VTC2015-Fall Final Program
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The 82nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Final Programme VTC2015-Fall BOSTON Innovation Meets Tradition 6 – 9 September 2015 Boston, MA USA Welcome from the General Co-chairs We welcome you all to the 82nd IEEE Vehicular presented by international experts, accompanied by Technology Conference (VTC2015-Fall) hosted in three poster sessions presenting recent results of the one of America’s most historic and culturally-rich latest vehicular, mobile, and wireless technologies. cities: Boston! It will be exciting to immerse in Twenty-six short papers will be presented in both 3- numerous significant historical sites following the minute “elevator-pitch” oral presentation and poster Freedom Trail, strolling Quincy Market/Fanueil Hall, presentation formats. Three industry tracks taking Boston Harbor, Bunker Hill, USS Constitution, the place: automotive technologies; 5G and future Boston Commons, and Fenway Park. Or you may wireless technologies; and autonomous systems & prefer to follow the footsteps of Bell to the birth place connected vehicles. of the phone or Marconi and the location of the first We thank our gold-level patrons and exhibitors wireless transmission in North America. Boston and MediaTek and Analog Devices, our bronze-level the surrounding New England area is also one of the patron TELUS, our workshop patron and exhibitor premier high technology regions in the Nation and National Instruments, and our exhibitors Azimuth the World, with hundreds of companies and dozens Systems, BeeCube, and MathWorks for their of universities calling this area home. Consequently, generous support of this conference. we believe that the theme for VTC2015-Fall is very During this conference, you will discover the latest fitting: Innovation Meets Tradition. ideas and research findings in vehicular technology. Connected vehicles, mobile networks and We hope that you will brainstorm and share ideas applications, wireless communications, and vehicular with your fellow conference attendees, and foster systems – we truly live in a highly mobile world, research collaborations and friendships that will where today's society is becoming ever increasingly increase and grow even after the conclusion of this reliant on these technologies for supporting a plethora event. of essential day-to-day operations. With this growing We encourage all of you to explore Boston after demand for vehicular technologies and applications, hours and enjoy the sights and activities provided by we are also beginning to experience numerous our host city! technical challenges that require innovative solutions in order to enable the continuation of this growth. Wishing you a very productive and exciting conference experience, and we hope to meet all of Consequently, we are very excited by the 4-day you in-person during this event in Boston! conference program that has been assembled for VTC2015-Fall. We have 74 oral technical sessions of Alex Wyglinski and Zoran Zvonar high-quality papers from around the world to be General Co-chairs, IEEE VTC2015-Fall Welcome from the TPC Co-chairs Welcome to Boston! Finally, the Workshops and Emerging Technology We are excited to present a comprehensive technical Tracks provide focused settings for technologies that program for VTC Fall 2015 that will engage and we wanted to highlight. We hope that you will take interest you over the next few days. the opportunity to enjoy this wide range of papers, presentations, and posters from a diverse and You will have the opportunity to learn about an international set of academic and industrial incredibly wide range of cutting-edge research topics researchers. related to technology for vehicular communications. This spans research on individual networked devices A significant amount of work goes into preparing an to operation of entire fleets of vehicles. To help event as complex as VTC. We owe too many debts of organize the material for attendees, the conference is gratitude to even enumerate them all, but there were a arranged into a number of tracks and workshops. The few select teams that deserve explicit recognition. tracks form the core of the conference and are First, we would like to thank all the authors for the comprised of similarly themed papers. These core performing their research and taking the effort to tracks are augmented by Recent Results and Short share it with the world. We received submissions Papers that insert ongoing and highly specialized from every corner of the globe and through a rigorous research topics into the overall technical program. review process, we selected just over 400 papers for 2 The 82nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2015-Fall Boston Programme inclusion in the program. These selections were made conference, and without their dedication, the event by a team of more than 1000 expert volunteers, both literally would not exist. Thank you! TPC members and external reviewers, who provided We hope you all enjoy your time in the Boston and their time and energy to ensure a high quality look forward to interacting with all of you in the program. Lastly, we must recognize the contributions future. of the more than 30 track chairs and workshop organizers who were the lynch pins of the whole Kaushik Chowdhury, Nicholas Kirsch and Tom operation. Each of these individuals spent many MacDonald, hours over nights and weekends in their service to the TPC Co-chairs, IEEE VTC2015-Fall Welcome from the VTS President On behalf of the IEEE Vehicular Technology work ensures that the program you will experience Society, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to meets the highest technical and scientific standards the IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference in that our community has come to expect. Boston. “Innovation meets Tradition” is the theme of this We will gather once again for four days of technical conference, and this could not be more fitting in such and scientific meetings and informal exchanges with an exceptional setting as Boston; known in the United researchers from around the globe; for more than 60 States as the Cradle of Liberty, Boston is a city full of years, specialists from academia, government and history that you will enjoy exploring on foot, on a industry have taken advantage of this forum to path that will lead you through many key moments of disseminate their latest findings in wireless, mobile the formation of the country. At the same time, and vehicular technology, and to discuss the future of Boston is one of the largest education cities in North the discipline. This edition will again attract several America, home to world-leading educational hundred delegates from many different countries. institutions, and thriving with high tech companies. I The organization of such an event requires years of hope you will be able to join us for the conference planning and execution, and I would like to recognize banquet, featuring a traditional New England the tremendous efforts and leadership of General co- clambake! Chairs Alex Wyglinski and Zoran Zvonar, who have I hope that your overall experience at VTC Boston put together an outstanding team to deliver an event will be an enjoyable one, and that we will be able to that promises to be memorable. Among the members meet in person during the event. of the organizing team, let me also single out Technical Program co-Chairs Kaushik Chowdhury, Fabrice Labeau, President Tom MacDonald and Nicholas Kirsch: their hard IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs Alex Wyglinski Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Zoran Zvonar Media Tek Wireless, USA Technical Program Kaushik Chowdhury Northeastern University, USA Co-chairs Tom MacDonald MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Nicholas Kirsch University of New Hampshire, USA Tutorials Co-chairs Ali Abedi University of Maine, USA Hossein Pishro-Nik University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Speakers Co-chairs Vahid Tarokh Harvard University, USA Vedat Eyuboglu Airvana Corporation, USA Local Arrangements Chair Bo Sheng University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Publicity Chair Honggang Wang University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Publications Chair Tao Jin Qualcomm Research, USA Panels Co-chairs Vlad Bulavsky Analog Devices, USA Stefano Basagni Northeastern University, USA Patronage & Exhibits Chair Jim Budwey ICTS Group, USA Finance Chair J. R. Cruz University of Oklahoma, USA Technical Advisory Committee Chair James Irvine University of Strathclyde, UK Conference Administrator Jim Budwey IEEE VTS Assistant Conference Administrator R. Clint Keele IEEE VTS The Westin Boston Waterfront, in Boston, USA 6-9 September 2015 3 Local Arrangements IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing Sherri Young (IEEE) IEEE Conference Services Jillian Pahren (IEEE) Webmaster Laura Hyslop (EPSC) Technical Program Committee Co-chairs Kaushik Chowdhury Northeastern University, USA Tom MacDonald MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Nicholas Kirsch University of New Hampshire, USA Vice-Chairs, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Duc Tran University of Massachusetts - Boston, USA Yunhao Liu Tsinghua University and HKUST, China Berk Canberk Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Vice-Chairs, Antennas, Propagation and RF Roy Axford Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, USA Design Jonathan Chisum University of Notre Dame, USA Vice-Chairs, Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Chittabrata Ghosh Intel Corporation, USA Sensing Sudharman K. Jayaweera University of New Mexico, USA Vice-Chairs, Cooperative Communications, Lorenza Giupponi CTC, Spain Distributed MIMO and Relaying Marco