Oliver Holland, King’s College London, IEEE VTS UKRI Chair19 April 2013, Chapter Meeting at University of Surrey

www.vts-ukri.org

A geographically-based group of the members of an IEEE society (VTS in this case) Has to have at least 12 supporting signatures from members

of the society within the geographic area of the Chapter Facilitates collaboration, interaction, joint initiatives, etc.,

between members society members in the geographic area One key means is organisation of various meetings/events

Generally holds at least two meetings per year Helps if a chapter corresponds to the local “section” of

the IEEE Relevant Section of the IEEE is UKRI UKRI VTS Chapter Good collaborative links between UK and RI, so also makes

sense from this perspective for VTS Chapter to be UKRI

The Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) comprises engineers, scientists, students and technicians interested in advancing the theory and practice of electrical engineering as it applies to the following areas◦ Mobile and Wireless Communications◦ Land Transportation◦ Railroad/Mass Transit◦ Vehicular Electrotechnology Equipment and Systems

Chapter aims to serve the VTS members in the UK and Republic of Ireland Section of the IEEE◦ Meetings with key speakers and presentations◦ Networking/collaboration and expertise sharing◦ Highlight and promote the work of the membership◦ Representations and support for member initiatives◦ Driven by the members

Chair: Oliver Holland, King’s College London Vice-Chair: Keith Nolan, Trinity College Dublin Secretary: Aoife Foley, Queens University Belfast

Total: 138

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Meetings can take a (very) wide variety of forms, e.g.,◦ Formal lectures ◦ Dinner meetings with an after dinner speaker ◦ Field trips to industry sites ◦ Breakfast meetings with a speaker ◦ Tutorial sessions ◦ Social/networking events◦ Workshops or symposia technical visits ◦ Technical lectures to electrical engineering and computer

students ◦ Joint meetings with other technical groups ◦ Among other (often more conventional) options...

Trinity College Dublin July 2012, on “Challenges in Future Wireless Data Provision – and Cognitive Radio as a Solution”◦ Two distinguished Lecturers, Prof. David Goodman (presenting capacity

viewpoint) and Prof. Alex Wyglinski (presenting Cognitive Radio viewpoint)

Trinity College Dublin July 2012, support for COST-TERRA Summer School 2012

Support for CommNet events: “Smart Grid” and “Future of Wireless Research” workshops, University of Loughborough and Royal Academy of Engineering, September and October 2012

Seminar by Prof Vincent Poor of Princeton University, on “Games, Privacy and Distributed Algorithms for the Smart Grid”, King’s College London, October 2012

Any of the aforementioned meeting formats? Networking/collaboration events (given aforementioned

interest areas…)? Contact the Chapter leadership:

committee@vts-ukri.org

As well as through meetings, VTS-UKRI aims to use technical means to facilitate collaboration between its members on particular topics

Tools◦ Dedicated open collaborative mailing lists for key VTS interest areas,

created through grouping together of technical interests specified in members IEEE accounts. Initial groups formed: Wireless/Mobile Communications (currently 79 members) Vehicular Communications/ITS (currently 48 members) Vehicular Technologies (currently 21 members)

◦ Linkedin group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-Vehicular-Technology-Society-UKRI-4447953 (simpler: search “VTS-UKRI” in “groups”)

◦ Twitter?

Nielsen’s law: High-end home user data capacity doubles every 21 months

Cooper’s law: Spectral efficiency doubles every 30 months Edholm's Law: Capacities of the three telecommunications

categories (wired, nomadic, wireless) increase exponentially◦ Show convergence around 2030?◦ One of many extensions/extrapolations/inferences from

Edholm’s Law: Demand for point-to-point bandwidth in wireless short-range communications has doubled every 18 months over the last 25 years

LTE: ~300 Mbps (peak) IMT-Advanced/4G (LTE-Advanced a candidate): 1Gbps (low

mobility)

5G…?! Why? When? What? How?

illustration courtesy of IEEE Spectrum

Capacity provision—increase:◦ Rate per bandwidth (radio interface performance / spectral efficiency)◦ Overall bandwidth (amount of spectrum)◦ Densification—backhaul and other issues

Presents severe challenges (just some random examples)◦ Gazillions of access points—latent energy consumption◦ Inefficiency BIG heat output◦ Gazillions more chips (take BIG energy to produce)◦ Gazillions of deployment/maintenance requirements (take big fossil fuels)◦ Backhaul solutions◦ Management/control of such dense networks (e.g., RRM)—or alternatively

autonomic mechanisms

How to achieve these solutions in a viable way?

table courtesy of Wireless@KTH

Greatly honoured (and educated) by the presence of Prof. Tadashi Matsumoto, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology◦ Tad MATSUMOTO received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Keio

University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1978, 1980, and 1991◦ Joined NTT in April 1980 working on various research and development

projects, all for mobile wireless communications systems◦ NTT DoCoMo from July 1992, researching Code-Division Multiple-Access

techniques for Mobile Communication Systems◦ NTT America from April 1994, as Senior Technical Advisor of a joint

project between NTT and NEXTEL Communications◦ NTT DoCoMo from March 1996, Head of the Radio Signal Processing

Laboratory◦ University of Oulu, Finland, from March 2002, where he served as a

Professor at Centre for Wireless Communications◦ Visiting Professor at Ilmenau University of Technology in 2006, funded

by the German MERCATOR Visiting Professorship Program

Greatly honoured (and educated) by the presence of Prof. Tadashi Matsumoto, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology◦ Returned to Japan in April 2007 and since then he has been serving as a

Professor at JAIST, while also keeping the position at University of Oulu◦ Appointed as a Finland Distinguished Professor for a period from January

2008 thru December 2012, funded by the Finnish National Technology Agency (Tekes) and Finnish Academy

◦ Recipient of IEEE VTS Outstanding Service Award (2001), Nokia Foundation Visiting Fellow Scholarship Award (2002), IEEE Japan Council Award for Distinguished Service to the Society (2006), IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James R. Evans Avant Garde Award (2006), and Thuringen State Research Award for Advanced Applied Science (2006), 2007 Best Paper Award of Institute of Electrical, Communication, and Information Engineers (IEICE) of Japan (2008), Telecom System Technology Award by the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2009), and IEEE Communication Letters Exemplifying Reviewer Award (2011)

◦ Fellow of IEEE.

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Not member of the VTS-UKRI?◦ Opt for VTS membership when joining the IEEE; you are then

automatically in the Chapter!◦ VTS membership can be added to your IEEE account at any

time through updating your membership profile at www.ieee.org

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