樋口 雄大

樋口 雄大

Takamasa Higuchi

  • 通信シミュレーション
    クルマ通信の知能化

  • 所属

    • 情報通信企画部
      InfoTech-IS
  • 学位・経歴

    • 2023-
      現在

      トヨタ自動車株式会社
      通信シミュレーション・クルマ通信の知能化に関する研究開発

    • 2019-
      2023

      Toyota Motor North America R&D 出向
      V2X通信に関する先端研究・次世代コネクティッドサービスのPoC実証

    • 2018-
      2019

      Toyota InfoTechnology Center, U.S.A. 出向
      V2X通信に関する先端研究 (ヘテロジニアス通信・車車間分散コンピューティング)

    • 2016-
      2018

      トヨタIT開発センター
      V2X通信に関する先端研究 (ヘテロジニアス通信・車車間分散コンピューティング)

    • 2014-
      2016

      大阪大学 大学院情報科学研究科 特任助教

    • 2014-
      2015

      カリフォルニア大学LA校 訪問研究員 (兼任)
      モバイルコンピューティングに関する先端研究

    • 2014

      大阪大学 大学院情報科学研究科 博士後期課程 修了 (期間短縮)

    • 2012-
      2014

      日本学術振興会 特別研究員 (DC1)

  • 主な論文・著書・講演

    国際論文誌

    • 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).

  • 論文・技術報告

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

    • 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.

    • 樋口 雄大, 鐘 雷, 大西 亮吉: 大規模交通流シミュレーションによるV2V通信性能指標の都市間比較. 情報処理学会 DICOMO 2024 シンポジウム: 1087-1093. (優秀プレゼンテーション賞)

    • 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.

    • 樋口 雄大, 鐘 雷, 大西 亮吉: 個人所有車への協調データ配信における前方誤り訂正の効果. 情報処理学会第108回MBL研究会, 2023. (奨励発表賞)

    • 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.

    書籍チャプター

    • 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.

  • 社外・団体等活動

    • IEEE VNC 2025 General Co-Chair

    • WONS 2025 TPC Member

    • NPSM 2024 (IEEE ICNP 2024 Workshop) TPC Member

    • 日本自動車技術会 論文編集委員 (2023〜)

    • 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

    受賞

    • 情報処理学会 DICOMO 2024 優秀プレゼンテーション賞

    • IEEE VNC 2024 Best Paper Award

    • 情報処理学会 第108回MBL研究会 奨励発表賞

    • IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Best Poster Award

    • IEEE VNC 2019 Best Demo Award

    • IEEE MASS 2019 Best Poster Award