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IEICE Communications Society GLOBAL NEWSLETTER Vol. 42, No.1
Contents○ From CS Fellows
My Life as a Researcher ............................................................................................................................................... 2
Shigeru Tomita○ From Foreign Students/Members
From Study to Work in Japan: A Choice Changed My Lifestyle .................................................................................. 4
Hailan Peng

○ IEICE-CS Activities Now
Report on the Workshop on Internet Architecture and Applications 2017 (IA2017) in Bangkok, Thailand ................6
Daisuke Kotani

Report on Japan-Korea Joint Conference on Satellite Communication (JC-SAT 2017) ...............................................7
Kosuke Yamazaki, Takashi Takahashi
Report on the 13th International Conference on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics 2017
(ICSANE 2017) .......................................................................................................................................................... 10
Sounosuke Fukushima, Toshifumi Moriyama, Akitsugu Nadai

Report on the 2017 NS English Session Awards and Award Ceremony ..................................................................... 12
Hideki Tode, Yoshikatsu Okazaki, Kazuya Tsukamoto, Kenichi Matsui, Kenichi Kashibuchi
Report of SmartCom 2017 − The Fourth International Workshop Held in Rome, Italy − ..........................................14
Kenta Umebayashi, Mai Ohta, Takeo Fujii, Osamu Takyu, Koichi Adachi, Suguru Kameda
Report on the 31st Optical Communication Systems Symposium“Growth strategy for optical communications in ICT revolution” ............................................................................. 18
Yoshiaki Kisaka, Yoshinori Yamamoto○ IEICE-CS Related Conference Reports
Report on IEEE 5G Summit Tokyo ............................................................................................................................ 20
Koichi Asatani

Report IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum 2017 ................................................................. 22
Sławomir Hanczewski
Report on 2017 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2017) ..............................................24
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Report on the 8th International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC 2017) ......................................................... 30
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Report on the 6th IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications(ICRERA2017) ........................................................................................................................................................... 32
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My Life as a Researcher
Shigeru Tomita
NTT Advanced Technology Corporation
1. Introduction
Long time ago, when I was playing in thekindergarten, I dreamed to become a train driver or asuper hero like Ultraman. (It is famous Superhero likeSuperman in US) After that, when I entered to a
primary school, my dream changed to become aprofessional baseball player. However, in those days,
my eye vision began to degrade and I had to wear
glasses, I gave up a dream to be an athlete. In days ofjunior high school, I began to play a keyboard inRock'n Roll band. I thought that I wanted to be acomposer or a piano player in music business area.
When I entered to a high school, I had shocked by a
man who played piano very well. He became aprofessional piano player and he is still working well inthe musical business area. With above processes, I
decided to go to the engineering department of theuniversity when I was at 3rd grade in the high school.
With another word, I started to walk toward a practical
future target. When I was 4th grade of the university,
Professor came to me and said "It is better to have a job
in NTT Laboratories, because I think that you can dowell in such area". At that time, I thought that I wanted
to get a job in TV business. However, I decided tobelieve Professor's suggestion. Up to now, I could notrecognize the reason why I do so. Anyway, I started alife as a researcher at NTT Laboratories in 1983.
2. Researcher Life in NTT
2.1 Preparation
When I was entering NTT Laboratories, I did notknow about jobs of a researcher well. I merely
expected to be able to study optical fibers and theirrelated characteristics, because I had studied on thatarea in university era. At first, I had studied on an
estimation method about pulling force of
telecommunication cables into ducts that had several
curve portions on its route. I had recognized that
estimating elongation on optical fiber during
installation is very important to estimate its lifetime,
because optical fiber is made of glass. However, in
those days, I thought that I wanted to be study ontransmission characteristics of optical fibers. Anyway, I
learned mechanical characteristics of optical fibers andthe way to write research papers.
2.2 Big ProjectIn 1985, NTT announced that optical fibers would beinstalled in access networks in the late 80s. For thispurpose, optical fiber ribbons and high fiber count2

cables had been developed. Fortunately I had been
joined this big project in its early stage. I was assigned
to development team of high count optical fiber cables.
Optical fiber ribbon is a kind of coated fiber. Figure 1
shows a cross-section of an optical fiber ribbon (fourfiber ribbon) [1]. Four coated optical fibers are unified
by using an outer coating material. Each coated opticalfiber is 0.25 mm in diameter, and so the distance
between adjacent optical fibers is 0.25 mm.

Fig. 1 Cross-section of 4-optical fiber ribbon
The slotted rod cable was invented to accommodate
the optical fiber ribbon. For example, the cross-sectionof 1000-optical fiber cable is shown in Fig. 2. The
cable consists of one hundred and twenty-five 8-fiber
ribbons, a tensile member, LAP tape and a sheath. Five8-fiber ribbons are stacked and accommodated in eachslot. Each slotted rod has five slots, giving the cable a
total of twenty-five slots.
Copper pairTensile member
LAP tape

8-fiber ribbon
SheathFig. 2 1000-optical fiber cable
At that time, to prevent water penetration, opticalfiber cables were filled with high-pressure gas in thesame way as metallic cables. LAP (laminatedaluminum) tape works to protect the sheath from suchhigh-pressure gas.
A few years later, a new optical fiber cable structure
was developed. Figure 3 shows a cross-section of a
1000-optical fiber water blocking cable. Single slottedrod and water blocking tape have been applied newly
to increase fiber density.

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8-fiber ribbon
Waterblocking tapeSlotted rod
TensilememberSheathFig. 3 1000-optical fiber water-blocking cableWith metallic cables, a short circuit may be caused ifthey are penetrated by water. With optical fiber cables,
this kind of immediate problem does not occur.
However, when optical fibers are submerged for a longtime, it is known that their long-term reliability will bedegraded. To prevent this degradation, water-blocking
materials have been developed for cables. Figure 4
shows the structure of water blocking tape [2].

Fig. 4 Water-blocking tape
A water-blocking tape consists of absorbent powder
whose volume increases as it absorbs water, watersoluble adhesive and a base tape. The water soluble
adhesive holds the absorbent powder in place. Whenwater seeps into the cable as a result of cable sheathdamage, the water-soluble adhesive dissolves. Then theabsorbent powder is released and spreads rapidly into
the empty spaces in the cable. The absorbent powder
combines with water to form a gel and is able to absorb
1000 times its own volume. The empty spaces are filled
as the volume of the absorbent powder increases. Thenwater penetration is halted once the empty spaces arefilled. This mechanism has been installed in opticalfiber cables in Japan since 1989. After that, we had
tried to develop 4000-fiber cable. However, it has been
stopped, because such a high fiber count cable has notbeen needed for access network by using PDS (Passive
Double Star) system. 20 years after from joinning in
NTT laboratories, I was moved to NTT headquarters.
2.3 Changes in Viewpoint and StanceI spent two years in NTT headquarter. During those
years, discussion on Photonic crystal technologies had
been started among the optical fiber related engineers.
Photonic crystal technologies means, by using three
dimensional structure which size nearly equal to opticalwave length several effects are induced on optical ray.
In optical fiber world, it was thought that some kind offunctions will be produced by holes which are aligned
horizontally to core. When I designed optical fiber
cables, radii of optical fiber in the cable was a part ofmain issues. Because attenuation of optical fiber

increase with small radii. I thought that holes which
located surrounding of core may solve this problem.
Holes can reduces effective refractive index ofcladding. Increase of refractive index difference
between core and cladding causes reduce ofattenuation when fiber is bent. I worked at the head
office at that time, so I decided to leave this research to
my colleagues in laboratory and friends in HitachiCable (an optical fiber cable supplier). As a result, thistype of fiber had been used for termination optical fiber
cables in subscriber house [3]. From 2007 to 2013,
sales amount of this termination cables became about 4
million pieces in Japan, and about 600 thousand pieces
in south east Asia. It was a great pleasure for me to win
the achievement award of the Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers in 2013
and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology’s award in 2017 by the invention ofthis cable.
3. Pure Researcher and Professional Researcher
I think that a researcher who will find research
themes according to his mind can be called "Pureresearcher". On the other hand, a researcher who wasgiven research themes by employer or someone can becalled "Professional researcher". It is thought that theformer seems to be having more fun and joy throughthe research process. I am the latter one. Even if so, I
was greatly enjoyed my researcher life in NTT. There
were many new inventions, funs, new experiences andgood colleagues. Even if the bad (or not expected)
results were caused in the calculation or test, theseresults lead new knowledge to us. I think that I was
happy that I was a professional researcher.
4. Epilogue
In 2012, I moved to the NTT Advanced
Technologies Corporation. After that, I had been
worked on business which is not related to optical fiber
cables. However, since two years ago, I am engaged inquite a new optical fiber production. Although it is notresearch, I can take advantage of my old knowledge insometimes, and I am enjoying it. In Japan, it is said thatgetting older makes their mind return to child. As theysaid, I dream that my duty will be return todevelopment or research position from management
position. If I can return to more early days, I hope toplay music in a Rock'n Roll band forever.
5. References[1] M. Kawase, et al, “Subscriber single-mode opticalfiber ribbon cable technologies suitable for
midspan access,” JLT, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 19651681, 1989.
[2] S. Tomita, F. Ashiya and M. Kawase. “1000-fiber
water-blocking cable,” Trans. of IEICE (E) E73-9,
pp. 1511-1516, 1990.
[3] K. Nakajima, et al. “Hole-assisted fiber design forsmall bending and splice losses,” IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters, volume: 15, issue: 12, pp.
1737-1739, Dec. 2003.

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From Study to Work in Japan: A Choice Changed
My Lifestyle
Hailan Peng
KDDI Research, Inc.
1. Introduction
This article briefly introduces my study and work inJapan, as well as my life as a foreigner during these
periods. Before I came to Japan, I received my bachelor
and master degree from Beijing University of Posts andCommunications, China. During my master study, I had
worked for half a year in DOCOMO Beijing
Communications Laboratories as an intern. Just becauseof this intern, I learned the serious Japanese academic
spirit, interesting Japanese culture and all kinds of
festivals from my colleagues and mentor. It inspired mewith great interest in pursuing my further study in Japan.
2. Study in UEC
I arrived in Japan on 1st Oct. 2009, when I received
Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho:
MEXT) and started my Ph.D. course at Fujii Laboratory,
Advanced Wireless Communication research Center(AWCC), The University of Electro-Communications(UEC).
I cannot speak Japanese before I came to Japan.
Thanks to my supervisor, Prof. Takeo Fujii, who speaks
fluent English and is very nice. He not only supervised
my research, but also helped me a lot in my life. My
research in Fujii Laboratory mainly focused on studying
the coexistence and resource sharing between cellular
primary networks (i.e. existing cellular networks) andcellular cognitive radio networks (i.e. secondary
networks). As shown in Fig. 1, active subbands areallocated to primary users (PUs) in primary networks.
The inactive subbands will be wasted if there are no PUs
utilized. However, the frequency sharing by secondaryusers (SUs) can improve spectrum efficiency but causeinterference to PUs as well. Therefore, to improve
spectrumefficiency,
enablecoexistenceofprimary/secondary networks, and avoid unacceptableinterference at the same time, a joint resource allocationand interference avoidance algorithm for a single-cell
multi-user cognitive radio network was proposed in [1].
Moreover, multi-cell multi-user cases were also studied
and a distributed power and subchannel allocation
scheme using a novel intra-cell spectrum overlay andinter-cell spectrum underlay sharing method was
proposed in [2]. To allocate the limited resources
optimally, many optimization problems were definedand solved. Mathematical optimization techniques,
including convex optimization, integer/ combinatorial
optimization, game theory, etc., were utilized in [1, 2].
Besides my research in UEC, the center for Japanese
language education of the university provides anopportunity for international students and researchers to
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Fig. 1 Subcarriers allocation of PUs and SUs

Fig. 2 Yukata wearing in UEC

Fig. 3 Skiing tour in Yamanashi-ken
learn Japanese and communicate with each other. The
courses in UEC cover not only Japanese learning, butalso experiencing all kinds of Japanese culture andfestivals, like strawberry hunting in spring, firework
festival in summer, Yukata wearing in autumn (Fig. 2),
skiing tour in winter (Fig. 3), two times of domestic
traveling yearly, etc. Therefore, even though I mainly
used English in Fujii Lab. for my research, I still had
many chances to speak Japanese in other parts of my life.
Thanks to the Japanese course in the university, I cancommunicate with my colleagues in Japanese without
big barriers after I joined KDDI Research.

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3. Work in KDDI Research
After graduated from UEC, I joined KDDI R&DLaboratories, Inc. since Nov. 2013 (currently KDDI
Research, Inc. since Oct. 2016) with the recommendationfrom Prof. Fujii, working as a Research Engineer in
Wireless Communications System Laboratory (WCSL),
the Department of Access Networks (currently Next
generation Access Networks since Apr. 2017). Because
my major is telecommunications from my bachelor, it isreally a good chance for me to contribute my knowledge
to the society when working in a telecommunication
operator.
The research in the company is with significant
difference from that in the university. Even though mywork still focused on cellular mobile networks, they werechanged from cognitive radio networks to Long-Term
Evolution (LTE) networks. I am not only undertaking
work items in our group for our company, such as 3GPP
(3rd Generation Partnership Project) standardization
activities, but also engaged in an EU-JP international
project named MiWEBA (Millimetre-Wave Evolution
for Backhaul and Access) [3], which aimed to bringmillimeter-wave (mm-wave) technology into the mobile
radio
world
and
realize
mm-wave
access/fronthaul/backhaul links to extend the network
capacity by 1000 times at reasonable cost and without
loss of convenience to users. In this project, I focused on
the research of mm-wave access links and studied theinterworking/combination of existing LTE networks and
60GHz mm-wave bands. Through totally understood the
3GPP standards on control plane (C-plane) and user
plane (U-plane) procedures, I proposed a novel
LTE/WiGig interworking architecture including extended
C-plane and U-plane architectures to enable the mmwave heterogeneous network shown in Fig. 4 [4]. At thesame time, a new work item named “LTE-WLAN radio
level Integration” was started in 3GPP RAN2 meetings,
our proposed architectures also can be applied to LTEWLAN integration. Therefore, the research results were
contributed to this work item in 3GPP and standardized.
Even though the mm-wave transmission is proved with
better energy efficiency, can decrease inter-cell handover
and increase user throughput significantly, it still has along way forward to practical application.
The research in the industry need to consider bothacademic value and business value, and the solutions
should solve practical problems and contribute to thecompany’s business. Researchers in my company areencouraged to not only join academic conferences andpresent their technical papers, but also submit
contributions for standardization and file patents.
You may have heard that Japanese companies are withhigh pressure and long overtime work. However, they
still have many systems to help employees to balance
their work and life, to support the employees withchildren. For example, in my company, Wednesday is
the no overtime day and everyone need go back home ontime. Moreover, it will give employees special holidays,i.e., 5 days per child per year, to take care of theirchildren. The work time is also flexible. These are really

important and convenient to me, since I am not only an
employee, but also a mom with two children. I can cometo work earlier and go back earlier to prepare and havedinner with them together. After they went to sleep, I cancontinue my work if there is any emergent business.
S-GW

S1-U

Backhaultraffic

LTE
Macro BSmm-wave
BSs

C-planeLTE/mm-wave
Interface

mm-wave
U-planeLTE
U-planeFig. 4 mm-wave heterogeneous network
4. My Life in Japan
I like travelling, like different cultures and customs,
like all kinds of delicious food, like Japanese spa, likeskiing, etc. After I came to Japan, I have more
opportunities to experience these. My family always go
to skiing in winter. We also plan a trip every year by airor driving a car. We went to Hokkaido, Nagano andYamanashi for skiing, went to Shizuoka, Chiba andOkinawa for sea sight-seeing, and went to Osaka,
Hiroshima and Fukuoka for delicious food. On weekend,
we always went to parks or museums with friends. I can’t
image what kind of life I would have if I didn’t come to
Japan. That may be totally different from my current one.
But I love my current lifestyle and enjoy a lot with myfamily.
5. The End
Finally, I would like to thank to the editor for givingme this chance to share these information. I would also
like to express my sincere thanks to all the people who
helped me in my life in Japan. Hope this article can help
other foreign students/members considering studying or
working in Japan to know more about Japan. I think you
will not be regret if you come here.
6. References[1] Hailan Peng, Takeo Fujii, “Joint cross-layer
resource allocation and interference avoidance with
QoS support for cognitive radio systems,”
EURASIP (European Association for Signal
Processing) Journal on Wireless Communications
and Networking, 2012:41, Feb. 2012.
[2] Hailan Peng, Takeo Fujii, “Distributed resource
allocation for multicell cognitive radio networks
based on intra-cell overlay and inter-cell underlay
spectrum sharing,” IEICE Trans. on Commun., vol.
E96-B, no. 6, pp. 1566-1576, Jun. 2013.
[3] MiWEBA: https://www.miweba.eu/[4] Hailan Peng, Toshiaki Yamamoto, Yasuhiro
Suegara, “LTE/WiGig RAN-level interworking
architecture for 5G millimeter-wave heterogeneous
networks,” IEICE Trans. on Commun., vol. E98-B,
no. 10, pp. 1957-1968, Oct. 2015.

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Report on the Workshop on Internet Architecture
and Applications 2017 (IA2017) in Bangkok,
ThailandDaisuke Kotani
Expert Member, Technical Committee of Internet Architecture, IEICE
1. Introduction
The Technical Committee on Internet Architecture(TCIA) has been organizing international workshops
every year since 2009. The purpose of the workshops isto promote research activities in Internet and its
applications within Asian area, and provide a forum forresearchers and practitioners from the academic,
industrial, public and governmental sectors to share
their latest innovations, as well as internationalizationof IEICE. This year, TCIA successfully organized theworkshop at Bangkok, Thailand, on November 15 and16, 2017, with dedicated support from King Mongkut's
Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) and
ECTI Association, Bangkok, Thailand. This article
briefly reports the workshop activities.
2. Workshop Overview
The workshop opened with more than 40 participants
including 20 and more students from four countries(Thailand, Taiwan, Korea and Japan). At the beginningof the workshop, TPC Co-Chairs (Katsuyoshi Iida
(Chair of TCIA) and Somsak Choomchuay (KMITL))
made the opening speech, then an invited talk waspresented to all participants:“The Internet of Data Enhancing: The Power ofKnowledge,” by Rathachai Chawuthai (KMITL)
The workshop continued with six oral presentations
in two technical sessions, Network Security and
Networking-1. The speakers shared with theparticipants their latest research activities ranging fromattack detection and mitigation, network design andmodeling, to a new network concept for energy
delivery.
The last session of the first day was the poster session
with eight poster speakers. They had active andconstructive discussion of their research achievements
and future directions with the workshop participants invariety of topics related to Internet architecture and its
applications, such as cloud platform for agriculture,animal observations, human activity monitoring, etc.
After the sessions on the first day, the participants
were invited to join in the banquet held near KMITLand Suvarnabhumi Airport. They enjoyed Thailand
cuisines and a great night view of a pond and planes aswell as expanding their social networks.
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The second day of the workshop was started with theother invited talk about 5G:“A Network Slicing for 5G Networks,”
by Choong Seon Hong (Kyung Hee University)
He introduced the concept of 5G networks anddiscussed application of artificial intelligence to 5G
networks.
After the invited talk, nine oral presentations were
held in three technical sessions, SDN, Applications,and Networking-2. The speakers presented their latest
achievements, which covered a broad range ofinteresting topics on the Internet architecture and its
applications, such as SDN applications, network
security, network analysis, edge computing, etc. anddiscussed their ideas and further directions with theparticipants.
The workshop was closed with the ceremony ofStudent Presentation Awards and a closing remark by
TPC Co-Chairs.
On the next day, some of the participants also joinedin the 21st International Compute Science andEngineering Conference 2017 (ICSEC 2017), jointly
organized by KMITL and ECTI Association.
3. Conclusion
We believe that all participants were satisfied withthe technical presentations, active discussions, andsocial events through the workshop. TCIA would liketo express our sincere gratitude to all speakers andattendees for their active participation to the workshop,
and to KMITL members, Somsak Choomchuay,
Rathachai Chawuthai, and Wiboon Promphanich, fortheir warm hospitality.
Next workshop is expected to be held in Korea.
Please visit http://www.ieice.org/~ia/eng/ for the latest
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Report on Japan-Korea Joint Conference
on Satellite Communication(JC-SAT 2017)
Kosuke Yamazaki (KDDI Research, Inc.)
Takashi Takahashi (NICT)
1. Overview
This article reports on the Japan-Korea Joint
Conference on Satellite Communication (JC-SAT) thatwas held at Okinawa Cellular Company, Naha-shi,
Okinawa, Japan, on October 26th and 27th (Fig. 1).

Session were presented. Total number of registeredparticipants reached 65 including 46 from Japan and 16
from Korea (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2 General session of JC-SAT2017,
65 participants actively discussed

Fig. 1 Conference place, Okinawa Cellular Company,
Naha-shi, Okinawa, Japan

The presented papers covered a wide range of uniqueand novel technical topics on Satellite communication.
On the first day of the workshop, 4 general sessions
and 1 special session were held. Opening remark was
conducted by Dr. Toshinori Suzuki, a chairman oforganizing committee of JC-SAT2017 (Fig. 3).

This conference was jointly organized by TechnicalCommittee on Satellite Communications of IEICE andKorean Society of Space Technology (KOSST) in
Korea and sponsored by IEEE VTS Japan Chapter and
SCAT.
JC-SAT intends to provide a forum for researchers insatellite communications and applications field todiscuss the current status, technical challenges,
standards, fundamental issues and future services. Thisconference will cover technologies and system
implementations of satellite communications andapplications as they related to the areas of satellite
services including GNSS.
2. Report on Technical and Special Sessions
The technical program of JC-SAT2017 consisted of 8General Sessions and 1 Special Session where 26
papers in General sessions and 1 paper in Special

Fig. 3 Opening remarks presented by Dr. Toshinori
Suzuki, a chairman of organizing committee of JCSAT2017

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The special talk, “Real challenge for 5G mobile
communication systems” was presented by Dr. Fumio
Watanabe and critical issues between 5G and satellite
communications was introduced (Fig. 4).

Fig. 4 Special talk presented by Dr. Fumio Watanabe
On the second day, 4 general sessions were held.
Closing remark was conducted by Dr. Sungtek Kahng
and future vision of JC-SAT2018 was presented (Fig.
5).

Fig. 6 JC-SAT Award Ceremony
Through the above procedure, the following two
papers were honored as JC-SAT Award and award
certificates and extra prize had been handed from Dr.
Toshinori Suzuki during JC-SAT Award ceremony on
the first day.
1. Masaaki Kojima, Yoichi Suzuki, Yuki Koizumi,
Hisashi Sujikai and Shoji Tanaka, “Estimation
Technique for Non-linear Characteristics for Satellite
Transponder”

Fig. 5 Closing remark conducted by Dr. Sungtek
Kahng, co-chairman of JC-SAT2017 TechnicalCommittee
3. JC-SAT Award Ceremony
The JC-SAT 2017 presented the Best Paper Award(JC-SAT Award) to the authors of the selected
outstanding papers at the reception to be held at thefirst day.
Both KOSST and IEICE select one award-candidate
paper from the papers submitted to, reviewed by eachorganization, disclose the papers each other, discuss thereview results of award candidate papers and mutuallyagree to the selection, which is a mandatory condition
for award authorization.
On the first day of JC-SAT 2017, the award wasannounced and presented to the paper authors (Fig. 6,
Fig. 7, Fig. 8).
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Fig. 7 JC-SAT Award awarded to “Estimation
Technique for Non-linear Characteristics for Satellite
Transponder”
2. Changhyeong Lee, Dajung Han, Heejun Park, Abdul
Rehman, Muhammad Salman Khattak and Sungtek
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4. Conclusions
As reported, JC-SAT2017 was finished with a great
success (Fig. 9). In the steering committee meeting
held in the afternoon on the second day, it was decided
that the next JC-SAT will be held in Korea on the midof 2018.

Fig. 8 JC-SAT Award awarded to “Metamaterial
Filter and Duplexer for X-band and Ku-band Satellite
Communication”

Fig. 9 All participants on JC-SAT2017 Okinawa Japan

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Report on the 13th International Conferenceon Space, Aeronautical and Navigational
Electronics 2017 (ICSANE 2017)
Sounosuke Fukushima1, Toshifumi Moriyama2,
Akitsugu Nadai3
1: Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI)
2: Nagasaki University
3: National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT)
1. Introduction
The 13th International Conference on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics (ICSANE 2017)
was held at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS),
Sarawak, Malaysia on November 23th -24th, 2017. Thisconference was organized by the Technical Group on
Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics(SANE) of the Institute of Electronics, Information andCommunication Engineers (IEICE) and UNIMAS, andwas supported by IEEE AESS Japan Chapter, IEEE
GRSS Japan Chapter, Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA), Electronic Navigation ResearchInstitute (ENRI). In this report, we describe the purpose
and summary of ICSANE 2017.
2. Purpose 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
detail covered topics are the following:(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 2017 wasstrongly leaded by Co-Chairs and supported by CoChairs of Organizing Committee. The otherorganization is technical program committee. Thesemain committee members are listed as the followings.
・Honorary Chair:
Mohamad Kadim Suaidi (Vice Chancellor, UNIMAS,
Malaysia)
・Steering Committee, Co-Chairs:
Sounosuke Fukushima (ENRI, Japan)
Al-Khalid Othman (UNIMAS, Malaysia)
・Organizing Committee, Co-Chairs:
10Toshifumi Moriyama (Nagasaki Univ., Japan)
Kismet Anak Hong Ping (UNIMAS, Malaysia)
・Technical Program Committee, Chair:
Hirokazu Kobayashi (Osaka Institute of Technology,
Japan)
4. Program and Activities
At the opening ceremony of ICSANE 2017, Deputy
Dean Dr. Nazeri Abdual Rahman of Faculty ofEngineering, UNIMAS delivered his warmly welcome
address and the introduction of UNIMAS. Next, Dr.
Sounosuke Fukushima, who is a chair of SANE, IEICE,
expressed his thanks and talked about SANE andICSANE history. Dr. Toshifumi Moriyama presented
the introduction of ICSANE 2017. A group photo of
ICSANE 2017 is shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1 ICSANE 2017 Group photo of ICSANEICSANE 2017 had two keynote talks. First is“Sharing Sarawak experience in the adoption of
hyperspectral sensing as an operational tool forsustainable forest management practices (past and theway forward)” presented by Dr. Affendi Suhaili,
Systems Application and Development Unit, Forest
Department Sarawak, and second is “Recent advancesof radar polarimetry and its applications” presented by
Prof. Jian Yang, Tsinghua University, China. In
addition, we had one special talk entitled “SAR Image
Segmentation Based Framework to Ship Detection”
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Hirokazu Kobayashi presented a testimonial to eachaward recipient. The winners are as follows:

Fig. 2 Keynote speaker: Prof. Jian Yang

Fig. 3 Special talk speaker: Dr. Chihyuan Chu
one invited talk entitled “Suppressing the topography
and grain size effects in multispectral and hyperspectral
data processing” presented by Prof. Yasushi
Yamaguchi, Nagoya University, Japan, who is a chairof IEEE GRSS Japan Chapter. Figures 2 and 3 are
keynote speaker and special talk speaker.
The technical program of ICSANE 2017 consisted of
5 oral sessions. The 21 papers in regular sessions were
presented. The papers covered the variety technologies
which were satellite, aircraft navigation, radar signal
processing, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), remotesensing, etc. Total number of participants reachedaround 60 in the two days from five countries: Japan,
Taiwan, Malaysia, China and Nigeria. In the second
day afternoon, a cultural tour to Sarawak Cultural
Village was conducted. Figure 4 is the photo of thecultural tour participants.

Winners of Young Scientist Award:- Dr. Junjun Yin (Univ. Science and Technology Beijing,
China): Polarimetric Parameter for Detection of
Double-Bounce Scattering Dominated Areas- Ms. Eungyeong Ryu (Korea Institute of Ocean Science& Technology, Korea): Comparison of Ship Detection
Accuracy Based on Image Contrast with Different
Combinations HH- and VV-polarization TerraSAR-X
SAR Images- Mr. Taro Matsuo (University of Electro-Communications, Japan): A Neural Network Augmented
Parametric Estimation Method for Accurate Wind
Vector Reconstruction Using Single Doppler LIDAR
In addition, the SANE committee offered the letters ofappreciation to Prof. Ir. Dr. Al-Khalid Othman and Dr.
Kismet Anak Hong Ping for outstanding contributions
to ICSANE 2017. Figures 5 and 6 show the scenes of
the ceremony.

Fig. 5 Young scientist award-winners: fromright, Prof. H. Kobayashi (presenter), Dr. J. Yin,
Mr. T. Matsuo, Ms. E. Ryu and Dr. Moriyama

Fig. 6 Dr. S. Fukushima provided the letter ofappreciation to Dr. Kismet Anak Hong Ping.

Fig. 4 Participants of the cultural tour
5. Award Ceremony
In the night of first day, an award banquet was held
at UNIMAS. We celebrated the winners of young
scientist award. ICSANE 2017 TPC Chair, Prof.

6. Conclusions
ICSANE 2017 was successfully held in Malaysia.
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.
7. Acknowledge
Prof. Ir. Dr. Al-Khalid Othman and Dr. Kismet Anak
Hong Ping and the students of UNIMAS are highly
appreciated for their efforts and passion to arrange
ICSANE 2017.
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Report on the 2017 NS English Session Awards
and Award Ceremony
Hideki Tode†, Osaka Prefecture University
Yoshikatsu Okazaki††, NTT Corp.
Kazuya Tsukamoto†††, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Kenichi Matsui†††, NTT Corp.
Kenichi Kashibuchi††††, NTT Corp.
†

Chair, ††Vice Chair, †††Secretary, ††††Assistant Secretary

1. Introduction
In the 2017 IEICE General Conference that was heldon 22-25 March 2017, the IEICE Technical Committee
on Network Systems (NS) provided the complete
English Symposium Session entitled “Advanced
Technologies in Communication, Networking, and its
Innovative Application for Future Information Network
Society”. In this session, 43 papers were presented at asingle track during whole of 4-days conference period[1], and the total number of participants was 147.
The NS committee selected recipients of NS English
Session Awards among the 43 papers. The recipients
won the awards at an award ceremony and presented
the progress of their awarded paper as an invitedlecture at the NS technical meeting in October 2017.
2. Award Ceremony
The award ceremony was held in the NS technicalmeeting at Osaka city, Osaka Prefecture on 26 October
2017, and 33 participants attended the ceremony. Three
distinguished papers won the NS English session
awards, 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 2017
The abstracts of the three papers that won the 2017
NS English session awards are as follows.
“Spectrally Efficient Photonic Networks Utilizing
Distance and Hop Count Adaptive SubcarrierMultiplexed Signals” [2]In coping with the rapid Internet traffic growth,
spectral efficiency of photonic networks should be
increased. To achieve this, higher-order modulation
formats
andultra-dense
wavelength-divisionmultiplexing (WDM) need to be employed. However,they incur transmission impairment, and lessen theavailable transmission distance.
One approach to maximizing the spectral efficiency
under such conditions is to use distance-adaptive
modulation, where an appropriate modulation format is
adopted according to the actual transmission distance.
However, the assessment of this method did notadequately examine the impact of a filter-narrowing

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Fig. 1 English session award recipients(Mr. Isono: Top left [2], Mr. Matsui: Top right [3],and Mr. Feng: Bottom [4]), with chair (Dr. Tode).
effect induced by wavelength-selective switches(WSSs) at each photonic node. This is a key deficiency
given the severe filtering impairment likely in ultradense WDM systems. The adaptive assignment ofmodulation formats must, therefore, take the filtering
impairment into consideration.
The recently proposed subcarrier-multiplexed (SCM)
hybrid QAM can alleviate the impact of the filternarrowing effect. It divides the channel spectrum into
multiple subcarriers and each subcarrier is modulated
to yield the appropriate M-QAM signal. If we can
optimize subcarrier modulation formats considering thefilter-narrowing effect, this scheme will be effective infuture ultra-dense WDM networks.
We propose a novel modulation format assignment
method adaptive to distance and hop count, for
improving spectral efficiency with both higher-ordermodulation and ultra-dense WDM. In addition, we
introduce SCM hybrid-QAM signals as modulation
candidates for further improvement performance. First,
we comprehensively investigate the transmission
characteristics of SCM hybrid-QAM signals consistingof 4/8/16/32/64-QAM for various transmission
distances and hop counts. Second, we analyze thenumber of paths for each pair of distance and hop countin real network topologies. Third, based on the above
two results, an optimum SCM hybrid-QAM signal iscreated for each optical path. With such distance/hopadaptive SCM hybrid-QAM signals, the average

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spectral efficiency per path is improved by up to+142% compared with current non-adaptive singlemodulation networks.
“Deriving the Average Message Delivery Delay in
Geographic DTN Routing under Random Walk
Mobility Model” [3]Delay/disruption-tolerant networking (DTN), whichallows end-to-end node communication even whencommunication links between nodes are notfunctioning normally, has recently been regarded as apromising communication technology for realizing
communication infrastructure at the time of disasterand low-cost communication infrastructure.
Most of existing DTN routing algorithms aredesigned for message delivery between mobile nodes(i.e., message transmission from a mobile node to one
or more other mobile nodes). However, in practicalapplications of DTNs in several fields, endpoints ofcommunication might not be always mobile nodes. In
other words, endpoints might also be fixed nodes. This
paper investigates a class of DTN routing utilizing
mobilenodes
forstore-carry-and-forward
communication among fixed nodes called geographic
DTN routing.
A geographic DTN routing aims at realization of
message delivery among multiple (generally,geographically-dispersed) geographic locations on afield without necessity of specific communication
infrastructure by utilizing mobility of mobile agents.
This paper derives the average and the distribution of
message delivery delays of geographic DTN routing
with FIFO (First-In First-Out) algorithm under two
workload models by modeling the behaviors of mobile
agents as multiple random walks on a graph. In thispaper, a continuous workload model (i.e., Poisson
message arrival) is considered. This paper reveals theeffect of system parameters --- the number of mobile
agents on the field, the number of message loadings at
a geographic location, the message generation rate andthe number of message replicas --- on the average andthe distribution of message delivery delays.
“HVC: A Hybrid Cloud Computing Framework in
Vehicular Environment” [4]With the emergence of self-driving cars, multimedia
systems and smart vehicles, more and more
applications are coming into vehicular environment.
Some of those applications, e.g. augmented
reality/image or speech recognition, require highcomputational capability to achieve real time response.
Therefore how to provide the demanded computational
resource becomes a crucial problem, especially forvehicles whose hardware is hard to upgrade.
Cloud computing methodology has been popular inrecent years. By offloading workloads to servers, it can
provide flexible computing services with little setup
and upkeep cost. But in vehicular environment,
network connection has lower bandwidth and moreinstability. Also considering the cellular data cost,
applying existing cloud computing methods directly invehicular environment is difficult. However, we also

notice that abundant resources are available on eachvehicle from time to time. Utilizing those resources
may provide a solution to aforementioned problem.
This paper proposes the hybrid vehicular cloud(HVC) framework for cloud computing on the road toincrease the computational capability of vehicles byusing resources from the centralized cloud, RSU, andneighboring vehicles. The proposed scheme can beused as a general framework for all types ofapplications. It is able to satisfy various types of job
requirements, such as real time processing or hostrequirements. The framework is adaptive to the
dynamic vehicular environment by using methods toestimate link duration. Specifically, this paper defines
the procedures to support the autonomous organizationof a vehicular cloud. An online scheduling algorithm is
proposed to solve the job assignment problem with theobjective of processing more jobs and reducing cellular
network usage. Extensive simulations are conductedwith realistic traffic and map, and the results show thesuperiority of the proposed scheme over competing
schemes in typical urban scenarios.
4. Future Plans
In the 2018 IEICE General Conference at Tokyo
Denki University, the English Session entitled“Innovative Information Communication Technologies
for Future Network System Supporting Informationoriented Industry” will be held on 20-23 March. Manyinteresting studies on “network” and “service”
including “wireless” and “optical” will be presented.
Please attend the IEICE General Conference and enjoy
the NS English session during four days.
5. Acknowledgements
We would like to give special thanks to Prof.
Yoshiaki Tanaka due to his great contributions.
6. References[1] Y. Tanigawa, K. Tsukamoto, S. Kamamura, H.
Maeda, Y. Okazaki, and H. Tode: “Report on NS
English Session at 2017 IEICE General
Conference -BS-1 Advanced Technologies in
Communication, Networking, and its Innovative
Application for Future Information Network
Society -,” IEICE Global NewsLetter, vol. 41, no.
2, p. 14, June 2017.
[2] Y. Isono, M. Niwa, Y. Mori, H. Hasegawa, K.
Sato: “Spectrally Efficient Photonic Networks
Utilizing Distance and Hop Count Adaptive
Subcarrier-Multiplexed Signals,” IEICE General
Conference, BS-1-40, March 2017.
[3] D. Matsui, R. Hagihara, Y. Yamasaki, H. Ohsaki:“Deriving the Average Message Delivery Delay in
Geographic DTN Routing under Random Walk
Mobility Model,” IEICE General Conference, BS1-29, March 2017.
[4] J. Feng, Z. Liu, C. Wu, Y. Ji: “HVC: HVC: A
Hybrid Cloud Computing Framework in Vehicular
Environment,” IEICE General Conference, BS-128, March 2017.

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Report of SmartCom 2017
― The Fourth International
Workshop Held in Rome, Italy ―Kenta Umebayashi, Mai Ohta, Takeo Fujii,
Osamu Takyu, Koichi Adachi, Suguru Kameda
Organizing Committee of SmartCom 2017
1. Introduction
SmartCom 2017 [1] was held in Roma, Italy on Oct.
23-24, 2017. The number of participants was 52 on thefirst day and 50 on the second day. The workshop wasorganized by IEICE Technical Committee on SmartRadio (TCSR) [2] and TC on Short Range WirelessCommunications (TCSRW) [3], supported by TC on
Radio Communication Systems (TCRCS) [4].
SmartCom 2016 [5] intended to build tightcollaborations between European and Japanese
researchers for contributions towards future smart
communication technologies. SmartCom 2017 is thesecond series of a joint workshop between Europe andJapan.
The workshop was kicked off with an opening talk ofProf. Umebayashi (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture andTechnology), the chair of TCSR, as shown in Fig. 1.
He had a talk about targets of smart wirelesscommunications for the future, what’s the smart
spectrum and smart spectrum management, the history
of SmartCom, and so on.
Prof. Zorzi (Univ. of Padova) and Dr. Fukuda wereinvited and had each keynote speech. Four special
sessions (in total 16 invited talks: EU 9, JP 7) wereorganized by each TC and EU committee members.
Two poster and exhibition sessions were presented bytotal 31 posters including 3 exhibitions (EU 5, JP 26)
as shown in Fig. 2. Each presentation was fairly
evaluated by committee members for SmartComawards. The winners were awarded in the closing
session. The workshop was closed by Prof. Kameda(Tohoku Univ.).
We also had exciting lunch with wine, joyful coffee
break with espresso and cappuccino (Fig. 3), andbanquet in the excellent restaurant (Fig. 4).
Rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2
introduces historical background of SmartCom.
Sections 3 to 6 reports details and awards of SmartCom2017. Section 7 gives a plan of SmartCom 2018 to beheld in Thailand and Section 8 concludes this paper.
2. Historical Background of SmartCom
IEICE needs to increase the international connections
and enhance the presence in the world. One of the
TCSR’s trials for it has been to invite key researchers
from the world to TCSR’s domestic regular
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Fig. 1 Opening talkFig. 2 Poster and exhibition sessions

Fig. 3 Coffee break

Fig. 4 Banquet

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conferences. This type of activities has been planned
annually since year 2005, but limited in Japan only. In
the beginning of 2014, TCSR discussed that it is a good
trial to have a regular conference outside of Japan.
Focusing on Singapore where R&D on wirelesscommunications is very active, TCSR decided to havethe first TCSR regular conference outside of Japan,
named SmartCom 2014. SmartCom 2014 was held at
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore on
October 30-31, 2014. It was co-sponsored by I2R,IEEE VTS SG chapter and IEEE COMSOC Japan
chapter. The number of participants at SmartCom 2014
was 78 on the first day and 50 on the second day. It
was largely beyond TCSR’s expectation at its
preparation stage. SmartCom 2014 acquired a numberof new participants not only from Asian region, butalso from Japan. It was a good surprise that so many
students in Singapore participated in SmartCom2014.
TCSR recorded the highest number of participants at
SmartCom 2014 since TCSR was launched in 2005.
SmartCom 2015 was held in Tokyo on October 26 - 27,
2015 organized by IEICE TCSR and TCSRW.
SmartCom 2015 was organized by 37 presentations
including 1 tutorial, 4 invited talks, 6 posters, 15
technical exhibits and 11 invited lectures. The numberof participants was 60 on the first day and 111 on thesecond day. In the SmartCom 2015, there were tutorialpresentation, special session and posters which are
related to EU. SmartCom 2016 was held in Oulu,
Finland on May 16-17, 2016. The workshop was coorganized by IEICE technical committees and Centre
for wireless communications, University of Oulu,
Finland. There were two Keynote speeches, 5 special
sessions (22 oral presentations), and two poster
sessions (35 posters). The numbers of participants inthe first day and the second day are 128 and 49,
respectively.
3. Keynote SpeechTwo distinguished keynote speakers were invitedfrom industry and academia of each in the fields ofmobile wireless communications, 5G and beyond.

Fig. 5 Keynote speeches(Left: Prof. Michele Zorzi,
Right: Dr. Eisuke Fukuda)mmWave cellular networks.” Prof. Zorzi explained 5G
millimeter wave (mmWave) communications forsupporting extremely high data rate. First, spectrum
sharing and spectrum pooling in mmWave cellular
networks were explained and the performance ofspectrum pooling and spectrum sharing in mmWave byusing simulation are evaluated. He said that themmWave networks can achieve better performance
thanks to higher isolation and directional transmission.
After that the importance of directionality of antenna in
an interference scenario was explained. Finally,
network layer technologies under mobility werediscussed for supporting 5G mmWave with mobility
management.
The keynote speech of the second day of theworkshop was given by Dr. Eisuke Fukuda (Fig. 5,
right), Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan. Hispresentation title is “5G, paving a way to transform theworld.” Dr. Fukuda introduced a future 5G wirelessworld in which more than 10Gbps data rate, ultra low
latency, huge numbers of wireless devices for Internetof-Things (IoT) devices would be supported. He said
these technologies would open up the new era of“Digital Transformation,” and drastically change oursociety life and a way of business into completely
different ones with new values. After that a cyberphysical synchronized world among massive objects
without restriction in transport of data by using future
5G technologies was explained. Finally, he said that it
would be important for future 5G world to be combinedwith analytics, AI, IoT and robotics.
From these keynote speeches, we could understand afuture 5G world not only technologies but also
influence to our human life and business.
4. Session & Technical Exhibition
Sessions of Poster and technical exhibition were held
for two days. Total 28 poster paper and 3 technicalexhibition’s paper were shown for two days. Since thesession of poster and technical exhibition was held
after enjoyable lunch time, it has a lively exchange ofviews about not only technical perspective but alsointeresting discussion. In this time, the attractive topicsof this session are mainly antenna signal processing,base band signal processing, resource control in MAC
level, network control. In the first day, there are,network construction for edging, localization andresource control based on localization, D2D
communication, Massive MIMO, Radio Environmental
Map, error collecting coding for low power blue tooth.
In the second day, there are network roaming andmulti-operatorfor
5G
networks,
wireless
communication for V2X and VANET, Experimental
evaluation for LPWA, physical layer security andsecurity, MAC protocol, and Channel and routselection for energy harvesting.

The keynote speech of the first day of the workshop
was given by Prof. Michele Zorzi (Fig. 5, left), The
University of Padova, Italy. His presentation title is“Spectrum sharing and networking issues in 5G
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5. Special Sessions
5.1. Enhanced Wireless Access and Flexible
Networking Technologies for beyond 5G IoT“Special Session: Enhanced Wireless Access andFlexible Networking Technologies for beyond 5G IoT”
was organized by Prof. Hirokazu Sawada (NICT,
Japan) and Prof. Tadao Nakagawa (Tottori University,
Japan). This special session featured the wirelesstechnologies for Internet-of-Things (IoT) in beyond 5G.
There were three invited talks. Two talks were from
European side and one talk was from Japan side. The
first presentation given by Dr. Fumihide Kojima (NICT,
Japan) introduced the recent research and development
activities of NICT on the wireless-grid systems. The
second presentation was given by Prof. Fulvio Babich(University of Trieste, Italy). In the talk, Prof. Babichshared the research work on random multiple accessbased on Coded Framed Slotted Aloha (CFSA) withinterference cancellation. The last talk of this special
session, given by Prof. Antonio Capone (Politecnico di
Milano, Italy), introduced the network slicing
technologies in virtualized mobile network.

– A Key Technology for 5G Phase II Deployment –”.
In the third invited talk, Prof. Alexander Malsev (Intel,
Russia) introduced the decision statistics for noncoherent signal detection in multi-element antenna
arrays. The fourth talk, provided by Mr. Katsuo Yunoki(KDDI Research, Japan), provided the challenging
issues when computation resources are integrated into
mobile network. In the last talk of this session, Prof.
Stefano Salsano (University of Rome Tor Vergate,
Italy) introduced superfluid networking for 5 and its
vision and state of the art.
5.4. Wireless Access Technologies for 5G and
Beyond“Special Session: Wireless Access Technologies for5G and Beyond” was organized by Dr. Kazushi
Muraoka (NEC Corporation, Japan). This special
session aimed to present the key technologies for 5G
and Beyond such as massive MIMO, beamforming,
new frame design, polar code and so on. This special
session was composed of four invited talks among
which two talks were from European side and two talks

5.2. Smart Spectrum for Future WirelessCommunications
In “Special Session: Smart Spectrum for Future
Wireless Communications”, organized by Dr. Kentaro
Ishizu (NICT, Japan), we had four invited talks. Twotalks are from European side and two are from Japanside. The first talk, software defined network (SDN)aided Spectrum Sharing for 5G Networks, waspresented by Dr. Leonardo Goratti, (FBK CREATENET, Italy). The second talk was presented by Prof.
Shigenobu Sasaki (Niigata University, Japan). This talk
introduced the spectrum management technology
which utilizes less reliable information about the
spectrum usage. The third talk was given by Prof.
Miguel Lopez-Benitez (Liverpool University, U.K).
During this talk, Prof. Lopez-Benitez shared the several
mechanisms enabling the spectrum coexistence of
licensed and unlicensed frequency bands. Future
research directions were also provided and discussed.
Connected and automated vehicle had been considered
for a key technology to realize sustainable futuresociety. The last talk featuring smart spectrum accesstechnology for V2X communications was given by
Prof. Takeo Fujii (UEC, Japan).

Fig. 6 Award winners(Upper Left: Dr. Antonio De Domenico,Upper Right: Mr. Ramez Askar
Lower: Mr. Shun Ogata)5.3. Millimeter-wave and Edge Computing
In “Special Session: Millimeter-Wave and Edge
Computing”, five invited talk was presented. Thissession was organized by Dr. Antonio De Domenico,(CEA-LETI, France). Three talks were from Europeanside and two talks were from Japan side. The first talk,given by Dr. Valerio Frascolla (Intel, Germany),
introduced the use cases and scenarios in whichmmWave access technology and multi-access edge
technology are combined. Dr. Koji Takinami(Panasonic, Japan) presented the second paper, “5GMiEdge: Introduction of Millimeter-Wave Edge Cloud

were from Japan side. In the first talk, Prof. Hidekazu
Murata (Kyoto University, Japan) introduced R&D
activities for 5G wireless systems in Japan. The talk
was based on the IEICE technical report for TechnicalGroup on Radio Communication Systems. The second
talk was given by Mr. Tobias Kadur (TU Dresden,
Germany). In this talk, Mr. Kadur shared their recent
research activity on the gradient-based beam alignment
algorithm in order to realize low-cost mmWave devices.
The third talk was by Dr. Satoshi Suyama (NTTDOCOMO, Japan). In this talk, Dr. Suyama shared therecent 5G experimental trials of massive MIMO

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technologies. In the last talk of this session, Dr. Stefan
Parkvall (Ericsson Research, Sweden) provided theresearch activities of 5G new radio (NR) which iscurrently under development by 3rd generation
partnership project (3GPP). This special session
provided the attendees the overview and the recent
research works about the wireless access technologies
for 5G system.

[4] IEICE TCRCS website:
http://www.ieice.org/cs/rcs/jpn/[5] SmartCom2016 website:
http://www.ieice-smartcom.info/2016/index.html

6. Awards
The all poster presentations and technical exhibitions
were evaluated by three or four researchers from theperspective that (1) Novelty and originality, (2)Technical content and scientific rigor, and (3) Qualityof presentation.
 Best Paper Award: “Performance Characterization of
Urban HetNets with Multi-RAT Small Cells,”
Gourab Ghatak, Antonio De Domenico (CEALETI),
Marceau
Coupechoux(Telecom
ParisTech) Best Paper Award: “Analysis of Utilizing Lossless
Networks for Self-Interference Cancellation
Purpose in Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers,”
Ramez Askar, Abdulsalam Hamdan, Wilhelm
Keusgen, Thomas Haustein (Fraunhofer Institutefor Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute,
HHI) Best Student Paper Award: “Received-Power-Aware
Design of Transmission Probability for Frameless
ALOHA,” Shun Ogata, Koji Ishibashi (The
University of Electro-Communications)
7. SmartCom 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand
The 5th SmartCom will be held at Bangkok Thailand
in 2018 (October or November). This workshop plans
to be organized under the joint leadership of thetechnical committee on Smart Radio (SR) and Asian
Institute Technology, Thailand.
8. Conclusion
A lot of participants from academia and industry on
wireless communications participated in SmartCom2017. SmartCom, which is international workshop on
Smart Wireless Communications, will be held in many
countries and various locations to expand network andextend the scope of the workshop joining IEICE
technical committees. The organizing committee hopesthat SmartCom is connecting many researchers in theworld as well as giving positive feedback to the IEICE
operation.
9. References[1] SmartCom2017 website:
http://ieice-smartcom.info/[2] IEICE TCSR website:
http://www.ieice.org/cs/sr/eng/[3] IEICE TCSRW website:
http://www.ieice.org/cs/srw/index_e.htm

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Report on the 31st OpticalCommunication Systems Symposium“Growth strategy for optical communications
in ICT revolution”
Yoshiaki Kisaka† and Yoshinori Yamamoto‡†NTT, ‡Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
1. Introduction
The 31st Optical Communication Systems (OCS)
Symposium was held on Dec. 19–20, 2017 at the Toray
Human Resources Development Center in Mishima
City, Shizuoka, Japan. The symposium was sponsoredby the IEICE Technical Committee on OCS, andorganized in cooperation with the IEEE Photonics
Society Japan Chapter, the Photonic Internet Forum(PIF), and the IEICE Technical Committee on
Extremely
Advanced
OpticalTransmission
Technologies (EXAT). The number of this year’s
participants was 198 and 25 exhibitors participated in
the symposium.
2. Technical Sessions
The Day 1 (Dec. 19) started with the opening session.
First, Dr. Itsuro Morita, the IEICE OCS committee
chair, gave a welcome address with an overview ofrecent activities and future plans of the OCS technicalcommittee. The opening session was then followed bya keynote speech by Prof. Tatsuyuki Negoro (Waseda
business school), which was entitled “Competitive
strategy in IoT era” (Fig. 1). He discussed IoT businessmodel together with several use cases such as “Kamenrider”, “Yokai watch”, Komatsu and so on. It waspointed out that IoT business essentially consists offollowing four steps; (1) Monitoring, (2) Control, (3)Optimization, and (4) Autonomy. This keynote speech
not only provided better understanding of IoT businessbut also offered valuable insights into future directionof optical communication field.
The rest of the technical sessions on Day 1 consistedof a poster session and a workshop (Workshop 1). In
the poster session, there were 20 posters presented byyoung researchers and four award winners. The
workshop on Day 1 focused on the business strategy in
ICT society and its subtitle was “Toward profitable
optical communication”. This included the following
three invited talks (Fig. 2): patent right and trade
secrets by Prof. Katsuya Tamai (University of Tokyo),defeat of Japanese DRAM by Dr. Takashi Yunogami(Microfabrication laboratory), and vertical integrationand disaggregation in optical communications by Mr.
Yasushi Sugaya (Fujitsu). The workshop served as avaluable opportunity for us to gain insights into
successful business of optical communications from thelecturers’ own experiences.
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Fig. 1 Keynote speech by Prof. T. Negoro

Fig. 2 Presenters of Workshop 1: from left, Prof. K.
Tamai, Dr. T. Yunogami, and Mr. Y. Sugaya
The morning session of Day 2 (Dec. 20) started withIEEE distinguished lecturer talk organized by IEEE
Photonics Society Japan Chapter, entitled “Multicore
fiber technology for space division multiplexing(SDM)” given by Prof. Kunimasa Saitoh (Hokkaido
University) (Fig. 3). He overviewed the recent progressin SDM, especially fiber technology and pointed outthat careful consideration on a tradeoff between SDM
density and MIMO complexity is required for deign of
SDM system. Next, three invited lectures were
provided with the aim of learning latest technologies inthe vicinity of optical communication fields (Fig. 3).
The first lecture was “Recent standardization trends indigital coherent optical transceiver” given by Dr.
Tetsuyuki Suzaki (NEC). He presented thestandardization progress of 100 Gbit/s and beyond
optical transceiver mainly in optical internetworking
forum (OIF). The second lecturer was Mr. Yoshinori
Abe (Pioneer), who gave a talk entitled “Application of
optical communication technology to LiDAR.” Heprovided impressive talk with demonstration of video
and numerical simulation, which covered from theprinciple of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to
its latest progress as a key enabling technology for a
realization of autonomous driving. The third invitedlecture was given by Dr. Yukihiko Okumura (NTTdocomo) entitled “Toward realization of 5G mobile

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communication system.” He showed impressive video,
demonstrating an example of life and society offered by
5G services, and then overviewed recent technologicalprogress for a realization of 5G systems.
In the afternoon of the Day 2, we organized a special
invited talk by Dr. Kazuo Hagimoto (NEL) on “Birthand growth of ultra large capacity opticalcommunication system: following footprints of Dr.
Kiyoshi Nakagawa, the second IEICE OCS committee
chair,” (Fig. 4) to express our heartfelt condolences for
Dr. K. Nakagawa’s death. Dr. K. Hagimoto overviewed
the progress of optical communication technology fromthe birth to the latest trend including his personal
memory with Dr. K. Nakagawa, from which we learned
about his contribution to progress of opticalcommunication technology and community.

Fig. 3 Invited lecturers: from left, Prof. K. Saitoh, Dr.
T. Suzaki, Mr. Y. Abe, Dr. Y. Okumura

Fig. 4 Special invited talk by Dr. K. Hagimoto

optical communication and delivered strong promising
messages for sustainable growth of this field.
3. Rump Session
In the evening of Day 1, we organized a rump session
with a topic of “What changes with AI? What can
information and communication do?” hosted by Prof.
Akihiro Maruta (Osaka University). In order to initiate
the discussion, Prof. Hiroshi Hasegawa (Nagoya
University) and Dr. Takahito Tanimura (Fujitsu) firstgave a short presentation on what artificial intelligence(AI) and machine learning (ML) are and what they
provide impacts on optical communication fields. The
attendees then had a round-table discussion about not
only the benefits in research and development of
optical communication but also our life brought by
AI/ML and exchanged opinions each other actively.
4. Award Ceremony
During the technical sessions, the OCS award
ceremony took place on Day 1 (Fig. 6). The OCS
Technical Committee presented the following awards
to this year’s winners:
 OCS Best Paper Award: “Low loss splice between
large effective area ring-core fiber and standard
effective area fiber with fluorine-doped cladding,” byDr. Masato Suzuki, Mr. Yoshiaki Tamura, Mr.
Yoshinori Yamamoto, and Mr. Takemi Hasegawa(Sumitomo Electric)
 OCS Young Researchers Award: Dr. Yoshimichi
Amma (Fujikura) for “Fusion splice of high-density
multicore fiber,” Mr. Shimpei Shimizu (Hokkaido
University) for “Separation characteristics of volume
holographic spatial mode demultiplexer at 850 nm
wavelength,” Dr. Daiki Soma (KDDI Research) for“10-mode-multiplexed transmission over 81 km
weakly-coupled few-mode fiber with partial MIMO
equalizers.”

Fig. 5 Presenters of Workshop 2: from left, Mr. T.
Yoshida, Dr. K. Nakajima, Dr. K. Shimano, and Dr. K.
Ikeda
As a final session of this OCS symposium, theworkshop featuring the cutting-edge opticalcommunication technologies was held, which consistedof the following four invited talks (Fig. 5): opticalcommunication and information theory by Mr.
Tsuyoshi Yoshida (Mitsubishi Electric), perspective torealization of space division multiplexing by Dr.
Kazuhide Nakajima (NTT), progress of SDN andsoftware switch by Dr. Katsuhiro Shimano (NTT),large scale optical switch using silicon photonics by Dr.
Kazuhiro Ikeda (AIST). The workshop covered
exciting challenges ongoing over a wide spectrum ofFig. 6 OCS award-winners: from left, Dr. D. Soma,
Mr. S. Shimizu, Dr. Y. Amma, Dr. I. Morita (presenter),Dr. M. Suzuki, Mr. Y. Yamamoto, and Mr. T.
Hasegawa
5. Conclusion
We hope that the symposium offered a meaningful
opportunity for the participants to consider future
growth strategy in optical communication field. Finally,
the OCS technical committee would like to express
gratitude to all the speakers, participants, and exhibitors,
for making the 31st symposium successful.

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Report on IEEE 5G Summit Tokyo
Koichi Asatani
Nankai University
General Co-Chair of IEEE 5G Summit Tokyo

1. Introduction
This article reports IEEE 5G Summit Tokyo held in
Kogakuin University, September 22, 2017. This series
of workshop has been organized by IEEE and held inworldwide since 2015. We invited this workshop to
Tokyo as the first one in Japan supported by IEEE
ComSoc,
5GMF(5thGeneration
Mobilecommunication
promotion
Forum),
Kogakuin
University, NTT DoCoMo, IEICE Communication
Society, NEC, Intel, Fujitsu, Huawei USA and National
Instrument in addition to IEEE. We are thankful tothese sponsors. In this workshop, we welcomed around
200 participants, (Fig. 1). We ended this event on ahigh note.

Fig. 1 The whole view of workshop venue(Nankai Univ.) Session 2: 5G Applications including Eco-system,
Chair: Prof. Hidenori Nakazato (Waseda Univ.), 3
speakers were invited. Dr. Kokei Sato (5GMF),
Mr. Toru Katagiri (Fujitsu), and Dr. Takashi
Shono (Intel)
 Keynote 2: 5G: Past and Future, Dr. Seizo Onoe
(NTT DoCoMo)
 Session 3: 5G Radio Access, Chair: Mr. Takaharu
Nakamura (Fujitsu), 3 speakers were invited. Mr.
Kazuya Takigawa (National Instruments), Dr.
Fumio Watanabe (KDDI), and Dr. Pengfei Xia(Huawei Device) Panel Discussions: Challenges: R&D, Standards,
Spectrum & Deployment, Moderator, Prof.
Hiroyuki Otsuka (Kogakuin Univ.), 4 panelists
were invited. Prof. Aki Nakao (Univ. of Tokyo),Dr. Pengfei Xia (Huawei Device), Dr. Kohei Sato
(5GMF), Mr. Takehiro Nakamura (NTT DoCoMo)
 Conclusions and Final Remarks, Prof. Koichi
Asatani (Nankai Univ.)
3. Topics
After opening declaration (Fig. 2), Mr. Sugino of
MIC talked about introduction of strategic plan in MIC
for 5G mobile systems and encouraged R&D of thesesystems as Opening remarks.

Official Logo
2. Program at Glance
In this workshop, 5G mobile systems and related
technologies were discussed, e.g., Network design,
Security, Applications, and Wireless transmission. The
program is summarized as follows. Detailed
information is provided in the following URL.
http://www.5gsummit.org/tokyo/
 Opening and Introduction, Prof. Koichi Asatani(Nankai Univ.)
 Opening Remarks, Mr. Isao Sugino (MIC: Ministryof Internal affairs and Communications) Keynote 1, Prof, Susumu Yoshida (5GMF)
 Session 1: 5G Network & Security, Chair: Prof.
Hidenori Nakazato (Waseda Univ.), 3 speakers
were invited. Prof. Aki Nakao (Univ. of Tokyo),
Dr. Anand Prasad (NEC), and Dr. Zhang Hui

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Fig. 2 Opening and Introduction by Prof. Asatani
In Keynote speech #1, Professor Yoshida, Chairmanof 5GMF and Honorary Professor of Kyoto University,
introduced activities of 5GMF including 5GMF white
paper, and promotion of “crossover collbolation” andlatest information of “5G trials”,(Fig. 3). In Keynote
speech #2, Dr. Onoe of NTT DoCoMo introduced
activities for 5G mobile systems in NTT DoCoMo.

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Three technical sessions were assigned entitled“Session 1: 5G Network & Security”, “Session 2: 5GApplications including Eco-system” and “Session 3:
5G Radio Access”. Three speakers were invited in eachsession. In Session 1, chaired by Prof. Nakazato,
Waseda University, R&D activities in key network
technologies were introduced. In particular, Professor
Nakao, University of Tokyo, provided a distinguishedtalk including introduction of network technologies for
5G mobile systems focusing on slicing andvirtualization by software, (Fig. 4).
In Section 2, chaired by Prof. Nakazato, Waseda
University, applications using 5G mobile systems wereintroduced. Dr. Sato introduced summary of
applications created by 5GMF. Dr. Shono introduced
some solutions in 5G era focusing on Automatic
driving systems.
In Section 3, chaired by Mr. Nakamura, Fujitsu,
wireless transmission technologies including device
technologies were introduced.

good opportunity for discussions and informationexchanges with international distinguished speakers.
Acknowledgements:
Finally, I would like to give our special thanks to theinvited speakers, organizing committee members,sponsors. I also thank Prof. Yokotani for his help inwriting this report.

Fig. 5 Speakers and Officers in Organizing
Committee
Appendix: List ofmembers
General Co-chair
General Co-chair
General Co-chair
General Co-chair
IEEE 5G Co-Chair
Program Co-Chair
Program Co-Chair
Treasurer and Web Chair

Fig. 3 Keynote speech by Prof. Yoshida

Fig. 4 Prof. Nakao’s presentation in Session 1

IEEE ComSoc
IEEE ComSoc
IEEE ComSoc
IEEE ComSoc

Organizing

Committee

Prof. Koichi Asatani
Dr. Seizo Onoe
Prof. Gong Ke
Prof. Hiroyuki Otsuka
Dr. Ashutosh Dutta
Mr. Roger Jover
Prof. Akihiro Nakao
Dr. Takeshi Takahashi
Prof. Wu Hong
Mr. Eiji Kito
Mr. Yoichi Maeda
Prof. Hiroyuki Morikawa
Mr. Takaharu Nakamura
Mr. Takehiro Nakamura
Prof. Hidenori Nakazato
Dr. Kohei SatohProf. Takatoshi Sugiyama
Prof. Tetsuya Yokotani
Ms. Susan Brooks
Mr. Tamal Chakraborty
Dr. Chi-Ming Chen
Dr. Komlan Egoh
Dr. Rob Fish
Mr. Adam Greenberg
Mr. Daphne Lee
Mr. Bruce Worthman

After Keynotes and technical sessions, Panel session,moderated by Prof. Otsuka, Kogakuin University was
held. In this panel session, future perspectives of 5G
mobile systems were thoroughly discussed.
4. Conclusions
5G mobile systems will be deployed in 2020. It is
concluded that 5G Summit Tokyo triggered to promotefurther R&D and trial activities.
Also this workshop, 5G related activities in Japan
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Report IEICE Information and Communication
Technology Forum 2017
Sławomir Hanczewski
Poznan University of Technology, Poland
1. Introduction
The fifth edition of the IEICE conference
Information and Communication Technology Forum
was held in Poznań (Poland) on July 4 – 6, 2017. The
conference was hosted, for the second time in its
history, by the Chair in Telecommunications andComputer Networks of Poznan University ofTechnology. The first ICTF conference was hosted in
Poznań in May 2014. Poznan is the capital of Greater
Poland – one of the regions in Poland. It is also a majorindustrial and scientific center in the country.
The principal organizer of the conference was theEuropean Section of the IEICE (Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers). The otherorganizers of the conference, though on a smaller scale,also included the Poznań Division of the Polish
Association of Telecommunication Engineers and the
Chair in Telecommunications and Computer Networks(Poznań University of Technology). In addition, theICTF2017 was financally sponsored by theCommunications Society of IEICE (IEICE-CS).

Fig. 2 Prof. Krzysztof Wesołowski(Opening remarks)
The opening session of ICTF 2017 was chaired by
the Chair of the Organizing Committee, Dr Sławomir
Hanczewski. The conference was officially opened by
the Dean of the Faculty of Electronics andTelecommunications at Poznan University ofTechnology, Prof. Krzysztof Wesołowski. Having
welcomed the guests, Prof. Wesołowski in his speechbriefed the participants on the history and majorachievements of the Faculty. He also pointed at theneed for cooperation between different research
environments. In conclusion, Prof. Wesołowski wished
all participant of the conference success and fruitfulwork. The first session of the ICTF 2017 wasaugumented by the very interesting presentation of Prof.
Toshitaka Tsuda entitled “Core network in 5G Mobile
era and ICN”.

Fig. 1 Poznan University of Technology(Lecture-Conference Center)
The 2017 IEICE ICTF aimed at encouraging thecollaboration of researchers in academia and industry.
The Forum gathered the researchers, professors, PhD
students and experts from industry to exchange ideas
and discuss major trends and challenges in informationand communication technologies. In the course of theconference, participants focused on presenting trends inthe Future Communication Technologies andApplications. Furthermore, the aim of the conference
was to promote the organizational activities of IEICE
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Fig. 3 Prof. Toshitaka Tsuda(Core network in 5G Mobile era and ICN)

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2. Conference Program
Thirty three presentations were given during theconference.
Theirthematic
scope
included:Engineering/Fundamentals, Information Processing,Electronics and Communications. The conference wasattended (50 persons in total) by representatives ofacademia (from Japan and Europe) and industrial
research centers. The presentations were organized in
13 sessions, which provided the opportunity for theparticipants to discuss the presentations with the rest of
the audience in more detail.

Fig. 5 Mr. Sanghun Choi (Cost Effective Dummy
Generation Scheme in Non-Trusted LBS)

Fig. 4 Dr. Adrian Kliks(Spectrum Management and Radio Resource
Virtualization – a COHERENT approach)All of the presentations given during the conference
have been submitted for publication in I-Scover. The
participants of the conference also had an opportunity
to publish their expanded versions in the quarterly
Journal of Telecommunications and Information
Technology (1/2018). JTIT is a periodical published by
The National Institute of Telecommunications in
Warsaw (www.itl.waw.pl/publikacje/kwartalnik-jtit).
Access to the articles to be published will be free ofcharge.
But the ICTF conference is not only about researchpresentation and discussions on the current issues in
IT! The underlying goal of the conference was also tohelp promote the activity of IEICE in Europe.
Therefore, during the conference, the IEICE members
attending the conference (from Japan, in particular)
provided answers to a variety of questions related tothe activity of IEICE and IEICE Europe.
On the second day of the conference the participants
enjoyed a guided tour of the Old Town in Poznan. Thissightseeing excursion was to provide the participants
with practical experience with the history and cultureof the city of Poznan. The participants were given
extensive information on a number of the city’s
landmarks, such as the Parish Church in Poznan or the
Town Hall. The day was concluded with the palatialcelebratory dinner in the restaurant at 95 Rynek during
which the participants had a chance to taste the local
traditional dishes and get familiar with the regional
cuisine.

The conference was concluded on July 6th. During
his closing remarks, Prof. M. Głąbowski invited allparticipants to attend the next year’s ICTF conference
to be held in Graz (Austria). After the official
conclusion of the conference the participants were
offered an excursion to the headquarters of Poznan
Supercomputing
andNetworking
Center(www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/). Here, the participants
had a chance to become acquainted with the latest
works carried out by this extremely important research
center that involve optical-fibre networks, electronics
and robotics and multimedia, among others.
3. Future Event
The next edition of ICTF conference will be held in
Graz (Austria) between 11 - 13 July, 2018. The
conference will be hosted by the Institute ofMicrowave and Photonic Engineering, Technical
University of Graz. The web page of the conference isalready available at www.ictf2018.ieice-europe.org.
The web page is regularly updated with current
information related to the conference. As usual, allpresented papers will be added to I-Scover.
We invite everyone interested to participate in theconference.

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Report on 2017 International Symposium on
Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2017)
Toru Takahashi
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, ISAP JSC Secretariat
1. ISAP2017
2017 International Symposium on Antennas andPropagation (ISAP2017) was held at Graceland Resort& Spa, Phuket, Thailand, from October 30th toNovember 2nd, 2017. This was the tenth ISAP outside
Japan since the symposium started to be held in AsiaPacific region every year. ISAP2017 was organized byElectricalEngineering/Electronics,
Computer,Communications
andInformation
Technology
Association of Thailand (ECTI), and was incooperation with a lot of academic institutes not only in
Asia-Pacific region, but also in USA and Europe. The
IEICE Communications Society was also one of thetechnical co-sponsors for the symposium.
Prof. Monai Krairiksh (King Mongkut's Institute ofTechnology Ladkrabang) served as General Chair, andProf. Danai Torrungrueng (Asian Univ.) served as
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair.
The statistics for paper submission, acceptance, andregistration are summarized in Table 1. Papers were
submitted from 33 countries/regions not only in AsiaPacific, but also all over the world. The top three
countries for the number of paper submissions wereJapan, China, and Thailand. Approximately 200
reviewers including TPC members, who were
nominated by international review system, contributed
energetically multiple-review work in a limited timeand supported TPC. The topics of the symposium wereantennas, propagation, electromagnetic theory, andrelated fields, and the statistics for submitted paper
categories are summarized in Fig. 2.
On the first day, October 30th, four technicalworkshops were held. After that, an IEICE session on"how to write a paper" was presented by Prof. Mitoshi
Fujimoto, Editor of IEICE Communications Express(ComEX). That was the first trial to introduce IEICE
publication activity in ISAP.
On the second day, October 31st, the opening
ceremony (Fig. 1) and plenary session were held. In theplenary session, the following speeches were presented;
 Prof. John L. Volakis (The Ohio State University,USA), “Ultra-Wideband Arrays with Low Cost
Beamforming Back-Ends”
 Dr. Fumio Watanabe (KDDI Research, Inc.,
Japan), “Real Challenge of Mobile Networks
toward 5G: An Expectation for Antennas &Propagation” (Fig. 2)

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Table 1 Major statistics
Submitted Papers
452
Accepted Papers
411
Registered Papers
366 (80.97%)
Table 2 Category of Submitted Papers
Antennas
47 %Propagation
14 %Electromagnetic Theory
10 %Related Fields
12 %Special Sessions
17 %(a) Greeting from General Chair, Prof. M. Krairiksh(b) VIP Members
Fig. 1 Opening Ceremony

Fig. 2 Plenary Talk by Dr. Fumio Watanabe

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 Prof. Stefano Maci, (University of Siena, Italy),“Guidance and Radiation of Metasurface-Waves”
After the plenary session, 50 technical oral sessions,
3 poster sessions were presented during three days
from October 31st to November 2nd.
Participants were hosted at the comfortable Banquet
in the evening on November 1st, and enjoyed watching
traditional dance of Thailand (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 31st.
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 ISAP2020 will be
Osaka, Japan. Incidentally, the venues up to 2019 havebeen decided to be Busan, Korea in 2018, and Xi’an,
China in 2019.
Figure 4 shows photo of the ISC Member.
3. ISAP Archives
ISAP-ISC also set up ISAP Archives recording all
papers presented at the past ISAP. At this time, all thepapers from the first ISAP in 1971 to ISAP2016 havebeen digitized and online. As a result, anybody in theworld AP community can access ISAP papers with freeof charge. The archive is updated every year. This
service will respond to expectations of AP specialists inthe world and enhance motivations especially for Asianpeople to submit papers.
The URL of the ISAP Archives is “http://aps.ei.tuat.ac.jp/isapx/” and the top page is shown in Fig.
5. The site can also be reached through the web site of
the IEICE Knowledge Discovery, I-Scover (http://iscover.ieice.org/). The papers of the latest ISAP will bearchived almost a half year later after the ISAP. The
papers of ISAP2017 will appear in the ISAP Archives
soon. In addition to the ISAP Archives, the papers ofrecent ISAPs have also been included in IEEE Xplore.
4. Conclusion
ISAP2017 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 ISAP2018
will be held in Busan, Korea, from October 23th to 26th,
2018. Deadline for paper submission is May 18th, 2018.
For more details, please visit the ISAP2018 Web site
shown in Fig. 6 (http://isap2018.org/).

Fig. 3 Traditional dance of Thailand at Banquet

Fig. 4 ISC Member

Fig. 5 ISAP Archives Web site(http://ap-s.ei.tuat.ac.jp/isapx/)

Fig. 6 ISAP2018 Web site (http://isap2018.org/)

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Report on the 24th General Congress of theInternational Commission for Optics (ICO-24)
Takuo Tanemura
The University of Tokyo
1. Introduction
The 24th General Congress of the International
Commission for Optics (ICO-24) was held at Keio
Plaza Hotel, Tokyo during August 21-25, 2017 [1]. It
was jointly organized by the International Commission
for Optics (ICO) and Science Council of Japan (SCJ),
co-sponsored by the Japan Society of Applied Physics(JSAP), the Optical Society of Japan (OSJ), andtechnically co-sponsored by IEICE Communications
Society, IEICE Electronics Society, as well as elevenother academic organizations in Japan, Europe, UnitedStates, and Asia.
2. Overview
The ICO Congress has established itself as one of themost prestigious international conferences in the fieldof optics and photonics. The first Congress of the ICO
was held in Delft, the Netherlands, in July 1948, theyear after the ICO was established, with the aim ofproviding a forum to discuss progress in optics andphotonics. Since then, the ICO Congress has been held
every three years, and gained participation from allover the world, including developing countries. ICO-24
was the second to be held in Japan, 34 years since ICO13 was held in Sapporo.
The main theme of ICO-24 was set to “Light forSociety.” The aim was to gather the top-level scientists
and researchers from all over the world to exchange
ideas and discuss how advanced optical and photonic
technologies could contribute to improving the qualityof life (QoL) as well as solving critical issues of humanbeings, such as global energy, environment, andmedicine.
As a result, we were successful to have 1,006
participants in total from 45 countries, among whicharound 600 were from Japan and 400 were from abroad.
This was close to our target number of 1,100. The
participants greatly enjoyed the opening ceremony,technical sessions, welcome reception, banquet, and theclosing ceremony.
3. Opening Ceremony
It was our great honor that the opening ceremony
took place in the presence of Their Majesties theEmperor and Empress of Japan. In the ceremony,following the welcoming address by Prof. Yasuhiko
Arakawa (President of ICO, General Chair of ICO-24),
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Onishi (President of the SCJ), Prof. Kennedy Reed
(President-designate of the International Union of Pureand Applied Physics), Mr. Masaji Matsuyama (Ministerof State for Science and Technology Policy), Ms.
Yuriko Koike (Governor of Tokyo), and Prof. Makoto
Gonokami (President of the University of Tokyo), as
well as warm message from the Prime Minister ofJapan, Shinzo Abe. The ceremony ended with a great
success, part of which was broadcasted by the major
Japanese TV news channels.
4. Plenary Sessions
Another highlight of ICO-24 was the prominent
Plenary Sessions, which were held twice during theconference. The plenary talks were given by the worldrenowned speakers, namely, Prof. Hiroshi Amano(Nagoya University, Nobel laureate in physics 2014),
Prof. Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo, Nobel
laureate in physics 2015), Prof. Anne L’Huillier (Lund
University), Prof. Christopher Dainty (University
College of London), and Prof. James G. Fujimoto(Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The audiences
greatly enjoyed the distinguished lectures on variety ofdifferent topics related to optics and photonics.
5. Technical Sessions
The technical program of ICO-24 consisted of 683
papers in total (including 18 keynote and 80 invited
talks), categorized into 18 different scopes: (1) Opticaldesign, optical materials, and photo lithography, (2)Vision, color, display and lighting, (3) Opticalmetrology, (4) Optical imaging and optical information
processing, (5) Advanced microscopy and spectroscopy,(6) Biomedical optics/photonics, (7) Nonlinear optics,(8) Ultrafast phenomena and ultrafast optics, (9) Highpower lasers and applications, (10) X-ray and highenergy optics, (11) Microwave/millimeterwave/THz
photonics, (12) Near field optics, plasmonics, andmetamaterials, (13) Photonic crystal, nano structuresand functions, (14) Optoelectronics and photonic
devices, (15) Optical MEMS and micro-optics, (16)Quantum optics and atom optics, (17) Fiber optics, (18)
Optical communications and photonic network.
The program was carried out in the maximum of 11
parallel sessions, in which respective categories were
carefully slotted in series to avoid scheduling conflictamong similar topics. In each session, we witnessed
active discussions among the participants to exchange
updated research results as well as novel ideas.

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Fig. 1 Prof. Arakawa (center, the General Chairof ICO-24), Prof. Amano (left, plenary speaker),and Prof. Kajita (right, plenary speaker)

6. Student Award and Award Ceremony
The 18 top-scored students were awarded Student
Award, which was sponsored by the Optical Society ofAmerica (OSA), the International Society for Optics
and Photonics (SPIE), and the ICO. The recipientswere selected from each category by the ICO-24
technical program committees and awarded during thebanquet.
In addition, the recipients of ICO Prize 2014 and ICO
Galileo Galilei Award 2015 were awarded at the award
ceremony, which was held during the conference.

Fig. 2 Banquet

7. Banquet
As a social event, a delightful banquet party was held
inside the Keio Plaza Hotel in the evening of the thirdday. The participants enjoyed delicious Japanesecuisine as well as exceptional dance and music
performances.
8. Open Lecture to Public Audience
In addition to the regular conference, a tutorial
lecture was organized, which was open to generalpublic for free of charge. The lecture was given in
Japanese by Prof. Takaaki Kajita on the topic ofneutrino, gravity wave, cosmophysics, and theirrelevance to optics and photonics technologies. Afterthe enlightening lecture by Prof. Kajita, Q&A session
was prepared to accept questions from the audiences.
More than 300 people, including many high-school andmiddle-school students, attended the lecture andparticipated actively in the Q&A session. It ended witha great success in stimulating future young scientists.

Fig. 3 Open lecture to public audience given by
Prof. Takaaki Kajita

9. Future PlanAt the General Assembly of the ICO, which was held
during the conference, it was decided to hold the next
ICO-25 at Dresden, Germany, in year 2020.
We hope to see you all in Dresden!
Reference[1] http://ico24.org/

Fig. 4 ICO committee

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Report on 13th International Conference on
Network and Service Management(CNSM 2017)
Masaharu Hattori†, Yoshiaki Kiriha‡, and Yoshiaki Tanaka†††
Publicity Co-chair of CNSM 2017, KDDI Research, Inc.
‡
General Co-chair of CNSM 2017, The University of Tokyo††
General Co-chair of CNSM 2017, Waseda University
1. Introduction
The 13th International Conference on Network andService Management (CNSM) was held from
November 26 to 30, 2017 at Waseda University, Tokyo,
Japan [1].
The conference is the premier annual conference inthe general area of network and service management. It
is one of the best chances for presenting and discussing
the latest innovations, results, and developments inmanaging networks, pervasive systems, enterprise andcloud environments. It is attended by foremost experts
in this area from academia and industry.
The conference was organized by Waseda University,
technically co-sponsored by IEICE ICM Committee,
IFIP, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer
Society, and in cooperation with ACM.

Three executives delivered keynote speeches in themain track. Prof. Akihiro Nakao, from the Universityof Tokyo gave a speech on “Application Centric E2E
Slicing Challenges for The Thinking Networks” (Fig.
2). Prof. Rolf Stadler from KTH Royal Institute ofTechnology, Sweden showed a “Data-driven Network
Engineering and Management.” Dr. Glenn Ricart, from
US Ignite who is a founder and CTO introduced a“Networking Grand Challenges for 5G/IoT Advanced
Applications and Platforms in US Ignite in 5G/IoTera.”
In the DEP session, a moderator, Dr. Katsumi Emura,NEC, and four panelists debated various topics related
to the session theme “Big Data Analytics for Networks:
status and challenges” (Fig. 3) after the panelists madepresentations one by one.

2. Technical Program
The main single-track technical program iscomplemented by keynote speeches, a Distinguished
Experts Panel (DEP) session, poster sessions, andworkshops. 136 papers were submitted to CNSM 2017,and 24 papers were accepted to the main track. The
acceptance rate is 17%. 160 people from 26 countries
participated in this conference (Fig. 1). This conferenceis the highest class conference in this research area.

Fig. 2 Keynote speech presented by Prof. Nakao

Fig. 1 Participants in technical session
Fig. 3 DEP session

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Fig. 4 Poster session

Fig. 7 Congratulatory address by IEEE Computer
Society President-Elect
Another guest was Prof. Hironori Kasahara, Waseda
University who is IEEE Computer Society PresidentElect. He delivered a congratulatory address (Fig. 7).

Fig. 5 Workshop
In the poster session, 30 papers were presented. The
presenters of these papers and participants conducted
lively discussion (Fig. 4).
Regarding to the workshop, there were twoworkshops which were “International Workshop on
Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT)” (Fig.
5) and “International Workshop on Management of
SDN and NFV Systems (ManSDN/NFV)”. The
numbers of presented papers in these workshops were 8
and 20, respectively.
3. Social Program
On November 28, the welcome reception was heldon the 15th floor of the building, where people could
see a beautiful night view of Shinjuku. On November
29, the social event and the gala dinner were held. The
social event was an opera. Famous baritone singer,
Yuma Shimizu, and pianist, Shiho Fujikawa, performed
8 opera songs (Fig. 6). After the opera, more than 120
participants of the conference and guests including
previously described two musicians joined in the galadinner held at a hotel in the campus.

4. Award
Lastly, the CNSM 2017 technical program committee
selected the best paper award and the best student
paper award from technical session papers.
The best paper award winner was Shihabur Rahman
Chowdhury from University of Waterloo, Canada, who
presented “MULE: Multi-Layer Virtual Network
Embedding” (Fig. 8 (a)). The best student paper award
winner was Davit Harutyunyan from FBK, Italy, who
presented “Flexible Functional Split in 5G Networks”(Fig. 8 (b)).

(a) Best paper award(b) Best student paper award
Fig. 8 Winners of the best paper awards
5. Conclusion
On behalf of all OC members of CNSM 2017, wewould like to express our appreciation to all parties
involved in this conference. The next CNSM will beheld in Rome, Italy, in November 2018.

Fig. 6 Opera

References[1] Home page of CNSM 2017,
http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2017/index.html
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Report on the 8th International
Conference on ICT Convergence(ICTC 2017)
Oh-Soon Shin1, Sang-Jo Yoo2, andSunghyun Choi3
1
Soongsil University, Korea, 2Inha University, Korea
3
Seoul National University, Korea
1. Introduction
The 8th International Conference on Information andCommunication Technology Convergence (ICTC2017) was held in Lotte City Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea
from October 18th to 20th, 2017 [1]. ICTC is a leading,flagship international conference hosted by the
Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP)
of Korea government, organized by the Korean
Institute of Communications and Information Sciences(KICS) and technically co-sponsored by IEICE-CS andIEEE Communications Society. ICTC 2017 features anextremely rich program with the main theme of “ICT
Convergence Technologies Leading the Fourth
Industrial Revolution.” The conference addresses
numerous challenges of ICT convergence over various
industrial sectors, including wireless and mobile
communication systems and infrastructure, future
networks, services and applications, smart devices andconsumer appliances, cloud computing, green
communication, healthcare and bio-informatics, andInternet 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 5 keynote
speeches. The Plenary Session 1 was started with the
opening address by Prof. Youze Cho (President of
KICS), and a congratulatory address by Prof. Kohei
Shiomoto (Representative of IEICE-CS). Then, Dr.
Alberto Leon-Garcia (Professor of University ofToronto, Canada) delivered a keynote speech on“Integrating IoT into Multi-tier Cloud Computing,”
which was followed by another keynote speech on“Intelligent GiGA Infra as the 4th Industrial Revolution
Enabler” by Dr. Hongbeom Jeon (Executive Vice
President of KT, Korea). Plenary Session II consists of
3 keynote speeches. Dr. Max Muhlhauser (Professor of
TU Darmstadt, Germany) delivered a keynote speechon “IoT as a Driver for the Next Wave of ICT
Convergence,” and Dr. Geza Kolumban (Professor of
Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary) delivereda keynote speech on “Limits and Applicability of UWB
Impulse Radio Technology in Cyber-Physical Systems,

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Fig. 1 Plenary Session
In-Car Communications and Biomedical Applications.”
Dr. Durga Malladi (Senior Vice President of
Qualcomm, USA) delivered the last keynote speech on“Fueling the Next Technical Revolution with 5G.”
Each of two industrial sessions (Fig. 2) consists of 2
invited talks from industries. The theme of Industrial
Session I was IoT, cloud computing, and automateddriving. Dr. Minkyong Kim (Vice President of
Samsung Electronics, Korea) and Mr. JaeKyun Chang(Head of Interior S&T Korea, Continental Automotive
Korea) gave excellent talks on the theme. In Industrial
Session II, Mr. Takehiro Nakamura (Vice President &General Manager of 5G Laboratory, NTT DOCOMO,
Inc., Japan) and Dr. Anand Prasad (Chief Advanced
Technologist, NEC Corporation, Japan) gave
interesting talks on 5G and IoT security.
Regarding technical paper sessions (Fig. 3), 533
papers were submitted to the conference from 36
countries. After thorough review process, the technicalprogram committee (TPC) accepted 256 papers andcollected 64 invited papers, which were organized into

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Fig. 2 Industrial Session

Fig. 4 Conference Banquet
Fig. 3 Technical Session
30 oral sessions and 2 poster sessions. The overall
acceptance ratio was about 48%. The topics oftechnical paper sessions covered wireless and mobile
communications, information and communication
theory, future internet, smart media and broadcasting,green communication technologies, smart grid, uhealthcare and bio-infomatics, IoT, Machine-toMachine (M2M), and encryption and security. In
addition, 6 special sessions were organized with 18
invited talks from academia and industries.
3. Social Events
At the first night, the welcome reception was held atFoyer Room of hotel. The participants enjoyed thebeverage 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. Seung
Ku Hwang (Organizing Committee Chair). Prof.
Sangjo 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 Prof. Sunghyun
Choi (SPC Chair). 2 Best Paper Awards and 3
Excellent Paper Awards were presented to the authorsof five selected papers (Fig. 5). In recognition to
outstanding research achievement and contribution to
KICS, KICS Dr. Irwin Jacobs Awards were presented
to Dr. Yeong Min Jang (Professor of Kookmin
University, Korea) and Dr. Yoan Shin (Professor ofSoongsil University, Korea). Finally, ICT Express Best
Paper Award was given to Dr. Geza Kolumban(Professor of Pazmany Peter Catholic University,

Fig. 5 Best/Excellent Paper Award
Hungary). All participants enjoyed the banquet with
nice Korean food and an exciting performance.
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 2017 a big success. It is our great pleasure
to announce that the next event, ICTC 2018, will beheld in Maison Glad Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea, during
October 17th-19th, 2018 [2]. ICTC 2018 invites thesubmission of original research works in all areas ofinfrastructure, services, technologies, and applicationof ICT convergence.
References[1] http://ictc2017.org/[2] http://ictc2018.org/

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Report on the 6th IEEE International Conference on
Renewable Energy Research and Applications(ICRERA2017)
Nobumasa Matsui
Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
1. Introduction
The 6th IEEE International Conference on Renewable
Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA2017) was
held on 5-8 November 2017 at San Diego, CA, USA.
San Diego is, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean inSouthern California, about 190 km south of Los
Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with
Mexico. Also, in San Diego City, trolleys for realizing
the low carbon society are slowly moving through the
downtown. ICRERA is the annual world-class technicalforum presenting the latest research topics in the
renewable energy technologies and their applications.
The main sponsors of ICRERA2017 are theInternational Journal of Renewable Energy (IJRER)
and IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS). PELS has
joined as one of the main sponsors of ICRERA since2016. IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society (IES), the Institute ofElectrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) and the Institute ofElectronics, Information and Communication Engineers(IEICE) support the conference as a technical cosponsor. It is also supported by San Diego State
University, USA, Nagasaki University, Japan, Gazi
University and Nisantasi University, Turkey.
2. Conference Overview and Tutorials
The conference program consisted of 3 keynote
addresses, 30 technical sessions, 9 special sessions and4 tutorials. On Sunday, the first day of the conference,
4 tutorials were offered about integrating renewableenergy sources in smart grid system, lazy and partition
clustering method for wind energy and energy
management of green telecom, further, renewable andregenerative energy application for electric railway,
respectively.
3. Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speeches
On Monday morning, the second day of theconference, the opening ceremony was held by General
Chair, Prof. Yusf Ozturk, General co-chairs, Prof.
Ilhami Colak and Prof. Fujio Kurokawa. After the
opening ceremony, three high-profile keynote speakers,
Prof. Chris Mi, Prof. Yen-Shin Lai and Prof. Mehdi
Ferdowsi gave keynote speeches about the latest highefficiency wireless charging of electric vehicles, theroles of power electronics after COP21 and the dc
distribution systems, respectively. They have presented
about technologies, social implementation and the costof each subjects.
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4. Technical Program
There were total 374 submissions are given a
renewable energy research and their applications from
41 countries. 210 papers (144 oral presentations and 66
poster presentations) were accepted for presentation by
careful peer review process. The technical program wasscheduled through Monday afternoon and Wednesday
evening. Each session was kept the schedule, andattendances discussed about the interesting subjects,
advances and developments in renewable energy
research and their applications.
5. Conclusions
ICRERA has been the forum for researchers andengineers in renewable energy since 2012. In 2016,
IEEE PELS joined main sponsors of this conference.
374 papers were submitted and 210 papers presented
on ICRERA2017 from more than 41 countries andregions. ICRERA2017 successfully provided an
excellent venue and facilitated the researchcollaboration in renewable energy technologies.
IEEE ICRERA2018 will be held in Paris, France on
14-17 October 2018.

Fig. 1 Opening Ceremony

Fig. 2 Trolley in San Diego

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IEICE-CS Related Conferences Calendar
Date

Conference Name

Location

Note

28 Jul. –2 Aug. 2019

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Symposium 2019 (IGARSS 2019)

Yokohama, Japan

TBD

7 Jul. –11 Jul. 2019

The 24th Opto-Electronics and Communications
Conference / International Conference on Photonics in
Switching and Computing 2019 (OECC / PSC2019)

Fukuoka, Japan

TBD

3 Jun. –6 Jun. 20192019 Joint International Symposium on Electromagnetic
Compatibility and Asia-Pacific International Symposium
on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Sapporo(EMC Sapporo & APEMC 2019)

Sapporo, Japan

TBD

6 Nov. –9 Nov. 20182018 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2018)

Kyoto, Japan

Submission due:
19 May 2018
See page 45

29 Aug. –31 Aug. 20182018 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics:
Applications and Student Innovation Competition(iWEM 2018)

Nagoya, Japan

Submission due:
10 May 2018
See page 44

4 Jul. –7 Jul. 2018

The Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous andFuture Networks (ICUFN 2018)

Prague,Czech Republic

Submission deadline:
Closed2 Jul. –6 Jul. 2018

The 23rd Opto-Electronics
Conference (OECC 2018)

Jeju Island, Korea

Submission due:
23 March 2018

3 Jun. 2018

Technology Trials and Proof-of-Concept Activities for 5G
and Beyond 2018 (TPoC5G 2018)

Porto, Portugal

Submission deadline:
Closed20 May 2018

The 11th International Workshop on Evolutional
Technologies & Ecosystems for 5G Phase II(WDN-5G ICC2018)

Kansas City, USA

To be held soon

18 Dec. –20 Dec. 2017

Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications
and Computers 2017 (JAC-ECC 2017)

Alexandria, Egypt

Done

11 Dec. –13 Dec. 2017

The 23rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications(APCC 2017)

Perth, Australia

Done

4 Dec. –6 Dec. 20172017 IEEE International Conference on Antenna
Measurements & Applications (2017 IEEE CAMA)

Tsukuba, Japan

Done

26 Nov. –30 Nov. 201713th Int. Conference on Network and Service Management(CNSM 2017)

Tokyo, Japan

Reportedon this issue

14 Nov. –16 Nov. 2017

The fifth ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS(EIWAC 2017)

Tokyo, JapanDone

5 Nov. –8 Nov. 2017

International Conference on Renewable Energy Researchand Applications (ICRERA 2017)

San Diego, USA

Reportedon this issue

30 Oct. –2 Nov. 20172017 International Symposium
Propagation (ISAP 2017)

Phuket, Thailand

Reportedon this issue

18 Oct. –20 Oct. 2017

International
Conferenceon
Information
andCommunication Technology Convergence (ICTC 2017)

Jeju Island, Korea

Reportedon this issue

22 Sep. 2017

IEEE 5G Summit Tokyo (5G Summit)

Tokyo, Japan

Reportedon this issue

21 Aug. –25 Aug. 2017

The 24th Congress of the International Commission for
Optics (ICO-24)

Tokyo, Japan

Reportedon this issue

4 Jul. –6 Jul. 20172017 IEICE information and Communication Technology
Forum (IEICE ICTF2017)

Poznań, Poland

Reportedon this issue

and

on

Communications

Antennas

andPlease confirm with the following IEICE-CS web site for the latest information.
http://www.ieice.org/cs/conf/calendar.html
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Special Section Calendar of IEICE Transactions on Communications
Issue

Special SectionNote

May 2019

European ICT R&D Project Activities on Broadband AccessTechnologies in Conjunction with Main Topics of 2016/2017 IEICE
ICT

Submission due:
7 June 2018
See page 37

Apr. 2019

Sensing, Wireless Networking, Data Collection, Analysis andProcessing Technologies for Ambient Intelligence with Internet ofThingsSubmission due:
11 May 2018
See page 36

Mar. 2019

Network Virtualization and Network Softwarization for Diverse 5G
Services

Submission due:
12 April 2018
See page 35

Feb. 2019

Recent Progress in Antennas and Propagation in Conjunction withMain Topics of ISAP2017

To be issued

Jan. 2019No special section this issue

Dec. 2018

No special section this issue

Nov. 2018

No special section this issue

Oct. 2018

Wireless Distributed Networks for IoT Era

Sep. 2017

No special section this issue

Aug. 2018

Autonomous Decentralized Systems Technologies and Approaches
Innovation through Structure Change of Society and LifeTo be issued

Jul. 2018

Communication Quality in Wireless Networks

To be issued

Jun. 2018

No special section this issue

May 2018

No special section this issue

Apr. 2018

Optical Access System for Social LifeTo be issued soon

Mar. 2018

Network Resource Control and Management for IoT Services andApplications

Vol. E101-B, No. 3

Feb. 2018

Recent Progress in Antennas and Propagation in Conjunction withMain Topics of ISAP2016

Vol. E101-B, No. 2

Jan. 2018

Internet Technologies to Accelerate Smart SocietyVol. E101-B, No. 1

To be issued

Please confirm with the following IEICE web site for the latest CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.ieice.org/event/ronbun-e.php?society=cs

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Call for Papers------- Special Section on Network Virtualization and Network Softwarization
for Diverse 5G Services ------The IEICE Transactions on Communications announces that it will publish a special section entitled "Special Section on
Network Virtualization and Network Softwarization for Diverse 5G Services" in March 2019.
ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) have become an indispensable social infrastructure for our everyday life
and industry activities by making ICT systems be flexible, scalable, efficient and sustainable. Recently, extensive efforts arebeing made towards 5G mobile services, including research projects, proof-of-concept demonstrations, field trials,
standardization and consortium activities, and so forth. Such industry efforts, with complemented by academic insights, havematerialized the necessity of network virtualization and softwarization as key concepts and guiding principles.
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. They imperatively require such techniques to construct virtual networks providing
diverse services on a substrate infrastructure consisting of network resources, computational resources and storage resources.
In addition, focusing on end-to-end service offering, it is essential to study and develop such techniques to virtualize wirelessaccess networks with their integration to other virtualization techniques.
We thus call for publications (scheduled to appear in the March 2019 issue) for promoting discussion and development of
network virtualization and softwarization for diverse 5G services, especially on architectural examination, resource
management and control approaches, wireless access virtualization, SDN/NFV applications, 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:
Network virtualization for diverse 5G services
Network softwarization and open-source software
Network management and control in network virtualization
Wireless access virtualization and its related wireless communication technologies
Edge computing for 5G services
Application of Software defined networking and Network function virtualization
Innovative applications based on network virtualization
Security for network virtualization and secure services
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,
http://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 only papers 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, 2018 (JST). Authors should choose the Network
Virtualization and Network Softwarization for Diverse 5G Services as a "Journal/Section" on the online screen. Do not choose[Regular-EB].
Contact point:
Takaya Miyazawa
Network Science and Convergence Device Technology Laboratory, Network System ResearchInstitute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
Tel: +81-42-327-7274, Email: nv+eb2019@mail.ieice.org

3. Special Section Editorial Committee
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Takashi Shimizu (NTT)Guest Editors: Takaya Miyazawa (NICT), Yohei Hasegawa (NEC)Guest Associate Editors: Fumio Teraoka (Keio Univ.), Masaki Aida (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), Osamu Akashi (NTT),
Yoshinori Kitatsuji (KDDI Research), Atsuko Takefusa (NII), Toru Hasegawa (Osaka Univ.)*Authors must agree to the “Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement” via electric submission.
*Please note that if accepted, all authors, including authors of invited papers, are requested to pay for the page charges
covering partial cost of publications.
*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, http://www.ieice.org/eng/member/OM-appli.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#835

Call for Papers--- Special Section on Sensing, Wireless Networking, Data Collection, Analysis and Processing
Technologies for Ambient Intelligence with Internet of Things --The IEICE Transactions on Communications announces that it will publish a special section entitled "Special Section on Sensing, Wireless
Networking, Data Collection, Analysis and Processing Technologies for Ambient Intelligence with Internet of Things" in the April 2019
issue.
In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, sensor networks gather ambient information from peoples, products, and sensing devices for real space.
The sensed data is processed, analyzed, and applied for enhancement or assistance for human activities, which is called ambient intelligence.
Sophisticated social environments such as efficient electric power usage in smart grids, effective transportation systems, smart agriculture andbig data analytics based on sensed data will be established through the ambient intelligence. Ambient intelligence can offer the conveniencethat before does not have and a radical cost cut by fusing the technologies of various fields. Fundamental researches have been promoted in
the field of technologies supporting the ambient intelligence. Toward future generation, it is important to develop such sensing, wirelessnetworking, data collection, analysis and progressing technologies for ambient intelligence. From the above points of view, the special
section is planned (scheduled to appear in the April 2019 issue) to publish papers on the related fields.
1. Scope
The scope of this special section includes not only sensing, wireless networking, data collection, analysis and processing technologies but
also their multidisciplinary researches for ambient intelligence. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:- Space sensing, vital sensing, mobile sensing, participatory sensing, cloud sensing ambient interface, device and appliance technologies,
embedded software, sensing and control theory, long distance communication, 5G, millimeter wave communication, near field radio
communication- MAC/routing protocols, multi-hop, full-duplex and cooperative communication, QoS control, cross layer design, energy harvesting, green
wireless, communication and network theory- Sensor database, context extraction, mining, location-information technology, stream processing, privacy and security, big data, learning
signal processing- Large scale widening, dependability, IoT, M2M, D2D, cyber physical, operation management, autonomous distributed control
2. Submission Instructions
The standard number of pages is 8. The page charges are considerably higher for extra pages. Manuscripts should be prepared according to
the guideline in the "Information for Authors." The latest version is available at the web site, http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_cs.html.
The term 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/Word files,
figures, authors’ photos and biographies) via the IEICE Web site https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx by May 11, 2018 (JST).
Authors should choose the Special Section on Sensing, Wireless Networking, Data Collection, Analysis and Processing Technologies forAmbient Intelligence with Internet of Things as a "Journal/Section" on the online screen. Do not choose [Regular EB].
Contact point:
Masaki Bandai
Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University
Email: asn-ss-sec@mail.ieice.org
3. Special Section Editorial Committee
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Hiraku Okada (Nagoya Univ.)
Guest Editors: Satoshi Ohzahata (Univ. of Electro-Commun.), Masaki Bandai (Sophia Univ.)
Guest Associate Editors: Hideyuki Uehara (Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.), Masashi Sugano (Osaka Prefecture Univ.), Kiyohiko Hattori(Saitama Inst. of Tech.), Kanae Matsui (Tokyo Denki Univ.), Hiroyuki Yomo (Kansai Univ.), Kazuya Monden (Hitatchi)* Authors must agree to the "Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement" via electronic submission.
* Please note that if the submitted paper is accepted, all authors, including authors of invited papers, are requested to pay for the page charges
covering partial cost of publications.
* 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
http://www.ieice.org/eng/member/OM-appli.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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Call for Papers------- Special Section on European ICT R&D Project Activities on Broadband
Access Technologies in Conjunction with Main Topics of 2016/2017 IEICE ICTForum ------The IEICE Transactions on Communications announces that it will publish a special section entitled "Special Section on European ICT R&D
Project Activities on Broadband Access Technologies in Conjunction with Main Topics of 2016/2017 IEICE ICT Forum" in the 2019 issue (May2019).
The special section is organized by IEICE Europe Section. As the growth of wireless services continues, improved and new transmission
technologies, system and network architectures and their socio-economic implications are being investigated in order to accommodate theincreasing user demand for ease of scalability and reliable broadband service. The special section seeks for submission particularly from, but notlimited to, the authors of the IEICE ICT Forum, and will focus on both theoretical and practical aspects of new algorithms, network/systemdesign and architectures, performance analysis, and experimental studies, related to the technical fields of European ICT R&D Projects.

1. Scope
Topics of the special section include research results from European ICT R&D project activities or related ones for, but are not limited to thefollowing areas:- Information and communication theory and algorithms,- 5G and beyond wireless cellular networks/wireless cooperative networks/wireless cognitive and reconfigurable networks, and related
technologies,- Socio-economic implications of new technologies, law/regulatory impacts of new network technologies, social networking,- The Internet of Things and machine type communications,- Next-Generation Access (NGA) technologies and networks: Integration of optical and wireless access as a last mile,- Converged optical-wireless networks,- Power line communication technologies, future broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) access,- Distributed monitoring and management techniques, channel modeling/measurement,- Performance measurements, experimental platforms and testbeds concerning to the above mentioned topics.

2. Submission Instructions
The standard number of pages is 8. The page charges are considerably higher for extra pages. Manuscripts should be prepared according to theguideline in the "Information for Authors." The latest version is available at the web site, http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_cs.html. The
term for revising the manuscript after acknowledgement of conditional acceptance for this special section could be shorter than that for regularissues (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/Word files, figures,
authors’ photos and biographies) via the IEICE Web site https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx by June 7th, 2018 (JST). Authors
should choose the European ICT R&D Project Activities as a "Journal/Section" on the online screen. Do not choose [Regular EB].
Contact point:
Osamu Muta, Kyushu University
Daisuke Umehara, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Phone: +81- 92-802-6912, E-mail: eb-eu2019@mail.ieice.org

3. Special Section Editorial Committee
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Piotr Zwierzykowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Osamu Muta (Kyushu University, Japan)
Guest Editors: Erich Leitgeb (Graz University of Technology, Austria), Michael Logothetis (Patras University of Technology, Greece),
Daisuke Umehara (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
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IEICE-CS Overseas Membership with Special Annual Fees
for Sister Society Members
To foster the cooperation between the Sister Society and the IEICE Communications Society (IEICE-CS), theSister Society agreement enables members of each institution to become members of both societies by granting
special annual fees.
A 10% - 20% discount* of the annual fees will be granted to the sister society members to become the IEICE-CS
overseas members. The discounted fees will be applied for the individual members when the new membership is
starting or the current membership is renewing.

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IEICE Communications Society - GLOBAL NEWSLETTER
Submission GuidelineFirst version in only Japanese: May 30, 2008
Second version in only Japanese: Feb. 13, 2009
Third version in only Japanese: Jul. 22, 2010
Forth version in English and Japanese: Mar. 8, 2011
Ver 5.0 : August 10 2013
1. About GLOBAL NEWSLETTERThe Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Communications Society (IEICE-CS)
GLOBAL NEWSLETTER has been established since 2002. We quarterly publish an English newsletter every
March, June, September, and December.
1.1. GoalOur goal is to share information between overseas/foreign members and other members in IEICE-CS as a global
activity, and to show IEICE presence internationally.
1.2 Category of Articles
1) Messages from President/Vice President- An inaugural message from CS President is published once per year in June. Message from CS Vice President ispublished properly.
2) IEICE-CS Activities Now- IEICE General/Society Conference information/reports- Activities of Technical Committees- International activities of the society3) IEICE-CS Related Conferences Reports- Information/reports on IEICE-CS related conferences- IEICE-CS Conferences Calendar (*)4) Others- Essays, Laboratory activity reports, Technology reports, Messages from overseas/foreign members, etc.
- Information from Sister Societies- Special topics (*)5) IEICE-CS Information- Call for papers- From editor’s desk (*)*: planned / written by IEICE-CS Directors, Planning and Members Activities
2. Major notes for Contribution
Basically, IEICE-CS members and readers can contribute articles. IEICE-CS Directors, Planning and Members
Activities may ask non-IEICE-CS members to contribute articles. The articles should be fruitful and profitable for
IEICE-CS members, NOT for particular organization. IEICE-CS Directors, Planning and Members Activities may
not accept an article for publication if it does not follow this guideline.
2.1 Template and Language
Please use template downloadable at the URL:
http://www.ieice.org/cs/pub/global_howto.html
Please use English for all articles.
2.2 Number of pages
Two to four pages are preferable. One page article is also acceptable. The maximum number of pages is eight. When
you try to entry a contribution with five to eight pages, you need to negotiate with IEICE-CS Directors, Planningand Members Activities.
3. CopyrightThe copyrights of all articles in the GLOBAL NEWSLETTER should belong to the IEICE. However, the original
authors retain the right to copy, translate or modify their own manuscripts. In cases when a manuscript is translated
into another language or when any portion of the manuscript is to be submitted to another publication, authors
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should register the action with the IEICE, and the original manuscript should be clearly cited in the publications.
Please see a web site related to IEICE provisions on copyright.
http://www.ieice.org/eng/copyright/index.html
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thththContribution entry
4 Fri., Dec.
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3rd Fri., Jan.
3rd Fri., Apr.
3rd Fri., Jul.
3rd Fri., Oct.
Manuscript/Copyright
5.1 Call for Newsletters
IEICE-CS Directors, Planning and Members Activities will give you the information on call for newsletters.
5.2 Contribution Entry
You should send information on title, summary(around 50 words or less) and number of page to IEICE-CS
Directors, Planning and Members Activities by e-mail.
E-mail: cs-gnl@mail.ieice.org
5.3 Submission of Manuscript
You should send a manuscript both in word file and pdf file to IEICE-CS Directors, Planning and Members
Activities by e-mail.
E-mail: cs-gnl@mail.ieice.org
5.4 Submission of COPYRIGHT TRANSFER FORMCOPYRIGHT TRANSFER FORM can be downloaded at:
http://www.ieice.org/cs/pub/global_howto.html
Signed COPYRIGHT TRANSFER FORM should be sent by one of the following ways:- By email.
- By facsimile.
Address to send:- In case of email: cs-gnl@mail.ieice.org- In case of facsimile:
Name: Publications Department, IEICE
Facsimile: +81-3-3433-6616, Phone: +81-3-3433-6692
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From Editor’s Desk
● Season’s greetings
IEICE General Conference will be held at Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, from 20th to 23rd March 2018.
Complete English sessions are also scheduled in the conference to promote globalizations of IEICE’s academic
activities. The campus is located in downtown Tokyo. The welcome party will be also held on 20th March 2018, thefirst day of IEICE General Conference. Various students and business persons will gather and communicate eachother while enjoying drinking and eating some foods. From this year, this welcome party will be organized jointly by
the ESS, NOLTA, CS, ES and ISS.
Please check out the latest conference information on the IEICE web site at:
http://www.toyoag.co.jp/ieice/E_G_top/e_g_top.html
IEICE-CS GLOBAL NEWSLETTER Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff of this issue
No special order is observed.

Manabu KAI
Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
IoT Systems Laboratory
Director, Planning and Member Activities, IEICE Communications Society

Yoshitaka ENOMOTO
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Access Network Service Systems Laboratories
Director, Planning and Member Activities, IEICE Communications SocietyMoriya NAKAMURA
Meiji University
Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics, School of Science and Technology
Director, International Publication, IEICE Communications Society

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Call for Papers
2018 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics:
Applications and Student Innovation Competition
August 29-31, 2018, Nagoya, Japan

Organizing CommitteeiWEM started in Taipei in 2010 for the first time as “International Conference on
General Co-Chairs:
Nobuyoshi Kikuma
Applications of Electromagnetism and Student Innovation Awards” (2010 ICAE/SIA), and it(Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan)
then continued but renamed in Taipei in 2011 as “IEEE International Workshop on
Yoshihiko Kuwahara(Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
Electromagnetics: Applications and Student Innovation Competition” (2011 IEEE iWEM).
Vice Chair &Supported by IEEE, this workshop series will be held in rotation in Taiwan, China, Hong
Local Arrangement Chair:Kong, and Japan. Different from other recognized conferences and/or workshops, thisKunio Sakakibara(Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan)
workshop series focuses more on student innovation competition and runs in a single
Local Arrangement Secretary:
session format. It provides not only an international platform for scientists and engineers to
Daisuke Anzai(Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan)
exchange their ideas, but also a good venue for young scholars and students toTechnical Program
demonstrate their innovative results (which may lead to awards).
Chair:
Mitoshi Fujimoto
IEEE iWEM2018 is organized by the IEEE AP-S Nagoya(Univ. of Fukui, Japan)
Chapter, and technically co-sponsored by IEEE AP-S
Vice Chairs:
Yoshitaka Goto
Tokyo/Fukuoka/Kansai Chapters, IEEE Nagoya Section, and(Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
IEICE Communications Society. The venue of the workshop
Keisuke Noguchi(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech., Japan) is Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. Nagoya is
Kentaro NishimoriTOKYO
one of the most historical and industrial cities in Japan. All(Niigata Univ., Japan)
Qiang Chen
accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore.
NAGOYA(Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Wataru Chujo(Meijo Univ., Japan)
The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Secretary:
Kazuhiro Honda
Electromagnetic Theory
Antennas and Propagation(Univ. of Toyama, Japan)
Instrumentation and Measurement
Wireless Systems
Members:
Millimeter
Wave,
THz
Technologies
Array Antenna and MIMO System
Takafumi Fujimoto
Microwave Circuits and Systems
MMIC, RFIC
(Nagasaki Univ., Japan)
Takuji Arima
Advanced Materials in RF and THz
EMC/EMI(Tokyo Univ. of Agri. and Tech.,Wireless Power Transmission and Harvesting Other EM Topics
Japan)
Registration
Important Dates
Chair:
Koichi Tsunekawa• Deadline of paper submission: June 4, 2018
(Chubu Univ., Japan)• Notification of Acceptance:
June 28, 2018
Exhibition•
Early-bird
Registration:
July 10, 2018
Chair:
Masashi Hirabe
Paper Submission Guidelines(NEC Corp., Japan)
Authors MUST submit camera-ready papers up to two A4 pages including figures by theMember:Makoto Higaki
submission deadline via the workshop website. The paper format and submission(Toshiba Corp., Japan)
guideline will be found at the workshop web page.
Finance
Chair:
Contact person:
Satoshi Hori
(Kojima Industries Corp., Japan) Dr. Kazunari Kihira (iWEM2018@lab-ml.web.nitech.ac.jp)
Secretary:
Takanobu Tabata(Kojima Industries Corp., Japan)
Member:Shinichiro Matsuzawa (TOYOTA
Central R&D Labs. Inc., Japan)
Secretariat:
Kazunari Kihira(Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan)
Hiroaki Nakabayashi(Chiba Inst. of Tech., Japan)

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IEICE General Conference 2018
20-23 March 2018
Tokyo Denki University Tokyo-senju Campus, Tokyo
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.
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