W11: 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility – Addressing Continuity of Service

Chair: Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Belgium

Abstract: In the context of the European Union (EU)-funded 5G Public-Private Partnership (5G-PPP), a number of projects were launched aiming at delivering the full potential of 5G to provide advanced Connected and Automated Mobility services across Europe, focusing on ensuring continuity of service across borders, but also in case of National roaming. The projects addressed road, rail, inland waterways and coastal maritime transport corridors, and involved as well non-EU partners. At the end of the 5G PPP program, this workshop will provide an opportunity to present the achievements and lessons learned of these European projects, and look into the subsequent phase of deployment across the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

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Chair’s Bio:

Jorge Pereira

Bio: Dr. Jorge Pereira, obtained the Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal in 1983 and 1987, respectively, and received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1993.

In the period 1993-96, he worked at GTE Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA, where he was responsible for the Communication Analysis and Simulation aspects of the National ITS Architecture contract with the Federal Highway Administration, leading a team involving major companies across the US (Rockwell International, Apogee Research, Honeywell, George Mason University, Loral Federal Systems, and Caltrans). One of the particular areas of interest was Emergency vehicles and HAZMAT, Wide Area Alerts and what came to be known as Disaster Response and Evacuation, with the associated stringent communication requirements. He was also involved in Wireless Data performance assessment and optimization, Internet traffic characterization, and military programs (wireless ATM to the soldier in the field). He was also involved in the first CDPD trials in the San Francisco Bay Area, involving location-based applications. At the time of the first E-991 mandate, he was involved in the interaction with the FCC concerning the “definition” of accuracy and the associated requirements. Until August 1996, he was the GTE representative to the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) ITS Section, and to the CDMA Development Group (CDG) in charge of High Speed Data Systems.

Dr. Pereira has been with the European Commission since September 1996, becoming Principal Scientific Officer in 2005. He has been dealing with ICT, covering a broad variety of areas, with a focus on networking, devices, applications and services, testing and validation, as well as deployment. He moved in 2016 to the area of Future Connectivity Systems, focusing on 5G and beyond. He is responsible for the areas of advanced spectrum management; optical-wireless convergence; network applications; Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM); Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR); and sustainability. He is a Member of the IEEE, where he is Associate Editor for Mobile Radio, including Vehicular Communications, for the IEEE VTS Magazine, and a member of the IEEE Future Networks Summit Steering Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, responsible for CAM and PPDR. He also served as Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

He received the Industry Achievement Award of the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Forum in 2003, in recognition of his “outstanding contributions, research and development in the field of SDR”.