資料10-FFebruary 26, 2013
Activity Report of URSI-F
Reported by Y. Maekawa (Chair)
1. Commission meetings in the period of November 2012– February 2013(For more detail, please see http://www2.nict.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/)(1)

No. 569 Meeting
Date: November 14-16, 2011

Place: Tokyo Denki University (Tokyo)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committees on AP and CS, and IEEE AP-S
Japan Chapter. Seven papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented in the URSI-F special session andother sessions:
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Standardization activities on radio wave propagation technology in ITU-R
Radio wave propagation for radio communication technologies of a new era
OFDM transmission in multi-path propagation environment
study of MIMO channel property with movement in LOS and NLOS paths – Dependence of correlation on
antenna configuration –Analysis of MRC diversity characteristics of OFDM where delay profile exceeds the guard interval
A reverberation chamber to realize multipath-rich environment [IV] – Frequency dependence ofpropagation characteristics in the chamber –A study on time-spatial propagation model for low antenna height base station – Delay profile model –For more details, please see:(2)

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/

No. 570 Meeting
Date: December 14, 2012
(Tokyo)Place: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Three papers were presented:
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Current status of cloud profiling radar (CPR) onboard EarthCARE satellite
Measurement of the refractive index of polystyrene foam at 60GHz
Improvement effects of site diversity techniques on rain attenuation in Ku-band satellite communications
links related to rain area motion

No. 571 Meeting
Date: January 23-25, 2013

Place: Hotel Merieges Miyazaki (Miyazaki)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP, and IEEE AP-S Fukuoka
Chapter. 17 papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented in the special sessions organized for recent
propagation issues:
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Study of elevation power angular spectrum to evaluate performance of 3D beamforming at base station
Deterioration mechanism of MIMO channel capacity and the influence on actual environment
Scale model method for mobile propagation in urban area and residential areaA experimental study on spatio-temporal channel characteristics in outdoor-to-indoor radio propagation
environment
5. FDTD analysis of shielding effect of connecting doors for wireless LAN access service in high-speed traincars
6. Evaluation on interfering power due to 2/3 GHz band in heterogeneous network
7. Performance evaluation on MIMO sensor using narrow band FSK signals
8. Basic study on communication frequency for Very Large MIMO transmission
9. Evaluation of propagation loss difference between the 5.8GHz and 700MHz bands in V2V environments
10. Propagation loss model in inter-vehicles radio communication environments
11. Urban dynamic channel modeling for MIMO system evaluation using particle filtering
12. Arrival wave distribution characteristics with low antenna height in residential area113. Analysis of field measurement with wideband MIMO sounder at 11 GHz frequency
14. Numerical examination on propagation loss properties for propagation distance and passerby density in casepeople exist between transmitter and receiver
15. Shadowing-multipath analysis of a BAN diversity antenna based on statistical dynamic measurements of thehuman walking motion
16. A study on the effects of rain area motion and upper atmospheric wind speed on rain attenuation
characteristics in Ku-band satellite communications links
17. Presumption of trajectory deviations of a cubesat orbiting at very low altitude based on Ku-band beaconobservations
For more details, please see:

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/

2. Others
URSI-F Triennial Open Symposium will be held in Ottawa, Canada. Date: Apr.30-May 3, 2013.
The 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR) 2013 will be held in Tsukuba, Japan. Date:
Sept. 23-27, 2013.

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