學院消息

Title: Connecting Vehicles with Light

Location: MIRC Building Conference Hall 1F

Time: December 26th (Wed) 2018, 15:30-16:30

Bio:

Prof. Hsin-Mu Tsai, Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S.E in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He spent a year in General Motors Research and Development as an intern researcher during his Ph.D. study. From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Tsai co-led the intelligent transportation system group in the Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center, a research center jointly established by Intel, National Taiwan University, and National Science Council, Taiwan, to address research challenges in Internet of Things.

Dr. Tsai's recognitions include 2015 ACM Taipei Chapter’s K. T. Li Young Researcher Award, 2014 Intel Labs Distinguished Collaborative Research Award, 2013 Intel Early Career Faculty Award (the first to receive this honor outside of North America and Europe), and 2013 National Taiwan University's Distinguished Teaching Award (awarded to top 1% teaching faculty at the university). He serves as General co-chair for IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2018, and has served as TPC co-chairs for ACM CarSys 2017, IEEE VNC 2016, ACM VANET 2013, and as a founding co-chair for ACM Visible Light Communication System (VLCS) Workshop in 2014. His research interests include vehicular networking and communications, intelligent transportation systems, visible light communications, and wireless channel and link measurements.

Abstract:

Connecting vehicles with wireless communications creates new opportunities to enable a new spectrum of vehicular applications, as well as to significantly improve the performance of transportation, for example, in terms of road capacity and energy efficiency. However, vehicle-to-vehicle communications required for such cooperative systems also poses new technical and non-technical challenges, which is not yet completely addressed by existing radio frequency (RF) based solutions. In this talk, I will present Vehicular Visible Light Communications (V2LC). Utilizing optical signals to carry information, V2LC uses automotive LED lights as the transmitter and a camera or a photodiode module as the receiver. In addition to communications, the same set of hardware can also be utilized to provide very accurate localization. I will also give a number of examples of automotive applications that can be supported by V2LC. Finally, I will also elaborate on why V2LC is an attractive solution that can address the challenges faced by vehicular communications.