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IEICE Communications Society GLOBAL NEWSLETTER Vol. 44, No.1
Contents‫ ۑ‬IEICE-CS Activities Now
Report on the 15th International Conference on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics 2019(ICSANE 2019) ............................................................................................................................................................ 2
Akitsugu Nadai, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Toshifumi Moriyama

Report on the 2019 NS English Session Awards and Award Ceremony ....................................................................... 4
Yoshikatsu Okazaki, Akihiro Nakao, Yosuke Tanigawa, Shiro Mizuno, Shinya Kawano

Summary Report on the 2019 Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent Networking(RISING 2019) ............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Akihiro Nakao, Shingo Ata, Takeo Fujii, Hiroaki Harai, Daisuke Umehara, Akinori Taira, Takuji Tachibana

Participation Report for the 2019 Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent Networking(RISING 2019) ........................................................................................................................................................... 9Kenji Kanai, Takuto Kimura, Daichi Kominami, Yojiro Mori, Takayuki Nishio

Young Researchers’ Participation Report for the 2019 Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent
Networking (RISING 2019) ....................................................................................................................................... 12
Takanori Hara, Hiroki Iwata, Hiroshi Katada, Yusuke Koda
Report on the 33rd Optical Communication Systems Symposium “Optical Communication: Perspective of
Reiwa Period” ............................................................................................................................................................. 14
Takuya Ohara, Masanori Takahashi

Report on the Japan-Korea Joint Conference on Satellite Communications (JC-SAT 2019) .....................................16
Masaaki Kojima, Hiroki Shibayama, Shinobu Nanba, Takuya Okura

Report on 2019 Asian Wireless Power Transfer Workshop (AWPT 2019) ................................................................. 19Long Li, Yan Shi, Qiaowei Yuan
Report on the 9th International Symposium on Network Virtualization ...................................................................... 21
Takeshi Kinoshita, Yutaka Takita‫ ۑ‬IEICE-CS Related Conference Reports
Report on the 10th International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC 2019) .......................................................23
Jong-Ho Lee, Myungsik Yoo, Jae doo Huh

Report on 2019 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2019) ..............................................25
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Report on the 37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC2019) ................................27
Hiroyuki Tsuji
Report on the 8th IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications(ICRERA2019) ........................................................................................................................................................... 28
Yudai Furukawa
Report on 25th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2019) “Enabling Technologies for
Smart Cities” ............................................................................................................................................................... 29
Nguyen Duc Phuc, Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, Tan Hanh
Report on IEEE WCNC 2019 5th International Workshop on Smart Spectrum (IWSS 2019) ....................................33
Mai Ohta, Kenta Umebayashi, Takeo Fujii‫ۑ‬IEICE-CS Information
IEICE-CS Related Conferences Calendar .................................................................................................................. 35
CFPs for IEICE-CS Related Conferences ................................................................................................................... 37
Special Section Calendar of IEICE Transactions on Communications ...................................................................... 41
CFPs for Special Sections on IEICE Transactions on Communications .................................................................... 42
From Editor’s Desk ..................................................................................................................................................... 43
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Report on the 15th International Conferenceon Space, Aeronautical and Navigational
Electronics 2019 (ICSANE 2019)
Akitsugu Nadai †, Hiroyoshi Yamada††,Toshifumi Moriyama††††National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), ††Niigata University,†††Nagasaki University
1. Introduction
The 15th International Conference on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics (ICSANE 2019)was held at Ara convention hall, Jeju National
University, Korea on October 30th – 31st, 2019. Thisconference was organized by the Technical Group on
Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics(SANE) of the Institute of Electronics, Information andCommunication Engineers (IEICE) and the Korean
Association of Geographic Information Studies(KAGIS), with the support of IEEE AESS Japan
Chapter, IEEE GRSS Japan Chapter, Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Electronic
Navigation
Research
Institute(ENRI).
The
international, peer-reviewed open access journal in
MDPI, Electronics, became a media partner of theconference. In this report, we provide the objective andsummary of ICSANE 2019.
2. Objective of Conference
The first ICSANE (former name is Workshop on
Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics(WSANE)) was held in Daejeon, Korea, 2005. After
that, ICSANE takes place every year in Asia-Pacificregion. ICSANE aims at providing an opportunity forsystem engineers and researchers to discuss new andviable technical topics of electronics system inspacecraft, aircraft, ships and ground facilities. The
ICSANE 2019 covered the following topics:(1) Satellite and space-station systems(2) Remote sensing and scientific observation
technology(3) Radar systems and applications(4) Navigational and communication systems
3. Organizing Committee
The steering committee of ICSANE 2019 wasstrongly led by General Chair and General Co-Chairs,with the support of Co-Chairs of Organizing
Committee. The other organization is technicalprogram committee. These main committee members
are listed as the followings.

2z Steering Committee:
General Chair:
Chang-Hwan Kim (Kangwon Nat’l Univ., Korea)
General Co-Chair:
Tae-Kyung Baek (Dong-Eui Univ., Korea)
Akitsugu Nadai (NICT, Japan)
Yong-Bok Choi (Kangwon Nat’l Univ., Korea)z Organizing Committee:
Co-Chairs:
Sun-Hak Bae (Kangwon Nat’l Univ., Korea)
Makoto Tanaka (Tokai Univ., Japan)
Sun-Yurp Park (Pusan Nat’l Univ., Korea)z Technical Committee:
Co-Chairs:
Chan-Su Yang (KIOST., Korea)
Hiroyoshi Yamada (Niigata Univ., Japan)
Dong-Ha Lee (Kangwon Nat’l Univ., Korea)
4. Program and Activities
At the opening ceremony of ICSANE 2019, Prof.
Chang-Hwan Kim, President of KAGIS, delivered his
warm welcome address and expressed the importanceof international academic exchange for understanding
and making progress in the areas of the aerospace,aviation and remote sensing. The photos of his opening
address are shown in Fig. 1. Next, Prof. Hiroyoshi
Yamada, Vice chair of SANE, IEICE, expressed his
thanks and talked about SANE and ICSANE history.

Fig. 1 Welcome address by Prof. C. H. Kim.

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Fig. 2 Group photo of ICSANE 2019.
The technical program of ICSANE 2019 consisted of
8 oral sessions. The 22 papers in regular sessions were
presented. The papers covered the variety technologies
which are satellite, aircraft navigation, radar signal
processing, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), remotesensing, etc. Total number of participants reachedaround 60 from 4 countries: Korea, Japan, China, andUSA. Figure 2 is the group photo of ICSANE 2019.
5. Award Ceremony
The ceremony of Young Scientist Award was held at
the closing. Prof. Hiroyoshi Yamada, TPC Co-chair,presented a testimonial to each award recipient (Fig. 3).
The winners are as follows:
Winners of Young Scientist Award:
z Mr. Takuya Hashimoto (Niigata University, Japan),“Experimental Study on Grasping Seasonal Change
in Paddy Rice Growth Using Quad-Polarimetric SAR
Data”
z Mr. Ho-Kun Jeon (KIOST, Korea), “Coastal Activity
Risk Assessment using Aviation Images andHyperspectral Images”
z Ms. Ying Yang (GLUT, China), “Depolarization of
Scattering From a Spatially Anisotropic RoughSurface With Inhomogeneous Dielectric Profile”

be provided in next spring. We look forward to seeing
you in Guilin.

(a) YSA award winner: Mr. Takuya Hashimoto(Right)(b) YSA award winner: Mr. Ho-Kun Jeon (Right)

In addition, the SANE committee offered the lettersof appreciation to Prof. Chang-Hwan Kim (President of
KAGIS, Kangwon Nat’l Univ., Korea) and Prof. ChanSu Yang (KIOST., Korea) for outstanding
contributions to ICSANE 2019.
6. Conclusions
ICSANE 2019 was successfully held in Jeju, Korea.
We hope that all the participants in this conference
enjoyed the presentation and discussions on the future
trends and the latest advances of research anddevelopment on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational
Electronics. Next ICSANE, ICSANE 2020 will be held
in Guilin, China. Call for paper of ICSANE 2020 will(c) YSA award winner: Ms. Yin Yang (Right)
Fig. 3 Young scientist award-winners.

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Report on the 2019 NS English Session Awards
and Award Ceremony
Yoshikatsu Okazaki†, NTT Corp.
Akihiro Nakao††, The University of Tokyo
Yosuke Tanigawa†††, Osaka Prefecture University
Shiro Mizuno†††, NTT Corp.
Shinya Kawano††††, NTT Corp.
†Chair, ††Vice Chair, †††Secretary, ††††Assistant Secretary

1. Introduction
In the 2019 IEICE General Conference that was held
on 19-22 March 2019, the IEICE Technical Committee
on Network Systems (NS) provided the complete
English Symposium Session entitled “Compositive
Information Communication Technologies andApplications for Future Network Systems”. In thissession, 44 papers were presented at a single track andmany attendees participated during whole of the 4-daysconference period [1].
The NS committee selected recipients of NS English
Session Award among the 44 papers. The recipients
won the award at an award ceremony and presented theprogress of their awarded papers as an invited lecture at
the NS technical meeting in October 2019.
2. Award Ceremony
The award ceremony was held in the NS technicalmeeting at Nagoya city, Aichi prefecture on 10 October
2019, and 27 participants attended the ceremony. Three
distinguished papers won the NS English Session
Award, and all the recipients received an award
certificate and a plaque from NS technical committee
chair (Fig. 1).
(For the past recipients, please see our English home
page. URL: http://www.ieice.org/cs/ns/eng/index.html)
3. English Session Awards 2019
The abstracts of the three papers that won the 2019
NS English Session Award are as follows.
“Buffer Aided Receiver for Diffusive DNA Based
Molecular Communication” [2]The networks of Bio-Nano-machines, namely a kindof Nanonetworks, can be enabled by Molecular
Communication (MC). The MC is a novelcommunication paradigm that overcomes both thediffraction at the Nano-scale and the in-bodyenvironmental quick attenuation problems of theelectromagnetic wave-based wireless communication
techniques.
Aiming at improving the transmission efficiency, adiffusive DNA based MC has been proposed in ourprevious work. It applies the different nucleobase pairs

4Fig. 1 English session award recipients(Prof. Sezaki: Top left [2],Mr. Settawatcharawanit: Top right [3],and Mr. Hirai: Bottom left [4]), with chair (Okazaki)
and secretary (Tanigawa): Bottom right.
to represent different binary bits so that one single
molecule can be used as a data packet. Thus,
comparing with conventional diffusion-based MC, theinformation that can be transmitted with one moleculeis significantly increased.
On the other hand, as a kind of macromolecule, DNA
has a relatively smaller diffusion coefficient, leading to
the consequence that the diffusion speed is slow.
Moreover, the diffusion coefficient is influenced by thesize of the DNA molecules, namely how many
nucleobase pairs compose the molecule. Therefore, thisphenomenon adds more uncertainty in the successful
arrival of the transmitted DNA molecules. And
consequently, there is a higher packet error rate which
influences the effective transmission rate.
Aiming at this problem, we propose a duplicatedpackets and buffer-aided receiver mechanism. In thismechanism, the first improvement is that thetransmitting DNA packets are duplicated as several
copies and transmitted at the same time in a slot. As aconsequence, the successful arrival probability ofcorrect data packets is increased. Besides, a buffer anda comparator are introduced to the receiver. The buffer
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molecules for a period of a slot width. Then thecomparator compares the number of each type of
packets in the buffer. Finally, the packet of the largest
number is decoded. As a result, the probability of
decoding an error packet is dramatically reduced.
“Segment Routed Traffic Engineering using
Randomized Sampling with Bounded Stretch” [3]Traffic Engineering is an essential application for
network operators to manage network resources.
Recently, Segment Routed Traffic Engineering has
been adopted widely among network operators as an
essential tool for Traffic Engineering. By using
Segment Routing Traffic Engineering, the control planeof Traffic Engineering application can be simplified
without the need to use resource reservation protocol ormanually configure link weights.
Generally, a traffic engineering program must be fastand efficient in order to facilitate the network operator's
demands. These two characteristics are vital since
network operators usually deploy a traffic engineering
program to optimize network resources, and repeatedly
execute the program in short intervals (e.g., 5 minutes).
However, the existing approaches have shortcomings
since they require a substantial amount of time to find asolution, or they must sacrifice a considerable amountof link utilization.
To address these issues, we propose to limit the
number of candidate intermediate nodes by using abounded stretch constraint relative to shortest paths sizeof the source-destination pair. This helps reduce theproblem size significantly, which allows us to execute
the Traffic Engineering program in short intervals. In
this work, we formulate a Segment Routed Traffic
Engineering problem with bounded stretch to minimize
the maximum link utilization. This variant of Traffic
Engineering is widely used among network operators
to minimize network congestion.
Our results show that our proposed approach helps
reduce the computation time significantly while a nearoptimal link performance can be achieved.
“Performance Evaluation on MAC Layer Protocol
in Crash Warning Application using PC5-based
Cellular-V2X mode4” [4]This paper presents performance characteristics of
MAC layer protocol of PC5-based Cellular-V2X mode
4 (called mode 4) for Crash Warning Application.
Mode 4 is an infrastructure-less protocol. Instead of thenegotiations with infrastructure such as base stations
for transmission resource allocations, in other words,
central slot management as in mode 3, mode 4 uses a
new random access protocol called Sensing-based
Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS). Sensing-based SPS
has two features compared with CSMA/CA protocol.
The first feature is that each node, such as a terminal ofa vehicle or a pedestrian, successively uses a selectedslot in specific times. The second feature is that eachnode tries to select a transmission slot of low
interference based on past interference patterns yieldedby the first step. To select a slot with low interference,individual node estimates future interference from thepatterns by the following two estimation mechanisms.
In congestion, a node may, unfortunately, select abad slot for its transmissions due to the negative side ofthe estimation mechanisms of Sensing-based SPS. As
the number of nodes increases, frame collision errors
frequently occur and interference patterns sharply varytime by time. These events may cause the estimation
mechanisms to infer the interference of slots incorrectly.
As a result, individual node frequently selects a bad slot.
To verify these negative impacts in congestion, we
analyze the behaviors of the two estimation mechanisms
and then reveal performance characteristics. We
evaluated performance characteristics for the numberof nodes by a simple model with computer simulations.
The simulation results demonstrated that one of theestimation mechanisms was not effective to improve
performance, compared to a random selection without
the estimation mechanisms in the model. Additionally,
the evaluation results showed that the current Sensingbased SPS outperforms the random selection by 32%.
4. Future Plans
In the 2020 IEICE General Conference at Hiroshima
University, the English Session entitled “In-NetworkIntelligence for Design, Management, and Control of
Future Networks and Services” will be held on 17-20
March. Many interesting studies on “network” and“service” including “wireless” and “optical” will bepresented. Please attend the IEICE General Conference
and enjoy the NS English session during the four days.
5. Acknowledgement
We would like to give special thanks to Prof.
Yoshiaki Tanaka due to his great contributions.
6. References[1] T. Yamazaki, Y. Tanigawa, K. Kashibuchi, K.
Matsui, A. Nakao, and Y. Okazaki: “Report on NS
English Session at 2019 IEICE General
Conference -BS-4 Compositive Information
Communication Technologies and Applications
for Future Network Systems-,” IEICE Global
NewsLetter, vol. 43, no. 2, p. 17, June 2019.
[2] Y. Sun, M. Ito, and K. Sezaki: “Buffer Aided
Receiver for Diffusive DNA Based Molecular
Communication,” IEICE General Conference,
BS-4-16, March 2019.
[3] T. Settawatcharawanit and Y. Ji: “Segment
Routed Traffic Engineering using Randomized
Sampling with Bounded Stretch,” IEICE General
Conference, BS-4-25, March 2019.
[4] T. Hirai and T. Murase: “Performance Evaluation
on MAC Layer Protocol in Crash Warning
Application using PC5-based Cellular-V2X
mode4,” IEICE General Conference, BS-4-29,
March 2019.

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Summary Report on the 2019 Cross-Field
Research Association of Super-Intelligent
Networking (RISING 2019)
Akihiro Nakao†, Shingo Ata††, Takeo Fujii†††,
Hiroaki Harai††††, Daisuke Umehara†††††,
Akinori Taira††††††, Takuji Tachibana††††††††The University of Tokyo, ††Osaka City University,
†††The University of Electro-Communications,††††National Institute of Information andCommunications Technology,†††††Kyoto Institute of Technology,††††††Mitsubishi Electric Corp.,†††††††University of Fukui 

1. Introduction
The 2019 Cross-Field Research Association ofSuper-Intelligent Networking (RISING 2019) was heldin Fukutake Hall and Engineering Building 2 in the
Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo from
November 26th to 27th, 2019 [1]. RISING 2019 washeld to provide an opportunity to discuss futurecommunication network technologies for realizing“Super-Intelligent Networking” among distinguishedresearchers. A large number of researchers and students
participated in RISING 2019 as shown in Fig. 1.
Moreover, over 100 posters were presented as shown in
Fig. 2.
This conference was cosponsored by 19 technicalcommittees on the following research area of theInstituteofElectronics,
Information
andCommunication Engineers (IEICE) in Japan [2].
z Communication Quality (CQ)z Communication Systems (CS)z Energy Engineering in Electronics andCommunications (EE)z Internet Architecture (IA)z Information and Communication Management(ICM)
z Information Networks (IN)z Healthcare
andMedicalInformation
Communication Technology (MICT)z Network Systems (NS)z Optical Communication Systems (OCS)z Photonic Network (PN)z Radio Communication Systems (RCS)z Satellite Telecommunications (SAT)z Sensor Network and Mobile Intelligence (SeMI)z Smart Radio (SR)z Wireless Power Transmission (WPT)z Wideband System (WBS)

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Fig. 1 A large number of participants in Fukutake
Hall.

Fig. 2 Poster session in foyer of FukutakeHall.
z Extremely advanced Optical Transmission(EXAT)z Network Virtualization (NV)z Multiple Innovative Kenkyu-kai Association for
wireless communications (MIKA)
2. Conference Program
Figure 3 shows the conference program of RISING
2019. During two days, the following sessions were
held (see Figs. 4 and 5).

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Fig. 4 Invited talk by Prof. Matsuo.

Fig. 3 Conference program.

z Opening remark̽ Prof. Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo)z Invited talk̽ Prof. Yutaka Matsuo (The University of Tokyo)
z Keynote̽ Mr. Yuji Nakamura (Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications)z Collaborative session with study group of“Thinking network”̽ Prof. Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo)̽ Dr. Tomohiro Otani (KDDI Corp.)̽ Dr. Taro Ogawa (Hitachi, Ltd.)̽ Dr. Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC Corp.)̽ Dr. Hiroaki Harai (National Institute ofInformation and Communications Technology)
z Distinguished expert panel̽ Prof. Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo)̽ Dr. Tomohiro Otani (KDDI Corp.)̽ Dr. Taro Ogawa (Hitachi, Ltd.)̽ Dr. Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC Corp.)̽ Dr. Hiroaki Harai (National Institute ofInformation and Communications Technology)z Tutorial̽ Prof. Masayuki Ohzeki (Tohoku University)z Case study session
̽ Mr. Hu Bo (NTT Corp.)̽ Mr. Yuji Komatsuzaki (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.)

Fig. 5 Panel with technical committees.
̽ Mr. Hiroshi Tomonaga (Fujitsu Laboratories
Ltd.)̽ Mr. Hikotoshi Nakazato (NTT Corp.)̽ Mr. Masaaki Tanio (NEC Corp.)z Collaborative session with the Japan Society of
Mechanical Engineers (JSME)̽ Dr. Yuji Kubota (JSME)̽ Dr. Hirokatsu Kataoka (National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology)̽ Mr. Kazunori Maruyama (Fujitsu Laboratories
Ltd.)̽ Dr. Kenjiro Yamamoto (Hitachi, Ltd.)z Panel with IEICE Technical Committee̽ Prof. Miki Yamamoto (Kansai University)̽ Dr. Masayuki Ariyoshi (SR)̽ Prof. Yuichi Ohshita (IN)̽ Prof. Tomoaki Ohtsuki (RCS)̽ Dr. Yoshikatsu Okazaki (NS)̽ Prof. Minoru Okada (WBS)̽ Prof. Nobuyoshi Kikuma (MIKA)
̽ Dr. Yoichi Sato (ICM)̽ Prof. Kohei Shiomoto (PN)̽ Dr. Hideyuki Shimonishi (CQ)̽ Prof. Chika Sugimoto (MICT)7

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Fig. 8 Award ceremony.

Fig. 6 Number of registrations from each ccategory.

4. Best Poster Presentation Award
The award ceremony was held in the closing session(see Fig. 8). In RISING 2019, 15 distinguished poster
presentations were awarded as best poster presentation
award among 94 poster presentations. The categories ofawardees are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 Categories of awardees.
Category
Number of awardees
Academia
2
Industry4
Students
9Fig. 7 Number of poster presentations from eachtechnical committee.
̽ Prof. Hidenori Nakazato (CS)̽ Dr. Tadatoshi Babazaki (EE)̽ Dr. Hiroaki Harai (NV)̽ Prof. Joji Maeda (OCS)̽ Prof. Koji Yamamoto (SeMI)z Poster̽ 94 poster presentations̽ 17 invited poster presentations
3. Statistical Information
In RISING 2019, 246 people registered and mostpeople participated as audiences and/or presenters.
Figure 6 shows the statistical information on thenumber of registrations from each category that is
Academia, Industry, Students, or Others. As shown inthis figure, students and researchers participated in abalanced manner from each category.
Figure 7 shows the statistical information on thenumber of poster presentations from each technicalcommittee. Note that the name of each technicalcommittee is not included in this figure. This figure
shows that poster presentations were submitted in abalanced manner from each technical committee.
From these figures, we believe that RISING 2019
could realize a cross-field research activity.

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5. Special
Sectionabout“Super-Intelligent
Networking” on The IEICE Transactions on
Communications (Japanese edition)
In the banquet, Prof. Fujii, who is a vice co-chair of
RISING 2019, announced that a special section about“Super-Intelligent Networking” will be published on
The IEICE Transactions on Communications (Japaneseedition) in March 2021 [3]. He also introduced that thesubmission due date is May 15th, 2020 (JST) and thisspecial section is strongly related to RISING 2019, but
not limited to the presenters and authors of RISING
2019.
6. Conclusion and Next Conference
We believe that RISING 2019 ended in a big successwith many attendees. In 2020, the RISING 2020 will beheld. We look forward to meeting many researchers in
next RISING.
7. References[1] The 2019 Cross-Field Research Association ofSuper-Intelligent Networking (RISING 2019)conference page (Japanese edition),
https://www.ieice.org/~rising/jpn/[2] List of Technical Committees page,https://www.ieice.org/cs/techg/list.html[3] Call for paper of special section on The IEICE
Transactions on Communications (Japaneseedition),https://www.ieice.org/cs/rising/jpn/JBspecial/rising2019-cfp.pdf

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Participation Report for the 2019
Cross-Field Research Association ofSuper-Intelligent Networking(RISING 2019)
Kenji Kanai†, Takuto Kimura††,Daichi Kominami†††,
Yojiro Mori††††, Takayuki Nishio††††††

Waseda University,
NTT Network Technology Laboratories,†††
Osaka University, ††††Nagoya University,†††††
Kyoto University
††

1. Introduction
The 2019 Cross-Field Research Association of SuperIntelligent Networking (RISING 2019) was held at
Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo from
November 26th to 27th, 2019. The purpose of theconference is to provide an opportunity to introduce,
discuss and share the state-of-the-art AI networking
research efforts. In addition, the RISING 2019 aims at
promoting the future research themes in terms
integration of AI, communication, and networking
technologies toward realizing “Super-Intelligent
Networking.” It should be noted that this conference iscosponsored by 19 technical committees of the Instituteof Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers (IEICE) in Japan and one of successful show
cases of domestic conference covered cross research
fields: AI, communication, and networking.
During the conference, almost 16 sessions, including
keynote speech, invited talks, tutorial, panel discussions,and poster presentations were held, and over 140
presenters introduced and discussed their recent research
activities in terms of machine learning, wired andwireless communications, networking and application.
This report briefly introduces the activities of RISING
2019.
2. Morning Sessions of the First Conference Day(November 26th)
In the morning sessions of the first conference day,there were five sessions: opening, keynote speech,
special session and poster session. In the opening (seeFig. 1), Prof. Nakao from the University of Tokyo who
is an organizing committee chair of this conference gave
an opening talk and presented the motivation andobjective of RISING 2019. In the next keynote speech,
the organizing committee invited Mr. Nakamura from
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)and he provided the keynote speech on the current
national research projects in terms of AI networking, inFig. 1 Opening session of RISING 2019. Prof. Nakao
from the University of Tokyo (right person) gave
an opening talk.

Fig. 2 Poster session in the morning session of the first
conference day.
particular “Research and development for innovative AI
network integrated infrastructure technologies.” In thespecial session, related to “Research and development
for innovative AI network integrated infrastructuretechnologies,” the committee invited four top
researchers from KDDI, NICT, Hitachi, and NEC, andthey presented their state-of-the-art AI networking
technologies. Furthermore, in order to discuss related
technologies more deeply, the first poster session (there
were totally four poster session during the conference)
were held, and the 37 poster presenters, including young
academic and industry researchers, introduced their
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Fig. 3 Poster session in the afternoon session of thefirst conference day.

Fig. 5 Banquet.

Fig. 4 Panel discussion.
recent research activities in terms of machine learning,
wired and wireless communications, networking andapplication (see Fig. 2).
3. Afternoon Sessions of the First Conference Day(November 26th)
The afternoon sessions of the first conference day
consisted of an invited talk, a poster session, and a panel
discussion session. The invited talk was given by Prof.
Matsuo from the University of Tokyo. He gave apresentation on super-intelligence enabled by artificial
intelligence.
The poster session was the second one of the threeposter sessions in the conference, where 37 poster
presentations were given by industry and universities(see Fig. 3). The last session of the first day was the panel
discussion hosted by Prof. Nakao, where four panelists
stated their opinions on several topics such as feasibility,
challenges, and future (see Fig. 4).
After the session, a banquet was held at Toh-Ten-Koh
Ueno Flagship Shop. The participants enjoyedconversation taking Chinese food (see Fig. 5).
4. Morning Sessions of the Second Conference Day:
Part 1 (November 27th)
In the morning sessions of the second conference day,there were two parallel sessions.
The case study session had five speakers, and theytalked about company’s case study on AI and machinelearning techniques for communication technologies(see Fig. 6). The first speaker was Mr. Hu from NTT.
The title of his talk was “When Network Met AI.” Hetalked about botnet detection techniques with machinelearning. The proposed method named “Alchemy”
solves an unbalance between the number of benign and

10Fig. 6 Case study session by five presenters.
malicious data effectively by resampling several subsets
of data.
The second speaker was Dr. Komatsuzaki from
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. The title of his talk was“Ultra-Wideband Digitally Controlled Gallium Nitride(GaN) Amplifier for Mobile Base Stations.” Theproposed circuit supports several frequency bands used
in 3G, 4G, and 5G. By digitally controlling input signals
with an AI technique, high power efficiency of amplifierin mobile base stations is realized.
The third speaker was Mr. Tomonaga from Fujitsu
Laboratories Ltd. He talked about the efforts of Fujitsu
to improve operational efficiency by utilizing dataobtained from networks. He described a traffic anomaly
detection technique and an answer recommendation
system for network maintenance centers. He alsomentioned challenges that have emerged from internal
practices of AI techniques in Fujitsu.
The fourth speaker was Mr. Nakazato from NTT. His
talk was about examples of machine learning
applications in the field of communication, especially on
MaaS. In that use case, it is assumed that specificvehicles are detected automatically on a highway byvideo cameras. And they always capture the target
vehicle while switching recording cameras around thevehicle. He showed a demonstration video, where video
cameras autonomously track a target car-type robot.

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Fig. 7 Tutorial session on machine learning
by Prof. Ohzeki.
The final speaker was Mr. Tanio from NEC
Corporation. In his talk on signal processing techniques
XVLQJ PDFKLQH OHDUQLQJ 'LJLWDO 3UHí'LVWRUWLRQ '3' for wireless signals and nonlinear compensation for
optical signals with machine learning techniques were
presented. He showed the reduction in the size of theneural network (pruning) using an L1 norm can greatly
decrease computation cost for neural network learning
without large sacrifice in the distortion compensation
efficiency.
5. Morning Sessions of the Second Conference Day:
Part 2 (November 27th)
In another morning session, Prof. Ohzeki held atutorial session titled “An introduction to machinelearning with Python” (see Fig. 7). The tutorial consistedof a lecture and a hands-on session.
During the lecture, he introduced deep learningmodels from a simple model. He first introduced a linear
model composed of nonlinear transformations and an
inner product of vectors. By applying them repeatedly, a
deep learning model was introduced. After thisintroduction, he explained step-by-step how the deeplearning model works and is formulated. This helped us
understand that deep learning is the natural extension ofa linear model.
During the hands-on session, he explained the latest
deep learning methods for speedup and accuracy
improvement and how to implement them. He first
introduced Google Colaboratory, which is anenvironment to implement and test machine learning
methods. By using this environment, he explained themethods with his live coding. We were also able toimplement and test the explained methods immediately.
This cycle helped us understand the effect of the latest
deep learning methods intuitively. We implemented
some deep learning models to solve problems such asiris clustering, handwritten character recognition, andface recognition. All the code from this session is
publicly available.
This tutorial played an important role in encouraging
participants to apply machine learning methods to theirresearch areas such as networking. More than 100
participants listened to the tutorial, had lively
discussions and tried coding.

Fig. 8 Panel discussion. Prof. Yamamoto, a vicechair of SeMI, talked research field of SeMI.
6. Afternoon Sessions of the Second Conference Day(November 27th)
After enjoying lunchtime, we had a JSME-IEICE
collaboration session, a third poster session, special
panel sessions, and an award and closing ceremony. The
conference was full of the audiences in every session.
In the JSME-IEICE collaboration session, there werefour presenters. Dr. Kubota talked about collaboration
between JSME and IEICE. The remaining threepresenters presented their works which applied machinelearning in traffic safety, manufacturing, and robotics.
In the third poster session, there were 37 posters. The
presenters and audiences discussed actively, and thesession was filled with excitement. I presented my workin the session and obtained lots of insightful commentsfrom the audiences, that’s great.
In the panel sessions over almost three hours, chairs
and vice-chairs of 16 technical committees talked aboutcross-field research toward super-intelligent networking(see Fig. 8). The panelists talked their visions; how weleverage AI in telecommunications and how wecollaboratively accelerate our research fields with AI.
Fifteen poster presenters won the prizes in RISING
2019. Congratulations! The conference ended in a big
success.
7. Conclusion
The 2019 Cross-Field Research Association of SuperIntelligent Networking (RISING 2019) was greatly
successful. We enjoyed all sessions and social events.
We would like to attend the next Cross-Field Research
Association of Super-Intelligent Networking (RISING
2020) again.
8. Reference[1] The 2019 Cross-Field Research Association ofSuper-Intelligent Networking (RISING 2019)conference page (Japanese),https://www.ieice.org/~rising/jpn/

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Young Researchers’ Participation Reportfor the 2019 Cross-Field Research
Association of Super-Intelligent
Networking (RISING 2019)
Takanori Hara†, Hiroki Iwata††,
Hiroshi Katada†††, Yusuke Koda†††††Nara Institute of Science and Technology,††Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,†††Waseda University, ††††Kyoto University
1. Introduction
In the 2019 Cross-Field Research Association ofSuper-Intelligent Networking (RISING 2019), many
young researchers were participated and made poster
presentations (see Fig. 1). In the following, four young
researchers report the experience of RISING 2019.

Fig. 2 Invited talk by Prof. Matsuo.

Fig. 1 Many participants in RISING 2019.
2. Report on Poster Presentation and Invited Talk
This program consists of a keynote speech, poster
sessions, an invited session, distinguished expert panelsessions, and so on. In the second poster session, I
made a presentation about the traffic information
distribution scheme to lead users' selfish routing intosocial optimum traffic conditions in road networks.
Through the discussion with participants, I could get auseful point of view for this work.
The invited talk was given by Prof. Yutaka Matsuo
from the University of Tokyo (see Fig. 2). He
introduced an overview of deep learning and a future
vision of artificial intelligence. His presentation
showed us the possibility that our human beings havebeen faced with the cognitive limitation on highdimensional models, which can be modeled by deepneural networks. This perspective gives us an
opportunity to discuss the future directions of artificial
intelligence. It was a meaningful session with many
people participating.
(Takanori Hara)12

3. Broadening My Interests via Cross-Field Research
On the first day in the conference, I presented mystudy. My research topic is dynamic, smart andintelligent spectrum sharing in the wirelesscommunication field. The spectrum sharing is one ofimportant technologies for solving the spectrum
scarcity problem. The spectrum sharing composes of
the radio environment awareness and the exploitationof the spectrum efficiently. Thus, I think that artificial
intelligence (AI) including machine learning techniques
and big data technology is also of importance to makethe spectrum sharing smarter and more intelligent. To
this end, I have applied the machine learning to theradio environment awareness. That means the modelingof the radio spectrum usage exploiting data fromspectrum measurement. Thus, it is important to develop
the spectrum measurement system to apply the machine
leaning to the modeling, but there are little practical
spectrum measurement systems at the moment.
Moreover, the value of machine learning may be
reduced if the quality of the data is deteriorated.
Therefore, I have devoted to developing highly
accurate spectrum measurement system. Morespecifically, I have developed several digital signal
processing algorithms for the spectrum measurement tocollect highly valuable data to machine learning andthe spectrum sharing.

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I hope that our measurement system will become
valuable for the future spectrum sharing. Through theconference, I have interested in many different research
fields. Lastly, I would like to thank all members of the
RISING organization committee for giving me thiskind of opportunity.
(Hiroki Iwata)
4. Impressions of Talks and My Presentation
In this workshop, under the theme of “SuperIntelligent Networking”, various researches were
presented. In particular, two presentations revolutionsof deep learning presented by Prof. Yutaka Matsuo(Univ. of Tokyo) and applications of deep learning for
robotics presented by Mr. Kenjirou Yamamoto (Hitachi,Ltd.) were very impressive. Prof. Matsuo explained thatthe revolutions of deep learning bring the realizationsof recognition, motion learning, and understanding of
the meanings of words, in this order. Moreover, hementioned that “intelligence” is an ability to drive a
motor system by a symbolic system as if we imagine afiction (and do it). Mr. Yamamoto presented the robot
control using deep learning in the collaboration session
with the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers(JSME). He showed a video of a robot. The robot
autonomously opened and passed through a door byrecognizing the image from the camera and learning
the motion from the remote control by a human. The
behaviour is computed from deep learning. The robot
seems to imagine a scene in which the robot itself
opens the door.
In the poster session, I presented a poster entitled“Physarum-based Path Diversification for WirelessMulti-hop Networks” (see Fig. 3). The slime molds
make us feel that they have intelligence, such as
adjusting the robustness and transport efficiency of thepath based on the environmental effects, and acquiring
the toxic substances based on the experience. It waspointed out that we could be clarified the applicabilityof the behaviour model to actual wireless networks.
The comments are very helpful for thinking about the
future work, and therefore, we would like to progress
our research and to show another aspect of slime’s
intelligence in RISING 2020.
(Hiroshi Katada)

5. Hoping for Cross-Field Research
Attending the panel discussions on the second day, I
was impressed that the panelists and audience agreed
that research communities should collaborate with one
another by sharing their own data, mathematical tools,
or infrastructure devices. I would appreciate and keep
in mind this discussion for a long time.
The reason why I highlight this event may come frommy personal experience. I have been studying amillimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication
system enhanced by camera images. In examining the
proposed system, experimental data of mmWave
received powers was required, and I measured thereceived powers by myself. This experience helped togain my knowledge and skills regarding the
propagation measurement a lot. Meanwhile, I thoughtthat if I collaborated with other experts in the field of
propagation measurements, I could perform a morecomprehensive examination of the proposed systems.
This panel discussion reminded me of this experienceand motivated me to think of cross-filed collaborations
among other research communities.
By the way, it is an honor that my poster presentation
titled “Handover Control for mmWave Networks with
Proactive Performance Prediction Using Depth Images
and Deep Reinforcement Learning” received the Best
Poster Presentation Award (see Fig. 4). Thank you verymuch!
(Yusuke Koda)

Fig. 4 Award ceremony.

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6. Conclusion
In this participant report, the four distinguished
young researchers expressed their impressions of
RISING 2019. RISING 2020 will be held in the
coming fiscal year. The authors recommend that many
young researchers participate and make a presentation
in RISING 2020.

Fig. 3 My poster presentation.

7. Reference[1] The 2019 Cross-Field Research Association ofSuper-Intelligent Networking (RISING 2019)conference page,https://www.ieice.org/~rising/jpn/

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Report on the 33rd OpticalCommunication Systems Symposium“Optical Communication: Perspectiveof Reiwa Period”
Takuya Ohara† and Masanori Takahashi‡†NTT, ‡Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
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1. Introduction
The 33rd Optical Communication Systems (OCS)
Symposium “Optical Communication: Perspective of
Reiwa Period.” was held on Dec. 17–18, 2019 at the
Toray Human Resources Development Center in
Mishima City, Shizuoka, Japan. It was organized by the
IEICE Technical Committee on OCS, in cooperation
with the IEEE Photonics Society Japan Chapter, thePhotonic Internet Forum (PIF), and the IEICE
Technical Committee on Extremely Advanced Optical
Transmission Technologies (EXAT). On the occasionof an imperial era change in Japan, this year’s
symposium, with 186 attendees and 25 exhibitors, wasplaced as an opportunity to look back technologicalprogress in optical communication during 30 years ofthe Heisei period and to look ahead future directions in
the Reiwa period.
2. Technical Sessions
On Day 1 (Dec. 17), following the welcome addressby Prof. Joji Maeda, the IEICE OCS committee chair,
the symposium started with a workshop entitled“Technologies in Reiwa: from a system’s perspective.”
It was contributed by the following four invited
speakers (Fig. 1): Prof. Hiroshi Hasegawa (Nagoya
University)presenting
photonic
networking
architectures focusing on design and optimization
issues, Mr. Kosuke Komaki (Fujitsu) describing
challenges toward > 800 Gbit/s transmission, Dr.
Hidenori Takahashi (KDDI Research) providing recent
progress on optical submarine cable systems including
space division multiplexing, and Prof. Akihiro Nakao(University of Tokyo) proposing innovations in opticaland wireless networking from a viewpoint of
deployability. They delivered excellent opportunities
for all the participants to develop the modern outlookof optical communication technologies from various

angle. The workshop was followed by a poster session(Fig. 2), in which 19 posters were presented by young
researchers and the award winners listed later.

Fig. 2 Snapshot at poster session.
In the evening of Day 1, a keynote speech was given
by Prof. Kazuro Kikuchi (National Institution of
Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher
Education) entitled “Progress and future challenges in
optical fiber communication technologies: creation of
disruptive technologies and extension with sustainable
technologies” (Fig. 3). His talk covered historical
technologies on optical fiber communications, which
illustrated how the transmission capacity increased by
1000-fold in the Heisei period. He then presented
recent challenges, such as eigenvalue modulation andspace-division multiplexing. At the end, he remarked
that only coherent optical communications transformed
from “Phantomics” to “Photonics” during the Heisei
period, referring to words from Dr. Tingye Li andconcluded his talk with expectations of researchers to
make
other
“Phantomics”
to“Photonics”
transformations in the Reiwa period.

Fig. 3 Keynote speech by Prof. K. Kikuchi.

Fig. 1 Presenters of Workshop 1: from left, Prof. H.
Hasegawa, Mr. K. Komaki, Dr. H. Takahashi, andProf. A. Nakao.
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Day 2 (Dec. 18) started with an invited lecture (Fig.
4), organized by IEEE Photonics Society Japan Chapter,
which was given by Dr. Shinji Matsuo (NTT, an IEEE
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energy and heterogeneous integration with Si photonics
devices,” covered the basic principle of semiconductor
lasers as well as their recent advances including the
reduction of power consumption down to ~fJ/bit andultra-compact directly modulated lasers up to 100 GHz.
The rest of the morning session was devoted to thefollowing three invited talks (Fig. 4). The first talk waspresented by Mr. Hideki Nishizawa (NTT) on“Activities toward open optical transport in Telecom
Infra Project.” He described the trend in open
networking initiated from data centers including
whitebox switches and how this trend is entering
optical and packet transport systems. The second talkwas given by Dr. Kazutaka Kanno (Saitama University)and entitled “Progress in reservoir computing using
complex optical dynamics.” He introduced thefundamental concept of reservoir computing and how it
can be implemented using photonics with the aim ofrealizing large-scale machine learning with low power
consumption. Finally, as a special invited talk, Emeritus
Prof. Kenichi Sato (Nagoya University / AIST) gave alecture entitled “Together with communication
technology progress: architectural viewpoint andnetwork research and development.” He first described
his early works on ATM, photonic network, and opticalnodes with a special focus on architectural viewpoint.
Based on these experiences and achievements, hebrought us convincing insights into future directions
toward optical networking in data center.

Fig. 4 Invited lecturers: from left, Dr. S. Matsuo, Mr.
H. Nishizawa, Dr. K. Kanno, and Emeritus Prof. K.
Sato.
In the afternoon session, we had another workshop
entitled “Technologies in Reiwa: exploring the future,”focusing on devices and subsystems (Fig. 5). Invited
talks were given by Dr. Tetsuya Hayashi (Sumitomo
Electric) on fibers and cables for space divisionmultiplexing, Dr. Shinsuke Tanaka (Fujitsu) on silicon
modulators and transmitters, Dr. Takuo Tanemura(University of Tokyo) on a coherent Stokes vectortransmitter and receiver, and Mr. Masanori Nakamura(NTT) on digital coherent signal generation beyond
100 Gbaud. The workshop covered exciting challenges

Fig. 5 Presenters of Workshop 2: from left, Dr. T.
Hayashi, Dr. S. Tanaka, Dr. T. Tanemura, and Mr. M.
Nakamura.

ongoing toward the Reiwa age and left strong
promising messages to the participants for sustainablegrowth of this field.
3. Rump Session
In the evening of Day 1, we had a rump session witha topic of “Let’s attract junior and senior high school
students to optical communication!”, hosted by Prof.
Hiroyuki Uenohara (Tokyo Institute of Technology). In
order to initiate the discussion, Mr. Shohei Beppu(KDDI Research) and Prof. Shojiro Kawakami(Photonic Lattice) first gave a short presentation on
how to stimulate young students into this field. The
attendees explored their previous experiences anddiscussed what is the most impressive way to introduce
optical communications to the youth of today. It
reminded the attendees about themselves why they areinterested in this research field.
4. Award Ceremony
During the technical sessions, we celebrated thisyear’s OCS award winners at the award ceremony (Fig.
6). The OCS Technical Committee presented theawards to the following winners:z OCS Best Paper Award: “Real-time MIMO
optical receiver in weakly-coupled ten-mode fibertransmission,” by Dr. Koji Igarashi (Osaka
University) et al.
z OCS Young Researchers Award: Mr. Naoya
Takefushi (Tohoku University) for “GAWBS
noise influence for digital coherent transmission
and its fiber dependence”
z OCS Young Researchers Award: Mr. Hiroki
Taniguchi (NTT) for “255-Gb/s PAM-8 O-band
transmission using MLSE based on nonlinear
channel estimation with 20-GHz bandwidth
limitation”

Fig. 6
OCS award-winners: from left, Mr. H.
Taniguchi, Dr. T. Tsuritani, Mr. N. Takefushi, Mr. Y.
Saito, Prof. J. Maeda (presenter), Mr. D. Soma, Mr. S.
Beppu, Mr. M. Kikuta, and Dr. K. Igarashi.
5. Conclusion
We hope that the participants received a lot ofinvaluable stimulation and inspiration from thepresentations and discussions during the two-day
symposium. Finally, the OCS technical committee
would like to express gratitude to all the speakers,
exhibitors, and participants, for their contributions tothe successful symposium.

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Report on the Japan-Korea Joint
Conference on Satellite Communications(JC-SAT 2019)
Masaaki Kojima†, Hiroki Shibayama††,
Shinobu Nanba††† and Takuya Okura†††††NHK, ††NTT Corporation,†††
KDDI Research, ††††NICT
1. Overview
This article reports on the Japan-Korea Joint
Conference on Satellite Communications (JC-SAT) thatwas held in JR Hakata City, Fukuoka, Japan, on October
10th and 11th, 2019.
This conference was jointly organized by TechnicalCommittee on Satellite Communications of IEICE in
Japan and the Korean Society of Space Technology(KOSST) in South Korea. The conference wassponsored by the IEEE VTS Japan Chapter and fundedby the Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications
Technology Research (SCAT).
The JC-SAT intends to provide a forum forresearchers in the field of satellite communications andapplications to discuss the current status, technicalchallenges, standards, fundamental issues, and futureservices (Fig. 1).

On the first day, 2 general and 1 special sessions were
held. Dr. Fumihiro Yamashita, a general chairperson of
the JC-SAT 2019, gave a welcome speech (Fig. 2), and
Dr. Ki-kuen Kim, a general co-chairperson of the JCSAT 2019, presented a congratulatory address (Fig. 3) inthe opening ceremony. During the special session, Dr.
Morio Toyoshima reported on the “Research andDevelopment of Satellite Communication Technologies
at the National Institute and Communications
Technology and Future Prospects”. Dr. Ki-kuen Kim
also presented the “Overview of Korean Government
Satcom for Special Mission”, and Dr. Mitsugu Okawa
presented the “R & D Activity of Flexible Payload
Technologies for Next Generation High Throughput
Satellite by the Engineering Test Satellite 9 Project”.
On the second day, 4 general and 1 special sessions
were held. During the special session, Dr. Byoung Sun
presented the “ETRI satellite R & D activities”, and Mr.
Osamu Yoshida presented the “Overview of OneWeb
Satellite Constellation Project”.

Fig. 1 Audience at JC-SAT 2019.
2. Report on Sessions
The technical program of the JC-SAT 2019 consistedof 8 sessions, during which 23 general papers and 5
special papers were presented. The total number ofregistered participants reached 39: 26 from Japan and 13
from Korea. The presented papers covered a wide rangeof unique and novel technical topics on satellite
communication.

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Fig. 2 Welcome speech by Dr. Fumihiro Yamashita,organizing committee chair of JC-SAT 2019.

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Fig. 4 Announcement of JC-SAT Award.

Fig. 3 Congratulatory address by Dr. Ki-kuen Kim,
organizing committee co-chair of JC-SAT 2019.
3. JC-SAT Award Ceremony
At the end of the second day, the technical committeeof the JC-SAT 2019 announced the winners of theoutstanding research paper award (JC-SAT Award)
among all submitted general papers (Fig. 4).
Both IEICE and KOSST technical members
profoundly reviewed all the papers and discussed thereview results of award candidate papers, which is amandatory condition for award authorization.
Through the above procedure, the following two
papers were honored with the JC-SAT Award.
1. Kohei Ueno, Eiji Okamoto, Hiroyuki Tsuji, andAmane Miura, “Performance Improvement of UAVassisted Data Gathering System for Distributed IoT
Terminals”
2. Taeyeoun Kim, Woncheol Cho, and Jihwan Choi,“User-Customized Profit Optimization for LEO
Satellite Network Slices”

Fig. 5 JC-SAT Award winner selected from the
IEICE general papers.

During the JC-SAT Award ceremony on the secondday, Dr. Ki-kuen Kim handed the award certificate to thewinner from IEICE (Fig. 5), and Dr. Fumihiro
Yamashita did it to the winner from KOSST (Fig. 6).

Fig. 6 JC-SAT Award winner selected from the
KOSST general papers.

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4. Conclusions
Mr. Hisashi Sujikai, a chairperson of the technicalcommittee of the JC-SAT 2019, delivered a closing
speech, reporting that the JC-SAT 2019 concluded witha great success (Fig. 7). The technical committee
members held a pre-meeting on the day before the firstday of the JC-SAT 2019. At the pre-meeting, it was
tentatively decided that the next JC-SAT would be heldin Korea on October 7th and 8th, 2020.

Fig. 7 Participants of JC-SAT 2019.

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Report on 2019 Asian Wireless Power Transfer
Workshop (AWPT 2019)
Long Li1,*, Yan Shi2,*, Qiaowei Yuan3,**
1 General Co-chair, 2 TPC Co-chair,
3 Local Arrangement Co-chair of AWPT 2019
* Xidian University, China,** National Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Japan
1. Introduction
The 2019 Asia Wireless Power Transfer Workshop(AWPT 2019) was successfully held at South Campusof Xidian University, Xi’an, China from Oct. 31 to Nov.
2, 2019. The AWPT 2019 is organized by Xidian
University and technically co-sponsored by IEICE
communication society, IEEE Xi’an Section, Qian
Xuesen Space Technology Laboratory, and China
Promotion Committee for Space Solar Power Station(SSPS), and financially supported by Key Laboratoryof High-Speed Circuit Design and EMC, Ministry of
Education, Wireless Power Transfer Consortium for
Practical Applications (WiPoT), Division ofInternational Cooperation & Exchanges of Xidian
University, Shanghai Laitian Technology Co., Ltd.,Guangdong Shenglu Telecommunication Technology
Co., Ltd., and GD Midea Small Domestic Appliances
Division.
2. AWPT Histories
The 2019 Asian Wireless Power Transfer Workshop(AWPT 2019) in Xi’an is the fifth of the consecutive
series inaugurated in Taiwan, in 2015 and held in
Chengdu, China in 2016 and in Singapore in 2017 andSendai, Japan in 2018. AWPT 2019 will offer a richscientific program of the highest quality with keynote
and invited speakers from all over the world andprovide a broad forum of exchange for the progress andadvancements of wireless power technologies in
consumable, biomedical and industrial applications.
3. Committee Members
Prof. Long Li with Xidian University and Prof.
Masaharu Takahashi with Chiba University served as
general co-chairs of the AWPT 2019. Prof. Yan Shi
with Xidian University, Prof. Takafumi Fujimoto with
Nagasaki University, Prof. Guoqiang Li with South
China University of Technology, Prof. Kenjiro
Nishikawa with Kagoshima University, and Prof.
Xinbin Hou with Qian Xuesen Laboratory served astechnical program committee co-chairs. Prof. Raj
Mittra with University of Central Florida, Prof. Qiang
Chen with Tohoku University, Prof. Naoki Shinohara
with Kyoto University, Prof. Ke Wu with University ofMontreal, Prof. Yongxin Guo with National Universityof Singapore, Prof. Yi Huang with University ofLiverpool, Prof. Zhizhang Chen with Fuzhou
University and Dalhousie University, and Prof. Shuxi
Gong with Xidian University served as international
advisory committee co-chairs. Prof. Huiqing Zhai with
Xidian University and Prof. Akio Wakejima with
Nagoya Institute of Technology served as award
committee co-chairs. Prof. Jincheng Zhang with Xidian
University, Prof. Wen Jiang with Xidian University,
Mr. Binpeng Li with Xidian University, and Prof.
Tsunayuki Yamamoto with Yamaguchi University
served as finance committee co-chairs. Dr. Haixia Liu
with Xidian University, Prof. Nozomi Haga with
Gunma University and Dr. Osamu Kagaya with AGC
Inc. served as website and publicity co-chairs. Prof. Jin
Huang with Xidian University, Prof. Xiaowei Shi with
Xidian University, Prof. Qiaowei Yuan with National
Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Prof. Lixin
Guo with Xidian University, Prof. Zhangming Zhu
with Xidian University, and Dr. Shiwei Dong with
CAST served as local arrangement co-chairs.
4. Workshop Overview
The AWPT 2019 focused on various wireless powertransfer related technical areas including wirelesspower transfer and energy harvesting, wireless powertransmitters and receivers, integrated circuits andsystems, and applications of wireless power transfer,and other device, system or application topics. The
IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves
in Medicine and Biology (J-ERM), will publish aSpecial Issue devoted to the AWPT 2019. Finally, 76
papers including 3 keynote talks, 24 invited talks, and49 poster presentations were accepted, and more than
120 attendees. 3 keynote talks are as follows:z Baoyan Duan (Academician of Chinese Academyof Engineering), “The updated SSPS-OMEGA
design project and the latest development ofChina”.
z Ke Wu (Fellow of the Canadian Academy ofEngineering (CAE) and the Royal Society ofCanada), “Ambient energy harvesting for wirelessinternet of things and smart environment”.

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z Naoki Shinohara (IEEE MTT-S TechnicalCommittee 26 chair), “Recent standardization of
microwave power transfer”.
[WiPot Award & Best Student Award]z Bo Yang, Tomohiko Mitani, Naoki Shinohara, “A
5.8GHz magnetron phased array system”.
[Best Student Award]
z Chen Xu, Yuan Zhuang, Ye Wang, Le Fang, Yi
Huang, Jiafeng Zhou, “Electric field energy
harvesting on electrical cables and its applications
in voltage measurement”.
z Pei Zhang, Hao Yi, Xuanming Zhang, and Long
Li, “A dual-band broadband back-to-backmicrostrip antenna for wide-angle RF energy
harvesting and wireless power transfer”.
[Student Award]z Zhongqi He, Pengde Wu, Changjun Liu,
“Microwave rectifying based on schottky diodes
with enhanced dynamic ranges”.
z Akika Yoshie, Keita Sakakibara, Takashi Hikage,“Numerical estimation of indoor propagation
characteristics considering human-body shadowing
for beam-type wireless power transfer”.
z Mingyang Chen, Bingcheng Ji, Katsuhiro Hata,
Takehiro Imura, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Yoichi Hori,
Sayuri Honda, Shuhei Shimada, Osamu Kawasaki,“Pareto optimization of power and efficiency forlunar rover wireless power transfer system withmulti-layer insulation”.
z Jie Yang, Yan Shi, “A wireless power transfer
system with frequency conversion characteristic”.
z Jiaxu Li, Sen Yang, Kedi Zhang, Huiqing Zhai,“Study on the wireless power transfer in multireflection environment based on time reversal”.
z Yuxin Zhang, Danyu Yang, Menghan Sun,
Huapeng Zhao, Jiafeng Zhou, “Design of multiple
antiparallel rectangular coils for range stablewireless power transfer”.
z Nobuyuki Takabayashi, Naoki Shinohara,
Tomohiko Mitani, Minoru Furukawa, “Study on
the practical use of microwave power transfer tomini-drones using flattopped beams at 5.74 GHz”.
z Hikaru Kitaoka, Shinji Abe, Satoshi Tsukamoto,Takashi Ohira, “Minimum size design ofcapacitive coupler for wireless power transfer toachieve specified power efficiency”.
5. Conclusion
On behalf of the organizing committee of AWPT
2019, we deeply appreciate to all invited speakers,
attendees, and student volunteers of the workshop. We
believe that the AWPT 2019 was a successful
workshop.

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Fig. 1 Attendees of AWPT 2019.

Fig. 2 General co-chairs of AWPT 2019.

Fig. 3 Keynote speakers of AWPT 2019.

Fig. 4 Poster presentation of AWPT 2019.

Fig. 5 Oral presentation and Banquet of AWPT 2019.

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Report on the 9th International
Symposium on Network Virtualization
Takeshi Kinoshita* and Yutaka Takita***NTT Corporation **Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
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1. Introduction
The 9th International Symposium on Network
Virtualization was held on November 25, 2019, at the
University of Tokyo (U-Tokyo), Japan. The
symposium has been held annually since 2011 topromote research and development of network
virtualization through international collaboration ofresearchers, aiming at realizing new communications
infrastructure using the technology.
2. Overview
The theme of this year’s symposium was “Network
Softwarization in-progress: Advanced test beds andfield trials.” Latest research activities and technologicalissues on network softwarization were discussed withthe focus on large-scale experimental works forinfrastructure deployment as well as software andhardware progresses that support them.
The symposium was co-hosted by IEICE TechnicalCommittee on Network Virtualization; JSPS ITRC
Network Virtualization Working Group; Network
Architecture Committee, Fifth Generation Mobile
Communication Promotion Forum (5GMF); National
Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT); and Interfaculty Initiative inInformation Studies, U-Tokyo. Dr. Takashi Shimizu of
NTT Corporation led the Program Committee.
About 50 researchers and engineers from bothindustry and academia joined the conference. As in thepast, there were student attendees as well. A social
gathering was held after the symposium to facilitate theinternational interaction.
3. Session Program
The symposium started with the greeting by Dr.
Takashi Shimizu, chair of this year’s symposium,
followed by two opening speeches by Dr. Mizuhiko
Hosokawa of NICT and Dr. Kiyohide Nakauchi of
ITRC. In the following talk sessions, each of the four
invited speakers made a presentation for a 40-minutetime slot.
The first speaker was Dr. Abhimanyu Gosain ofNortheastern University, who is Technical Program
Director of Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research(PAWR) Project Office. The presentation title was “Asurvey of USA National Wireless Mid Scale Research
Infrastructure for Research and Experimentation.” He
had been a speaker in the previous two years’
symposiums, in each of which he introduced the newest

Fig. 1 Greeting by Dr. Takashi Shimizu (Chair).

Fig. 2 Opening Speech by Dr. Kiyohide Nakauchi.
activities of PAWR, a joint project by National Science
Foundation (NSF) and an industry consortium on
wireless technologies. This year, he explainedadvancements on two projects that were selected as the
PAWR awardees in 2018 (Round I): Platform for Open
Wireless
Data-driven
Experimental
Research(POWDER) and Cloud Enhanced Open Software
Defined Mobile Wireless Testbed for City-Scale
Deployment (COSMOS). He also introduced thenewest project, Aerial Experimentation and Research
Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW), which isthe 2019 (Round II) awardee. According to him, thenext round (Round III) will focus on innovativetechnologies applicable to rural and other low-density
geographic areas.

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The next speaker, Dr. Dan Kilper of the University of
Arizona, Tucson, made a presentation about“COSMOS as a Testbed for Virtualized Networks from
Fiber to the Mobile Edge Cloud.” As mentioned above,
COSMOS is a project funded in the framework of
PAWR. It provides a testbed consisting mainly ofsoftware defined radio (SDR), software defined
networking (SDN) based optical networks, and edge
clouds, and has been deployed in New York. In the
project, not only emerging networking technologies but
also applications, such as cloud assisted autonomousvehicles, are being tested intensively.
The third speaker was Dr. Raymond Knopp of
EURECOM. In his presentation titled “An Overview of
OpenAirInterface and EURECOM’s 5G Experimental
Facility,” he first summarized various developments of
OpenAirInterface (OAI) with their scopes andobjectives. OAI provides software suites that arecompliant with 3GPP specifications and can be used oncommodity computers. Its contributors include large
vendors. It now supports 5G radio systems, and there
are some commercial products using it. In thepresentation, he also introduced a number ofexperiments using OAI that are being conducted inEuropean sites.
The final speaker, Dr. Toshiyuki Miyachi of NICT,
talked about “StarBED as a network and IoTemulator.” StarBED is a large scale emulation facility
that works as a testbed for different types of emulators.
Since the project of StarBED was initiated in 2002, it
has enhanced the objectives. The latest version, called
StarBED 4, provides environments for evaluating IoT
small devices as well as human and physical field
behaviors. He explained technical challenges realizing
an integrated environment while presenting some casestudies to use the emulators.

started, there are a number of highly useful open source
software and hardware products available now, such as
OAI, even though commercial 5G services have yet tobe realized on a large scale. Community activities on
product developments and/or experiments have also
been active across the world in recent years, increasing
their role in driving innovations. These trends are notlimited to 5G but can be seen in other fields like optical
networks, which traditionally consist of closed systems.
This year’s panelists, who are strongly involved inthese trends and pushing them forward, exchanged
opinions about related issues, such as how to foster
international collaborations, how academia can orshould contribute to bringing about innovations, and soon. The discussion was very lively and identified anumber of interesting issues as homework for the nextyear.
Additional information about the program isavailable at the symposium website [1].

Fig. 4 Panel Session.
4. Conclusion
Network softwarization technologies have beensteadily penetrating into both fixed and wirelessnetworks, a move occurring along with developmentsof various open source products. Community activities,
such as test beds and field trials conducted by industryacademia collaborations, play a key role in the move.
This year’s symposium introduced the latest activities
of both industry and academia, showing they weremaking concrete progresses in laboratories, field trials,
or projects.
5. Reference[1] http://www.ieice.org/~nv/english/symposium1

Fig. 3 Presentation by Dr. Toshiyuki Miyachi.
Following the talk session, there was a one-hourpanel session, which was chaired by Dr. Akihiro Nakao
of U-Tokyo. With the above four speakers as panelists,
the panel discussed challenges towards the 5G era. Oneof the issues was how to democratize 5G, which wasquite interesting as well as realistic. Unlike when 4G

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Report on the 10th International
Conference on ICT Convergence(ICTC 2019)
Jong-Ho Lee1, Myungsik Yoo1,
and Jae doo Huh2
1Soongsil University, Korea, 2ETRI, Korea
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1. Introduction
The 10th International Conference on Information
and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC2019) was held in Ramada Plaza Hotel, Jeju Island,
Korea from October 16 to 18, 2019. ICTC is a leading,flagship international conference hosted by the
Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) of Korean
government, organized by the Korean Institute ofCommunications and Information Sciences (KICS) andtechnically co-sponsored by IEICE-CS and IEEE
Communications Society. ICTC 2019 features anextremely rich program with the main theme of “ICT
Convergence Leading the Autonomous Future.” The
conference addresses numerous challenges of ICT
convergence over various industrial sectors, including
wireless and mobile communication systems andinfrastructure, future networks, services andapplications, smart devices and consumer appliances,
cloud computing, green communication, healthcare andbio-informatics, and Internet of Things (IoT).
2. Conference Program
The conference program includes plenary sessions,invited industrial sessions, technical paper sessions,and special sessions.
In two plenary sessions (Fig. 1), we had 4 keynote
speeches. The Plenary Session 1 started with the
opening address by Prof. Yeong Min Jang, (Presidentof KICS), and a congratulatory address by Dr. Youngsam Kim (President of Korea Electronics Technology
Institute (KETI), Korea). Then, Dr. Jaeho Jeon (Headof R&D, Networks Business, Samsung Electronics Co.,
Ltd, Korea) delivered a keynote speech on“Commencing the Journey of 5G Commercialization”
which was followed by another keynote speech on“Realizing 5G vision” by Mr. Hakan Cervell (CEO of
Ericsson-LG). Plenary Session II consists of 2 keynote
speeches. Dr. Myungjoon Kim (President ofElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI), Korea) delivered a keynote speech on“Artificial Intelligence and Its Application to ICT” andProf. Khaled B. Letaief (President, IEEE
Communications Society) delivered a keynote speechon “Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Network
Optimization.”
Each of two industrial sessions (Fig. 2) consists of 3
invited talks from industries. The theme of Industrial
Session I was Industrie 4.0, AI Connected Healthcare

Fig. 1 Plenary Session.
Platform, and Convergence of ICT and Mobility. Mr.
Han Tiong Law (APJC Manufacturing Industry Lead,
Industry Solution Group, Cisco Systems, USA), Dr.
Sambit Sahu (Manager and Research Scientist, IBM
T.J. Watson Research, USA), and Dr. Chang “Charles”
Choo (Technical Consultant, Mando Innovations
Silicon Valley, USA) gave excellent talks on the theme.
In Industrial Session II, Dr. Jong-Min Lee (VicePresident, SK telecom, Korea), Mr. Andy Park (Sr.
Manager, Government Affairs, Qualcomm Korea) andDr. Hyuckchul Jung (Vice President, Morgan Stanley,USA) gave interesting talks on 5G era, mmWave
breakthrough, and AI-enabled Business Chatbot
Applications.
Regarding technical paper sessions (Fig. 3), 802
papers were submitted to the conference. After
thorough review process, the technical programcommittee (TPC) accepted 361 papers, which wereorganized into 24 oral sessions and 2 poster sessions.
The overall acceptance ratio was about 45%. The topics
of technical paper sessions covered wireless and mobile

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Fig. 2 Industrial Session.

Fig. 4 Conference Banquet.

Fig. 3 Technical Session.
communications, information and communication
theory, future internet, smart media and broadcasting,green communication technologies, smart grid, uhealthcare and bio-informatics, IoT, Machine-toMachine (M2M), and encryption and security. In
addition, 15 workshop sessions were provided and 6
special sessions were organized with 19 invited talks
from academia and industries.
3. Social Events
At the first night, the welcome reception was held at
the convention hall of hotel. The participants enjoyed
the beverage and cookies talking together.
The conference banquet (Fig. 4) was held at thesecond night. The banquet began with a welcome
address and introduction of OC members by Dr. Jaebum Seok (President of Institute of Information &communications Technology Planning & Evaluation(IITP), Korea). The 10th anniversary ceremony was also
held. Prof. Myungsik Yoo (TPC Chair) made a TPC
report, including paper statistics and Best/Excellent
Paper Award selection procedure. Then, a Symposia
Program Committee (SPC) report was made by Dr. Jaedoo Huh (SPC Chair). 2 Best Paper Awards and 4
Excellent Paper Awards were presented to the authorsof six selected papers (Fig. 5). All participants enjoyed
the banquet with nice Korean food and an exciting
performance.

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Fig. 5 Best/Excellent Paper Award.

4. Conclusion
Since 2010, ICTC has been the unique global
premier event for researchers, industry professionals,
and academics interested in the latest developments inthe emerging industrial convergence centered on the
ICT technologies. On behalf of OC and TPC, we would
like to thank all the participants and sponsors who
made ICTC 2019 a big success. It is our great pleasure
to announce that the next event, ICTC 2020, will beheld in Ramada Plaza Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea, during
October 21-23, 2020 [1]. ICTC 2020 invites thesubmission of original research works in all areas ofinfrastructure, services, technologies, and applicationof ICT convergence.
5. Reference[1] http://ictc.org/

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Report on 2019 International Symposium on
Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2019)
Toru Takahashi
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, ISAP JSC Secretariat
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1. ISAP20192019 International Symposium on Antennas andPropagation (ISAP2019) was held at Xi’an Paradise
Resort, Xi’an, China, from October 27th to 30th, 2019.
This was the 12th ISAP outside Japan since thesymposium started to be held in Asia-Pacific region
every year. ISAP2019 was co-organized by Xidian
University, Southeast University, and South China
University of Technology, and was in cooperation witha lot of academic institutes not only in Asia-Pacificregion, but also in USA and Europe. The IEICE
Communications Society (IEICE-CS) was also one of
the technical co-sponsors for the symposium.
Prof. S. Gong (XDU), Prof. W. Hong (SEU), andProf. Q. Chu (SCUT) served as General Co-Chairs, andProf. Y. Liu (XDU, China), Prof. Z. Hao (SEU, China),
Prof. J. Hirokawa (TIT, Japan), and Prof. X. Zhang(SCUT, China) served as Technical Program
Committee (TPC) Co-Chairs.
The statistics for paper submission and acceptanceare summarized in Table 1. Papers were submitted
from a lot of countries/regions not only in Asia- Pacific,
but also all over the world. Table 2 shows the top fivecountries/regions for the number of the accepted papers.
A lot of reviewers including TPC members, who were
nominated by international review system, contributed
energetically multiple-review work in a limited timeand supported TPC.
On the first day, October 27th, two technicalworkshops were presented. After that, participants were
hosted at the welcome reception.
On the second day, October 28th, the opening
ceremony were held (Fig. 1), and four keynote
speeches were presented (Fig. 2). These keynote
speeches focused on future challenges of antennas,
propagation, and related systems such as 5G
communication and beyond, and are listed below.
z Prof. Claude Oestges (UCLouvain, Louvain-laNeuve, Belgium), “Radio Propagation Modelingfor 5G and Beyond”.
z Prof. Zhang Yueping (Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore), “Antenna-in-Package(AiP) Technology㸸From Academic Curiosity to
Industrial Reality”.
z Prof. Hiroyuki Arai (Yokohama National
University, Japan), “Optical antenna systems forbeyond 5G”.

Table 1 Statistics of papers
Submitted Papers
638
Accepted Papers
540 (84.6%)
Table 2 Top five for accepted papers
China
341
Japan
101
Korea
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Malaysia
12
Taiwan12(a) Greeting from General Co-Chair,Prof. W. Hong.

(b) Greeting from IEICE-CS President-Elect,Prof. N. Kikuma.
Fig. 1 Opening Ceremony.

Fig. 2 Keynote speech by Prof. H. Arai.

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z Dr. Zhipeng Zhou (Science and Technology on
Antenna and Microwave Laboratory), “Researchof the Next-generation Phased Array Antenna
Technology”.
After the opening ceremony, 60 technical oral
sessions, 4 poster sessions were presented during threedays from October 28th to 30th.
Participants were hosted at the comfortable Banquet
in the evening on October 29th, and enjoyed a musicalstage in regard to Tang Dynasty China (Fig. 3).
2. ISAP International Steering Committee Meeting
The ISAP International Steering Committee (ISC)
Meeting was held at the symposium venue in theevening on October 28th.
The ISAP-ISC was established at ISAP2006 bymembers from 9 countries/regions. The mission of thecommittee is planning future ISAP and establishing
operation rules to steer the symposia smoothly using
international cooperation. Now, the committee
members are from 12 countries/regions; Australia,
China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Macau,
Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia.
The operation and venue for future ISAP werediscussed in this meeting. After the discussion, it has
been decided that the venue of ISAP2022 will be
Sydney, Australia. Incidentally, the venues up to 2021
have been decided to be Osaka, Japan in 2020, andTaipei, Taiwan in 2021.
Figure 4 shows photo of the ISC Member.

Fig. 3 One Scene in the Banquet.

Fig. 4 ISC Member.

3. ISAP Archives
ISAP-ISC also set up ISAP Archives recording thepapers presented at the past ISAP, as shown in Fig. 5.
To this day, all the papers from the first ISAP in 1971
to ISAP2018 except for ISAP2017 have been digitizedand online. Anybody in the world AP community canaccess ISAP papers with free of charge. The archive isupdated every year. This service will respond to
expectations of AP specialists in the world and enhance
motivations especially for Asian people to submit
papers.
The papers of the latest ISAP will be archived almosta half year later after the ISAP. The papers of
ISAP2019 will appear in the ISAP Archives soon. In
addition to the ISAP Archives, the papers of recent
ISAPs have also been included in IEEE Xplore.

Fig. 5 ISAP Archives Web site.
(http://www.ieice.org/cs/isap/ISAP_Archives/).

4. Conclusion
ISAP2019 provided to contributors and participants
an academic and friendship atmosphere for exchanging
advances in AP research and strengthening relationship.
Many young students also had a chance to discuss withthe experts in their fields. The upcoming ISAP2020 areorganized by IEICE-CS and will be held in Osaka,
Japan, from October 26th to 30th, 2020. Important Dates
of ISAP2020 are listed below. For more details, please
visit the ISAP2020 Web site shown in Fig.6(http://www.isap2020.org/).

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Fig. 6 ISAP2020 Web site.
(http://www.isap2020.org/).
Important Dates of ISAP2020
Deadline for Student Design Contest Application;
March 27, 2020.
Deadline for paper submission;
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Report on the 37th International Communications
Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC2019)
Hiroyuki Tsuji
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
1. Introduction
ICSSC stands for International Communications
Satellite Systems Conference, and it is considered oneof the most influential technical conferences on satellite
communications systems. The conference is centeredmainly on the headquarters of the United States. It wasstarted in 1966 and has been held in the United States
until the sixteenth conference in 1997, but it was first
held in Japan (Yokohama) for the first time in 1998,
and it has been held in Asia once every 4 years sincethen. This year was the fourth time in Japan for the firsttime in 8 years.
2. Overview of ICSSC2019
The meeting was held for 4 days from October 29 toNovember 1, 2019, and the venue was the Okinawa
Municipal Autonomous Center in Naha City.
The participants were about 150 people, and 15
countries participated in the conference, mainly Japan,
the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany,
Canada, Australia, and Luxembourg.
The theme of the 2018 joint conference (36th ICSSC
and 24th Ka Conference) was space based
communications, applications and technologies in the
5G Era. The 37th ICSSC addressed challenges, looking
forward to the employment of new technologies,
architectures and system solutions for migration,
harmonization and integration to make 5G networks
more attractive, effective and advanced. The theme of
the 37th ICSSC was “Ensuring a Realistic Migration,
Harmonization and Integration of Space Based
Communications Facilities Within the 5G Network”. In
addition, satellite communication industries in AsiaPacific region and the activities were expected to be
introduced during the 37th ICSSC. The colloquium andPlenary Panels introduced various activities for satellite
communications usage in 5G networks, including
introduction of optical technologies and massive impact
of introducing 5G to space industries.
3. Highlights of the 37th ICSSC
The first day, Tuesday, October 29th, was dedicatedto the Colloquium which explored the current state of
the art in all of these optical areas and projected
forward to explore the impact of these technologies on
future systems and applications.
The conference consisted of 16 sessions, and there
were about 70 presentations. In addition, there were 1
keynote speech, 1 special talk, and 4 panel discussions,

respectively. The panel discussions treated the topics ofsatellite industries and related activities in Asia-PacificRegion, Smart mobility and GNSS, satcom in 5G &digital disruption era, respectively. As for the specialtalk, Mr. Miyakawa, President of the HAPS Mobile
Inc., spoke about the development situation of thestratospheric platform communications system (HAPS).
4. Conclusions
ICSSC2019 was successful in providing ample
discussion opportunities and exchanging views on thelatest satellite technologies. The next Joint 26th Ka andBroadband Communications Conference & 38th ICSSC
will be jointly held in Arlington, Virginia, USA, from
October 13 through October 16, 2020. The web site is
as follows:
https://www.kaconf.org/

Fig. 1 Dr. Naoto Kadowaki, General Co-Chair of
ICSSC 2019, gave opening address.

Fig. 2 Special talk by Mr. Junichi Miyakawa,
President & CEO, HAPS MOBILE Inc.

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Report on the 8th IEEE International Conference on
Renewable Energy Research and Applications(ICRERA2019)
Yudai Furukawa
Fukuoka University
1. Introduction
The 8th IEEE International Conference on Renewable
Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA2019) was
held on 3-6 November 2019 in Brasov, Romania.
Brasov is in the central part of the country and is 166
km north of Bucharest. ICRERA is the annual worldclass technical forum presenting the latest research
topics in the renewable energy technologies and theirapplications.
The main sponsor of ICRERA2019 was theInternational Journal of Renewable Energy (IJRER).
IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS); IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society (IES); and the Institute ofElectronics, Information and Communication Engineers(IEICE) support the conference as a technical cosponsor. It was also supported by Transilvania
University of Brasov, Romania; Nagasaki University
and Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan; Gazi
University and Nisantasi University, Turkey.
2. Conference Overview and Tutorials
The conference program consisted of 5 keynote
speeches, 2 industrial talk 30 technical sessions, and 3
tutorials. On the first day, 3 tutorials were carried out
about following topics: 1) Big Data Analytics for Smart
Grid Systems, 2) Li-Ion Batteries and Smart Battery
Solutions, and 3) Applications of Renewable Energy
and Other Energy Saving Technologies to Railway
Stations and Traction Power Supply System.
3. Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speeches
The opening ceremony was held by the general chair,Prof. Carmen Gerigan, and co-chairs, Prof. Ilhami
Colak and Prof. Fujio Kurokawa in the morning on thesecond day. After that, 3 of 5 keynote speeches were
presented. The first speaker, Prof. Atsuo Kawamura,talked about Challenge to 99.9% Efficiency ElectricPower Conversion and the Applications. Next, thetopic about Modular Multilevel Converters – A New
Technology was presented by Prof. Remus Teodorescu.
Further, Mr. Hidehiko Kikuchi (the vice president of
TEMIC Co., Japan) and Mr. Tatsuaki Ambo (the senior
fellow of TEMIC Co., Japan) talked about Utility Scale
PV/ESS Inverter System and the Basic Technology. In
the morning on the third day, the rest of keynote
speeches were given. Prof. Dan M. Ionel presented
about Recent Technology Developments for UtilityScale and Distributed Battery Energy Storage Systems
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issues related to modern power converters. After the
keynote speeches, the industrial talks about The History
of Electric Energy Utilization in Japanese Railway and
Future Prospects of Renewable Energy Applications
was presented by Dr. Hitoshi Hayashiya (East Japan
Railway Company, Japan). Also, High-Efficiency
Energy Conversion from Solar to Hydrogen waspresented by Mr. Yoshiyasu Nakashima (Fujitsu
Advanced Technologies Limited, Japan).
4. Technical Program
Total 296 papers were submitted to ICRERA2019
from 38 countries all over the world. 178 papers were
accepted (the acceptance rate was 60%) through thecareful peer review. There were 28 oral and 2 poster
sessions including 138 and 40 presentations,
respectively. These sessions ran in parallel of 3-4.
5. Conclusions
ICRERA2019 has been finished during the success.
Accepted papers were almost presented at theconference (176 of 178 were presented). The
participants discussed about the interesting subjects,
advances and developments about the topic of theconference. This conference promoted the researchcollaboration in renewable energy technologies.
The next 9th IEEE ICRERA2020 will be held in
Glasgow, UK on 27-30 September 2020.

Fig. 1. Opening ceremony.

Fig. 2. Romanian traditional dance with attendees atgala dinner.

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Report on 25th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference
on Communications (APCC 2019)“Enabling Technologies for Smart Cities”
Nguyen Duc Phuc, Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, Tan Hanh
Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT),
Vietnam

many famous historical sites (e.g., Reunification Palace,
War Remnants Museum, City Hall, Museum ofVietnamese History, Ho-Chi-Minh Museum, etc.),architectural attractions (e.g., Saigon Opera House),and enjoy the “Streets of Foreigners” such as Bui Vien,
De Tham and Pham Ngu Lao streets, a very busy
Saigon night market with many interesting activities inDistrict 1.

1. Introduction
The Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications(APCC), which is an international forum focusing on
communications and information technology, has been
hosted in 9 Asia-Pacific (AP) countries since 1993, i.e.
Korea (1993, 2000, 2006, 2012), Japan (1995, 2001,
2008, 2015), China (1999, 2004, 2009, 2018), Australia(1997, 2005, 2017), Indonesia (2002, 2013, 2016),
Malaysia (2003, 2011), Thailand (2007, 2014),
Singapore (1998), and New Zealand (2010). This year,
the 25th APCC is coming to Vietnam for the first time,
thanks to the great effort and strong support from thePosts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology(PTIT) in Vietnam. The primary purpose of the APCC
conference is to provide researchers and engineers in
the AP region with an opportunity to discuss topics
related to advanced communication technologies andservices while opening the door to the world. This
report briefly presents conference activities such as
keynotes, technical sessions, cultural and academic
exchanges among scientists in the APCC 2019 days,
November 6-8, 2019. Through interactive face-to-face
discussions, APCC, as a regular international
conference in the AP region, can effectively stimulate
research collaborations and development activities infuture communication technologies. This year, 25th
APCC was held in Ho Chi Minh City (HCM), which isthe biggest city and technology hub of Vietnam.

2. Conference Committee
The committee members of APCC 2019 are listed asfollows.

Local information: Ho Chi Minh City is the largest
city in Vietnam, one of the biggest cities in the whole
South East Asia Region. It is also known as Saigon - anational hub of commerce, technology science researchand culture. The cuisine of Vietnam is well known as
one of the most delicious and healthy foods in theworld. The Vietnamese culture and local attractions in
Ho Chi Minh city are very unique and deserving yourfurther exploration and experience. The climate in Ho
Chi Minh City is tropical wet and dry, divided into two
distinct seasons. The rainy season is from May to
October and the dry season runs from December toApril. Ho Chi Minh City is a harmonious combinationof historical, beautiful, and modern landscapes, andfriendly residents. In the city, visitors can discover

Honorary Co-chairs:
Masahiro Umehira (Ibaraki University, Japan)
Daehyoung Hong (Sogang University, Korea)
Steering Co-chairs:
San Vu Van (PTIT, Vietnam)
Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
General Co-chairs:
Tan Hanh (PTIT, Vietnam)
Xuan Nam Tran (IEEE Comsoc-Vietnam Chapter)
Khoa N Le (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Financial Co-Chair:Pham Minh Quang (PTIT, Vietnam)
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
Nguyen Thi Yen Linh (PTIT, Vietnam)
Huynh Hoa (PTIT, Vietnam)

APCC 2019 technical messages: In the APCC 2019conference, all accepted regular papers havesuccessfully passed rigorous review rounds. Technicalprogram co-chairs reported that 172 submissions werereceived, of which 99 have been included in APCC
2019 program at an acceptance rate of about 57.55%.
This evidently indicates that APCC has been and isproving to be an important international forum forscientific and technical exchange among worldwide
scientists, engineers in the fields of signal processing,wireless communications, electronics, and related areas.
Needless to mention, APCC 2019 has achieved its aimof integrating Vietnamese researchers with leading
experts overseas, which helps improve wirelesscommunication research from the local community.

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Publication Co-Chairs:
Tran Trung Duy (PTIT, Vietnam)
Thien Thanh Tran (Ho Chi Minh City University ofTransport, Vietnam)
Technical Program Co-chairs:
Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao (PTIT, Vietnam)
Ha H. Kha (HCM University of Technology, VNUHCM, Vietnam)
Duy T. Ngo (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Duy H. N. Nguyen (San Diego State University,
USA)
3. Conference Program
The APCC 2019 solicits original researchcontributions in four main tracks [1]: (i) WirelessCommunications,(ii)
Signal
ProcessingforCommunications, (iii) Wireless Networks, (iv)
Emerging Technologies, Applications and Services.
APCC 2019 received 172 papers in total from 24
countries across all regions of the world. The top four
country contributors are Korea Republic, China, Japan
and Vietnam. Each submission was rigorously andindependently reviewed by at least two anonymous
reviewers. Over the three days of the conference, thetechnical program is organized to include 2 keynotes,
one invited talk, 19 regular sessions, and 3 special
sessions on (i) Physical Layer Security and Integrity for
IoT and Space Communications, (ii) Information and
Coding Theory, (iii) Emerging Technologies for 5G
and beyond networks.

Keynote talk #1: “The Intersection of Feedback
Control and Telecommunications” given by Prof. R. H.
Middleton, School of Electrical Engineering andComputing, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Abstract: Feedback Control and Telecommunications
had for many years been disjoint technical fields. Morerecently, both have recognised the need to understandthe other. In feedback control, classical assumptions ofperfect, error free, delay free, secure measurements are
increasingly unrealistic and must be relaxed.
Conversely, in Telecommunication Systems there isincreasingly a recognition of the need to consider
Feedback Control applications over communications
channels (e.g. 5G New Radio standards for Ultra
Reliable Low Latency Control (URLLC) and therelated critical Machine To Machine (cMTC)
communications). In this talk, I will discuss theseissues, together with some use cases, and implicationsfor 5G deployment of URLLC systems.
Keynote talk #2: “6G wireless: Wireless Networks
Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces” byby Dr. Marco Di Renzo from the Laboratory of Signals
and Systems (L2S) of Paris-Saclay University – CNRS,
CentraleSupélec, Univ Paris Sud, Paris, France.
Abstract: Future wireless networks are expected be30

Fig. 1. Group photo at the APCC 2019
opening ceremony.

Fig. 2. Prof. Vu Van San (PTIT), the APCC
Steering Co-chair was delivering conference
opening remarks.
more than allowing people, mobile devices, and objects
to communicate with each other. Future wirelessnetworks will constitute a distributed intelligent
communications, sensing, and computing platform.
Small cells, Massive MIMO, millimeter-wave
communications are three fundamental approaches tomeet the requirements of 5G wireless networks. Theiradvantages are undeniable. The question is, however,whether these technologies will be sufficient to meetthe requirements of future wireless networks that
integrate communications, sensing, and computing in asingle platform. Wireless networks, in addition, arerapidly evolving towards a software-defined design
paradigm, where every part of the network can be
configured and controlled via software. In thisoptimization process, however, the wirelessenvironment remains an uncontrollable factor: It
remains unaware of the communication process
undergoing within it. Apart from being uncontrollable,
the environment has a negative effect on thecommunication efficiency: signal attenuation limits the
network connectivity, multi-path propagation results infading phenomena, reflections and refractions fromobjects are a source of uncontrollable interference. In
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referred to as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces(RISs), was brought to the attention of the wirelesscommunity. The wireless future that can be envisioned
by using this technology consists of coating every
environmental object with man-made reconfigurable
surfaces of electromagnetic material (software-definedreconfigurable metasurfaces) that are electronicallycontrolled with integrated electronics and wirelesscommunications. In contrast to any other technology
currently being used in wireless networks, thedistinctive characteristic of the RISs consists of making
the environment fully controllable by thetelecommunication operators, by allowing them toshape and control the electromagnetic response of theobjects distributed throughout the network. The RISs
are a promising but little understood technology thathas the potential of fundamentally changing how
wireless networks are designed today. In this talk, wewill discuss the potential of RIS in 6G wirelessnetworks.

z Special session #1: Physical Layer Security andIntegrity for IoT and Space Communications.
z Special session #2: Information and Coding
Theory.
z Special session #3: Emerging Technologies for 5G
and beyond networks.

Invited Talk: “Software Defined Wireless Sensor
Network and Cyber Physical Intelligence” given by
Prof. Adnan Al-Anbuky, Director of SeNSe ResearchLaboratory, Professor of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, Auckland University of Technology,
Auckland - New Zealand.

Fig. 3. Keynote and invited speakers received
presents from the host of APCC 2019.

Abstract: The progress made in the field of Internet ofThings (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) areleading into the more comprehensive and integratedorganization of the Cyber Physical Systems (CPS).
Both the Cloud and Fog (or Edge-computing) plays
important role in extending the capability of wirelesssensor networks. This, in effect, enables thevirtualization and support intelligence around thevarious services that the wireless sensor network canoffer. Ultimately the goal of transparent coordination
between the virtual and physical organizations could beachieved through the two ways communication
between the information technology layer (IT layer) at
the cloud and the operational technology layer (OTlayer) at the physical environment. Timing andsynchronization among the system components are ofvital importance in coordinating the controlled actions
with the events managed by a highly complex anddistributed system. The field is directly associated withwide range of applications such as transportation,
farming, horticulture, health, manufacturing, to namefew. The talk will discuss the generic conceptualarchitecture for IoT based WSN system with emphasison the degree of freedom offered by softwarization,edge computing and network functions virtualization.
This will lead into discussing examples on conceptualuse-cases relevant to shared spaces, precision healthand vehicular networks.
4. Special Sessions
Besides regular technical sessions, APCC 2019
features three special sessions as follows.

5. Best Paper Awards
In the APCC 2019 Gala dinner, three best paper
awards have been rewarded to three authors groups,
two of them from Japan and one from USA.
z “A Study on UE Clustering and Antenna Selection
for Distributed MIMO Cooperative Transmission
using Multi-user MMSE-SVD”; Fumiyuki Adachi(Tohoku University, Japan), Yuta Seki (Panasonic
Corporation & Core Element Technology
Development Center, Japan); Tomoyuki Saito(Tohoku University, Japan).
z “Channel ranking based Spread Code
Optimization for Visible Light Communications
OFDM-IDMA Systems”; Kazushi Shimada,
Mitsuki Takahashi, Kazuki Maruta and Chang-Jun
Ahn (Chiba University, Japan).
z “Bias allocation and Precoding for Tricolor
Visible Light Communications with Signaldependent Noise”; Qian Gao (Texas A&M
University, USA); Sabit Ekin (Oklahoma State
University, USA); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M
University at Qatar, USA); Erchin Serpedin(Texas A&M University, USA).
6. Conclusions and Future Plans
APCC 2019 was finished with great success, andexcellent ideas and opinions were shared amongscientists involved in the conference.
The 26th APCC (APCC 2020) will be organized in
Kuala Lumpur city, Malaysia. Prof. Borhanuddin Mohd
Ali had a short introduction about the organization planof APCC 2020 in the conference banquet. Regarding
this plan, APCC 2020 will be held at Pullman Hotel,
which is a 4-star hotel with a 5-minute walk to PetronasTwin Tower [2].

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APCC 2020 important dates:
z Full paper submission: May 31, 2020z Acceptance notification: June 30, 2020z Camera ready & registration: July 31, 2020z Conference dates: October 12-14, 2020
7. Acknowledgement
The achievement of APCC 2019 has been also
contributed by kind and strong support from manytechnical sponsors and volunteers. Warmest thanks andregards to conference patrons and generous sponsors,
who have been willingly fostering research so that theconference can reach higher and dream further.
Technical sponsors of APCC 2019:z The China Institute of communications (CIC) [3].
z The Korea Institute of Communications andInformation Sciences (KICS) [4].
z IEICE Communications Society (IEICE-CS) [5].
z The Radio and Electronics Association ofVietnam (REV) [6].
z IEEE Vietnam Section.
z IEEE COMSOC Vietnam Chapter [7].
8. References[1] APCC 2019 website: http://apcc-conf.org/[2] APCC 2020 website: http://apcc2020.comvt.org[3] CIC website: http://english.cast.org.cn/[4] KICS website: https://eng.kics.or.kr/html/[5] IEICE-CS website: https://www.ieice.org/cs/[6] REV website: https://rev.org.vn/en/[7] IEEE COMSOC Vietnam chapter website:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/vietnam/com/

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Fig. 4. Vietnamese traditional music was
performed in Gala dinner.

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Report on IEEE WCNC 2019
5th International Workshop
on Smart Spectrum(IWSS 2019)
Mai Ohta1, Kenta Umebayashi2, and Takeo Fujii3
1Fukuoka University,
2Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,
3The University of Electro-communications

1. Introduction
International Workshop on Smart Spectrum (IWSS)is annual workshop in conjunction with IEEE WirelessCommunications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
targeting smart spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum
access and smart spectrum management with spectrum
measurement and spectrum modeling.
The first IWSS was held at New Orleans, The UnitedStates of America on March 9, 2015 in conjunction
with IEEE WCNC 2015. The second IWSS wasorganized in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2016 at
Doha, Qatar on April 3 2016. The third IWSS was heldon March 19 2017 in conjunction with WCNC2017 at
San Francisco, CA, USA. The fourth IWSS was heldon April 16 2018 in conjunction with WCNC 2018 at
Barcelona, Spain.
Finally, the fifth IWSS was held at Marrakech,
Morocco on April 15 2019 in conjunction with WCNC
2019.
2. Interesting Topics of IWSS and Purpose
IWSS focuses on wireless network technology basedon spectrum measurement, spectrum utilization
modeling, and their applications for dynamic spectrum
access. One part of topics is the follows, but are notlimited to:z Spectrum measurement techniques (wideband,
long-term, and wide area measurements)z Spectrum measurement campaign and systemprototypingz Multidimensional spectrum utilization models
z Statistical modeling of radio environmentz Radio propagation modeling for spectrum sharingz Cognitive radio networks and dynamic spectrum
accessz Spectrum sensing techniques based on statisticalmodeling
z MAC layer access protocol design based instatistical modelingz The purpose of IWSS is to find new spectrum
world for future mobile communications!

3. Summary of IWSSIn IWSS, 12 papers for oral sessions were acceptedfrom submitted 27 papers. IWSS consists of one
Keynote speech and one Panel.
4. Keynote
Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini had a keynote speechin the workshop. The title was “Addressing spectrum
scarcity through hybrid optical and radio-frequency
wireless networks” and he introduced his works toresolve the problem of the radio-frequency spectrum
exhaustion. Specifically, optical wireless (OW)
communication systems and some important challenges
for OW have been introduced. The talk suggests two
recent studies illustrating how supplementing OW
networks with RF backup access points increases these
networks reliability and coverage while maintaining
their high capacity.
5. Panel
We also have panel discussion in terms of Smart
Spectrum Exploitation in Current and Future WirelessCommunication Systems. The panelists are Dr. Valerio
Frascolla, (Intel Deutschland GmbH, Germany), Prof.
Takeo Fujii, (The University of Electro-Communications,Japan), Dr. Amir Ghasemi, (Communications ResearchCentre, Canada), Dr. Kim Haesik, (VTT TechnicalResearch Centre, Finland), and Prof. Nizar Zorba,(Qatar University, Qatar). The moderator was Prof.
Miguel López-Benítez, (University of Liverpool, UK).
They have discussed about technical and regulation
issues in terms of current spectrum scarcity problem, andpossible solution, such as smart spectrum technologies.
In addition, they have introduced current situations in
Europe, Asia and US.
6. Best Paper Awards
IWSS awarded one paper with the best paper award
and two papers with the best student paper award asfollows:

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z Best paper award: Raouia Masmoudi Ghodhbane(Safran Tech, Safran Sensing Systems, France) “A
Relevant Energy-Efficient Metric in OFDM for
Opportunistic Users”
z Best student paper award: Yiding Yu Soung
Chang Liew and Taotao Wang (The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) “CarrierSense Multiple Access for Heterogeneous
Wireless Networks Using Deep Reinforcement
Learning”
z Best student paper award: Rafhael Amorim(Aalborg University, Denmark), István Z. Kovács(Nokia Bell Labs & Aalborg, Denmark), Jeroen
Wigard (Nokia, Denmark), Troels B. Sørensen
and Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University,
Denmark) “Forecasting Spectrum Demand for
UAVs Served by Dedicated Allocation in Cellular
Networks”

Fig. 2 Jemaa el-Fnaa square.

Fig. 3 Majorelle garden.

Fig. 1 Best paper award(Prof. Miguel López-Benítez [left] andMr. Raouia Masmoudi Ghodhbane [right]).

7. Aspect of Marrakech
Marrakech is very aggressive and very exotic city,which is an ancient capital Kingdom of Morocco. The
Jemaa el-Fnaa square is one of the best-known squaresin Africa shown in Fig. 2. There are many shops andrestraint in this square. Marrakech has the large market
called Souks with many shops concentrated withnarrow passages like maze. Many sightseeing places
are located like city walls, gates, gardens (Fig. 3
Majorelle garden), and palaces.
Conference hotel shown in Fig. 4 is located at thesouthern part of Marrakesh 10 min by car. Many
attendants enjoy Morocco style foods and hospitality
with some unexpected experience we cannot feel in thewestern countries.

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Fig. 4 Conference hotel.

8. Reference[1] https://smartspectrum2019.wordpress.com

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LocationNote

26 Oct. –30 Oct. 2020

2020 International Symposium on Antennas andPropagation (ISAP2020)

Osaka, Japan

Submission due:
24 Apr. 2020

18 Oct. –21 Oct. 2020

The 23rd International Symposium on Wireless
Okayama, Japan
Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC2020)

Submission due:
11 May 2020

12 Oct. –14 Oct. 2020

The 26th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia(APCC2020)

Submission due:
30 Apr. 2020

22 Sep. –24 Sep. 2020

International Telecom Congress ITC 32 (ITC32)

Osaka, Japan

Submission due:
20 Mar. 2020

13 Jul. –15 Jul. 2020

2020 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Cabo San Lucas, Submission deadline
MexicoClosedMeeting Series (IEEE Summer Topicals 2020)

5 Jul. –9 Jul. 2020

2020
Opto-Electronics
Conference (OECC2020)

Taipei, Taiwan

Submission deadline
Closed30 Jun. –3 Jul. 2020

The 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous andPorto, Portugal
Future Networks (ICUFN2020)

Submission deadline
Closed7 Jun. –11 Jun. 2020

IEEE ICC Workshop on Information-Centric
Networking Solutions for Real-world Applications Dublin, Ireland(ICN-SRA)

Submission deadline
Closed25 May 2020

Technology Trials and Proof-of-Concept Activities for
5G Evolution & Beyond 5G 2020 (TPoC5GE 2020)

Antwerp,
Belgium

To be held soon

20 May –22 May 2020

The 14th International Symposium on Medical
Information and Communication Technology(ISMICT 2020)

Nara, JapanTo be held soon

19 Feb. –21 Feb. 2020

2020 International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Information and Communication
Fukuoka, Japan(ICAIIC 2020)

Done

7 Jan. –10 Jan. 2020

The 34th International Conference on Information
Networking (ICOIN 2020)

Barcelona,
Spain

Done

15 Dec. –16 Dec. 2019

International Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics,
Communications and Computations 2019
(JAC-ECC2019)

Alexandria,
Egypt

Done

9 Dec. –11 Dec. 2019

7th International Conference on Smart Grid
(icSmartGrid 2019)

Newcastle,
Australia

Done

6 Nov. –8 Nov. 2019

The 25th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications(APCC2019)

Ho Chi Minh,
Vietnam

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3 Nov. –6 Nov. 2019

International Conference on Renewable
Research and Applications (ICRERA2019)

EnergyBrasov,
Romania

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Satellite

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Xi'an, China

Reportedon this issue

16 Oct. –18 Oct. 2019

International Conference on Information
Communication Technology Convergence 2019
(ICTC2019)

Jeju Island,
Korea

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The IEICE Transactions on Communications announces that it will publish a special section entitled "Special Section on
Fusion of Network virtualization/Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence towards Beyond-5G Innovative IoT Services" inMarch 2021.
䠑G is reaching the stage of realization and ultra-high speed mobile broadband, ultra-low latency in communications, andaccommodation of massive IoT devices lay the groundwork for innovative IoT services. On the other hand, towards
Beyoud-5G era, requirements for more reliable, flexible, and robust ICT (Information and Communication Technologies)
systems are emerging and pose new challenges.
Advanced technologies for network virtualization and softwarization are expected to provide flexibility to satisfy a wide
variety of customer demands, scalability to expand in accordance with the increase of demands, efficiency in resource usage
even under scarce and heterogeneous environment, and sustainability to involve new functionalities and technologies in an
incremental manner for service continuity. However, rapid progress needs to be made to tackle such new challenges. In
particular, fusion with AI (Artificial Intelligence) attracts great attention.
We thus call for publications (scheduled to appear in the March 2021 issue) for promoting discussion and development of
network virtualization and softwarization based on the fusion with Artificial Intelligence towards Beyond-5G innovative IoT
services, especially on architectural examination, resource management and control approaches, mobile and wireless network
virtualization, edge computing, open-source software, and so forth.

1. Scope
This special section aims at timely dissemination of research in these areas. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
AI-based network management and control in network virtualization
Mobile and wireless network virtualization and its related mobility technologies
Edge computing for Beyond 5G services
Photonic network virtualization
Management of massive IoT devices
Security for network virtualization and secure services
Innovative applications based on network virtualization
Network softwarization and open-source software
Testbeds for above technologies and experimental results

2. Submission Instructions
The standard number of pages is 8. The page charges are considerably higher for extra pages. Manuscripts should be preparedaccording to the guideline in the "Information for Authors". The latest version is available at the web site,
https://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_cs.html. The period for revising the manuscript after acknowledgement of conditional
acceptance for this special section could be shorter than that for regular issues (60 days) because of the tight review schedule.
This special section will accept papers only by electronic submission. Submit a manuscript and electronic source files(LaTeX/Wordfiles,
figures,authors’
photosandbiography)
via
the
IEICE
Web
site
https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx by April 12th, 2020 (JST). Authors should choose the Fusion of Network
virtualization/Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence towards Beyond-5G Innovative IoT Services as a "Journal/Section" on
the online screen. Do not choose [Regular-EB].
Contact point:
Kiyohide Nakauchi
Social-ICT System Laboratory, ICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
Tel: +81-42-327-5403, Email: nv+eb2021@mail.ieice.org
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3. Special Section Editorial Committee
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Hiroaki Harai (NICT)
Guest Editors: Dai Suzuki (Fujitsu Laboratories), Kiyohide Nakauchi (NICT)
Guest Associate Editors: Masaki Aida (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), Toru Hasegawa (Osaka Univ.), Yohei Hasegawa(NEC), Katsuyoshi Iida (Hokkaido Univ.), Yoshinori Kitatsuji (KDDI Research), Fumio Teraoka (Keio Univ.), Atsuko
Takefusa (NII)*Authors must agree to the “Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement” via electric submission.
*Upon accepted for publication, all authors, including authors of invited papers, should pay the page charges covering thepartialcostofpublication
aroundSeptember
2020.
Fordetailed
information,pleasevisit
https://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/page2_cs.html#5*At least one of the authors must be an IEICE member when the manuscript is submitted for review. Invited papers are an
exception. We recommend that authors unaffiliated with IEICE apply for membership. For membership applications, please
visit the web-page, https://www.ieice.org/eng/join/member.html.
*The accepted papers will be published online soon after notification of acceptance on the web site of Transactions Online. For
detailed information, please visit http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/page2_cs.html#8

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From Editor’s Desk‫ە‬Season’s greetings
IEICE General Conference will be held at Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima-city, from 17th to 20th March
2020.Complete English sessions are also scheduled in the conference to promote globalizations of IEICE’s academic
activities. The Welcome Party will be also held on 17th March 2020, the first day of IEICE General Conference.
Various students and business persons will get together and enjoy drinking and eating some foods. Please check out
the latest conference information on the IEICE web site at:https://www.ieice-taikai.jp/2020general/en/index.html
IEICE-CS GLOBAL NEWSLETTER Editorial Staff
Editorial Staff of this issue
No special order is observed.

Yohei KOGA
Fujitsu Connected Technologies, Ltd.
Platform Development Div.
Director, Planning and Member Activities, IEICE Communications Society

Nazuki HONDA
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Access Network Service Systems Laboratories
Director, Planning and Member Activities, IEICE Communications Society

Yoshitaka ENOMOTO
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Access Network Service Systems Laboratories
Director, International Publication, IEICE Communications Society

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The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication
Engineers (IEICE)

Communications Society

About Communications Society
IEICE Communications Society shallendeavor to facilitate research andinvestigation activities in the field ofcommunications, and to contribute toresearch activities through cooperation withother societies, in order to promote thedevelopment of science and technology inthis field.

 Technical Committees
Twenty regular technical committees and six
ad hoc technical committees carry out
research activities. The following is a list of
the technical committees.

ȷ Radio Communication Systems (RCS)ȷ Wireless Power Transmission (WPT)
ȷ Sensor Network and Mobile Intelligence(SeMI) (Joint committees of ASN/MoNAᲣ

Ad Hoc Technical Committees
ȷ Standardization & Innovation in ICT
Technologies (SIIT)
ȷ Extremely Advanced Optical
Transmission (EXAT)ȷ Network Virtualization (NV)ȷ Photonics-applied Electromagnetic
Measurement (PEM)
ȷ Information-Centric Networking (ICN)ȷ Networked Digital Service Platform (DPF) Publications
Regular Technical Committees
ȷ Antennas and Propagation (AP)ȷ Internet Architecture (IA)ȷ Space, Aeronautical and Navigational
Electronics (SANE)
ȷ Satellite Telecommunications (SAT)ȷ Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMCJ)ȷ Communication Quality (CQ)ȷ Information and Communication
Management (ICM)ȷ Information Networks (IN)ȷ Smart Radio (SR)ȷ Short Range Wireless Communications(SRW)
ȷ Communication Systems (CS)ȷ Energy Engineering in Electronics andCommunications (EE)ȷ Network Systems (NS)ȷ Optical Communication Systems (OCS)ȷ Optical Fiber Technology (OFT)ȷ Photonic Network (PN)ȷ Healthcare and Medical Information
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IEICE Transactions on Communication
The IEICE Transactions on Communications(English and Japanese editions) are
published monthly.
The impact factor of IEICE Transactions on
Communications (English edition) was 1.09
in 2017.
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IEICE Communications Express (ComEX)
IEICE Communications Express (ComEX) isan online letter journal, where researchers
can exchange new topics easily and in atimely manner.
You can download PDF files from the
ComEX site.
http://www.comex.ieice.org/

 Membership Services
Technical Report Archives
Magazines¾ GLOBAL NEWSLETTER (GNL)
GLOBAL NEWSLETTER (GNL) exchanges
information on global activity between
overseas/foreign members and othermembers in IEICE-CS.
GNL is published every March, June,
September, and December.
http://www.ieice.org/cs/pub/global_news.html

Technical Report Archives is an archive of all
the technical reports of IEICE-CS publishedmore than one month ago. It is part of the
IEICE Technical Report Online System.
Email NewsWe call for papers of transactions andinternational conferences, as well as
technical workshops from CS members byemail.

 Sister Societies
Communications Society has sister-society
agreements with the following six overseas
societies.

¾ Communications³%-SOXV´

SocietyMagazine

The Communications Society Magazine-DSDQHVH HGLWLRQ RQO\  ³%-SOXV´ provides
technical reviews, surveys, practical topics,
etc. ³%-SOXV´ is published quarterly inJapanese. The electronic version has beenaccessible free of charge since March 2015.

ȷ IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
ȷ Informationstechnische Gesellschaft
within The Verband Der Elektrotechnik
Elektronik Informationstechnik (VDE/ITG)
ȷ Korean Institute of Electromagnetic
Engineering and Science (KIEES)ȷ The Korean Institute of Communications
and Information Sciences (KICS)
ȷ China Institute of Communications (CIC)
ȷ IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society(EMCS)

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IEICE General Conference 2020
17-20 March 2020
Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima Campus
Every spring, each Society organizes a General Conference to provide a forum
where members can present their study results and exchange views. At present,
four of the Societies -- the Engineering Sciences Society, the NOLTA Society,
the Communications Society, and the Electronics Society -- hold their Society
Conferences as a joint event. The Communications Society Conference includes
English-language sessions in addition to the Japanese-language sessions.
https://www.ieice-taikai.jp/2020general/en/index.html

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