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March 20, 2017
Activity Report of URSI-F
Reported by Y. Maekawa (Chair)
1. Commission meetings in the period of November 2016 – March 2017(For more detail, please see http://ursi-f.nict.go.jp/)(1)

No. 609 Meeting
Date: November 24-25, 2016

Place: Kyoto International Community House (Kyoto)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP, RCS, and IEEE AP-S
Kansai Joint Chapter. Seven papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:
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Development and Perspective of Path Shadowing Model
Evaluation of Propagation-Path Identification Combining FDTD Method and Compressive Sensing
A Study on Compressive Sensing Data Transfer for Network Operation of Phased Array Weather Radar
Path Loss Characteristics in Outdoor Crowded Areas at 4.7 and 26.4 GHz
MU-MIMO Model and the Channel Properties – Correlation between Users/Eigenvalues and Channel
Capacity –Evaluation of Transmission Rate on Massive MIMO in an Outdoor Environment
Performance Evaluation on Massive MIMO considering Delay Waves

No. 610 Meeting
Date: December 7, 2016
(Tokyo)Place: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Three papers were presented:
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Experimental Study to Measure Radio Path Loss between Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Points (APs) andbetween an AP and a WLAN Client Terminal (CL) Deployed in Indoor Offices with Different BuildingStructure. – Deriving Empirical Formulas of the Radio Path Loss between APs and between the AP and
the CL from Data Measured by Using WLAN AP Cisco CAP3702I for Supplementing Recommendation
ITU-R P.1238 –A Preliminary Experimental Investigation of BLE-based Fingerprinting using Raspberry Pi
Radio Wave Propagation Measurements and Path Loss Modeling in Outdoor Agriculture Environment for
Wireless Sensor Network Tossaporn SRISOOKSAI

No. 611 Meeting
Date: January 19-20, 2017

Place: Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima Campus (Hiroshima)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP, WPT, and IEEE AP-S
Kansai Joint Chapter. Thirteen papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented::
Characteristic Evaluations of TV-wave Human Detection Systems around Vehicles under Actual
Environments
2. Localization of Radio Terminals based on Leaky Coaxial Cable-MIMO Propagation
3. Estimation of Changes in Cross-Polarization Discrimination of Ka-band Satellite Communication Signals
due to Lightning Discharges
4. Size Reduction of Scale Model for Propagation Loss in Microcell
5. Path Loss Frequency Dependency of 2-26 GHz in an Urban Macro Cell Environment
6. Propagation Measurements by Using Directional Vehicle Antenna
7. Analysis of Car-Cabin Propagation Characteristics by FDTD Method using a Vehicle 3D Model
8. Channel Capacity in Doubly-Selective Fading Environments
9. DOA Measurement of Modulation Wave Using Synthetic Aperture Method
10. Performance on Multi-Beam Massive MIMO with User Selection Scheme
11. A Study on Countermeasure Technique for Overreach Propagation in Terrestrial Digital TV Broadcastings
12. Path loss estimation of human bodies blockage in an outdoor crowded area1.

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13. Effects of Building Shapes at an Intersection on Path Loss Characteristics for Millimeter Wave Band inStreet Microcell Environments(4)

No. 612 Meeting
Date: March 10, 2017

Place: NTT Yokosuka R & D Center (Kanagawa)

Four papers were presented:
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SHF Band Path Loss Characteristics Considering Human Body Shadowing in a Crowded Area
On Capacity of Multipath Fading Channels
Non Destructive Inspection of Periodic Structure Target Using Broadband Polarimetry for Terahertz
Radiation
Mapping Atmospheric Water Vapor by SAR Interferometry: from Measurement to Assimilation into a
Numerical Weather Model

For more details, please see:

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

2. Others
For URSI GASS (General Assembly and Science Symposium) which will be held in August 2017 in Montreal,Canada, Professor Motoyuki Sato (Tohoku University ) and Dr. Motoharu Sasaki (NTT) were recommended as
Japanese candidates of URSI-F Vice Chair and ECR (Early Career Representative), respectively.