Keynote Speaker
Title: Vehicular Communications – C-V2X Is Driving it Forward
For many years, the automobile industry and multiple governments developed standards, conducted tests, and were planning to deploy V2X communications using IEEE 802.11p. 802.11p was chosen as the PHY and MAC layers for DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) in the United States, and ITS G5 in Europe. In the two years since the completion of 3GPP Release 14 supporting cellular based vehicle-to-vehicle communications (C-V2V), the industry direction has been rapidly changing. Several factors, including the better performance of 3GPP Release 14, synergies with cellular radios already going into many automobiles, new energy, and timing, are leading to the choice of C-V2X and to its commercial deployment. This keynote will provide the current status of V2X communications, including its readiness for commercialization, in multiple regions of the world. It will describe the performance benefits of C-V2X communications, the reuse of the upper layer protocols developed for DSRC and ITS-GS, and the various testing and certification programs. The presentation will conclude with a vision for future V2X communications and will describe the work now underway in 3GPP to bring a second generation of C-V2X communications based upon NR.
Biography:
Dr. Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr. is a Qualcomm Fellow and a Senior Vice President of Engineering of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He leads Qualcomm’s worldwide standardization and industry organization activities. Dr. Tiedemann was instrumental in the design and development of the TIA/EIA/IS-95 CDMA system, also called cdmaOne™. He led Qualcomm and much of the industry’s efforts in the design and development of the third-generation cdma2000® system. Dr. Tiedemann holds over 200 US patents and has participated in many papers, conference lectures, and industry panels. He currently sits on the board of several industry organizations. He is interested in multiple topics in communications including 5G, IoT, and V2x.
Prior to becoming involved with terrestrial wireless communications, Dr. Tiedemann was involved with numerous commercial and military satellite systems. From 1977 to 1988, Dr. Tiedemann was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on mmWave satellite communications systems.
Dr. Tiedemann holds the Ph.D. degree from MIT where he worked in the areas of queueing theory and communications networks. He holds the Master of Science degree from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech).
Dr. Tiedemann is past chairman of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech). He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Tiedemann was General Chair of GLOBECOM 2015. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Peabody Essex Museum.