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T2: Aerial and Ground Autonomous Vehicles for Smarter and More Sustainable Cities: Opportunities and Challenges - VTC2023-Fall HK

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T2: Aerial and Ground Autonomous Vehicles for Smarter and More Sustainable Cities: Opportunities and Challenges

Co-organizer: Celimuge Wu, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Co-organizer: Soufiene Djahel, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Abstract:  Aerial and Ground Autonomous Vehicles are two emerging technologies that are revolutionizing the way services are being delivered to smart cities’ inhabitants. Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are transforming the mobility services through their advanced coordination and safety features which require ultra-reliable low latency communication to run efficiently. CAVs are also expected to play a major role in achieving carbon neutral transportation in addition to their potential integration with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide alternative solutions, for processing processor-intensive-tasks for example, in resource-scarce and emergency scenarios. UAVs are being extensively used in civilian applications to fulfil diverse range of tasks as they provide a lightweight and versatile airborne platform capable of achieving cost-effective and efficient operations with reduced environmental impact. Due to these unique characteristics, UAVs could be used opportunistically as a service provider for data dissemination, collection, caching, and forwarding, making obstacle-free path planning for UAVs a challenging task.

In this tutorial, we will discuss the state of the art of CAVs and UAVs and describe how such technologies can make our cities smarter and more sustainable with a particular focus on semantic communication for CAVs and UAVs path planning in complex and dynamic environments.

 

Co-organizer’s Bios:

Celimuge Wu

Celimuge Wu received his PhD degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 2010. He is a full professor & Director of Meta-Networking Research Center, The University of Electro-Communications. His research interests include Vehicular Networks, Internet-of-Things, Edge Computing, and Application of Machine Learning in Wireless Networking. He has published 200+ papers in reputable journals and conferences. He serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society. He also has been a guest editor of IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine etc. He is a recipient of the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, 2021 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Best Paper Award, IEEE Computer Society 2020 Best Paper Award, and IEEE Computer Society 2019 Best Paper Award Runner-Up. He is/has been a TPC Co-Chair of IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 2021 (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2021/), a TPC Co-chair of the 2021 IEEE Autonomous Driving AI Test Challenge (http://av-test-challenge.org/index.html), a General Chair (Lead) of ICT-DM 2021 (http://ict-dm.org/), a TPC Cochair of Wireless Days 2021 (https://wd2021.dnac.org/), a Track Chair (Lead) of IEEE VTC-Spring 2020 (https://events.vtsociety.org/vtc2020-spring/), a Track Chair (Lead) of ICCCN 2019 (http://www.icccn.org/icccn19/index.html), and a Track Chair of IEEE PIMRC 2016 (https://pimrc2016.ieee-pimrc.org/). He is the chair of IEEE TCBD Special Interest Group on Big Data with Computational Intelligence, and IEEE TCGCC Special Interest Group on Green Internet of Vehicles. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Soufiene Djahel

Soufiene Djahel is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at the University of Huddersfield (UK) and a Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (Ireland). He was the founding head of the Smart and Sustainable Cities (S2C) lab within the department of computing and mathematics at Manchester Met Univ. from 2017 until August 2022. Dr. Djahel holds Ph.D, M.Sc., and Engineer degrees in computer science from Lille 1 University of Science and Technology, France, University Abderrahmane-Mira, Algeria, and University Badji-Mokhtar, Algeria, respectively. He published more than 70 peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conferences on wireless networks, network security, intelligent transportation systems, e-healthcare and IoT. He supervised to successful completion 5 Ph.D. students and 23 Master students, and currently supervising 4 Ph.D. students. His research was supported by Newton Mosharrafa Fund, JSPS, IntelliCentrics UK LTD, and the Transport Systems Catapult. He served as Engineering Research Manager at University College Dublin, Ireland; Postdoctoral Fellow at ENSIEE, France; Associate Lecturer and Researcher at Lille 1 University of Science and Technology, France; and Teaching Assistant at IMT Nord Europe, France. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE TCGCC SIG on Green Internet of Vehicles. Dr. Djahel is regularly invited to undertake different leadership roles in several IEEE sponsored international conferences; and serves as expert reviewer for three European research councils. He is the recipient of the FY2021 JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan award from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.