fall
The next fall VTC will be IEEE VTC2019-Fall in Honolulu, a first for our event to be hosted in Hawaii! Please visit the link above for further details. |
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