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VTC2017-Fall Final Program The 86th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Final Programme 24 – 27 September 2017 Toronto, Canada Welcome from the General Chair It is a great honour and pleasure to welcome you all to Toronto is one of the loveliest cities in North America. Toronto for the IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology The conference hotel is Hilton Toronto, in the heart of Conference Fall 2017. beautiful downtown Toronto, within easy reach of very VTC2017-Fall will feature technical sessions, many attractions. I hope our delegates will have the workshops, tutorials, as well as world-class keynotes. opportunity to explore this great city. The program will also feature a conference-long Toronto is an international center for business, finance, industrial track, during which the attendees will be able arts, and culture; and is widely recognized as one of the to participate in panel about “5G wireless”, “ACE most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. (autonomous, connected, and electric) vehicles”, and The Greater Toronto Area, with a population of almost “Connected World”. The attendees will have the 7 million, is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North opportunity to hear some of the world’s most America. Moreover, the Toronto-Waterloo Corridor is distinguished industry leaders, and world-renowned one of the largest technology superclusters in the world researchers from industry, government labs, and with 15,000 tech companies, 5,200 tech startups, and academia. 200,000 tech workers. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the members Canada is celebrating its 150th birthday in 2017—yet of the Organizing Committee and the Technical another reason to make Toronto your destination for Program Committee. I am also deeply grateful to the VTC2017-Fall! countless experts in our research community who have We have made every effort to have the VTC tradition of been involved in the paper review process. I’d like to excellence continue in VTC2017-Fall as well. We hope acknowledge the conference patrons, Huawei our delegates find VTC2017-Fall an exciting Technology Co. Ltd. and Telus, as well as the experience… exhibitors. Thanks to the legions of student volunteers. Last, but not least, I extend a special thanks to all paper Halim Yanikomeroglu authors for submitting their works to VTC2017-Fall! General Chair, IEEE VTC2017-Fall Welcome from the TPC Co-chairs On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like deeply indebted to the 35 track co-chairs for their to welcome you to the dynamic metropolis, Toronto, leadership and passion in the paper review process and and to IEEE VTC2017-Fall! technical session organization for their track. Further, The committee has put together a strong technical we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the program on the latest R&D fronts for 5G wireless 630 TPC members and 1400 reviewers for their communications and networks, autonomous and technical competence and great efforts in reviewing the connected vehicles, intelligent transportation, and many papers, and to the 79 sessions chairs for ensuring an other exciting and emerging topics. The program is effective paper presentation and information exchange organized into 12 tracks, plus the Recent Results track. process. We received 841 submissions (including 74 invited We hope that engaging in the various activities at the papers), the highest number in recent years. Each paper conference will be a wonderful and memorable has at least 3 independent reviews. There are a total of experience for you. Enjoy your stay in Toronto, and 3200 reviews, based on which 475 papers are accepted thank you for your participation in the conference! for presentation at the conference. The papers are organized into 71 sessions for oral presentation and 8 sessions for poster presentation from Monday to Wednesday, September 25 to 27. The accepted papers will also be published in the conference proceedings. It is our great pleasure to offer you the high quality and comprehensive technical program, and we hope that you Weihua Zhuang will find it inspiring and helpful to your on-going and TPC Chair, IEEE VTC2017-Fall future works. We would like to thank all the authors Alagan Anpalagan who submitted their papers to this conference. We are TPC Co-chair, IEEE VTC2017-Fall 2 The 86th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2017-Fall Toronto Programme Welcome from the VTS President On behalf of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, it work of General Chair Prof Halim Yanikomeroglu and is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the IEEE Honorary Chair Changtian Cai, whose leadership has 86th Vehicular Technology Conference. been instrumental to create the conference program that Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2017, and you will enjoy. I would also like to express my most VTS did not want to miss the opportunity to celebrate sincere gratitude to the Technical Program co-Chairs this special occasion with our Canadian colleagues. Prof Weihua Zhuang and Prof Alagan Anpalagan. Their Congratulations! We are pleased to celebrate the dedicated work, with the support of the Track Chairs anniversary in Toronto, the most populous city in and TPC members, has helped shape an outstanding Canada, and an international technology hub. technical program. My personal gratitude goes also to all the conference team and our VTS conference VTC2017-Fall will be an excellent occasion to discuss administrators for their continued support. and help define the future of the mobile, wireless and vehicular industries. The conference will provide a VTC is also an excellent occasion for you to meet with unique opportunity for you to share your thoughts and our Board of Governors, so don’t hesitate to approach ideas that will help shape what future 5G networks will us if you would like to provide any feedback on the be, and how they can support the automotive, IoT and Society or participate in its management. smart city industries. I hope that you will enjoy the conference and the city of VTS has been fortunate to count with an exceptional Toronto. group of dedicated volunteers who devote their time to the success of VTC, and VTC2017-Fall is no exception. Javier Gozalvez, President I would like to thank and recognize the remarkable IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Organizing Committee Honorary Chair Changtian Cai Huawei Canada Research Centre, Canada General Chair Halim Yanikomeroglu Carleton University Technical Program Chair Weihua Zhuang University of Waterloo, Canada Technical Program Vice-chair Alagan Anpalagan Ryerson University, Canada Panels & Keynotes Co-chairs Mohamed-Slim Alouini KAUST, Saudi Arabia Abbas Jamalipour University of Sydney, Australia Wei Yu University of Toronto, Canada Industrial Program Co-chairs Onur Altintas Toyota InfoTechnology Centre Fellow, USA Haris Gacanin Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium Barrie Kirk CAVCOE, Canada Ivo Maljevic Telus, Canada Jeffrey Stanier Ericsson, Canada Zoran Zvonar Analog Devices, USA Workshops Co-chairs Melike Erol-Kantarci University of Ottawa, Canada Xianbin Wang Western University, Canada Tutorials Chair Elvino Sousa University of Toronto, Canada Publicity Co-chairs Xiang Cheng Peking University, China Lutfiye Durak Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Lingjia Liu University of Kansas, USA Visa Chair Jean-Charles Grégoire INRS-EMT, Canada Local Arrangements Chair Eman Hammad IEEE Toronto, Canada Lian Zhao Ryerson University, Canada Patronage & Exhibits Chair Jim Budwey ICTS Group, USA Finance Chair J.R. Cruz University of Oklahoma, USA Publications Chair James Irvine University of Strathclyde, UK Conference Administrators Jim Budwey ICTS Group, USA R. Clint Keele IEEE VTS, USA Logistics IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing: Sherri Young IEEE, USA IEEE Conference Services: Rebecca Kastrenakes IEEE, USA Webmaster: Laura Hyslop EPSC, UK Hilton Toronto, Canada 24-27 September 2017 3 Technical Program Committee Co-chairs Weihua Zhuang University of Waterloo, Canada Alagan Anpalagan Ryerson University, Canada Vice-Chairs, Antenna and Propagation David Matolak University of Carolina, USA and RF Design Daniel B. da Costa Federal University of Ceará, Brazil Xin Wang Fudan University, China Vice-Chairs, Signal Transmission and Yahong Rosa Zheng Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Reception Xiaodai Dong University of Victoria, Canada Rui Dinis Instituto de Telecomunicacoes da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Vice-Chairs, Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Hai Lin Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Management Richard Yu Carleton University, Canada Lin Chen Université Paris-Sud, France Vice-Chairs, Multiple Antenna Systems and Chintha Tellambura University of Alberta, Canada Cooperative Communications Edward Au Huawei Technologies, Canada Qihui Wu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Vice-Chairs, Radio Access Technology, LTE, Wan Choi KAIST, Korea 5G, and Wireless Heterogeneous Networks Zhiyong Feng BUPT, China Xu Li Huawei Technologies, Canada Vice-Chairs, Green Communications and Yi Qian University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Networks Jinsong Wu Universidad De Chile, Chile Yuan Wu Zhejiang University of Technology, China Vice-Chairs, Ad-Hoc, M2M and Sensor Phone Lin National Taiwan University, Taiwan Networks Muhammad Ismail Texas A&M University at Qatar Haojin Zhu Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Vice-Chairs, Wireless Networks: Protocols, Ekram Hossain University of Manitoba, Canada Security and Services Zouheir Rezki University of Idaho, USA Vice-Chairs, Mobile Satellite Systems, Yusheng Ji National Institute
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