IWSDAʼ17
General Co-Chairs

The Eighth International Workshop on
Signal Design and Its Applications in Communications

Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Tetsuya Kojima, NIT, Tokyo College, Japan

September 24-28, 2017, Sapporo, Japan

General Secretary

Takahiro Matsumoto, Yamaguchi University, Japan

http://www.ca.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/IWSDA17/

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Hideyuki Torii, Kanagawa Inst. of Technology, Japan
Xiaohu Tang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Udaya Parampalli, The Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Technical Program Committee

Serdar Boztas, RMIT University, Australia
Claude Carlet, INRIA, France
Chi-Chao Chao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Qingchun Chen, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Cunsheng Ding, HKUST, Hong KongGuang Gong, University of Waterloo, Canada
Hiromasa Habuchi, Ibaraki University, Japan
Chenggao Han, Univ. of Electro-Communications,JapanYunghsiang S. Han, NTUST, Taiwan
Li Hao, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Tor Helleseth, University of Bergen, Norway
Honggang Hu, University of Science and Tech., China
Kwang Soon Kim, Yonsei University, Korea
Andrew Klapper, University of Kentucky, USA
Hsiao-feng Lu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Subhamoy Maitra, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Shinya Matsufuji, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Hokkaido University, JapanWai Ho Mow, HKUST, Hong Kong
Alexander Pott, Otto-von-Guericke-Univ., Germany
Dong-Joon Shin, Hanyang University, Korea
Patrick Sole, CNRS-I3S, France
Hong-Yeop Song, Yonsei University, Korea
Srinivas Talabattula, Indian Institute of Science, India
Satoshi Uehara, University of Kitakyushu, Japan
Dianhua Wu, Guangxi Normal University, China
Kyeongcheol Yang, POSTECH, Korea
Xiangyong Zeng, Hubei University, China
Junru Zheng, Kyushu Women's University, JapanZhengchun Zhou, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

PublicationShunsuke Araki, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Finance

Takeru Miyazaki, University of Kitakyushu, Japan

Publicity

Yuta Ida, Yamaguchi University, Japan

Local Arrangement

Naofumi Aoki, Hokkaido University, Japan

Call for Papers
The eighth International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications inCommunications (IWSDA’17) will be held at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japanon September 24 – 28, 2017. The IWSDA workshop series dates back to September
2001 in Chengdu, China, and since 2005 has been held every 2 years in Yamaguchi,Japan, Chengdu, China, Fukuoka, Japan, Guilin China, Tokyo, Japan and Bengaluru,
India. The aim of the workshop series is to foster fruitful interactions among signal
designers, coding theorists, cryptographic researchers and communications
practitioners from all over the world.

Topics

The topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to, the topics listed below:
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Big Data Analysis
Coding for Communications andStorage
Coding Theory
Combinatorial Structures for Codeand Sequence DesignCommunication Theory
Complexity and Computation
TheoryCompressive Sensing and Sparsity

Important Dates

ü Manuscript submission:ü Acceptance notification:
ü Camera-ready submission:
ü Early-Bird registration:•••••••••

Cryptography, Privacy and Security
Data Hiding and Steganography
Detection and Estimation
Network Coding and Applications
Sequences
Signal Design for Radar
Signal Processing
Space-Time Codes
Wireless Communication andNetworks

May 19, 2017
July 7, 2017
August 4, 2017
August 18, 2017

Paper Submission

Papers presenting new results in the above areas are hereby solicited. Only
electronic submissions via the conference website in PDF formats are accepted.
Each submission must be at most 5 pages in length and conform to the doublecolumn IEEE conference proceedings format (style file and templates can be
downloaded from the conference website).

Conference Proceedings

It is planned to have the conference proceedings of IWSDA'17 published by IEEEPress, and included in IEEE Xplore. As before, it is also planned to publish theselected papers of IWSDA'17 in the special section of IEICE Transactions on
Fundamentals (pending approval).

Sponsors

The workshop is planned to be supported by the following technical sponsors(pending approval): IEEE(USA) / IEEE Sapporo Section (Japan) / Engineering Sciences
Society (ESS), IEICE(Japan) / Yamaguchi University (Japan) / National Institute ofTechnology, Tokyo College (Japan)