IC1004

Training School on Vehicular Connectivity

1st IC1004 Training School
May21-23, 2012
FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (Austria)
Local organizer: Prof. Christoph Mecklenbraeuker

• Attendance list (pdf)
• Local information (pdf)
• School programme (pdf)

Training School Grants

A fixed grant of 300 € will be granted to 20 training school attendees.
The selection will be based on a first coming first served base and on the following priorities:
1- PhD students from COST Country Institutions (one grant per Country)
2- while grants available, ESRs from COST Country Institutions
3- while grants available, Other applicants

General Outline:

• Introduction to wireless propagation
• Information theory background: Multi-user communications, rate-reliability trade-off, and delay-constrained capacity
• Vehicular channel characterisation from measurements
• Models for vehicular channels
• Vehicular on-board antennas and RF architecture
• Physical layer design: OFDM and Forward Error Correction
• Multiple access: CSMA/CA and STDMA, MAC layer design
• IEEE 802.11p performance simulation
• IEEE 802.11p performance measurements
• Intelligent Transport System: architecture

Speakers:

• Laura Bernadò (FTW, Austria)
• Oliver Klemp (BMW Research and Technology, Germany)
• Christoph Mecklenbräuker (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
• Claude Oestges (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• Dieter Smely (Kapsch TrafficCom, Austria)
• Veronika Shivaldova (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
• Erik Ström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Thomas Zemen (FTW, Austria)

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