VTC2015-Fall in Boston: Workshops

VTC2015-Fall Workshops provide invaluable opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results on specific areas or challenging topics. VTC attendees will be able to attend a workshop for a nominal additional fee. Registration packages for individual workshops without VTC will also be available.

Workshop	Status
W2 and W4	Accepted
W1, W3 and W5	Cancelled
W6	Added

Early registration ends: 10 August 2015
Hotel registration ends: 5 August 2015, 5pm (EDT, UTC -4)

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W1: The Second International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and
Electromagnetic Spectrum Security (CRESS 2015) – CANCELLED

W1: The Second International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and
Electromagnetic Spectrum Security (CRESS 2015) – CANCELLED
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Organized by Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng (George Washington University), Yalin E. Sagduyu, Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc.), Shabnam Sodagari (University of Maryland), and Alexander M. Wyglinski (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Abstract: Cognitive radio enables access to broader pools of spectrum and more efficient utilization of current wireless resources and thus plays a key role for the next generation of mobile broadband. Legacy static spectrum allocation, although simple, poses a major obstacle for efficient use of limited wireless resources across time, space, and frequency. This challenge has promoted substantial research and development into cognitive radio technologies with network-level perception, learning, adaptation, and optimization for efficient spectrum utilization. In fact, the latest advances in cognitive radio technology have already started to appear in numerous military and public safety applications, connected vehicle prototypes, and cellular telephony deployments such as 4G LTE-Advanced, e.g., Self-Organizing Network (SON) engines. However, the autonomous manner in which cognitive radio systems make decisions fora wide range of wireless communications and networking functions, as well as its total dependency on environmental sensory information in order to reach these decisions, makes this technology highly susceptible to attack by a malicious, external entity. At the same time, research activities into identifying potential vulnerabilities in cognitive radio technology and developing robust countermeasures to mitigate these attacks is only now beginning to increase. Consequently, the purpose of this workshop is to bring together members of the cognitive radio and electromagentic spectrum security community from around the world in order for them to share the latest research findings in this emerging and critical area, as well as exchange ideas and foster research collaborations, in order to further advance the state-of-the-art in security techniques, architectures, and algorithms for cognitive radio communications and networks.

Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

General security architecture for CR networks
Cross-layer security design of CR networks
Secure routing in multi-hop CR networks
Physical layer security for CR networks
Geo-location for security in CR networks
Defending and mitigating jamming-based DoS attacks in CR networks
Defending against energy depletion attacks in resource-constrained CR networks
Attack modeling, prevention, mitigation, and defense in CR systems
Primary user emulation attacks and countermeasures
Authentication methods of primary users
Spectrum sensing data falsification and countermeasures
Spectrum misusage and selfish misbehaviors and countermeasures
Unauthorized use of spectrum bands and countermeasures
Methods for detecting, isolating and expelling misbehaving cognitive nodes
Eavesdropping attack modeling and analysis in cognitive radio
Security policies, standards and regulations for CR networks
Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in CR systems
Information-theoretical secrecy capacity of cognitive transmissions
Privacy protection in CR networks
Security issues for database-based CR networks
Security in CR networks for the smart grid
Intrusion detection systems in CR networks
Truthful Spectrum Auctions

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W2: International Workshop on Wireless Power (WoW 2015)

W3: International Workshop on Self-Driving Cars – CANCELLED

W3: International Workshop on Self-Driving Cars – CANCELLED
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Organized by Tim Gordon (University of Lincoln, UK) and Mathias Lidberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Abstract:

In recent years, road vehicle automation has become an important and popular topic for research and development in both academic and industrial spheres. New developments in vehicle technologies and machine intelligence have made it possible to demonstrate human-like behavior in robotic ground vehicles. These developments have received extensive coverage in the popular press, and it may be said that the topic has captured the public imagination. Further, these topics have generated interest across a wide range of academic, industry and governmental communities, well beyond vehicle engineering; these include computer science, transportation, urban planning, legal, social science and psychology. While this follows a similar surge of interest—and subsequent hiatus—of Automated Highway Systems in the 1990's, the current level of interest is substantially greater, and current expectations are high.

It is common to frame the new technologies under the banner of "self-driving cars"—robotic systems potentially taking over the entire role of the human driver, a capability that does not fully exist at present. On the other hand, this single vision may lead one to ignore the broader range of Autonomous Functions on vehicles that are both feasible and useful. This workshop is planned to cover the wider spectrum of automated, semi-autonomous and fully autonomous systems on ground vehicles.

The workshop is to promote interest, research and collaboration around vehicle automation. Broad areas of interests include (but are not limited to) technological developments around the following themes:

Technological demands for migration towards full `robotic' driving capabilities, where there are periods of time when there is no human driver even monitoring the road or traffic situation
Supporting technologies: sensors, actuators, communications
Intelligent protection systems - active safety perspective, warning vs control, v2v safety
Interaction with the driver and mode switching
Optimal motion control
Prognosis for the future: feasible migration paths towards full driving automation, with focus on the resulting challenges and demands for vehicle technologies

Topics

Sensing and Data Fusion

Vision, LIDAR and radar systems
Novel sensors and intelligent systems for environmental perception
Sensor fusion and estimation
Networked and distributed estimation
Online identification of driver characteristics
State estimation
Sensor redundancy

Decision and Control Functions

Decision making for safety intervention systems
Rule-based decision and control functions
Optimal motion control
Automated collision avoidance
Fail-safe and fault tolerant control
Control interaction with the driver
Adaptation to driver characteristics
Cooperative autonomous functions on road vehicles

Methodologies for Test, Development and Evaluation

Safety impact assessment of autonomous functions on road vehicles
Driving simulators
On-road and on-track tesing
Traffic modelling for control and simulation
Field Operational Tests
Safety and security of vehicle embedded systems

Other related topics

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W4: First International Workshop on Mobile and Context Aware Services (MOCS2015)

W5: First International Workshop on Vehicle Policy – CANCELLED

W5: First International Workshop on Vehicle Policy – CANCELLED
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Organized by James Gover (Kettering University, USA)

Abstract: The purpose of this workshop is to bring together technology researchers, industry, policy researchers and policy-makers at city, state, regional and national governments to share their views on needs, possibilities and challenges for policies that drive the mass adoption of (1) emerging safety features in vehicles and (2) electric vehicles (EVs), plug-hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs). Cities and states are promoting the adoption of EVs, PHEVs and HEVs through regulations supporting clean air and the removal of particulates from vehicle emis-sions. Cities and states are also impacting the adoption of EVs and PHEVs by purchasing these vehicles for the use of city and state employees and well as by offering HOV lane driving, special parking privileges and special tax provisions to EV, PHEV and HEV drivers. For example, Indianapolis, IN, has announced plans to deploy the larg-est municipal fleet of electric drive train vehicles in the USA. Its “Freedom Fleet” will consist of 425 PHEVs and EVs. Shanghai’s government has announced that EV owners will be entitled to free license plates and avoid the usual public auction price of US$10,000 to US$15,000 per plate. Hangzhou’s government has adopted a zero-emission public transport policy and is purchasing 2,000 long-range battery-electric transit buses and 1,000 pure-electric taxis. Nations’ regulations on vehicle safety features (e.g. tire pressure monitoring, back-up cameras, active seat belt restraints, pedestrian avoidance, lane departure warning, blind spot detection, driver awareness detection and adaptive cruise control) have traditionally required the deployment of new safety features in mass market vehi-cles after these features have been demonstrated in luxury vehicles. We are now entering an era where autono-mous driving may become an option. This workshop will consist of both contributed papers and invited papers with papers including both technical pa-pers reporting demonstration of new safety features in vehicles as well as policy papers that describe polices that can accelerate the adoption of new safety features or electric drive trains. Economic studies that demonstrate the costs and benefits of new safety features and electric drive trains are also invited. Contributed papers are encour-aged for authors wishing to publish their research on work affecting vehicle safety or electric drive-train adoption.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

Policies implemented by states, cities, regional and national governments that are accelerating the adoption of vehicles with electric drive trains or new safety features in vehicles;
Research on emerging as well as previously adopted vehicle safety technologies that compare the costs and benefits of these technologies;
Announcement and description of new safety technologies that show promise for increasing vehicle safety;
Research on the health effects of emissions from vehicles with internal combustion engines.

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W6: WiFiUS – Recent Advances in Reconfigurable Antennas and Small-Cell Systems

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