Takamasa Higuchi

Takamasa Higuchi

  • Network Simulation
    V2X Communications

  • Department

    • Digital Infrastructure Innovation Dept.,
      InfoTech Div.

  • Biography

    • Dr. Takamasa Higuchi received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University, Japan, in 2010, 2012, and 2014, respectively. He started his professional carrier as an Assistant Professor at Osaka University, where he lead research projects on mobile computing and networking. From 2014 through 2015, he was also affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles as a visiting researcher. He joined Toyota in 2016 and has since been leading R&D projects on network simulation, V2X communications, and vehicular cloud computing.

  • Publication List/Conference presentation

    Journal Publications

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Lei Zhong, Ryokichi Onishi: Data Offloading Over Vehicular DTNs: City-Wide Feasibility Study in Nagoya. IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, 5: 940-949 (2024).

    • Duncan Deveaux, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Uçar, Jérôme Härri, Onur Altintas: Role of context in determining transfer of risk knowledge in roundabouts. Elsevier Computer Communications, 213: 111-134 (2024).

    • M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Baldomero Coll-Perales, Takayuki Shimizu, Javier Gozálvez, Takamasa Higuchi, Sergei S. Avedisov, Onur Altintas, Miguel Sepulcre: Direct-V2X Support with 5G Network-Based Communications: Performance, Challenges and Solutions. IEEE Network 37(4): 200-207 (2023).

    • M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Baldomero Coll-Perales, Takayuki Shimizu, Javier Gozálvez, Takamasa Higuchi, Sergei S. Avedisov, Onur Altintas, Miguel Sepulcre: An Analytical Latency Model and Evaluation of the Capacity of 5G NR to Support V2X Services Using V2N2V Communications. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 72(2): 2293-2306 (2023).

    • Baldomero Coll-Perales, M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Takayuki Shimizu, Javier Gozálvez, Takamasa Higuchi, Sergei S. Avedisov, Onur Altintas, Miguel Sepulcre: End-to-End V2X Latency Modeling and Analysis in 5G Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 72(4): 5094-5109 (2023).

    • Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Dwell time estimation at intersections for improved vehicular micro cloud operations. Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks 122: 102606 (2021).

    • Duncan Deveaux, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Uçar, Jérôme Härri, Onur Altintas: A Definition and Framework for Vehicular Knowledge Networking: An Application of Knowledge-Centric Networking. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine 16(2): 57-67 (2021).

    • Sergei S. Avedisov, Ahmed Hamdi Sakr, Takamasa Higuchi, Akihiko Yamamuro, Onur Altintas: Awareness Assessment of Connected Vehicles in Highway Driving: A Perceived Safety Approach. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine 16(3): 129-136 (2021).

    • Florian Hagenauer, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Efficient data handling in vehicular micro clouds. Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks 91 (2019).

    • Lewis Tseng, Juan Mantica, James DeAntonis, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Peer-assisted content delivery network by vehicular clouds: Algorithm and evaluation. Wiley Internet Technology Letter 2(4) (2019).

    • Florian Hagenauer, Christoph Sommer, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Vehicular micro cloud in action: On gateway selection and gateway handovers. Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks 78: 73-83 (2018).

  • Invited Talks / Conference Publications

    • Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o7W7ydUAAAAJ

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Masaki Takanashi, Kengo Sasaki, Yuma Taguchi, Katsushi Sanda: Can Vehicles Foresee Communication Disruptions?: Feasibility of V2X Network Digital Twin. IEEE PerCom 2025.

    • Takamasa Higuchi: Potential of Vehicular Opportunistic Networking in Urban Mobility, Invited talk at the Workshop on Networking Protocols and Standards for Mobility (IEEE ICNP 2024 Workshop).

    • Chunghan Lee, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Naoya Kaneko, Onur Altintas, Kentaro Oguchi: Is Collaborative Data Uploading Feasible? A Case for Los Angeles with Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE VTC2024-Fall.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Lei Zhong: Diversifying automotive connectivity: Coded content distribution over vehicle-to-vehicle networks. ITS World Congress 2024.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Lei Zhong, Ryokichi Onishi: NUMo: Nagoya Urban Mobility Scenario for City-Scale V2X Simulations. IEEE VNC 2024: 17-24. (Best Paper Award)

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Chunghan Lee, Onur Altintas: Link Setup Latency in Vehicle-to-Vehicle WLANs: A Comparative Study. IEEE CCNC 2024: 765-770.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Lei Zhong, Hiroshi Abe: Poster: City-Scale Simulation of Connected Mobility. ACM MobiSys 2024: 654-655.

    • Chunghan Lee, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Naoya Kaneko, Onur Altintas, Kentaro Oguchi: Poster: Performance Analysis of TCP CUBIC and BBR over V2V Wi-Fi. ACM MobiSys 2024: 668-669.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Overlapping Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE CCNC 2023: 951-952.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Demo: Missed An Exit? Confusion Zone Detection. IEEE INFOCOM Workshops 2023: 1-2.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Driver Support In Confusion Zones. MT-ITS 2023: 1-6.

    • Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Data Sharing in Virtual Edge Computing using Coded Caching. IEEE VNC 2023: 104-111.

    • Sergei S. Avedisov, Ahmed Hamdi Sakr, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Cooperative Perception Based on Intent Sharing Messages. IEEE VNC 2023: 120-127.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Demo: Vehicular Micro Cloud Assisted Collaborative High-Definition Map Downloading. IEEE VNC 2023: 177-178.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Kentaro Oguchi: Remote Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE VNC 2023: 191-194.

    • Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Stephan Dunkel, Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Improving Data Consistency in Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE CCNC 2022: 489-490.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Chang-Heng Wang, Duncan Deveaux, Onur Altintas, Jérôme Härri: Vehicular Knowledge Networking and Mobility-Aware Smart Knowledge Placement. IEEE CCNC 2022: 593-598.

    • Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Vehicular Virtual Edge Computing using Heterogeneous V2V and V2C Communication. IEEE INFOCOM Workshops 2022: 1-2. (Best Poster Award)

    • Max Schettler, Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Learning-based Dwell Time Prediction for Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE MSN 2022: 542-549.

    • Baldomero Coll-Perales, M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Takayuki Shimizu, Javier Gozálvez, Takamasa Higuchi, Sergei S. Avedisov, Onur Altintas, Miguel Sepulcre: End-to-End Latency of V2N2V Communications under Different 5G and Computing Deployments in Multi-MNO Scenarios. IEEE PIMRC 2022: 622-627.

    • Sergei S. Avedisov, Takamasa Higuchi, Ahmed Hamdi Sakr, Onur Altintas: On the Awareness of Connected Vehicles at Unsignalized Intersections. IEEE VTC Spring 2022: 1-5.

    • Baldomero Coll-Perales, M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Takayuki Shimizu, Javier Gozálvez, Takamasa Higuchi, Sergei S. Avedisov, Onur Altintas, Miguel Sepulcre: Improving the Latency of 5G V2N2V Communications in Multi-MNO Scenarios using MEC Federation. IEEE VTC Spring 2022: 1-5.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Risk Avoidance by Vehicular Knowledge Networking. IEEE VTC Spring 2022: 1-5.

    • Duncan Deveaux, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Uçar, Jérôme Härri, Onur Altintas: A Knowledge Networking Approach for AI-driven Roundabout Risk Assessment. WONS 2022: 1-8.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Kentaro Oguchi: On the Predictability of Parking Preferences. ACM UbiComp/ISWC Adjunct 2021: 30-31.

    • Duncan Deveaux, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Uçar, Chang-Heng Wang, Jérôme Härri, Onur Altintas: Extraction of Risk Knowledge from Time To Collision Variation in Roundabouts. IEEE ITSC 2021: 3665-3672.

    • Takamasa Higuchi: Keynote: Orchestrating Vehicular Computing Resources to Form Floating Virtual Edge Servers. IEEE PerCom Workshops 2021: 226.

    • Anran Du, Yicheng Shen, Lewis Tseng, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas: Enabling Pervasive Federated Learning using Vehicular Virtual Edge Servers. IEEE PerCom Workshops 2021: 324-327.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Chang-Heng Wang, Onur Altintas: Demo: Vehicular Collaborative Data Storage for Road Incident Monitoring. IEEE VNC 2021: 123-124.

    • Thomas Li, Lewis Tseng, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas: Poster: Fault-tolerant Consensus for Connected Vehicles: A Case Study. IEEE VNC 2021: 133-134.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Chang-Heng Wang, Onur Altintas: Vehicular Edge Offloading based on Anticipated Value of Computational Tasks. IEEE VTC Fall 2021: 1-5.

    • M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Baldomero Coll-Perales, Takayuki Shimizu, Javier Gozálvez, Chang-Heng Wang, Bin Cheng, Miguel Sepulcre, Sergei S. Avedisov, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Analysis of 5G RAN Configuration to Support Advanced V2X Services. IEEE VTC Spring 2021: 1-5.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Chang-Heng Wang, Onur Altintas: Chain of Interdependent Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE VTC Spring 2021: 1-5.

    • Baldomero Coll-Perales, M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Chang-Heng Wang, Javier Gozálvez, Takayuki Shimizu, Sergei S. Avedisov, Miguel Sepulcre, Takamasa Higuchi, Bin Cheng, Akihiko Yamamuro, Onur Altintas: Impact of the MEC Location in Transport Networks on the Capacity of 5G to Support V2X Services. WONS 2021: 1-8.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Kentaro Oguchi: Monitoring Live Parking Availability by Vision-based Vehicular Crowdsensing. IEEE GLOBECOM 2020: 1-5.

    • Enes Krijestorac, Agon Memedi, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas, Danijela Cabric: Hybrid Vehicular and Cloud Distributed Computing: A Case for Cooperative Perception. IEEE GLOBECOM 2020: 1-6.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Signal Phase and Timing by a Vehicular Cloud. IEEE GLOBECOM 2020: 1-6.

    • Shunsuke Aoki, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Cooperative Perception with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Connected Vehicles. IEEE IV 2020: 328-334.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Chang-Heng Wang, Duncan Deveaux, Jérôme Härri, Onur Altintas: Vehicular knowledge networking and application to risk reasoning. ACM MobiHoc 2020: 351-356.

    • Duncan Deveaux, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Uçar, Chang-Heng Wang, Jérôme Härri, Onur Altintas: On the Orchestration of Federated Learning through Vehicular Knowledge Networking. IEEE VNC 2020: 1-8.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Chang-Heng Wang, Onur Altintas: Demo: Vehicular Micro Cloud as an Enabler of Intelligent Intersection Management. IEEE VNC 2020: 1-2.

    • M. Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Baldomero Coll-Perales, Chang-Heng Wang, Takayuki Shimizu, Sergei S. Avedisov, Takamasa Higuchi, Bin Cheng, Akihiko Yamamuro, Javier Gozálvez, Miguel Sepulcre, Onur Altintas: On the Scalability of the 5G RAN to Support Advanced V2X Services. IEEE VNC 2020: 1-4.

    • Marco Giordani, Takayuki Shimizu, Andrea Zanella, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Michele Zorzi: Path Loss Models for V2V mmWave Communication: Performance Evaluation and Open Challenges. IEEE CAVS 2019: 1-5.

    • Marco Giordani, Andrea Zanella, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Michele Zorzi: Investigating Value of Information in Future Vehicular Communications. IEEE CAVS 2019: 1-5.

    • Ghaith Hattab, Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler, Danijela Cabric: Optimized Assignment of Computational Tasks in Vehicular Micro Clouds. ACM EdgeSys 2019: 1-6.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Reuben Vince Rabsatt, Mario Gerla, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Cooperative Downloading in Vehicular Heterogeneous Networks at the Edge. IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops 2019: 1-5.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Platoon as a Mobile Vehicular Cloud. IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops 2019: 1-6.

    • Falko Dressler, Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Florian Hagenauer, Mario Gerla, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Virtual Edge Computing Using Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE ICNC 2019: 537-541.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Marco Giordani, Andrea Zanella, Michele Zorzi, Onur Altintas: Value-Anticipating V2V Communications for Cooperative Perception. IEEE IV 2019: 1947-1952.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas: Offloading Tasks to Vehicular Virtual Edge Servers. IEEE MASS Workshops 2019: 162-163. (Best Poster Award)

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Lane Change Advisory by Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE MASS Workshops 2019: 164-165.

    • Marco Giordani, Takamasa Higuchi, Andrea Zanella, Onur Altintas, Michele Zorzi: A Framework to Assess Value of Information in Future Vehicular Networks. ACM TOP-Cars 2019: 31-36.

    • Zezhi Wang, Yajie Zhao, Lewis Tseng, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: A Distributed System for Reducing Uploaded Data Redundancy in Vehicular Networks. IEEE PerCom Workshops 2019: 998-1003.

    • Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Jorge Luis López Altet, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Demo: Making It Real - Virtual Edge Computing in a 3D Driving Simulator. IEEE VNC 2019: 1-2. (Best Demo Award)

    • Jason Posner, Yuning Yang, Lewis Tseng, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Poster: Making Distributed Aggregation Fault-tolerant in Vehicular Networks. IEEE VNC 2019: 1-2.

    • Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Demo: Collaborative Data Storage by a Vehicular Micro Cloud. IEEE VNC 2019: 1-2.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas: A Collaborative Approach to Finding Available Parking Spots. IEEE VTC Fall 2019: 1-5.

    • Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Florian Hagenauer, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Keeping Data Alive: Communication Across Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE WOWMOM 2019: 1-9.

    • Lewis Tseng, James DeAntonis, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Peer-Assisted Content Delivery Network by Vehicular Micro Clouds. IEEE CloudNet 2018: 1-3.

    • Marco Giordani, Andrea Zanella, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Michele Zorzi: Performance study of LTE and mmWave in vehicle-to-network communications. Med-Hoc-Net 2018: 1-7.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Falko Dressler, Onur Altintas: Content Replication in Vehicular Micro Cloud-based Data Storage: A Mobility-Aware Approach. IEEE VNC 2018: 1-4.

    • Marco Giordani, Andrea Zanella, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Michele Zorzi: On the Feasibility of Integrating mmWave and IEEE 802.11p for V2V Communications. IEEE VTC Fall 2018: 1-7.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Falko Dressler, Onur Altintas: How to Keep a Vehicular Micro Cloud Intact. IEEE VTC Spring 2018: 1-5.

    • Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Efficient Uplink from Vehicular Micro Cloud Solutions to Data Centers. IEEE WOWMOM 2018: 1-7.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Leveraging cloud intelligence for hybrid vehicular communications. IEEE ITSC 2017: 15-20.

    • Florian Hagenauer, Christoph Sommer, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Vehicular Micro Clouds as Virtual Edge Servers for Efficient Data Collection. ACM CarSys 2017: 31-35.

    • Florian Hagenauer, Christoph Sommer, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Parked Cars as Virtual Network Infrastructure: Enabling Stable V2I Access for Long-Lasting Data Flows. ACM CarSys: 57-64.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Interface selection in hybrid V2V communications: A hierarchical approach. IEEE VNC 2017: 9-16.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Joshua Joy, Falko Dressler, Mario Gerla, Onur Altintas: On the feasibility of vehicular micro clouds. IEEE VNC 2017: 179-182

    • Florian Hagenauer, Christoph Sommer, Simon Merschjohann, Takamasa Higuchi, Falko Dressler, Onur Altintas: Cars as the base for service discovery and provision in highly dynamic networks. IEEE INFOCOM Workshops 2016: 358-359.

    • Takamasa Higuchi, Ryokichi Onishi, Onur Altintas, Daiki Nobayashi, Takeshi Ikenaga, Kazuya Tsukamoto: Regional InfoHubs by vehicles: balancing spatio-temporal coverage and network load. ACM IoV-VoI 2016: 25-30.

    • Matthias Wilhelm, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas: Geo-spatial resource allocation for heterogeneous vehicular communications: poster. ACM MobiHoc 2016: 399-400.

    • Florian Hagenauer, Christoph Sommer, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler: Poster: Using clusters of parked cars as virtual vehicular network infrastructure. IEEE VNC 2016: 1-2.

    Book Chapter

    • Marco Giordani, Andrea Zanella, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Michele Zorzi: Emerging Trends in Vehicular Communication Networks. Emerging Wireless Communication and Network Technologies 2018: 37-57.

  • Commendation

    • IEEE VNC 2024 Best Paper Award

    • IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Best Poster Award

    • IEEE VNC 2019 Best Demo Award

    • IEEE MASS 2019 Best Poster Award

    Professional Services

    • IEEE VNC 2025 General Co-Chair

    • WONS 2025 TPC Member

    • NPSM 2024 (IEEE ICNP 2024 Workshop) TPC Member

    • IEEE VNC 2019, 2020, 2024 TPC Member

    • IEEE VNC 2021, 2023 TPC Co-Chair

    • IEEE VNC 2019, 2020 Publication Chair

    • IEEE PerVehicle 2019-2024 TPC Member

    • IEEE ISSRE 2022 Industry Track TPC Member

    • ACM D2VNet TPC Member

    • IEEE DUCSAN 2020 Co-Organizer

    • IEEE ICNC 2019 MCVC Symposium Co-Chair

    • IEEE VTC 2018-Spring TPC Member

    • ACM IoV-VoI 2016 TPC Member

    • IEEE ICDCS 2016 Web Master

    • IEEE PerCom 2016 WiP TPC Member

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