The 88th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Final Programme 27 – 30 August 2018 Chicago, USA Welcome from the General Chair I am extremely pleased to have the honor of welcoming Skyscrapers and Modern “Glass and Steel” you to the 88th IEEE Vehicular Technology Architecture, nuclear energy, and of course two-way Conference, VTC2018-Fall, and to its host city, the radios and the cellphone. Greater Chicago is home to a great International City of Chicago. very vibrant academic environment with nearly 100 Beyond the slate of outstanding tutorials, workshops, colleges and universities. and technical sessions, VTC2018-Fall will feature I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the members world-class keynote speakers, exciting plenary panels, of the Organizing Committee and Technical Program and a three-day Industry Program. Marty Cooper, Committee and their leaders for the outstanding work Honorary Conference Chair, a native Chicagoan, and they have done to create this incredible event. I am among other contribution, the “Father of the Cellphone” literally amazed by the dedication and diligence of the will provide our lead-off keynote. The four-day hundreds of experts in our research community who program features Tutorials, Workshops and a mini- have devoted their time to paper review process. Finally Conference on Monday followed by Theme Days I would like to recognize the excellence and the focusing on 5G and Applications, Autonomous tremendous research and preparation shown by the Vehicles, and Smart Cities and IoT. Attendees will numerous authors who submitted their works for have the opportunity to hear from some of the world’s consideration and especially those involve with the most distinguished industry leaders and researchers. nearly 500 papers that will be presented at our This includes Dr. Aylin Yener who will be our featured VTC2018-Fall event. speaker at our Women in Engineer lunch on Tuesday. We have made every effort to enhance and extend the Our venue is Chicago, one of the truly great world already impressive VTC tradition of excellence in this destination cities. Chicago boasts world re-known VTC2018-Fall event. I hope each of our delegates will museums, parks, zoos, botanical gardens, architectural not only benefit from the conference program but will tours, and many other exciting venues to engage the develop many new and beneficial relationships and visitor. The city has one of the most diverse business finally have a truly memorable time in the great City of communities in the world, and is the home of numerous Chicago! innovations including the zipper, TV remote control, Dennis Roberson meat packing, deep dish pizza, the Ferris Wheel, General Chair, IEEE VTC2018-Fall Welcome from the TPC Chairs It is with pleasure that we welcome you to IEEE phone. It is through such an atmosphere of forward- VTC2018-Fall—the 88th edition of VTC. This Chicago thinking that this conference aims to inspire the latest edition of the conference has proven to be extremely generation of dedicated and skilled engineers, scientists popular, including around 500 papers covering a wide and leaders that will maintain the record of unparalleled range of topics brought forward by the leading human, societal and economic development that industrial, academic, and governmental innovators, wireless communications and vehicular technology have thinkers, and pioneers. had. VTC has a long-established history of bringing together Putting together such a conference is a significant the scopes of vehicular technology and undertaking, involving a large team of dedicated mobile/cellular/wireless communications, thereby also individuals. With this in mind, we would like to thank covering the intersection of these topics through the Technical Program Committee, and particularly the vehicular communications. Indeed, it is through Track Chairs, who have contributed vast time and effort vehicular technology and particularly the readily- towards making the conference a success. We would available power source therein that the earliest also like to thank the VTC conference administrative mobile/cellular telephony in the form of “car phones” team for their excellent behind-the-scenes work, without was possible. which there would be no VTC. Finally, we would like to thank the leadership of the conference for their It is therefore fitting that we have with us a true pioneer exceptional work. and innovator, the “Father of the Cell Phone” Marty Cooper. Marty has to his name “Cooper’s Law”, the We hope you enjoy VTC2018-Fall! wireless communications equivalent of Moore’s Law. Oliver Holland Such a profound projection is in line with Marty’s truly TPC Chair visionary achievement of inventing and leading the Octavia A. Dobre and Miguel Sepulcre Ribes development of the first ever personal mobile/cellular TPC Co-chairs, IEEE VTC2018-Fall 2 The 88th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2018-Fall Chicago Programme Hilton Chicago, USA 27-30 August 2018 3 Welcome from the VTS President On behalf of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, it arts; a great place to explore during your stay in this is truly an honor and a pleasure to welcome all of you to remarkable city! our society’s flagship conference, the 2018 IEEE 88th Organizing a world-class conference event such as Vehicular Technology Conference – VTC2018-Fall. VTC2018-Fall involves a large and highly dedicated This year's Fall 2018 edition of the Vehicular team of volunteers, and we are very thankful to Technology Conference series will provide attendees everyone making this conference an outstanding with a superb collection of presentations, tutorials, talks, success! I would like to sincerely thank General Chair industry panels, and other activities that will facilitate Dennis Roberson and Honorary Chair Marty Cooper, the exchange of knowledge, enable professional Technical Program Chair Oliver Holland, Technical development and growth, and support numerous Program Co-chairs Octavia Dobre and Miguel Sepulcre networking opportunities with other conference Ribes, and the rest of the conference organizing team attendees from around the world. for their time, effort, dedication, and commitment for making VTC2018-Fall one of the premier international Given the impressive range of technical and networking conference events in vehicular technology! activities offered by VTC2018-Fall, we are very fortunate to have an extraordinary city serving as the I am looking forward to seeing all of you at VTC2018- host for this conference – Chicago. From the Fall where we will be Connecting the Mobile World! Magnificent Mile to Navy Pier, Millennium Park to the With warmest regards, Willis Tower, Chicago is a vibrant and world-class metropolitan center specializing in science and Alex Wyglinski, President technology, history, architecture, cuisine, music, and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Organizing Committee Honorary Chair Marty Cooper Father of the Cell Phone & Comm. Visionary General Chair Dennis Roberson Roberson and Associates, USA Illinois Institute of Technology, USA TPC Chair Oliver Holland King’s College London, UK TPC Co-chairs Octavia Dobre Memorial University, Canada Miguel Sepulcre Ribes Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain Plenary and Panels Chair Randy Berry Northwestern University, USA Industry Program Chair Jim Budwey IEEE VTS, USA Industry Program Co-chair Alvin Chin BMW Group, USA Workshops Co-chairs Takayuki Shimizu TOYOTA InfoTechnology Center, USA Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic University of Texas at Austin, USA Tutorials Chair Beeshanga Abewardana Univ. of Technology Sydney Jayawickrama Publicity Chair M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain Local Arrangements Chair Cynthia Hood Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Patronage and Exhibits Chair Dennis Budwey ICTS Group, USA Finance Chair J. R. Cruz The University of Oklahoma, USA Publications Chair James Irvine University of Strathclyde, UK Conference Administrators Jim Budwey ICTS Group, USA Rodney C. Keele The University of Oklahoma, USA Cerry Leffler IEEE VTS, USA Logistics IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing: Sherri Young IEEE, USA IEEE Conference Services: Tara Schirmer IEEE, USA Webmaster: Laura Hyslop EPSC, UK 4 The 88th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2018-Fall Chicago Programme Technical Program Committee Chair Oliver Holland King’s College London, UK Co-chairs Octavia Dobre Memorial University, Canada Miguel Sepulcre Ribes Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain Vice-Chairs, Antenna Systems, Yue Gao (Chair) Queen Mary University of London, UK Propagation and RF Design Daniel Benevides da Costa Federal University of Ceara, Brazil Vice-Chairs, Signal Transmission and Robert Schober (Chair) Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Reception Maged Elkashlan Queen Mary University of London, UK Ana García-Armada Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Vice-Chairs, Spectrum Sharing, Spectrum Luca De Nardis (Chair) University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Management and Cognitive Radio Marja Matinmikko-Blue University of Oulu, Finland Vice-Chairs, Multiple Antenna Systems and Gerhard Bauch (Chair) Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Cooperative Communications Ioannis Krikidis University of Cyprus, Cyprus Andrew Nix University of Bristol, UK Vice-Chairs, Radio Access Technology David Lopez-Perez (Chair) Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland and Heterogeneous Networks Harpreet S. Dhillon Virginia Tech, USA Dusit Niyato Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Vice-Chairs, Green Communications and Basem