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Contents‫ ۑ‬From President
Greetings from the New President ................................................................................................................................ 2
Shigeo Urushidani‫ ۑ‬From CS FellowsConsidering EMI Control as Technology ..................................................................................................................... 3
Takashi Harada‫ ۑ‬Technology Reports
Development of the Phased Array Weather Radar ........................................................................................................ 5
Tomoo Ushio, Shinsuke Satoh, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Toshio Iguchi‫ ۑ‬From Foreign Students/MembersMy Life and Time as a Researcher ............................................................................................................................... 9Prakash Chaki
A Foreign Researcher’s Career Path in Japan ............................................................................................................. 12
Ved P. Kafle‫ ۑ‬IEICE-CS Activities NowIEICE Fellow Conferred on 9 IEICE-CS Members .................................................................................................... 14
Yoshitaka Enomoto
Report on the 10th IEICE Communications Society (CS) Welcome Party ................................................................. 15
Yoshitaka Enomoto, Manabu Kai, Koji Kamakura, Yoshiteru Takeshima, Akinori Taira, Akira Yamada
Annual Report of Technical Committee on Information and Communication Management (ICM) ..........................17Masaharu Hattori, Masao Murata, Haruo Oishi
Report on Indonesia-Japan Joint Workshop on Ambient Intelligence and Sensor Networks .....................................18
Jin Nakazawa
Report on NS English Session at 2018 IEICE General Conference -BS-2 Innovative Information Communication
Technologies for Future Network System Supporting Information-oriented Industry- ..............................................19
Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kazuya Tsukamoto, Kenichi Kashibuchi, Kenichi Matsui, Yoshikatsu Okazaki,
Hideki Tode
Report on 34th IN/NS Research Workshop ................................................................................................................. 20Kenichi Kashibuchi, Kenichi Matsui, Kazuya Tsukamoto, Yoshikatsu Okazaki, Hideki Tode, Kazuaki Ueda,Hiroaki Karasawa, Nobutaka Matsumoto, Tatsuro Kimura, Takuji Kishida, Katsunori Yamaoka‫ ף‬2018, IEICE

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Activities of Technical Committee on Healthcare/Medical Information Communication Technology(TC-MICT) ................................................................................................................................................................. 22
Minseok Kim‫ ۑ‬IEICE-CS Related Conference Reports
Report on Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Computers 2017 (JAC-ECC2017) ........24
Osamu Muta
Report on the 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC2017) ......................................................... 26
Defeng (David) Huang
Drafting Future Skies - EIWAC2017 .......................................................................................................................... 28
Shigeru Ozeki
Report on 2017 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements & Applications (2017 IEEE CAMA) ........................30
Takashi Hikage, Michitaka Ameya‫ۑ‬IEICE-CS Information
IEICE-CS Related Conferences Calendar .................................................................................................................. 33
Special Section Calendar of IEICE Transactions on Communications ...................................................................... 34
CFPs for Special Sections on IEICE Transactions on Communications .................................................................... 35
IEICE Overseas Membership Page ............................................................................................................................. 39
IEICE Overseas Membership Application Form ........................................................................................................ 40
IEICE-CS Overseas Membership with Special Annual Fees for Sister Society Members .........................................41From Editor’s Desk ..................................................................................................................................................... 42‫ ۑ‬Photogravure
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Drafting Future Skies - EIWAC2017
Shigeru Ozeki
Electronic Navigation Research Institute
1. Introduction
The fifth ENRI International Workshop on
ATM/CNS (EIWAC 2017) was held at the Congres
Square Nakano, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan from November
14th to 16th, 2017, in cooperation of communicationsociety of IEICE. After successful meetings in 2009,2010, 2013 and 2015, ENRI organized this conferencewith its theme as “Drafting Future Skies” [1].
2. EIWAC
This workshop focused on the research anddevelopment of modern air traffic management (ATM)and its enabling technology in Communication,
Navigation and Surveillance (CNS). This workshop
will contribute to the global harmonization of activities
by air traffic control (ATC) service providers, industry,
researchers and all other stakeholders such as airspace
users. EIWAC is the unique forum which has
participants with wide divergence in their discipline, instrategic layers from political strategy to R&D, and ingeographical areas in 4 continents where they areworking.
Leading experts from research, industry andacademia met at the technical sessions in this workshop
to share their recent results in R&D projects. Inaddition, opinion leaders in strategy to implement
future ATM systems held the key note speeches, andparticipants enjoyed this chance to think about
conformance of their business or R&D strategy withvery high level policy, for example, in the International
Civil Aviation Organization. In total, 630 participantsfrom 13 countries enjoyed 5 keynote speeches, 1
lecture in tutorial session, 64 oral presentations and 9posters. 3 technical exhibitions became agendas todiscuss among participants. EIWAC becomes global
workshop as well as presentations by Japanese
researchers were only 20 in 79 presentations, i.e., abouta quarter.
ENRI thanks following institutes for their support toEIWAC2017. The workshop is kindly promoted byEUROCAE who is an international body working oninternational standards on ATM and CNS. Air
navigation service providers like as Japan Civil
Aviation Bureau (JCAB), Federal Aviation Authority(FAA), and French civil aviation authority(DGAC/DSNA) also supported and interested. The
office of Collaborative Actions for Renovation of Air
Traffic Systems (CARATS), the Japanese council for
actions toward future ATM, also supported
EIWAC2017. Academic institutes like Japan Society
for Aeronautical and Space, Science (JSASS) kindly

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coordinated to avoid conflicts of schedules among
many events or conferences. Logos from Research
institutes and Universities such as French Civil
Aviation University (ENAC), Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA) are also found withindicating their kind supports to this workshop.
In preparation for EIWAC2017, the members fortechnical program committee, Mr. Mohamed Faisal Bin
Mohamed Salleh (ATMRI), Prof. Low Kin Huat(ATMRI), Mr. Jean-Marc Loscos (DSNA, French Air
Navigation Service Provider), Mr. William C. Johnson(NASA), Dr. Masatoshi Harigae (JAXA) andTerumitsu Hirata (Ibaraki Univ.) made great
contributions to review and assign papers for technicalsessions with considering the activation of discussion
on site.
3. Plenary Sessions
EIWAC2017 started with the opening address byProf. Hiroyuki Yamato, the president of NationalInstitute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology inwhich ENRI was merged with keeping its name (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1 Opening Session by Prof. H. Yamato
The plenary sessions with following the opening areorganized for keynote speeches to provide a forum forexchanging opinions on future air traffic managements
and to introduce the demands and requirements fromairspace users to project managers and researchers.
All keynote speakers indicated the importance ofinfrastructure for information managements andaeronautical communication which will contribute toimprove the performance of ATM.
At first, Mr. Stephen P. Creamer, Director, AirNavigation Bureau, International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO/ANB) presented their schedule toupdate the Global Air Navigation Plan, GANP, and its
road map called Aviation System Brock Upgrades,
ASBUs. He emphasized the importance of recognition

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by all stakeholders on the new technologies to be
introduced with applying the R&D products practicallyand timely.
Mr. Florian Guillermet, Executive Director, SESAR
JU, had his presentation to introduce their strategy forfuture “digital aviation infrastructure” and formodernization of ATM systems in European airspace.
Ms. Pamela Whitley, Assistant Administrator for
NextGen, FAA, also indicated the importance ofaeronautical communication in her presentation titled“Aviation: A Global Digital Journey.”
Mr. Yasuhiro Iijima, Director of Air Navigation
Services Department, Japan Civil Aviation Bureaupresented on the future plan for renovation ofATM/CNS systems in Japan.
Mr. Masahiro Kudo, Director General, ENRI,
introduced recent outputs and outcomes after theresearch work such as enhancement of function andcapacity of Airport. And, he also reported somedifficulties by the reduction of investment to ATM
modernization with comparing those in 20 years ago.
Participants enjoyed the chance for discussions withthese opinion leaders after each presentation.
4. Invited Talks
Mr. Patrick Souchu (EUROCAE) presented the meritof contributing to the international standardization withreducing the risk of misleading projects in eachcompany or country. The meetings for standardization
always estimate the demands and requirements for 20years later, and the estimations will become common
understandings by industry in most case.
Mr. Paul Bosman, Head of ATM Strategies Division,EUROCONTROL, presented their strategy to introduce
systems for SWIM, System Wide Information
Management. He also used the keyword “fullydigitized ATM” in his presentation.
Mr. Satoshi Kogure, Executive Director for QZSSDevelopment, National Space Policy Secretariat, theCabinet Office, Japan, introduced Japanese spacebased Positioning, Navigation and Timing, PNT,
system, QZSS, and its services and applications.
EIWAC becomes a chance to promote Japanese
implementation of aeronautical navigation system fornear future.
5. Tutorial Session: Airspace Design Optimization
Prof. Daniel Delahaye, ENAC, lectured on themathematics to optimize solutions for designingairspace structure. This is his second time to havetutorial session at EIWAC with following that in 2013.
6. Special Sessions
Special sessions were organized for EIWAC2017
with focusing the areas of Ground Based Augmentation
System (GBAS), SWIM, space weather and futureradio technologies.
7. Technical Sessions
Various themes are set to discuss in each session. For
example,“TrajectoryManagements”,“ATMPerformance”, “Airport Management”, “Traffic
Capacity and Congestion Management”, “UAS”,“ATM Modeling”, “Aviation Safety” and “CNS
Systems”.
8. What Is Next?
EIWAC2017 provided a forum to discuss on
ATM/CNS and a chance to exchange with opinion
leaders in future civil aviation. It is very rare chance in
the Asia/Pacific region. ENRI is now working on
papers to edit a book for selected papers of
EIWAC2017 like as past EIWACs [2, 3].
The next EIWAC will be scheduled in 2019 or sowith hoping that our activity will provide researcherswith the chance to exchange their results in air traffic
management,
communication,navigation
andsurveillance related studies and to recognize thedemands and requirements on what and how to provide
research results.

Fig. 2 EIWAC2017 Keynote Speakers, TPC
members and guests from DLR and JCAB
9. References[1] ENRI, “Abstract of EIWAC2017 Presentations,”
November, 2017.
[2] ENRI ed., “Air Traffic Management and Systems- Selected Papers of the 3rd ENRI International
Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2013),” ISBN
978-4-431-54474-6, Springer Japan, 2014.
[3] ENRI ed., “Air Traffic Management and Systems
II - Selected Papers of the 4th ENRI International
Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2015),” ISBN
978-4-431-56421-8, Springer Japan, 2017.

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