W12: Workshop on V2X Technology Evolution towards 5G-Advanced (5.5G V2X)

Workshop Organizer: Shaobo Wang, Huawei Technologies, Shanghai
Workshop Organizer: Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Workshop Organizer: Robert W. Heath Jr., North Carolina State University, USA
Workshop Organizer: Shaoshi Yang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Abstract: With the rapid development of automotive industry and global commercialization of 5G network, the future of transportation will become a higher integration between physical and information systems. By connecting the individual vehicles via wireless Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) links, a wide spectrum of applications, such as real-time HD-map delivery and distributed sensor sharing based on advanced intelligent transportation systems (ITS), will go live to improve the driving safety and operating efficiency of vehicle networks.
In essence, V2X communications can acquire lots of advantages and thus accelerate the development of L4/L5 autonomous driving. We envision that future smart vehicle is able to gather massive high-resolution information through on-board sensors such as mmWave radar, LiDAR and camera, and share it with surrounding vehicles via high-capacity V2X links. By such means, vehicles can be grouped to apply real-time and high-reliability collaborative driving maneuvers, particularly in
complicated road conditions and operational environments. The above communication and sensing interaction technique is typically referred to as Harmonized Communication and Sensing (HCS), which has become an emerging research topic in recent years.
While research into HCS based V2X and other aspects of vehicle interaction are still in the early stage, it is essential to establish a clear vision of future V2X technology to provide guidance for academic researchers and industrial partners. Thus, we believe this workshop will bring a good opportunity to attendees from both academia and industry to present novel ideas on V2X and to exchange views on 5G-Advanced openly.

Shaobo Wang Bio: Shaobo Wang is a senior research expert in the field of wireless communication air interface system and the deputy minister of RAN Research Dept, Wireless Network, Huawei. He joined Huawei after graduating from Zhejiang University in 2000. From 2000 to 2008, he was responsible for the design of baseband receiver algorithms for the 3G UTMS system. From 2008, he led the R&D work of physical-layer and low-MAC algorithms in GSM, UMTS, LTE, and 5G NR systems, laying a foundation for the competitiveness of Huawei’s network products. Since 2017, he has been engaged in leading the research of key 5G air interface technologies in fields such as coding, modulation, waveform, multiple access, multiple antennas, and RAN network architecture, as well as exploring new 5G-Advanced air interface technologies such as Uplink Centric Broadband Communication, Real-Time Broadband Communication, and Harmonized Communication and Sensing. He has served and will serve as general and/or program co-chair of several international conferences/workshops, including, IEEE VTC Workshop on Technology and Standardization Evolution for 5G New Radio (2020), IEEE Globecom Workshop on ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR 5G PLUS (2020), IEEE PIMRC Workshop on eXtended Reality (XR) for 5G and Beyond (2021) and IEEE Globecom Workshop on Evolution of MIMO Technology for Emerging Uplink-Centric 5.5G Applications (2021).

Lajos Hanzo Bio: Lajos Hanzo, received his Masters degree in electronics in 1976 and his Doctorate in 1983 from the Technical University of Budapest. In 2010 he was awarded the university’s highest honour, namely the Honorary Doctorate “Doctor Honaris Causa”. Since 1986 he has been with the University of Southampton, UK and in 2004 he was awarded the Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree. During his 44-year career in telecommunications, he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been a member of academic staff in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he currently holds the Chair in Telecommunications and during 2009 – 2012 he was also a Chaired Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Lajos Hanzo has co-authored 19 John Wiley/IEEE Press books totalling about 10 000 pages on mobile radio communications, and published 1987 research papers and book chapters at IEEE Xplore. He has acted as General Chair of major IEEE conferences, such as WCNC’2006, WCNC’2009, VTC’2011, ICC’13, EUSIPCO’16 and ICASSP’19. He has presented tutorials as well as keynote lectures at international conferences. Lajos is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Communications Society and the Vehicular Society as well as a Fellow of both the IEEE and the IEE/IET, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). Furthermore, he is a EURASIP Fellow. He is acting as a Governor of the IEEE VTS. During 2009 – 2012 Lajos was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press. He has been awarded a number of distinctions, most recently the IEEE Wireless Technical Committee Achievement Award (2007), the IET Sir Monti Finniston Achievement Award across all disciplines of engineering (2008), the ComSoc Radio Communications Award, as well as the ComSoc Signal Pprocessing for Communications Electronics Award. He was bestowed upon an Honorary Doctorate of the Technical University of Budapest (2010) and of the University of Edinburgh (2015). His most recent paper awards are: WCNC’2007 in Hong Kong, ICC’2009 Dresden, ICC’2010 Cape Town and GC’2019.

Robert W. Heath Jr. Bio: Robert W. Heath JR., received the Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University. He Joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University in August 2020. From 2002 to 2020, he was with the University of Texas at Austin where he was involved in the leadership of their wireless group, and created an initiative to bring together communications, sensing, and machine learning. He is also the President and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc and Chief Innovation Officer at Kuma Signals LLC. Prof. Heath is a recipient of several awards including the 2012 Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper award, a 2013 Signal Processing Society best paper award, the 2014 EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing best paper award, and the 2014 Journal of Communications and Networks best paper award, the 2016 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2016 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, 2017 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, the 2017 EURASIP Technical Achievement Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize, and the 2019 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. He co-authored “Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications” (Prentice Hall in 2014) and “Foundations of MIMO Communications” (Cambridge 2019). He will be a member-at-large on the IEEE Communications Society Board-of-Governors (2020-2022) and is a past member-at-large on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board-of-Governors (2016-2018). He is a licensed Amateur Radio Operator, a registered Professional Engineer in Texas, a Private Pilot, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Shaoshi Yang Bio: Shaoshi Yang received the B.Eng. degree in information engineering from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Southampton, U.K., in 2013. From 2008 to 2009, he was a researcher of WiMAX standardization with Intel Labs China. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Research Fellow with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Principal Engineer with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., where he made substantial contributions to the company’s products and solutions on 5G base stations, wideband IoT, and cloud gaming/VR. He is currently a Full Professor with BUPT. His research expertise includes 5G wireless networks, massive MIMO, iterative detection and decoding, mobile ad hoc networks, distributed artificial intelligence, and cloud gaming/VR. He is a member of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He received the Dean’s Award for Early Career Research Excellence from the University of Southampton in 2015, the Huawei President Award of Wireless Innovations in 2018, the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC) Best Journal Paper Award in 2019, and the IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award in 2020. He is an Editor for IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and Signal Processing (Elsevier). He was also an invited international reviewer of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Workshop Program

Part 1 – Welcome – 5 mins
Opening Speeches
Shaoshi Yang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Part 2 – Keynote – 30 mins
Harmonized Communication and Sensing (HCS) for Industry-Oriented Applications
Wei Ye, Huawei

Part 3 – Technical paper 1 – 15 mins
Asymptotic Performance Analysis for mmWave V2X Cellular Networks
Yi Zhang, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Zhengzheng Xiang, Shanghai Huawei Technology Co Ltd
Lei Lu, Huawei Technologies Co., LTD
Han Shuai, Harbin Institute of Technology
Weixiao Meng, Harbin Institute of Technology

Part 4 – Technical paper 2 – 15 mins
A Task Partitioning and Offloading Scheme in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks
Wen Qi, China Telecom Research Institute
Xu Xia, China Telecom Research Institute
Heng Wang, China Telecom Research Institute
Yanxia Xing, China Telecom Research Institute
Xudong Cao, China University of Petroleum

Part 5 – Technical paper 3 – 15 mins
Device Selection of Distributed Primal-Dual Algorithms Over Wireless Networks
Zhaohui Yang, King’s College London
Chongwen Huang, Zhejiang University
Hao Xu, Southeast University
Wei Xu, Southeast University
Yue Cao, Wuhan University

Part 6 – Technical paper 4 – 15 mins
Multi-Path Routing Protocol for the Video Service in UAV-Assisted VANETs
Caijin Zhao, University of Xiamen
QingweiZeng, University of Xiamen
Tang Yuliang, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY
Bo Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Part 7 – Technical paper 5 – 15 mins
Resource Allocation based on Three-sided Matching Theory in Cognitive Vehicular Networks
Shuhui Wen, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Wei Liang, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Jingjing Cui, University of Southampton
Dawei Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi’an, China
Lixin Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University

Part 8 – Technical paper 6 – 15 mins
Variable Frame Splitting for Polar Coded MIMO E-SDM in Fast Fading Channel
He He, Chiba University
Shun Kojima, Utsunomiya University
Kentaro Yonei, Chiba University
Kazuki Maruta, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Chang-Jun Ahn, Chiba University