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Contents○ From President
Greetings from the New President ................................................................................................................................ 2
Nobuyoshi Kikuma○ From CS Fellows
Transmission System Design for 40G Link System through Global Collaboration .....................................................3Akira Hirano
My Research Experience on Switching Power Supply Control for Electronics, Information and Communications
System .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7Fujio Kurokawa○ Technology Reports
Application of AI to Network Operation .................................................................................................................... 11
Ryoichi Kawahara, Keishiro Watanabe, Shigeaki Harada, Takehiro Kawata○ IEICE-CS Activities Now
2019 IEICE Fellow Conferred on 9 IEICE-CS Members ........................................................................................... 19
Nazuki Honda
Annual Report of Technical Committee on Information Networks (IN) .................................................................... 20
Seiichiro Mochida, Shingo Kashima, Shuntaro Kashihara, Hiroyasu Obata
Report on the Sixth ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2019) .....................................................22Yutaka Fukuda
Annual Report of Technical Committee on Information and Communication Management (ICM) ..........................24
Saburo Seto, Haruo Oishi, Hiroki Nakayama
Report on NS English Session at 2020 IEICE General Conference ‒BS-1 In-Network Intelligence for Design,Management, and Control of Future Networks and Services‒ ................................................................................... 25
Tatsuaki Kimura, Yosuke Tanigawa, Shinya Kawano, Shiro Mizuno, Akihiro Nakao, Yoshikatsu Okazaki
Report on the 1st Philippines-Japan Workshop on Wireless, Radio and Antenna Technologies .................................26
Paul Jason Coⓒ 2020,IEICE

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Report on the Sixth ENRI International Workshop
on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2019)
Yutaka Fukuda
Secretary General of EIWAC2019
Electronic Navigation Research Institute,National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Japan
1. Introduction
The Sixth ENRI International Workshop on
ATM/CNS (EIWAC2019) was held on October 29-31,
2019 at the Nakano Central Park Conference, Tokyo,
Japan. It was organized by the Electronic Navigation
Research Institute (ENRI), National Institute ofMaritime, Port and Aviation Technology (MPAT),
Japan, in cooperation with the IEICE and otherorganizations. The theme of EIWAC2019 was“Exploring Ideas for World Aviation Challenges.”2. EIWAC History and Overview
EIWAC is a biennial event which started in 2009 [1].
It has focused on the research and development ofoperational improvement in Air Traffic Management
(ATM)
and
its
enabling
technologies
inCommunication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS). It
has contributed to the global harmonization of researchand development with the participation of a wide rangeof speakers from international organizations, regulators,
service providers, industries, research organizations,
universities, and airspace users etc.
On the first day, we had seven keynote presentations
and a panel discussion by opinion leaders, and on thesecond and third day, three special presentations and 18
technical sessions were held. In total, 63 oralpresentations and 9 poster presentations were presented
at three parallel technical sessions. All thepresentations were categorized into Academic Track of
research activities and Interchange Track of latest
technical information exchange. The total number ofparticipants was 861 from 19 countries. Four
exhibitions of SWIM (System Wide Information
Management), Foreign Object Debris Detection System,SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) andCARATS (Collaborative Actions for Renovation of Air
Traffic Systems) Open data took place in the foyer. The
welcome reception was held on the first day evening inthe foyer.
3. Keynote Speech
EIWAC2019 was commenced with the opening
address by Prof. Hiroyuki Yamato, the President ofMPAT.
The plenary session was organized with keynote
speeches and a panel discussion.
At first, Mr. Stephen P. Creamer (Director, Air
Navigation Bureau, International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO)) began with an introduction to22Fig. 1 Keynote Speech by Mr. Stephen Creamer
Director, ICAO ANB.
the Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP) and the Global
Aviation Safety Plan (GASP), and discussed about thelatest initiatives such as the digital aviation ecosystem,expanding new users and new needs in the aviation,
cyber security, trust frameworks, and digitalcertification.
Mr. Florian Guillermet (Executive Director, SESAR
Joint Undertaking) focused on Digital Transformation(DX) in the aviation and activities to build
infrastructure suitable for future air traffic expansion in
his presentation.
Mr. Christopher Loring (Manager, NextGen
International Office, FAA) spoke on NextGen's
progress and achievements, international initiatives, thepath to TBO (Trajectory Based Operations), prospects
for the next 20 years (high altitude operations, UAM(Urban Air Mobility)), UTM (Unmanned Aircraft
Systems Traffic Management), and activities for thefuture.
Mr. Tohru Kawaharabata (Director, Air Navigation
Services Department, Japan Civil Aviation Bureau)
stated on the progress of CARATS, such as SWIM as
well as challenges for PBN (Performance BasedNavigation), data communications, international
harmonization and international digitization.
Mr. Naoki Tanaka (Director of Corporate Strategy
Department, Corporate Strategy & Planning Division,
JAL) mentioned on the outlook of the aviation market,
activities of the Innovation Lab for AI, robotics,
maintenance applications, VR training, and corporate
strategy, including efforts to achieve the SDGs.
Mr. Yoshiaki Tsuda (Vice President, ANA Digital
Design Lab & Avatar Division, ANA), Mr. Akira
Fukabori, and Mr. Kevin Kajitani (Co-Directors Avatar
Division, ANA) introduced drone and space businesses
as innovation initiatives, and presented about its avatar
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Mr. Shigeru Ozeki (Director General, ENRI)
introduced the accumulation of aviation knowledge andthe digitization of ATM/CNS for that purpose, therelationship between innovation and standardization,and the use of EIWAC.
4. Panel Discussion
The panel discussion was focused on the“Digitalization in Aviation: A Standardization
Perspective,” which was the final item of the plenary
session. Digital transformation in aviation was an
emerging topic and was referred to as a pivotal elementin terms of future technological proliferation.
Moderators were Mr. William C. Johnson (NASA),
who is one of the EIWAC TPC (Technical ProgramCommittee) external committee members and Mr.
Hajime Yoshimura (JCAB), who is a former Presidentof the ICAO Air Navigation Commission. Panelists
were Mr. Creamer (ICAO), Mr. Terry McVenes(President and CEO, RTCA), and Mr. Christian
Schleifer (Secretary General, EUROCAE).
Initially, the topics were provided by the Standards
Developing Organizations EUROCAE and RTCA,
followed by discussions by moderators and questions
from the audience. Discussions were held on the needfor faster standardizations and regulations to ensure
safety while responding to new users in the aviation
field, and the effectiveness of gathering and discussing
stakeholders from the early stage of standardization.
5. Invited Talks
Mr. Christian Schleifer (EUROCAE) delivered apresentation on current and future aviation
standardization activities in EUROCAE. Mr. Akbar
Sultan (Director, Airspace Operations and Safety
Program, NASA) presented recent activities on NASA
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Mr. Patrick
Souchu (Program Director, DSNA) expressed on
sharing trajectory information for TBO.
6. Technical Sessions
In total, 18 technical sessions were divided into 14
categories such as ATM Performance / ATM
Modelling / Airport Management / AI for ATM /Aviation Weather / Trajectory Management / UTM /Traffic Capacity & Congestion Management / SWIM /Surveillance / Aviation Safety / Global Tracking &Related Technologies / GNSS / Space Weather.
7. Student Awards and Selected Papers
Since the 4th EIWAC (2015), TPC has selected
excellent student presenters and awarded the “BestStudent Paper Award” with the aim of encouraging
young ATM/CNS researchers. Mr. Philippe
Monmousseau (ENAC, France Civil Aviation Univ.)
was the winner of the EIWAC2019 Best Student
Award for the paper titled “Passengers on social media:
A real-time estimator of the state of the US airtransportation system”. This study is about estimating
the number of delayed flights at major airports in theUnited States using social media Twitter data.

Fig. 2 EIWAC2019 Keynote Speakers,
TPC members and guests.
Since EIWAC2013, papers with innovative researchideas and outstanding quality are reviewed and selectedfor the publication in the “Air Traffic Management andSystems” [2-4] series in collaboration with Springer.
The fourth book in the series, “Selected Papers ofEIWAC2019” is under process for publication.
8. Conclusion
At EIWAC2019, we learned about international
initiatives to address new aviation users, the use ofICT-related technologies such as digital transformationand trust frameworks in the aviation field.
A post survey conducted showed that 87% of therespondents marked a good rating while 88% expressed
their interest in participating in the next EIWAC.
The next EIWAC is scheduled to be held in autumn
2021 in Tokyo. Call-for-Papers for EIWAC2021 will
be released in autumn 2020. Please visit our EIWAC
site for further information at the following URL. We
welcome your submission to EIWAC.
http://www.enri.go.jp/eiwac/index_e.html
9. AcknowledgmentENRI thanks international organizations, nationaladministrative agencies, service providers, operators,manufacturers, research organizations, universities, andacademic societies for their support in making
EIWAC2019 a great success.
ENRI also thanks the external committee members of
TPC who made great contributions to review andassign papers for technical sessions.
10. References[1] Shigeru Ozeki, “Drafting Future Skies EIWAC2017,” IEICE Communications Society GLOBAL NEWSLETTER, Vol.42, No.2, pp. 2829, June 2018.
[2] ENRI ed., “Air Traffic Management and SystemsSelected Papers of the 3rd ENRI International
Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2013),” ISBN
978-4-431-54474-6, Springer, 2014.
[3] ENRI ed., “Air Traffic Management and Systems
II - Selected Papers of the 4th ENRI International
Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2015),” ISBN
978-4-431-56421-8, Springer, 2017.
[4] ENRI ed., “Air Traffic Management and Systems
III - Selected Papers of the 5th ENRI International
Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2017),” ISBN
978-981-13-7085-4, Springer, 2019.
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