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The Sweden chapter of VTS, which is a joint chapter with Information Theory and Communications Societies, has over 300 IEEE members throughout Sweden, making it one of the largest Chapters in Sweden, but also one of the most active.
During 2017, a total of 19 IEEE technical seminars by 8 speakers were held:
- IEEE Distinguished Speaker Seminar by Dr. Javan Erfanian, Distinguished Member of Technology, Bell Canada, Canada, “Enabling the Digital Society in 2020 and Beyond - End to End Road to 5G”, at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, in March 2013
- IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour by Prof. Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France. The talk “Stochastic Tools used to improve and/or to evaluate MAC layer in Wireless networks” was given at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, MUIN – Mid Sweden University, and HH – Halmstad University in April 2017
- Technical Seminar series by Prof. Ekram Hossain University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada gave two talks “Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) for 5G Wireless” at Chalmers University of Technology and KTH – Royal Institute of Technology but also “Multi-tier Drone Cell Network: A New Frontier for 5G Research” was given at Chalmers in May 2019
- A technical Seminar by Prof. Slawomir Stanczak, Technical University of Berlin, Germany entitled “Towards Efficient and Robust Machine Learning in Wireless Communication Systems” was given at Ericsson in Kista during June 2017
- IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecture Tour by Prof. Marco Di Renzo, Paris-Saclay University/ CNRS, France. The talk “On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry” was given at Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University and KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, but also at NTNU in Norway during August 2017
- IEEE IT Distinguished Speaker Seminar by Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, King's College, London, U.K. entitled “Fog-Aided Wireless Networks: An Information-Theoretic View,” was given at Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University, Lund University and KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in August and September 2017
- Two Technical Seminars given by Dr. Sergey Andreev and Mr. Vitaly Petrov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland entitled “Future of Ultra-Dense Networks Beyond 5G: Harnessing Heterogeneous Moving Cells” and “On the Synergy of Communications and Radar in V2V Scenarios” was given at Ericsson in Kista in November 2017
The Sweden chapter also organizes two yearly workshops: the Swedish Communication Technologies Workshop, Swe-CTW (since 2011) and the Wireless Vehicular Communications Workshop, WWVC (since 2010).
During 2017, Swe-CTW was held in June and had around 50 participants. It was co-located with the IEEE SPS Summer School on 5G (http://5g.ellintech.se), included two tutorials (“Positioning using mmWave Signals” by Prof. Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers and “Wireless Access for Massive Machine-Type Communication ” by Prof. Petar Popovski, Aalborg university), a keynote (“Massive MIMO for Many Low Power Links: A Challenging Road Worth Traveling”, by Liesbet Van der Perre, Professor, KU Leuven) as well as 10 invited talks by the first authors of the IEEE Sweden VT/COM/IT Best Conference/Journal Papers.
The Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Communications was held at Halmstad University in December 2017 and had ~27 participants. It included an invited talk by Dr. Katrin Sjöberg (Volvo Group Trucks Technology) who gave an overview of V2X standardizations and regulations in Europe, as well as a review of the ongoing battle of the 5.9 GHz band in Europe.
Following this were talks from Volvo Cars, Lund University, Halmstad University, RISE Viktoria and Universidad de Deusto. Participants came from Volvo Group Trucks Technology, Volvo Cars, Ericsson, Kapsch TraffiCom, Pictor Consulting, DeustoTech – Mobility, RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden, Chalmers University of Technology, Lund University, Kristianstad University and Halmstad University.
The high level of activity of the chapter has been recognized by several awards, most recently through the IEEE Information Theory Society Chapter of the Year Award 2017.
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