4th IEEE RAFNET to be held in Porto, Portugal, with IEEE VTC Spring 2018!

 

Room: TBA, Date: June 03, Time: 1300 - 1800

(Accepted Papers for Oral Presentation: 10, Total Submissions: 26)

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Invited Speaker: Prof. Joaquim Ferreira

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.

Title: Dependable vehicular communications: why and how

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract

Dependability is a generic concept that describes the level of trust one can have in the operation of a system. The attributes of dependability denote different properties that can be expected from a dependable system, whose importance can vary between distinct applications such as availability, reliability, safety, integrity, and maintainability. In the case of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) supported by wireless communications, dependability attributes are of utmost importance, as a failure in system’s operation can cause severe consequences. Since the environment has inherent temporal dynamics, in order to properly interact with it, C-ITS applications have to produce logically correct solutions within bounded time intervals. The temporal behavior of the whole system depends on several elements such as the software running in each node and the capacity of the underlying communication network to provide timely delivery of messages. For instance, when an accident occurs the vehicles approaching the location should receive a warning message with sufficient time in advance, in order for them to take appropriate measures, avoiding possible chain collisions. Wireless vehicular communications are one of the enabling technologies for C-ITS. Despite some recent alternatives, the core technology to support vehicular communications is the IEEE 802.11p protocol, in which both IEEE Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) and ETSI ITS G5 family of standards are based. Commercial off the shelf IEEE 802.11p transceivers have become recently available, however, they have closed proprietary implementations that difficult the design of extensions, e.g., real-time medium access control, fault-tolerance mechanisms, resilience to physical and MAC layer attacks and timely security services. This talk will present a brief overview of wireless vehicular communications and describe some fundamental building blocks of dependable wireless vehicular communications. Afterward, the design, implementation, and deployment of cooperative ITS applications, in the scope of several R&D projects, will be described.

 

Speaker's Biography

Joaquim Ferreira graduated (1991) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and has a Master in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (1997), both by the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2005). Currently, he is an adjunct professor at School of Technology and Management, University of Aveiro and senior researcher at Telecommunications Institute. Formerly he was an assistant professor of the University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences, adjunct professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and researcher at INESC and IEETA. His research interests include dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerant real-time communications, wireless vehicular communications, cooperative ITS systems and medium access control protocols. He is a co-author of more than 60 refereed publications in international scientific conferences and journals, 12 book chapters and one book. He was a principal investigator, local coordinator or participant in over 15 funded national and international research projects. He is a senior member of IEEE and has participated in more than 30 conference scientific committees.

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Oral Presentations Program Overview

Session 1: 01:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Session Chair: Prof. Sajid Saleem (Seecs, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.)

 

01:00 pm - 01:30 pm 

Invited Talk by Prof. Joaquim Ferreira, on "Dependable vehicular communications: why and how"

 

01:30 pm - 01:50 pm

1. An Outdoor Localization System based on SigFox

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01:50 pm - 02:10 pm

2. Effective Caching for the Secure Content Distribution in Information-Centric Networking

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02:10 pm - 02:30 pm

3. Energy Prediction based MAC layer Optimization for Harvesting Enabled WSNs in Smart Cities

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02:30 pm - 02:50 pm

4. Evaluating Factors Affecting Communication in Wearable Internet of Things for Near Field

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02:50 pm - 03:10 pm

5. Experimental Performance Analysis of Network Coding in Wireless Systems

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03:10 pm - 03:30 pm

6. Extension of Localized Routing to PMIP-SAE based Mobile Networks

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Coffee Break: 03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Session 2: 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Session Chair: Prof. Moneeb Gohar (Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.)

 

04:00 pm - 04:20 pm

7. Indoor Motion Classification Using Passive RF Sensing Incorporating Deep Learning

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04:20 pm - 04:40 pm

8. MOT: A Compatible Transport Mechanism of Mobile Edge Computing and Conventional Traffic

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04:40 pm - 05:00 pm

9. Persistent Interests in Named Data Networking

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05:00 pm - 05:20 pm

10. Towards ITS Vision Assisted Cooperative Perception

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05:20 pm - 05:30 pm

Closing Remarks