Workshop Introduction:

As driving becomes increasingly automated, how to design a robust ADAS that operates reliably across the entire spectrum of driving environments attracts tremendous attention from both industry and academia. One promising way of approaching this goal is to take advantage of vehicular wireless communications. By connecting with other vehicles and/or to the roadside, a vehicle collects information regarding its surrounding environment from multiple angles and with diverse granularities. Such information is expected to augment ADAS’s perception, location, and mapping functionalities., resulting in a more smooth and confident navigation. However, many challenges exist in this promising area.

This dedicated full-day workshop concerns the most recent advancements in wireless communications, sensory technologies and information processing. It aims to compile a refreshed view on the solutions combing the power of wireless communications and traditional ADAS for a safer, more efficient automated/autonomous vehicle. Challenges, opportunities and benefits of performing research in this interdisciplinary domain will be analyzed and highlighted.

Workshop topics:

a) Wireless communication protocol design aimed to enable or augment cooperation among automated/autonomous ground vehicles.

This topic includes optimization of existing communication technologies (e.g., DSRC, LTE-V2X) for automated/autonomous driving applications and design of new communication solutions (e.g., 5G, mmWave) for large capacity V2X data communications

b) Collaborative automated/autonomous vehicle applications that leverage over-the-air information to facilitate the vehicles’ operation

This topic solicits innovative V2X application designs. The applications will be capable of processing V2X information to improve automated/autonomous vehicles’ perception, localization, mapping and control.

Call for Papers:

Topics of Interest

As cars become increasingly automated and connected, it is anticipated traveling will be safer and more efficient. However, the natural segregation of the two vehicle technology areas has been dragging our pace towards that goal. Vehicular communications, or V2X, which enable vehicles to exchange information in real time with each other and with other road participants in a range of a few hundreds of meters, offers opportunities to augment individual vehicles’ understanding of the environment and to cooperate with the traffic in a more cohesive manner. But its protocol design has largely been independent of actual automated/autonomous driving applications. On the other hand, vehicle automation, a domain used to leverage a vehicle’s own sensor suit to sense and operate, hasn’t gotten many algorithms to handle over the air input of different granularities regarding the environment. Novel cooperative automated driving applications leveraging V2X data are needed.

This dedicated workshop concerns the most recent advancements in wireless communications, sensory technologies and information processing. It aims to advance solutions combing the power of wireless communications and traditional vehicle automation for a safer, more efficient automated/autonomous vehicle. Challenges, opportunities and benefits of performing research in this interdisciplinary domain will be analyzed and highlighted.

The workshop will invite distinguished speakers. It is expected to be interactive. The technical areas of the workshop include, but not limited to

1) V2X communication protocol design, testing and evaluation

2) V2X assisted/enhanced applications

3) Vehicular cooperative sensory fusion

4) Cooperative automated driving, path planning and control

5) Network-augmented ADAS

Paper Submission Guidelines (TBD)

Original papers are solicited. Papers must have not been published nor be submitted for publication elsewhere. The workshop Technical Program Committee will review all papers and make selection based on the quality of the submission and its relevance to the workshop scope. All workshop papers will be published in the VTC2020-Fall conference proceedings and be submitted to IEEE Xplore (conditional on presentation by one of the authors at the workshop). Workshop papers will be subject to the same formatting and length requirements as papers for the regular technical sessions of VTC 2020-Fall (5-page limit for paper submissions, plus a maximum of 2 additional pages for $100 per page for the final version).

Paper Submission Deadline: TBD

Acceptance Notification: TBD

Final Paper Submission: TBD

Paper submission link: (TBD)

Workshop Dates: October 4^, 2020

Workshop Chairs:

Hongsheng Lu, Toyota Motor North America, USA

Rui Guo, Toyota Motor North America, USA

Invited Speakers (preliminary)

1. Prof. Song Fu, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas. He is the Director of the Dependable Computing Systems Lab (DCS). He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 2008 to 2010. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan, in 2008. His research interest is primarily in cyber-infrastructures, parallel, distributed and IoT-edge-cloud systems, including architecture, performance, dependability, security, and machine learning. His research has been supported in part by funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Amazon, Cisco, Nvidia, Xilinx and University of North Texas.

Technical Program Committees (TBD)

1. Dr. Yaser Fallah, associate professor of University of Central Florida

2. Dr. Jing Xiao, IEEE fellow, professor at UNC-Charlotte

3. Dr. Christian Poellabauer, associate professor at University of Notre Dame

4. Dr. Hendrik-Jorn Gunther, senior connected vehicle engineer at Volkswagen of America (Panelist)

5. Dr. Dinesh Bharadia, assistant professor at University of UC San Diego

6. Dr. Bin Cheng, researcher in Toyota Motor North America

7. Dr. Ehsan Moradi Pari, sensor engineer at Honda US

8. Dr. Ivan Wang-Hei Ho, assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

9. Dr. Gaurav Bansal, principal engineer at airbus A3 lab

10. Dr. Hao Yang, assistant professor at McMaster University (Panelist)

11. Dr. Onur Altintas, fellow at Toyota Motor North America InfoTech Labs (Panelist)

12. Dr. Malik Khan, senior R&D engineer at Cohda Wireless

13. Dr. Miguel Sepulcre, associate professor at Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH)

14. Dr. Seng W. Loke, professor at Deakin University

15. Dr. Seung R. Yang, chief standards & research engineer at LG Electronics

16. Dr. Xuanyuan Zhe, assistant professor at BUHK united international college

Contacts:

General inquiry about workshop: ncad@gmail.com