After the two last virtual conferences in 2019 and 2020 run by Prof. Pablo Arboleya from the University of Oviedo (Spain), the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC) was held for the first time in Merced, California, USA, last November. The conference was organized by a very motivated team from the University of California, Merced, led by Prof. Ricardo De Castro. With the motto “connect

I would first like to welcome Prof. Weihua Zhuang, 2023 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) president, to the first issue of the year of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine . Weihua is a long-standing VTS volunteer (including positions such as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and vice president—publications), and I had the pleasure and honor of working closely with her

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

One of the key decisions facing mobile operators worldwide is whether to launch 5G services in nonstandalone or standalone (SA) mode. The key difference is that the former relies upon existing 4G LTE network assets, such as an LTE evolved packet core, while the latter requires the deployment of a 5G core. Besides enabling new features, such as network slicing, 5G SA provides the full range of 5G capabilities

Deutsche Bahn (DB) was on the final preparations for the commissioning of the new Wendlingen–Ulm line as drivers gained experience on the route, as shown in Figure 1 . With the timetable change on 11 December, thousands of travelers will benefit from more and faster connections between Stuttgart and Munich in Germany every day. Thanks to the new Wendlingen–Ulm route, they will save around 15 min in

While the industry is exploring the key drivers and future needs of 6G cellular communication systems, 6G research is in full swing, globally supported by large programs. As a result, many new technologies are being proposed. This could be noticed in various fora and publications that convey new visions for the verticals that 6G would serve and the key elements that could make this happen. New radio

Public road automation has been a phrase on everybody’s lips in the automotive world for more than a decade, but the challenges are misjudged, and the question is: Has public road automation only been a playground for technical nerds rather than addressing real-world pain points? Or have the real-world problems been a subterfuge for playing around with technology? For sure, increased traffic safety

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) is honored to have elevated seven members to the distinction of IEEE Fellow for 2023.

The trend of using larger scale antenna arrays will continue toward 6G systems, where the number of antennas will be further scaled up to improve spectral efficiency. However, the increase in the number of antennas will bring new challenges to the physical layer, such as frequent feedback in high-speed mobile communications, multiband coexistence overhead from sub-6 (gigahertz) GHz to terahertz (THz)

Ultramassive multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the key enablers in the forthcoming 6G networks to provide high-speed data services by exploiting spatial diversity. In this article, we consider a new paradigm, termed holographic radio for ultramassive MIMO, where numerous tiny and inexpensive antenna elements are integrated to realize high directive gain with low hardware cost. We propose

To explore the full potential of ultramassive multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, it is fundamental to understand new ultramassive MIMO channel characteristics and establish pervasive channel models. On this basis, large-dimensional spatial-temporal transmission and random access technologies need to be investigated and evaluated for better practical implementation. First

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications are one of the most promising 6G scenarios. However, V2V communications demand high data rates and extremely low-latency requirements that are difficult to satisfy nowadays. Recently, vehicular visible light communications (V-VLC) have been proposed as a promising technology to guarantee such requirements. Multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) techniques can

Multicast/broadcast delivery is a critical challenge of future 6G mobile networks where massive Internet of Things (IoT) deployment and extended reality multimedia such as teleportation are target application scenarios. Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are considered essential for the success of 6G, which aims to provide true “global” services by extending mobile access worldwide, thus overcoming the

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is expected to become the central infrastructure to provide advanced services to connected vehicles and users for higher transportation efficiency and security. A variety of emerging applications/services bring explosively growing demands for mobile data traffic between connected vehicles and roadside units (RSUs), imposing the significant challenge of spectrum scarcity

6G networks are expected to provide instant global connectivity and enable the transition from “connected things” to “connected intelligence,” where promising network slicing can play an important role in network assurance and service provisioning for various demanding vertical application scenarios. On the basis of diversified massive data, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted techniques are widely

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This issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine includes our second edition of the Special Issue on Recent Advances in Automated Driving technologies, and six open call papers covering topics related to road and aerial mobility as well as 6G technologies. I would like to thank Basilio (lead guest editor for this second edition), Ricardo, Yan, Shaobing, and Xudong for their hard work and their vigorous

Toying with the titles of a couple of 1950s classic sci-fi/horror movies, this issue’s “Mobile Radio” column reports recent testing initiatives aimed at providing 5G coverage from way above: In fact, from outside Earth’s atmosphere, delivered by satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO). Starlink, the satellite Internet constellation operated by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company, has undoubtedly captured world’s

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti joined city, federal, and airport officials to debut a critical component of the future of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with the unveiling of the first automated people mover (APM) train car on 2 August 2022. LAX will be the first U.S. airport to feature the INNOVIA 300 APM vehicles, which showcase the latest technology to help revolutionize how travelers

We live in the era of the advent of automated vehicles. These will bring dramatic changes in both the automotive industry and everyday life, revolutionizing the concept of passenger mobility. The issue of perception is crucial for an autonomous vehicle and presents important challenges, many of which still need to be addressed. In this context, the choice of sensors is pivotal, yet there is still no

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The pandemic outbreak has profoundly changed our life, especially our social habits and communication behaviors. While this dramatic shock has heavily impacted human interaction rules, novel localization techniques are emerging to help society in complying with new policies, such as social distancing. Wireless sensing and machine learning are well suited to alleviate virus propagation in a privacy-preserving

It has been said that the progression toward fully autonomous cars was slowed down when the complexity required was fully realized. However, one should not underestimate the driving forces behind different business models and the impact of legislation. For the investments toward fully autonomous cars to pay off, there needs to be a market drive, implying that customers need to be asking for the service

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Futuristic 6G technologies will integrate emerging low-Earth orbit (LEO) megaconstellations into terrestrial networks, promising to provide ubiquitous, low-latency and high-throughput network services on-demand. However, several unique characteristics of satellites (e.g., high dynamics and error-prone operational environments) make it very challenging to unleash the potential of megaconstellations

Among the key differentiators of 6G compared to 5G will be the increased emphasis on radio-based positioning and sensing. These will be utilized not only for conventional location-aware services and for enhancing communication performance but also to support new use case families with extreme performance requirements. This article presents a unified vision from stakeholders across the value chain in

Autonomous vehicles rely on lane-level high-definition (HD) maps for self-localization and trajectory planning. Current mapping, however, relies on simple line models, while clothoid curves have unexplored potential. Clothoids, well known in road design, are often chosen to model the vehicle trajectory in planning and control systems as they describe the road with higher fidelity. For this reason,

The increasingly demanding objectives for next-generation wireless communications have spurred recent research activities on multiantenna transceiver hardware architectures and relevant intelligent communication schemes. Among them belong full-duplex (FD) multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) architectures, which offer the potential for simultaneous uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) operations in the

Cellular localization has received marked attention in academia and in industry, as indicated by a rapidly expanding volume of literature specific to vehicular environments. Impressive results have been shown for a number of problems as measured by metrics such as accuracy and latency. This article identifies five important requirements for cellular localization for safety-critical systems with a particular

This article presents a method for the trajectory prediction of surrounding vehicles and proactive longitudinal control of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in an urban road environment. A long short-term memory (LSTM)-based deep learning model is designed for the surrounding vehicles’ trajectory prediction. In our model, the historical evolution of the relation between a target vehicle and lanes is considered

This article presents an integrated sensor fusion (ISF) solution based on the multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) radar, camera, and on-device computing. The MIMO radar is capable of estimating an object’s attributes in four dimensions—range, velocity, azimuth angle, and elevation angle—which can be further used to estimate the length, width, and height of the object. The camera is responsible for

Mobile communication via high-altitude platforms operating in the stratosphere is an idea that has been on the table for decades. In the past few years, however, with recent advances in technology and parallel progress in standardization and regulatory bodies like the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and International Telecommunications Union (ITU), these ideas have gained considerable momentum

Late visions and trends for the future 6G of wireless communications advocate, among other technologies, the deployment of network nodes with extreme numbers of antennas and up to terahertz frequencies as a means to enable various immersive applications. However, these technologies impose several challenges in the design of radio-frequency (RF) front ends and beamforming architectures as well as ultrawideband

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The “Journal Citation Reports” for 2021 have been released, and I am pleased to inform you that the impact factor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine ( VTM ) has increased to 13.609 (from 10.384 in 2020). This is an amazing achievement that ranks VTM in second place in telecommunications (out of 94 journals), second place in transportation science and technology (out of 40 journals), and seventh

As the global pandemic appears on the verge of giving the world some respite, it is time to look back and assess some of the key lessons learned from it. Among them, as this column has been extensively reporting in past issues, is the fact that fixed and mobile broadband connectivity has alleviated the dire consequences faced by large swaths of the world population who suddenly found themselves in

Alstom signed a contract to supply 130 Coradia Stream High Capacity electric double-deck trains to Landesanstalt Schienenfahrzeuge Baden-Württemberg (SFBW) for the Baden-Württemberg network in Germany. In addition to the delivery of the trains, Alstom was also contracted to provide full-service maintenance for a period of 30 years to ensure the trains’ seamless availability. Furthermore, the contract

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The automotive industry is experiencing a remarkable move from the internal combustion engine (ICE) to an all-electric power platform. This natural shift is essentially supported by electric drive development where wide-bandgap (WBG) materials are at the center of this transformation. The shift to gallium nitride (GaN)- or silicon carbide (SiC)-based power electronics is taking place due to the theoretical

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Advanced air mobility (AAM) is an emerging industry focus as well as a research and development discipline. Innovations and technologies resulting from AAM will change the way that we move cargo and people in and around cities. Industry is moving fast with excitement to deploy AAM solutions. However, there are multiple technical challenges that need to be overcome before AAM becomes a reality. This