IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Research Articles

IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Constitution and Bylaws Changes [Society News

IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Constitution and Bylaws Changes [Society News

VTS Leadership Team and Its Focuses to Better Serve Our Members [President’s Message

I am greatly honored and committed to serve as the president of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS). The VTS serves as the association of reference for mobility professionals’ needs in the areas of lifelong learning, standards creation, dissemination of new technologies, and networking. I will work closely with VTS volunteers to enhance services and benefits to our members and to grow the Society via technical and educational activities, exploring the VTS platforms in conferences, publications, standards, and technical committees.

Welcome to the March 2023 Issue [From the Editor

I would first like to welcome Prof. Weihua Zhuang, 2023 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) president, to the first issue of the year of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine</i> . Weihua is a long-standing VTS volunteer (including positions such as editor-in-chief of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology</i> and vice president—publications), and I had the pleasure and honor of working closely with her over the past years. She is a committed, hard-working, and quality-driven professional and volunteer, and I am sure that she will have a strong, positive impact on the Society as VTS President. Weihua, I wish you all the best for your term as president and welcome your messages to our members in the magazine.

Inaugural Editorial

I am delighted to introduce the inaugural volume of the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (TMLCN), which is an interdisciplinary journal supported by the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and the IEEE Computer Society. The relationship between communication systems and artificial intelligence (AI) is not new, and it has gone through multiple phases over the past couple of decades. Early on, researchers working on communication and networking technologies, such as wireless systems, viewed AI as an unnecessary, and unreliable tool (e.g., compared to the rigor of communication theory and information theory) that could never play any role in the design of communication systems. Subsequently, there was a renewed surge of interest in AI during the incipient stages of so-called cognitive radio networks. At the time, AI appeared to have a potentially important role in the search for dynamic spectrum sharing and access techniques. However, the complexity of AI tools such as neural networks and the shortage of computing resources at the time, meant that those efforts had very limited success. However, the dawn of deep learning architectures, coupled with the recent leap in AI technologies propelled by the advent of large language models (LLMs), has unequivocally transformed the AI landscape, paving the way for AI to become an indispensable framework for designing present and forthcoming communication and networking systems. This is corroborated by several current initiatives across academia, industry, and the government that are looking at what a future “AI-native” wireless system could look like.

Welcome to the June 2022 Issue [From the Editor

This issue of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine</i> includes two special issues about topics of high interest to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The first offers a selection of seven articles on backscatter and reconfigurable intelligence surfaces (RISs) for wireless communication in future 6G. RISs can reconfigure the propagation environment by using passive reflecting elements. This opens the door to low-cost and low-energy solutions that help customize wireless channels based on coverage needs and other criteria. Ambient backscatter communication does not need active radio-frequency components and can be deployed at large scale with low cost since it can harvest energy.

Welcome to the March 2022 Issue [From the Editor

I write this editorial column as we finish 2021 and, also, the term of our colleague and friend Prof. Abbas Jamalipour as president of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS). Abbas has led our Society over the last two years while the COVID pandemic has tremendously impacted our personal and professional lives. Maintaining a vibrant technical Society at a time when our work has been dominated by remote employment and virtual meetings has been a tremendous challenge but one that Abbas and his team have passed with honors.

A Strong and Healthy IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for All Members [President’s Message

I am writing this “President’s Message” column as my last one in this honorable position for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS). My term unfortunately coincided with one of the biggest challenges of our times, both for our members and for IEEE and its Societies and Councils: the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, I could not get in touch with our members as much as I was hoping for, especially in person during our global events. As we near the end of 2021, I hope we will all have a healthier and safer world in 2022, in particular without any pandemic.

New IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Standards Initiatives [Standards

New IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Standards Initiatives [Standards

Fuel cell vehicle energy management strategy based on the cost of ownership

This study presents a novel energy management strategy (EMS) which outperforms the published strategies developed for an international technology challenge, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Motor Vehicles Challenge 2017. The objective of the strategy is to minimise the cost of ownership of a low-power (15 kW) fuel cell (FC)-battery electric vehicle. Both the fuel consumption cost and power sources degradation costs are combined to represent the total cost of ownership. The simple adaptive rule-based strategy optimises the FC operation during low-traction power operation and switches to battery charge-sustaining operation for high traction power operation. This minimises fuel consumption and increases the lifetimes of the FC and of the battery. The strategy is then compared with the EMS of the 2015 Toyota Mirai, and the challenge vehicle model is modified to capture the learnings from the Mirai. Finally, a cost-benefit analysis for a plug-in FC vehicle is considered in order to improve FC lifetimes and to reduce costs for short drive cycles.

Energy Management in Fuel-Cell\/Battery Vehicles: Key Issues Identified in the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Motor Vehicle Challenge 2017

In October 2016, an international challenge devoted to the energy management of a fuel-cell (FC)/battery vehicle was launched during the 2016 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC), in Hangzhou, China. The vehicle driving cost, which includes the hydrogen (H2) and source degradation costs, was used as a base of comparison.

Updates from the May 2015 Vehicular Technology Conference in Glasgow and Beyond [Transportation Systems

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society had a very successful conference in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, in May 2015. Attendees had an opportunity to sample the Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest underground rapid transit line in the world, after London and Budapest. Figure 1(a) and (b) shows the Glasgow Subway.

Special issue on main results of Call‐off Order 3 (CoO3) in SatNEx III

Special issue on main results of Call‐off Order 3 (<scp>CoO3</scp>) in <scp>SatNEx</scp> III

Global Communications Newsletter

The 14th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS 2014) was successfully held in Macau, China, from 19–21 November 2014. It was co-organized by the IEEE Communications Society Singapore Chapter, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Singapore Chapter, and the IEEE Singapore Section, and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Macau Section. Started in Singapore in 1988, the IEEE ICCS has been a biennial conference providing a platform to researchers from both academia and industry to exchange the state-of-the-art communications technologies over two decades.

VTS Constitution and Bylaws [Society News

Each IEEE Society is reviewed approximately every five years by the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB). The latest review was conducted in 2010. One recommendation from the review committee was that the Society should revise its Constitution and Bylaws to correct terminology, make them easier to read and understand, and to incorporate all appropriate IEEE policies. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) has finished its review of the Constitution and approved it at its Board of Governors (BOG) meeting in Quebec, Canada, on 3 September 2012. The entire document is included here.

IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Victorian Chapter Started Its Activities in Australia [Society News

IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Victorian Chapter Started Its Activities in Australia [Society News

A Special Section from the WWRF [From the Editor

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) agreed to continue cooperation, working together to serve the common interests of both organizations. Last year's March and September issues of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine included selected papers from the preceding WWRF meetings. This year the magazine will continue that model, and in this issue, you will find a special section with its own introduction and articles from the WWRF 25 meeting held in London last November.

Mobile Radio and Land Transportation [From the Editor

The theme of this issue, “Mobile Radio, Mobile Land: Research and Development Around the World,” highlights the geographic diversity of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) members and of their impact on society. Connecting the mobile world is both our mission and our legacy. This issue features articles from the mobile radio and land transportation areas. The first article, “Digital Audio Around the World,” is an invited article from our “Standards” column editor Dennis Bodson.

Latest Technologies in the Wireless World [From the Editor

Included with this issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine are two DVDs produced by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Education Committee, chaired by Joseph F. Ziomek. The blue disc contains the courses “Grounding of Hybrid Vehicles” (8 hours) by Prof. James Gover, Kettering University, and “Thermal Stress Failures in Electronic and Photonic Systems” (8 hours) by Prof. Ephraim Suhir, UC Santa Cruz. The yellow disc contains the courses “In Vehicle Networking” (6 hours) by Bruce Emaus, retired president, Vector CANtech, and “Accelerated Life Testing” (8 hours) by Prof. Ephraim Suhir, UC Santa Cruz. The DVDs are encoded using MPEG-4 with MP-3 audio and will play on current personal computers and DVD players. The lecture subjects were divided into approximately one-hour segments and were chosen to be of current interest to IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) members with the advent of hybrid and plug-in vehicles. The technical depth is at undergraduate level, and the approach is current industry's best practice. The Education Committee welcomes any comments on the courses or suggestions for other topics of interest.

Mobile Radio and Land Transportation [From the Editor

The theme of this issue, “Mobile Radio, Mobile Land: Research and Development Around the World,” highlights the geographic diversity of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) members and of their impact on society. Connecting the mobile world is both our mission and our legacy. This issue features articles from the mobile radio and land transportation areas. The first article, “Digital Audio Around the World,” is an invited article from our “Standards” column editor Dennis Bodson.

3-D Mobile Internet [From the Editor

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) agreed to continue the cooperation begun last year, working together to serve the common interests of both organizations. Last year's March and September issues of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine included selected articles from the preceding WWRF meetings. This year, the magazine will continue that model, and in this issue, you will find a special sectionwith its own introduction and articles from the WWRF 23 meeting held in Beijing last November.