Prof. Victor C. M. Leung
IEEE Fellow
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
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22 June 2011
Speaker:
Prof. Victor C. M. Leung
"Networking of Automobiles - Applications, Challenges, and Some Recent Results"
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Abstract: Recent advances in wireless communication technologies are making it possible for automobiles to
be integrated into the global network. Intelligent Transportation Systems with vehicles in the loop
are expected to significantly improve road safety, reduce traffic congestion and cut greenhouse gas
emissions. This is made possible in the USA by Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), which
employs the IEEE 802.11p standard over the 75MHz of spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band allocated by
the FCC for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. DSRC is
expected to revolutionize road transportation by making possible many real-time safety
applications. However, global deployment of DSRC is not expected to materialize in the near
term due to regulatory and financial challenges. In the meantime, vehicles and their
passengers are increasingly equipped with different forms of wireless networking
capabilities, e.g., cellular, WiFi and WiMAX. Thus there is also a growing interest in
supporting applications like infotainment, travel advisory, route planning, etc., using
heterogeneous wireless networks. In this presentation, I shall describe several
applications that leverage the wireless communications to put vehicles in the loop. Different
applicants impose different requirements on the wireless network for data routing,
transfer latency, etc. I shall review the technical challenges that need to
be overcome to meet some of these requirements, and describe solutions developed in our
recent research to meet these challenges. I shall conclude the presentation by
discussing some future research directions.
Biography: Victor C. M. Leung received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Electrical Engineering from
the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1977, and was awarded the APEBC Gold Medal as the head
of the graduating class in the Faculty of Applied Science. He attended graduate school at UBC
on a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship and completed the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981.
From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Leung was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at
Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. (later renamed MPR Teltech Ltd.), specializing in the planning, design
and analysis of satellite communication systems. In 1988, he was a Lecturer in
the Department of Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He returned to UBC as a faculty
member in 1989, where he is currently a Professor and the holder of the TELUS Mobility Research
Chair in Advanced Telecommunications Engineering in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the Institute for
Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at UBC. Dr. Leung has co-authored more
than 500 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings. His research
interests are in the areas of architectural and protocol design and performance analysis
for computer and telecommunication networks, with applications in satellite, mobile, personal communications and high speed networks.
Dr. Leung is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province
of British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute
of Canada, and a Fellow of
the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of
the IEEE Communications Society in 2009-2010. He has served on the editorial boards
of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Wireless Communications Series, the
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and is
serving on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the
Journal of Communications and Networks, Computer Communications, as well as several other journals. He
has guest-edited several journal special issues, and served on the technical program committee of
numerous international conferences. He is the General Co-Chair of ChinaCom 2011. He chaired
the TPC of the wireless networking and cognitive radio track in IEEE VTC-fall 2008. He was
the General Chair of Adhocnets 2010 and QShine 2007, and Symposium Chair for Next Generation Mobile Networks in IWCMC 2006-2008. He was a
General Co-chair of IEEE CWCN 2010, IEEE MobiWorld 2010, BodyNets 2010, IEEE EUC 2009 and ACM MSWiM 2006, and a TPC Vice-chair of
IEEE WCNC 2005.
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