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Welcome to the June 2026 issue of VTS Mobile World – your IEEE Vehicular Technology Society newsletter.
This edition features an invitation for US-based students to apply for travel grants to attend VTC2026-Fall in Boston, news from our local chapters around the world, and enlightening articles contributed by experts, gathered from the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation Systems, and Mobile Radio columns in the April 2026 edition of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. It also includes recently published papers from the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, providing valuable insights.
As always, I am always available to hear your feedback; just send me a note at [email protected].
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| Awards and Grants |
| Student Travel Grants |
| Shuai Nie, VTC2026-Fall STG Co-chair |
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Grants are available to support US-based students attending VTC2026-Fall. The application deadline is Monday 22 June 2026.
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| Chapter News—Gujarat Section TEC/VTS Joint Chapter |
Technical Webinar, and
New Joint Chapter |
| Anika Mehta, IEEE VTS SCET Student Branch Chapter Chair |
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IEEE VTS celebrated the beginning of a new IEEE TEC collaboration—the IEEE Gujarat Section TEC/VTS Joint Chapter—with a webinar titled “AI-Enabled Software-Defined Connected Vehicles” delivered by our own Dr. Neeli Rashmi Prasad.
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Bootcamp: Drone Technology
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| Anika Mehta, IEEE VTS SCET Student Branch Chapter Chair |
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Jointly organized by IEEE VTS SCET Student Branch in collaboration with the SwaYaan project, MeitY, and multiple IEEE SCET chapters, the 5-day workshop/bootcamp titled Advances in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Using AI Technology took place from 10 – 14 April 2026.
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| Chapter News—Pune |
| Launch of New Section Chapter, Student Chapter |
| VTS Pune Section Chapter and VTS COEP Tech Student Chapter |
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An event celebrating the launch of these two new VTS entities took place on 12 March 2026, with representatives from the COEP student body and academics, industry partners, and the IEEE India Council in attendance.
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| Connected and Automated Vehicles |
Radio Equipment in
Automotive Manufacturing |
| Katrin Sjoberg |
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Co-location of radio equipment using different frequency bands in a vehicle requires meticulous planning of antennas and radios to avoid interference and other physical phenomena.
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| Transportation Systems |
| French High-Speed Rail |
| Yousef Kimiagar |
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France’s high-speed rail system, the TGV, has been marked by significant milestones and innovations since its initial concept in 1966, and rollout over a decade later. This revolutionary technology set global benchmarks for speed, reliability, and sustainability.
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| Mobile Radio |
| Transformer AI Architecture for 5G |
| Jordi Perez-Romero |
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SoftBank announced that, by leveraging the power of transformer AI architecture for wireless signal processing, it achieved a 30% increase in 5G throughput in live demonstrations compared to baseline non-AI methods.
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| From the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology |
| Recent Articles in the OJVT |
| Edward Au, IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology Editor-in-Chief |
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Among its recently published articles in the OJVT are an invited paper summarizing the current state of UWB and related standards supporting mass market deployment, and a feature describing the emerging need for updated power quality standards and harmonics-aware charging strategies.
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| From the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| SRIS-HT Scheme for mmWave MIMO |
| Mohammed Alouzi, Faisal Al-Kamali, Francois Chan, Claude D'Amours, and Halim Yanikomeroglu |
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This paper proposes a novel simplified RIS-assisted hybrid transceiver (SRIS-HT) scheme that combines a simple RIS matrix with an efficient hybrid transceiver design.
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Editor-in-Chief
F. Richard Yu
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