Welcome to the September 2025 issue of VTS Mobile World – your IEEE Vehicular Technology Society newsletter.
This edition features a video on IEEE Senior Membership, a call to fill the position of Book Editor for the IEEE Press Vehicular Technology book series, and chapter news from Region 10. We also have our standard excerpts from the Connected and Automated Vehicles, Transportation Systems, and Mobile Radio columns in the June 2025 edition of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, as well as recently published papers from the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (including the new special issue on OTFS) and the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Are you ready to take the next step in your IEEE membership journey? IEEE Senior Member is the highest grade for which members may apply. IEEE Admissions and Advancement (A&A) has published an informative video on Senior Member benefits and the applications process.
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VTS Student Branch Chapter at Panimalar Engineering College-Chennai
Panimalar Engineering College, in association with the VTS Student Branch Chapter at Panimalar Engineering College-Chennai, organized an engaging Google Meet session: “GitHub Launchpad – Zero to Repo.”
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Connected and Automated Vehicles
A Safer Future for Mobility
Antonella Molinaro
Euro NCAP plans to overhaul its rating system in 2026 with a more comprehensive framework that will assess vehicles across four key phases: safe driving, crash avoidance, crash protection, and post-crash safety. Read More...
Transportation Systems
Norway’s Rail Network Goes Digital
Yousef Kimiagar
Norway is making rapid progress in the area of digitalization and will be the first country to control and monitor its approximately 4,200-km railway network and more than 350 stations from a central interlocking system.
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Mobile Radio
Channel Measurements and Modeling for Mobile Network Sensing
Bang Chul Jung
Recent developments have indicated increasing interest in utilizing existing communication infrastructure for wireless sensing, presenting new opportunities in various innovative scenarios, as highlighted by the 3GPP TR 22.837 SA1 use cases.
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From the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology
Recent Articles, and the New Special Issue
Edward Au, IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology Editor-in-Chief
This month, the IEEE OJVT features two recent articles: one on a new localization algorithm for vehicles in urban scenarios after the failure of the main localization source, and another on integrating LLMs with UAVs. We also introduce an OJVT special issue on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS).
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From the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
STAR-RIS-Assisted NOMA Wireless Systems
Ngoc Phuc Le and Mohamed-Slim Alouini
In this paper, a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) Terahertz (THz) wireless system is proposed for indoor and outdoor transmissions.
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