The document discusses the formation and purpose of an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) chapter for the UK and Republic of Ireland region. A VTS chapter requires at least 12 supporting signatures from VTS members in the geographic area. It facilitates collaboration and events to connect members interested in mobile communications, land transportation, and vehicular electrotechnology. The UKRI VTS chapter aims to serve members through meetings with speakers, networking, and promoting members' work.

1. Oliver Holland, King’s College London, IEEE VTS UKRI Chair
19 April 2013, Chapter Meeting at University of Surrey
www.vts-ukri.org

2.  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

3.  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

4.  Chair: Oliver Holland, King’s College London
 Vice-Chair: Keith Nolan, Trinity College Dublin
 Secretary: Aoife Foley, Queens University Belfast
Total: 138
Count of Members IEEE Current Grade
97 Member
20 Senior Member
17 Graduate Student Member
2 Fellow
2 Student Member

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7.  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...

8.  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

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

10.  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?

11.  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)

12.  5G…?! Why? When? What? How?
illustration
courtesy of IEEE
Spectrum

13.  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

15.  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

16.  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.

17.  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 be added to your IEEE account at any time
through updating your membership profile at www.ieee.org
 Our website
◦ www.vts-ukri.org