Oliver Holland introduces the July 2012 meeting of IEEE VTS UKRI, which was held at CTVR / The Telecommunications Research Center at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

1. CTVR / Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
July 26, 2012
www.vts-ukri.org

2.  The second dedicated event of the VTS-UKRI (aside from
supported events)
 Investigating issues around the volumes of data in mobile and
wireless networks
◦ Moore’s law: Transistor density doubles every 2 years (often quoted as 18
months)
◦ Nielsen’s law: High-end home user data capacity doubles every 21 months
◦ Edholm's Law: Capacities of the three telecommunications categories
(wired, nomadic, wireless) also 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…?!

3.  Clearly predictable trend
illustration
courtesy of
IEEE Spectrum

4.  Severe challenges
◦ Capacity provision
 Rate per bandwidth (radio interface performance / spectral efficiency)
 Overall bandwidth (amount of spectrum)
 Densification—backhaul and other issues
 Management/control of such dense networks (e.g., RRM)
◦ Energy efficiency
 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 (also take energy to deploy/maintain/operate)
 There are many imaginative solutions that can help address both the
data capacity and energy efficiency challenges in future networks
table courtesy of
Wireless@KTH

7.  Prof. David Goodman: “Can cellular networks keep up with the growth of big
data? Technology trends in industry and research directions”
◦ Professor Emeritus at Polytechnic Institute of NYU - until 2008 he was Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and Director of Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT)
◦ Until 1999 at Rutgers, founding director of the Wireless Information Networks Laboratory (WINLAB)
◦ Prior to this Head of the Radio Research Department at Bell Labs, Crawford Hill
◦ Earned Bachelor’s degree at Rensselaer, Master’s at NYU and Ph. D. at Imperial College, London
◦ Member of National Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of RAEng, Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow
of IET, Member of LMAG of IEEE NY Section, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE VTS
 Prof. Alex Wyglinski: “Cognitive Radio: A Panacea for RF Spectrum Scarcity”
◦ Internationally recognized as expert in wireless communications, specializing in cognitive and
software-defined radio, cyber-physical systems / security, wireless system optimization/adaptation
◦ Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI);
Director of the Wireless Innovation Laboratory (WI Lab); Director of the WPI Limerick Project Center
◦ Published 30 journal papers, 73 conference papers, 9 book chapters, and first-ever textbook on CR
◦ Research activities have been/are sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Naval
Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory – Space Vehicles
Directorate, Mathworks, Toyota InfoTechnology Center U.S.A., National Science Foundation
◦ Senior Member of IEEE, Member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE VTS

8. First Name Surname Present?
 As per registrations Gintare Sukareviciene
on eventbrite.ie Raul Chavez-Santiago
Bo Ye
Meftah Mehdawi
Hamed Ahmadi
Sean Abraham
John Doyle
Luiz Da Silva
Ahmed Selim
Diarmuid Collins
Nicola Marchetti
Arman Farhang
Keith Nolan
Adnan Aijaz
Shaswar Baban
Vanessa Silva
Marystela Lopes
Rodrigo Paim
Mairtin O’Droma
Oliver Holland

10.  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
◦ Land, Airborne and Maritime Mobile Services
 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

11.  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
 Must maintain at least 10 members
 Must hold at least two meetings per year
 Helps for administrative reasons 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

12. Count of Members IEEE Current Grade
97 Member
20 Senior Member
17 Graduate Student Member
2 Fellow
2 Student Member
Total: 138

13. Members' Job Titles
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

14. Members' Technical Interests
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

15.  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 others...

16.  In autumn timeframe?
 Any of the aforementioned formats?
 Networking/collaboration events (given aforementioned
interest areas…)?
 Contact Chapter leadership:
committee@vts-ukri.org

17.  As well as through meetings, VTS-UKRI aims to use other
means to facilitate collaboration between its members on
particular topics
 Tools
◦ Linkedin group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-Vehicular-
Technology-Society-UKRI-4447953 (simpler: search “VTS-UKRI” in “groups”)
◦ Twitter may be useful?
◦ Proposed to set up dedicated open mailing lists for interest groups as
specified using the IEEE account (slide 14). Suggestion of some initial groups
 Wireless/Mobile Communications
 Vehicular Communications/ITS
 Vehicular Technologies

18.  Not member of the IEEE?
◦ Go to www.ieee.org and join!
◦ There are numerous benefits of being an IEEE member
 Not member of the VTS-UKRI?
◦ Opt for VTS membership when joining the IEEE; you are then
automatically in the Chapter
◦ VTS membership can also be added to your IEEE account at a
later stage
◦ We aim to support and facilitate the VTS community in the UK
and RI