| Message from the EiC |
Welcome to the July 2022 issue of VTS Mobile World – your IEEE Vehicular Technology Society newsletter.
This issue features timely articles from the experts—taken from the Connected and Automated Vehicles, Mobile Radio, and Transportation Systems columns in the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine June 2022 issue—and also papers from the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology and the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
As always, I am always available to hear your feedback; just send me a note at Richard.Yu@ieee.org. Read More... |
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| Connected and Automated Vehicles |
| NHTSA Amends Vehicle Occupant Protection |
Final Rule by the NHTSA Amends Occupant Protection for Vehicles with Automated Driving Systems Read More... |
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| Mobile Radio |
| First 5G Open RAN Site in the UK |
| Claudio Casetti |
The UK's city of Bath is the site of the country’s first 5G Open RAN site carrying live customer traffic. On 19 January 2022, Andrea Dona (Vodafone UK, Chief Network Officer) and Julia Lopez (UK Minister of State for Media, Data, and Digital Infrastructure commemorated the event in a 5G live video call using Samsung’s 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN). Read More... |
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| Transportation Systems |
| Amtrak Debuts New National Network Locomotive |
| Bih-Yuan Ku |
Amtrak’s new ALC-42 locomotives began service on 8 February 2022, pulling the famous Empire Builder west from Chicago to Seattle, Washington. Read More... |
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| From the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology |
| IRS in 6G Vehicular Communications |
| Yishi Zhu, Bomin Mao, and Nei Kato |
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of current research works on different Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) applications in ground-based vehicular communications and aerial vehicular communications, after discussing its basic knowledge and main characteristics. Read More... |
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| From the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| Secure Mobile Edge Computing |
| Weiqi Liu, Shuai Zhang, and Nirwan Ansari |
A secure mobile edge computing (MEC) framework, which leverages free space optics (FSO) to provision backhauling from drone-mounted base stations (DBSs) to a macro base station (MBS), is proposed. Read More... |
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Editor-in-Chief
F. Richard Yu
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