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PURPOSE: To provide travel grant assistance to IEEE VTS Student Members that present high-ranking papers at VTS conferences.
AWARD: A travel grant with a maximum budget of $1,000 USD to help attend the conference to present an accepted paper.
ELIGIBILITY: Grantees must have a paper(s) selected for presentation at the conference, and
• The grantee must be an undergraduate or graduate student.
• The grantee must be an IEEE VTS member.
• The grantee must be the first author of the paper.
• The grantee must attend the conference and present the paper.
• The grantee may be a conference best paper winner.
• The grantee cannot have received a VTS student travel grant in the past 18 months.
RESTRICTIONS: The travel grant is administered in reimbursement-mode. All travel expenses must comply with IEEE and VTS travel policies and reimbursement procedures. The reimbursement for travel expense itself will occur through the IEEE travel system (currently, the Concur system) as a travel expense reimbursement. The grantees must have an IEEE account and create a Concur account to receive their reimbursement of travel expenses.
Conference registration fees cannot be claimed as a travel expense.
The claim for travel expenses must be submitted no later than 3 weeks after the end of the conference.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION: Travel grant applications will be submitted and managed through the IEEE VTS conference paper management system, currently TrackChair. The applicant should include:
• Name, IEEE member number, and contact details of the applicant.
• Verification that the applicant is a VTS member.
• The relevant TrackChair paper tracking number, paper title, and list of authors.
• A letter from a university faculty member (usually the student’s academic supervisor) verifying their studentship and financial need for attending the conference.
• A travel budget.
• A pdf copy of the final paper.
All materials must be in English and submitted as a single PDF file using the (Submit paper) link below.
DEADLINE: 23 March 2020
BASIS FOR JUDGING: The conference Technical Program Committee ranks the received travel grant applications based on their paper review score. The conference Awards Committee then selects winners from the ranked list of applicants using paper review scores and possibly other means, and allocates travel grants within their allotted budget.
PRESENTATION: Travel grants will be recognized at the conference during the conference award presentations, and each awardee will receive a travel grant certificate.
AWARD COMMITTEE: The student travel grants committee will be the Awards Committee associated with each individual VTS sponsored conference.
FUNDING: Supported by an IEEE VTS Endowment Fund.
We are now entering the beyond fifth generation (B5G) mobile communications era. It is widely agreed that B5G network should achieve greater system capacity (> 1000 times) in terms of data rate (terabits per second) and user density (the Internet of Things
and Nano-Things). Also, it is generally accepted that there are three major ways to obtain several orders of increase in throughput gain, those being extreme densification of infrastructure, large quantities of new bandwidth, and a large number of antennas, allowing a throughput gain in the spatial dimension. These processes are complementary in many respects. Among others, in the search for more bandwidth beyond microwave and millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, we are moving toward higher frequencies, especially in the promising terahertz (THz) frequency range. THz-band communication is envisioned as a key wireless technology to satisfy real-time traffic demand for mobile heterogeneous network (MHN) systems by diminishing the spectrum scarcity and capacity limitations of current wireless systems. The THz band is the spectral band that spans the frequencies between 0.1 THz and 10 THz. Although the frequency regions immediately above and below this band (the microwaves and the far-infrared regime, respectively) have been considerably investigated, this is still one of the least explored frequency bands for MHNs, mainly due to the lack of THz technology. However, many recent advancements are enabling practical THz communications systems; thus, it is time for the wireless research community to conquer THz.
This workshop opens a forum to present the recent research work related to blockchain-based technologies, e.g. smart contracts, threat and attack models, and incentive mechanisms. Moreover, research on other aspects inherently present in blockchain-based applications, like the Internet of Things, smart grid, e-health, logistics, etc. are also invited in this workshop.
This workshop seeks original unpublished papers focusing on theoretical analysis, emerging applications, novel system architecture construction and design, experimental studies, and social impacts of blockchain.
Adverse road weather conditions and air pollution are challenging for human drivers, urban population and for automated vehicles. To reach the safety, comfort and efficiency benefits of Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility, vehicles need to sense road conditions and see beyond the fog and/or rain wall. In addition, existing solutions for road weather services are limited in their scope and are mostly limited by: i) scalability, ii) their offline nature, and iii) high latencies. Therefore, there is the need of integrated solutions that can take the most benefits from a real-time analysis of the data gathered from weather and pollution sensing technologies and provide an on-time appropriate reaction to the end user and/or to the automated vehicles. This objective requires a higher level of intelligence to be integrated into the sensing and communication infrastructures, with decentralized aggregation and decision for robust and timely decisions to be taken.
The recent development of C-ITS standards based on a common ITS station communication architecture is an opportunity for a new generation of solutions, taking advantage of the integration of roadside units and road weather/pollution stations, vehicle’ data, road weather sensors and ultimately the mobile device data from each handheld device from the road’ users. Dedicated sensors embedded in vehicles can also report pollution level to build high-resolution dynamic maps accounting both weather and pollution, besides all other data already available in such maps.
It is expected that there will be an expansion of traffic volume due to the increased number of connected devices, i.e., 50 billion internet-connected devices by the year 2020. The fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks is currently attracting extensive research interest from both industry and academia. It is widely agreed that in contrast to 4G, 5G should achieve 1000 times the system capacity, 10 times the spectral efficiency, higher data rates (i.e., the peak data rate of 10 Gb/s and the user experienced rate of 1Gb/s), 25 times the average cell throughput, 5 times reduction in end-to-end (E2E) latency and 100 times connectivity density. Meanwhile, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has classified 5G services into enhanced mobile broadband (MB), ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine type communications (MTC) with a high variability of their performance attributes. The Exabyte flood is further complemented with the challenges of provisioning robust and reliable interconnectivity for MTCs. The demand for such machine type communication is fueled through the emerging need of all-connected societies to derive innovative transformations across various vertical sectors.
The 5G and beyond networks aims to combine several unique technological solutions such as: Higher frequency communications (mmWave), Massive MIMO systems, device/user and content centric communication, M2M communication, energy harvesting and wireless power transfer, cooperative communications and network coding. These underline key targets can be achieved via appropriate combination of these technological ingredients. These emerging areas brings the promise of enabling flexible, scalable, highly configurable and reliable network functions as well as complete solutions for future 5G mobile networks. These enabling technologies can support massive peak data rates, however, delivering these data rates for E2E services while maintaining reliability and ultra-low-latency to support emerging applications and use cases will require rethinking all layers of the protocol stack as outlined in the recent activities of the third generation partnership project (3GPP).
The 5th generation (5G) cellular communication systems are just launched in 2019. New technology concepts for the next generation mobile communications including 5G Evolution and Beyond 5G (B5G) are about to be investigated in many research entities. On top of that, research and development activities are about to be initiated. In these regards, this workshop is aiming to provide opportunities to present the latest trials and the proof-of-concept activities for next generation mobile communications. Distinguished speakers from industry as well as from academia will present their latest research and development results and will prove their perspective regarding the new directions of mobile communications. Through the discussion at the workshop, it is also expected to promote the exchange of new ideas among researchers.
This workshop focuses on the theoretical and practical views on the trend of maritime broadband communication systems to enhance and extend the applications of existing systems and to fulfill the increasing demands on the communications systems from emerging maritime applications. The topics of interests include but are not limited to:
• Theoretical and practical research on VDES (AIS, VDE-TER, VDE-SAT)
• Applicability of LTE/5G broadband communication system for maritime applications
• Theoretical frameworks for future maritime communication systems at higher frequency bands
• Channel measurement and modeling for ship-ship/ship-land/satellite-ship communication links
• Interference mitigation techniques for ship communications in crowded waters
• Navigation techniques utlizing ship communications, such as R-Mode
• Standardization progress
Nowadays, the rapid growth of various wireless communication services has led to an explosion of wireless data traffic. For the beyond 5G applications, the continued progress in user companion devices equipped with advanced computational intelligence and rich communication capabilities, such as smart phones, high-end wearables, connected vehicles is required to effectively serve the exponentially growing demand in the future wireless networks. Today, in order to satisfy these requirements, the ultra-dense heterogeneous wireless networks which refers to the idea of densifying both the mobile devices and base stations (BSs), where the density of BSs may exceed that of mobile devices is one of the promising architectures. Beyond 5G wireless networks will have greatly increased density and scale compared to current networks, resulting in massive interaction between nodes. The conventional networking paradigm will be severely limited by interference in these scenarios, greatly reducing efficiency. In addition to that, the centralized resource and interference management approaches might cause a huge overhead. Therefore, the novel solutions are demanded in ultra-dense heterogenous wireless networks to satisfy the traffic requirements of the extremely high number of nodes for beyond 5G applications.
Future mobile communication systems aim at providing very high-rate data transmission, even under high speed scenarios such as high-speed trains and highway vehicles. High mobility results in rapidly time-varying channels, which pose significant challenges in the design of practical systems, including channel modeling, fast handover, location management, synchronization, estimation and equalization, anti-Doppler spread techniques, coding and network capacity, capacity-approaching techniques, dedicated network architectures, distributed antenna techniques etc. In addition, with the development of vehicular networks, more rigorous performance requirements (e.g., ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability) are also required for advanced driving applications such as platooning, full automated driving, collective perception of environment and so on, which makes the research and development of wireless systems more challenging. The aim of the International Workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications (HMWC) is to foster fruitful interactions among communication engineers, information theorists, and system designers interested in high mobility wireless communications, from all over the world, building successful collaborations and bridging the gap between theory and practice.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together a group of experts with interest in emerging smart cities related areas. The recent advancement in smart cities has boosted the development of a new generation of highly-efficient mobile networks. This workshop will highlight the recent developments in this evolving area.
The technical community is quickly coming to the realization that wireless connectivity is a necessary ingredient for the future of autonomous vehicles in terms of this revolutionary technology to reach the level of reliability and functionality needed to operate on public streets and highways en masse. Many of the future road applications that will be based on autonomous vehicles, such as platooning, will absolutely require wireless connectivity in order to support the control loop, sensors information sharing, and inter-car communications need to successfully achieve complex operations. However, it is unclear whether sufficient wireless spectral bandwidth exists to support these sort of communications, which could potentially require hundreds of megahertz of frequency; in the United States and other countries around the world, only 75 MHz of licensed vehicular communications spectrum exists at 5.9 GHz, which may suffer extreme channel congestion, especially with high density road traffic and significant wireless connectivity. In this workshop, we will provide a comprehensive half-day event that will actively bring together experts in Vehicular Dynamic Spectrum Access (VDSA), experts in autonomous vehicle technology, and individuals interested in learning more about this cutting-edge topic This half-day workshop will address a range of practical issues with respect to wireless connectivity for autonomous vehicles and provides insights on how to resolve this problems in order to create a viable VDSA network for the autonomous vehicle ecosystem.
The introduction of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) systems into vehicles make them more prone to cyber-security attacks. Such attacks may impact on vehicles capability and, consequently, on the safety of drivers, passengers. Indeed, the strong integration between dedicated ICT devices, the physical environment, and the networking infrastructure, leads to consider modern vehicles as Cyber-Physical Systems.
This workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to foster an exchange of research results, experiences, and products in the automotive domain from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Its ultimate goal is to envision new trends and ideas about aspects of designing, implementing, and evaluating innovative solutions for the Cyber-Physical Systems with a particular focus on the new generation of vehicles. Indeed, the automotive domain presents several challenges in the fields of vehicular network, Internet of Things, Privacy, as well as, Safety and Security methods and approaches. The workshop aims at presenting the advancement on the state of art in these fields and spreading their adoption in several scenarios involving main stockholders of the automotive domain.
The D’IoT workshop 2020 will focus on technology advancements and applications of the decentralized technologies aka blockchain for IoT and big data. The submissions are expected in areas such as Theories and applications of Big Data Analytics for IoT, Decentralized applications for Healthcare informatics under IoT, privacy preserving visualization techniques for data from IoT devices, security and privacy in IoT using decentralized techniques, next generation decentralized applications for IoT, Decentralized IoT applications in Smart cities, Decentralized applications for FoG and Edge computing driven IoT, Visions on Decentralized Trustless Systems for IoT, and others. The workshop is concerned with inter-disciplinary and cross-domain studies spanning a variety of areas in computer science including enriched IoT data management on Blockchain, mobile computing, information extraction and retrieval, and security, as well as other disciplines such as management information science.
The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect objects through the use of communications and networking, allowing them to exchange data and collect information for system monitoring, analysis, prediction, automation, tracking, among others. There has been considerable growth in the number of connected objects from around 12 billion in 2015 to as high as 50 billion in 2020 with a prediction of 500 billion in 2025. A key reason for this high level of growth is that there are many application areas in which the IoT can be a key enabler, for example, connected and autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicle, smart cities. These applications can benefit from added analysis and intelligence derived from the collected data, where this intelligence refers to the use of machine learning techniques. However, there are many issues that need to be resolved to achieve the envisioned potential of combining IoT and machine learning, including data processing and analytics, development of standards and communication protocols, system architectures, privacy and security issues as well as the creation of new services and applications.
As part of VTC2020-Spring, the Technical Program Committee is offering a Recent Results track that will provide an opportunity for rapid publication of emerging work by industry and academia. Authors have the option of seeking an oral or poster presentation accompanied by a paper in the proceedings, or a demo accompanied by a short paper. The Recent Results track is broad in scope and covers all topics relevant to VTC.
Please use this track only if requested to do so. It should be used to upload corrected manuscripts to reviewed papers.
The following people are managers for this conference: