To meet the communications demands of connected vehicles, the wireless devices deployed in vehicles and on roadside infrastructure may need access to more spectrum than is available today. This presentation describes a novel approach that allows connected vehicle devices using V2X technology (e.g., C-V2X or NR-V2X) to share spectrum with Wi-Fi and other unlicensed devices, thereby gaining access to more spectrum. Each vehicle dynamically and independently adjusts to its environment in a manner that gives connected V2X devices access to enough of the shared spectrum to meet their quality-of-service requirements, while leaving as much spectrum as possible for Wi-Fi.  As a result, this approach uses spectrum more efficiently than the current approach of establishing one spectrum band exclusively for connected vehicles and another spectrum band exclusively for Wi-Fi and other unlicensed devices. The proposed approach uses a backward-compatible form of implicit beaconing that requires no change to Wi-Fi technology, so there is no need to replace Wi-Fi devices that have been deployed, and the approach requires only modest modifications to V2X which reduces cost and complexity. The approach also does not require involvement from a cellular operator or other centralized controller. Simulation results show that it is possible to protect quality of service for both V2X and Wi-Fi communications in a shared band, while achieving high spectrum efficiency.  One spectrum band where this approach could be especially beneficial is adjacent to the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) band, where this approach could help meet the needs of both connected vehicles and Wi-Fi 6.

Please join us for the 2025 Oregon Section Chapter Chairs Awards Dinner

Chairs are welcome to attend with one guest or send a representative for your chapter.

!Please limit to only Oregon Chapter Chairs and their guest!

Dinner reservation is at 4:00 pm at the Lake Oswego Grille in Beaverton

3211 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005

Cost will be covered by the Section, Thank You for volunteering your time all year.

Choose your Dinner entree from the 4 options or let us know if you have other dietary needs to accommodate prior to the dinner.

Inferencing has become ubiquitous across cloud, regional, edge, and device environments, powering a wide spectrum of AI use cases spanning vision, language, and traditional machine learning applications. In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs), initially developed for natural language tasks, have expanded to multimodal applications including vision speech, reasoning and planning each demanding distinct service-level objectives (SLOs). Achieving high-performance inferencing for such diverse workloads requires both model-level and system-level optimizations.

This talk focuses on system-level optimization techniques that maximize token throughput , achieve user experience  metrics and inference service-provider efficiency. We review several recent innovations including KV caching, Paged/Flash/Radix Attention, Speculative Decoding, P/D Disaggregation, KV Routing and Parallelism, and explain how these mechanisms enhance performance by reducing latency, memory footprint, and compute overhead. These techniques are implemented in leading open-source inference frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, Hugging Face TGI, and NVIDIA’s TensorRT-llm, which form the backbone of large-scale public and private LLM serving platforms.

Attendees will gain a practical understanding of the challenges in delivering scalable, low-latency LLM inference, and of the architectural and algorithmic innovations driving next-generation high-performance inference systems.

with John C. Havens, Global Lead, IEEE Planet Positive; Founding E.D., IEEE AI Ethics Initiative and Dr. Maike Luiken, Chair, IEEE Planet Positive 2030

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 9, 2025; 9am - 10 am Pacific Time

Abstract:

For the December 2025 talk, IEEE SusTech Talks online will join the members and supporters of IEEE Planet Positive 2030 for their “End of Year Town Hall Celebration” to share updates from 2025 along with plans for 2026. The growth and evolution of IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Communities efforts beginning in Miami has been a major focus in 2025, and plans are being made to host events and other potential Communities in China, India, Europe and Latin America in 2026. Reports on specific initiatives will include:

• an Education Committee and an Executive Advisory Committee designed to drive the work forward strategically, pragmatically, and at scale.
• Communities ‘toolkits’ that expand on and share the insights in PP2030’s compendium Strong Sustainability by Design
• Accountable Sustainability by Design and data frameworks, utilizing the expertise of the PP2030 metrics experts.
• engaging with like-minded organizations to create Communities.
• identifying new ways to a regenerative and sustainable future.

For more information, see the IEEE Planet Positive 2030 web page.