VTC2016-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 W1 will be held on Monday, 19 September 2016
Workshops W2 thru W5 will be held on Sunday, 18 September 2016
Early registration ends: 22 August 2016
Hotel registration ends: 24 August 2016, 17:00 EDT
W1: Wireless Technologies & Applications for the Internet of Everything
Organized by Shalini Periyalwar and Angeliki Alexiou
Monday, 19 September 2016
Time: 11:00 – 17:30
Room: Verdun
Abstract: The Internet of Everything (IoE) is expected to bring billions of dollars in business opportunity over the next decade. The current market for communication systems enabling IoE is highly fragmented, and the revenues are being shared among multiple incumbents, many of those operating in the small and medium enterprise space. The IoE market is served by a number of wireless technology domains from Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) technologies for health, automation and other personal area applications, but also by wide area technologies. Both standardized and proprietary wireless solutions utilizing unlicensed Industrial, Science and Medical (ISM) bands are in use. Organized by the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), the goal of this workshop is to bring together the representative industry views from different wireless domains for discussion and debate on the roles, co-existence and collaboration of these wireless domains.
The workshop, organized in 3 sessions on Monday 19 September 2016, will be comprised of invited presentations by experts in the wireless IoE domain.
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W2: Cellular Internet of Things - Emerging Trends and Enabling Technologies
Organized by Amitava Ghosh, Jin Yang and Rapeepat Ratasuk
Sunday, 18 September 2016
Time: 8:30 – 17:00
Room: Verdun
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) will bring about tremendous improvements in user experience and system efficiency. An estimated 50 billion connected devices will be deployed by 2020 and the total IoT revenue is expected to grow to $1.2 trillion in 2022. As a result, IoT services are expected to be a key driver for growth in the cellular industry.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from both industry and academia, cellular service providers, and industrial partners to explore IoT requirements, business case, emerging trends, potential applications, and enabling technologies. The focus of the workshop will be on the evolution of cellular technologies to support low-power wide-area IoT services, related requirements, commercial use cases, field experiments and performance results.
The workshop will offer keynote speeches by prominent figures from both commercial and research sides, as well as technical presentations on the latest research and development in cellular IoT, including deployment related results using real-world examples and scenarios.
Workshop home: https://sites.google.com/site/cellulariotworkshop/home
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W3: Vehicular Information Services for the Internet of Things (VISIT 2016)
Organized by Sherin Abdelhamid and Khalid Elgazzar
Sunday, 18 September 2016
Time: 8:30 – 17:00
Room: Lachine
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained great attention from both academia and industry. Connecting billions of devices for communication and service provisioning shapes the main target of the IoT. Among the key enablers of IoT, smart vehicles have been promising solutions for providing on-road communication and ubiquitous information services. In-vehicle sensors, diversified communication modules, and an on-board unit with high computing and storage capabilities enable the smart vehicle to become a mobile resource provider. The real value of vehicular resources is much realized when translated into information services that put these resources into action. Expanding the smart vehicle-based services/applications beyond the intelligent transportation services requires research and development efforts to explore new service scopes, create innovative system architectures, and design enabling technologies. The VISIT workshop is intended to create a platform for researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry in the areas of IoT and vehicular technologies, service provisioning, and ubiquitous computing to share and discuss their ideas, experiences, challenges, and practical implementations. We encourage high quality submissions addressing current challenges and proposing novel research directions. We invite technical research papers, industrial papers, position papers, and tool demonstration papers.
Workshop home: http://visit16.weebly.com/
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W4: 5G Millimeter-Wave Channel Models
Organized by David G. Michelson, Akbar M. Sayeed and David Matolak
Sunday, 18 September 2016
Time: 13:30 – 17:00
Room: LaSalle
Abstract: Both industry and the research community urgently require accurate characterization of wireless channels in the bands above 6 GHz. While there are many groups currently working on 5G channel measurements and modeling (e.g., METIS2020, COST1004, IEEE 802.11ay, ETSI mmWave SIG, NYU Wireless), many of these efforts are focused on developing channel models for specific wireless systems and may be short-lived or adapted once initial standards are put in place.
In response to this need, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently begun to coordinate a 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance of companies, academia, and government organizations that is supporting the development of more accurate, consistent, and predictive channel models.
This workshop will be a venue for all members of the 5G and cm/mmWave channel modelling communities to brainstorm and to identify emerging concepts, technologies, and analytical tools in this important area.
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W5: First International Workshop on Vehicular Security (V-SEC 2016)
Organized by Alexander Wyglinski (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Rich Pietravalle, Perry Engle, and Joe Chapman (The MITRE Corporation)
Sunday, 18 September 2016
Time: 13:30 – 17:00
Room: LaSalle
Abstract: The objective of the International Workshop on Vehicular Security (V-SEC 2016) is to bring together members of the vehicular security community (industry, government, academia) at the 2016 84th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. At this first workshop, the latest research findings in this emerging area will be shared and new research opportunities will be identified through the exchange of ideas among the IEEE attendees.
The half day V-SEC 2016 workshop will include an in-depth instructional session on CAN Bus security, two plenary talks by internationally renowned experts in vehicle security, and a panel discussion on the future of vehicle security and privacy. Additionally, there will be opportunities to engage with other attendees as well as with the workshop presenters/experts.
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