Transactions on Vehicular Technology

1. A New Trellis Shaping Design for Peak Power Reduction of SC-FDMA Signals
With High-Order QAM
Summary : Mitigate high PAPR of SCFDMA-QAM Scheme to improve efficiency of
Power Amplifer by Tree Trellis Scheme.Concepts: Mapping, Cyclic Prefix, Trellis
Decoding. Symbol Error Rate in AWGN-Rayleigh Scenario

2. Sensor Fault Detection for Rail Vehicle Suspension Systems With Disturbances and
Stochastic Noises

Summary : Detect faults through passive suspension systems by a fault detection

observer, in the presence of uncertain track regularity and vehicle noises that are modeled
as external disturbances and stochastic process signals.
Observations: Systematic detection algorithm for FD Residual scheme

3. WiSafe: Wi-Fi Pedestrian Collision Avoidance System

Summary : A Non LOS Wifi based PCA is matched in performance with Vision based and radar
based systems for assisting drivers for blindspots.
Concepts: Wi-Fi Real-Time Message Inform Method , Collision Avoidance Procedures

4. Enhancing GPS With Lane-Level Navigation to Facilitate Highway Driving

Summary : from sticking to the planned route, abnormal traffic situations result in blocking
lanes which could impact lane switching decisions of vehicles. a GPS-aiding system that can
sense and track a vehicles lane position. The system leverages smart phones computing
capability, rear cameras, and inertial motion sensors. With little extra computational overhead,
the system applies computer vision techniques to achieve lane-level positioning.
Concepts: Lane identification, Machine Learning,Image Prcessing.
 5. Measurement-Based Wideband Analysis of Dynamic Multipath Propagation in
Vehicular Communication Scenarios
Summary : channel sounder measurements with 1-GHz bandwidth at a carrier frequency of 5.7
GHz and particular tracking methods employed to detect birth rate, lifetime, excess delay, and
relative Doppler frequency of individualmultipathcomponents.
Concepts: time resolution of individual multipath components, parameter extraction method.,
Doppler Frequency,Weibull Distribution, Different traffic scenarios.

6. On Media-Based Modulation Using RF Mirrors

Summary : modulation scheme that uses radio frequency (RF) mirrors at the transmit antenna(s)
to create different channel fade realizations based on their ON/OFF status. These complex fade
realizations constitute the modulation alphabet. MBM has the advantage of increased spectral
efficiency and performance.
Comparison of MBM-PSK,MBM-QAM schemes done .
Concepts: Phase Compensation and consetellation rotation.
7. Performance Analysis of Vehicular Device-to-Device Underlay Communication

Design a joint power control and mode selection scheme for the V-D2D communications.
Modelling the urban road system and the vehicle density distribution and employed channel
inversion model and biased channel quality based mode selection to control the transmit power
and mode selection of vehicles.
Interference and SINR Ratio along with other performance metrics evaluated against various
thresholds scenarios.
8.A Simple Phase Noise Suppression Scheme for Massive MIMO Uplink Systems

Phase Noise by impairment of oscillators can cause a severe performance loss in wireless
communication systems.It involves multivariate joint PN estimation and data detection problem.
A scheme by using SNR as upper bound for zero forcing detectors.
Involves MSEs of the LS and LMMSE Channel Estimations to get CSI.