Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) 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. 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.

 

Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai is an associate professor in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at National Taiwan University. He received his B.S.E in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2002, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and 2010, respectively. During his Ph.D. studies, he spent four summers (2005-2009) as an intern researcher in Electrical and Control Integration  Laboratory at General Motors Research and Development. 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 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 National Taiwan University's Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Tsai served as one of the founding workshop co-chairs for the first ACM Visible Light Communication System (VLCS) Workshop in 2014, and TPC co-chair for ACM VANET 2013. His research interests include vehicular networking and communications, wireless channel and link measurements, vehicle safety systems, and visible light communications