IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Region Newsletter No. 50, December 2016
No. 50, December 2016
Website: www.comsoc.org/~apb
Edited by Y.-W. Peter Hong, Hung-Yung Hsieh, Tony Q. S. Quek, and Wan Choi
Takaya Yamazato
Congratulations to the Malaysia Chapter!
The Malaysia Chapter won 2016 Chapter-of-the-Year Award. Because of their
great accomplishment, they are chosen from all ComSoc chapters worldwide. The
chapter will receive a plaque/honorarium of $2,000, and its chair will be honored
during the IEEE GLOBECOM Awards Luncheon ceremony.
The Malaysia Chapter is also chosen as the winner of (AP Region) Chapter
Achievement Award (CAA). The chapter will receive a plaque and honorarium of $1,000, and they will be
honored during the Awards Luncheon ceremony.
What an accomplishment... outstanding! The Malaysia Chapter really makes us proud.
As the Director of AP region, I examined 19 chapter questionnaires. Among those, the activities of
Malaysia was excellent. They held ten membership development seminar, 24 educational or public relations
programs and student activity meetings, 12 activities for young and student members, 13 activities that local
communications industry involved. Further, they organized nine full day/half day seminars, symposia or
conferences, hosted 4 DLT series with the total of 9 talks and 2 DSPs, and had 31 technical meeting.
For this year, they plan to conduct 15 membership development programs, and four paper awards; Best
Paper Award, Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Best MSc/MEng Thesis Award, and Best Undergraduate Final Year
Project (FYP) Award. And we all know the success of ICC 2016 in KL is brought by the local organizers
who work tirelessly to provide value to the participants by providing exceptional services. With those
activities, I would image no one can deny their excellences. They deserve high praise for the awards.
Way to go, the Malaysia Chapter!
Table of Contents
Message from the APB Director ……...……………... 1
Trending Topics in the Eyes of IEEE Fellows ……….. 2
2016 IEEE ComSoc APB Awards Announcement ..…. 5
Interview of Best/Outstanding Young Researchers ….. 9
Interview of Outstanding Paper Award Winners …… 15
Table of Contents
Report on DLTs/DSPs in the AP Region ………..….. 18
What’s Up on the Asia-Pacific Board? …………….. 26
Upcoming Conferences …………………………….. 27
Asia-Pacific Region Officers 2016-2017 …………... 28
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– Ying-Chang Liang
Spectrum Refarming
- A New Paradigm of Spectrum Sharing for Cellular Networks
Dr. Ying-Chang Liang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
To meet the explosive growth of data traffic, in the past two decades, the cellular networks have evolved
from the old generations (i.e., 2G and 3G) to the new ones (i.e., 4G). The legacy networks will not cease
operations immediately after the new ones are deployed, and in fact they will have to continue to serve the
legacy users for a significant period of time before being phased out. The consequential multi-RAT (radio
access technologies) heterogeneity leads to severely under and uneven utilization of cellular spectrum. Thanks
to the spectrum aggregation adopted by the new generation cellular networks, the legacy cellular spectrum has
great potential to be explored as excellent complementary radio resource via intelligent spectrum access
technologies to boost the service and capacity performance of the future cellular networks.
Spectrum refarming (SR) is such an innovative spectrum sharing technique which supports different
generations of cellular networks to operate in the same radio spectrum. It is different from the traditional
refarming of spectrum where legacy bands can be re-allocated only when they are vacant. Since radio spectrum
is a limited and expensive resource, SR is considered as a promising solution for mobile service operators not
only to provide cost-effective services to their customers, but also to solve the spectrum scarcity problem faced
by them.
The most challenging issue in SR is to release the dependence on the direct cooperation between the
primary and secondary systems, in particular, when the legacy primary system is reluctant to upgrade but has
to be protected. Without such cooperation, the new generation networks need to quantify the interference
margin that defines the maximum interference tolerable by the legacy networks, and predict its introduced
interference, in order to offer proper protection to legacy services. Moreover, the optimal resource allocation
of the secondary system by jointly considering the optimal operation of the legacy network via indirect
interaction between the two systems is of high significance for further improving the utilization of the legacy
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spectrum.
Opportunistic SR: LTE over GSM bands Concurrent SR: LTE over WCDMA bands
Designed
WCDMA
load
Reduced
WCDMA
load
Occupied
GSM band
LTE Subcarriers
Empty
GSM bands
To address the aforementioned challenges, our research group has recently made significant contributions
to SR between OFDMA and CDMA networks. We first quantify the interference margin by investigating the
asymptotic behaviour of the legacy CDMA users via the Random Matrix Theory. By making use of the property
of cell site sharing, we then intelligently predict the mutual interference between the primary and secondary
systems, making the proposed SR system a perfect application of cognitive radio technology which can be
readily implemented in practice. We further jointly optimize the resource allocation for the OFDMA system
and single/multi-band CDMA system. Attractively, in virtue of the power control mechanism of the primary
CDMA system, though the optimization algorithm is merely executed by the secondary OFDMA system, it
can make the primary and secondary systems to simultaneously achieve the optimal status. Besides OFDMA
macrocell sharing with CDMA spectrum, we have also investigated resource allocation for OFDMA small
cells sharing with legacy spectrum. Related research results have been published in recent IEEE journals and
conferences, including “Robust Joint Resource Allocation for OFDMA-CDMA Spectrum Refarming System”,
and “Spectrum Refarming: A New Paradigm of Spectrum Sharing for Cellular Networks” in IEEE Trans on
Communications, “Dynamic Broadband Spectrum Refarming for OFDMA Cellular Systems” in IEEE Trans
on Wireless Communications. One of the key contributors in this series of work is Dr Shiying Han, who is
now with Nankai University, China.
– Jinhong Yuan
Massive M2M Communications
Dr. Jinhong Yuan
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
Machine to machine (M2M) or machine-type communication (MTC) is playing a significant role for the
upcoming 5G wireless networks, where a large number of simple, low cost and energy-constrained devices are
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wirelessly connected without or with minimum human intervention. Industry analysts predict that over 25
billion devices will be connected to cellular mobile networks worldwide by 2020. These devices range from
sensors or actuators for area-covering measurements in wide areas, to sensors with low latency in body-area
networks. While M2M communications include a very wide range of use in applications, the common factor
for all of these applications is that a massive number of devices transmit small packets sporadically. This is
vastly different from the characteristics of the conventional human type communications, e.g. mobile
broadband (MBB) systems, which require very high data rates. This difference imposes new requirements for
cellular mobile networks in order to support the massive M2M access.
An important issue for the massive M2M communication is to provide efficient access and connections,
which is very challenging due to the substantial number of devices, their limited transmitted power and the
uncoordinated nature of the transmissions. Recently, various low power wide area (LPWA) technologies have
been proposed by industries, which include the ultra-narrow band approach in SigFox and the spread spectrum
method in LoRa. To provide scalability, mobility support and to meet the requirements for future growth in the
Internet of Things (IoT), mobile IoT (MIoT) technologies are proposed by the 3rd Generation Partnership
Project (3GPP) standard, including Narrow-Band IoT (NB-IoT), Extended Coverage GSM for the Internet of
Things (EC-GSM-IoT), and the Long-Term Evolution for Machines (LTE-M). Despite the fast development
of MTC and IoT technologies, some serious challenges remain to make MTC and IoT capable of serving a
diverse range of vertical industries, and supporting a range of applications and deployment scenarios for mobile
terminals/devices with low power, latency and cost, and large coverage, and high reliability and security.
In the research community, researchers have made good progress in designing novel transmission
protocols, in terms of new short packet transmissions, short frame formats, short channel code designs,
advanced random channel access mechanisms and power/energy management mechanisms. Many improved
random access protocols have been proposed to accommodate the massive devices, such as the strongest user
collision resolution scheme (SUCR) and coded-slotted ALOHA (CSA). With random access, the probability
of preamble collisions increases with the number of active devices. The one shot transmission mechanism with
combination of payload and control signalling transmission is very attractive for MTC/IoT as it can bring gains
in reduced control signalling overhead and reduced terminal energy consumption. A coded slotted ALOHA
combined with compressive sensing multi-user detection (CS-MUD) scheme or physical-layer network coding
(PNC) scheme employs coding and interference cancelation to significantly improve the random access
throughput.
In our Wireless Communications Research Lab at UNSW Australia, we have recently developed CSA
schemes for erasure channels to improve the system throughput and expected traffic load. We also have
designed short channel codes with good reliability and rate compatibility for MTCs. In addition, we built a
testbed for the CSA system by using the software defined radio USRP RIO platform to demonstrate the CSA
access efficiency. While the initial research is very promising, the deployment of many antennas at the base
station can bring gains in coverage and reduce power consumption for devices. Furthermore, novel grant-free
transmissions, preamble designs and security issues remain topics for future research.
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IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award
This award honors young researchers who have been very active in IEEE ComSoc publications and
conference activities over the last 3 years (Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2015).
Eligibility:
The upper age limit for the applicant is 35 (i.e., the applicant must be born on or after 1980/01/01).
The applicant must be a member of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific region.
The “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” will be given to the best candidate,
and other candidates will be considered for the “Outstanding Young Researcher Award(s)”.
Award Prize:
The recipient of “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” will receive a
certificate and an honorarium of US$500.
Each recipient of the “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award” will
receive a certificate and an honorarium of US$250.
Young Researcher Award Winners for Year 2016:
Best Young Researcher Award
Jun Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China)
for his contributions to the analysis and optimization of dense wireless cooperative networks.
Outstanding Young Researcher Awards
Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China)
for his contributions to network economics and game theory
Namyoon Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
for his contributions to the development of advanced interference management techniques in
wireless networks
Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China)
for his contribution to social-aware optimization framework and mechanisms for
communications and networking
Qian Wang (Wuhan University, China)
for his contributions to cloud security and wireless networking security
Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China)
for his contribution to wireless communications and networking
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List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Awards (2001-2015)
Year Best Young Researcher Outstanding Young Researchers
2001 (1st) Dr. Byoung-Hoon Kim Dr. Wen-Jyi Hwang
Dr. Eiji Oki
Dr. Tomoaki Otsuki
Dr. Shiann-Tsong Sheu
2005 (2nd) Dr. Qian Zhang Dr. Ki-Dong Lee
Dr. Jia-Chin Lin
Dr. Naoki Wakamiya
2007 (3rd) Dr. Phone Lin Dr. W. Choi
Dr. H. Harai
Dr. H. F. Lu
2009 (4th) Dr. Tarik Taleb Dr. Sangheon Pack
Dr. Wei Zhang
Dr. Xinbing Wang
Dr. Meixia Huang
Dr. Jianwei Huang
2010 (5th) Dr. Wei Chen Dr. Y.-W. Peter Hong
Dr. Bang Chul Jung
Dr. Ting See Ho
2011 (6th) Dr. Rui Zhang Dr. Himal Asanga Suraweera
Dr. Chee Wei Tan
Dr. Wenyi Zhang
Dr. Shinya Sugiura
Dr. Jiming Chen
2012 (7th) Dr. Dusit Niyato Dr. Chi Zhang
Dr. Lingyang Song
Dr. Chau Yuen
Dr. Chan Byoung Chae
Dr. Sudip Misra
2013 (8th) Dr. Mathew McKay Dr. Feifei Gao
Dr. Kyoung-Jae Lee
Dr. Rongxing Lu
Dr. Hiroki Nishiyama
Dr. Caijun Zhong
2014 (9th) Dr. Yulong Zou Dr. Nan Yang
Dr. Haojin Zhu
Dr. Kaishun Wu
Dr. Jemin Lee
Dr. Mugen Peng
2015 (10th) Dr. Mo Li Dr. Tsung-Hui Chang
Dr. Xiang Cheng
Dr. Lingjie Duan
Dr. Zubair Fadlullah
Dr. Shibo He
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IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award
This award honors outstanding original papers authored by members in the Asia-Pacific region and
published in IEEE ComSoc journals and conferences over the last 3 years (Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2015).
Eligibility:
The paper must be published in IEEE ComSoc journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and so
on (including those technically co-sponsored by ComSoc) in the last 3 years (January 2013 to
December 2015).
All authors' affiliations must be from the Asia-Pacific region at the time of publication.
The paper should be nominated by an IEEE ComSoc member from the Asia-Pacific region.
Self-nomination is not accepted.
Award Prize:
Plaque and honorarium up to US $500 (award total).
List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards (2012-2015)
Year Outstanding Papers
2012 (1st) Title: Eigenvalue-based Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive Radio
Authors: Yonghong Zeng and Ying-Chang Liang`
Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 6, pp.1784-1793, June 2009
2013 (2nd) Title: Distance-adaptive Spectrum Resource Allocation in Spectrum-sliced Elastic
Optical Path Network
Authors: Masahiko Jinno, Bartlomiej Kozicki, Hidehiko Takara, Atsushi Watanabe,
Yoshiaki Sone, Takafumi Tanaka, and Akira Hiran
Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48, no. 8, pp.138–145, Aug. 2010
Title: Joint Optimization for One and Two-way MIMO AF Multiple-relay Systems
Authors: Kyoung-Jae Lee, Hakjea Sung, Eunsung Park, and Inkyu Lee
Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 3671–3681,
Dec. 2010.
Outstanding Paper Award Winners for Year 2016:
Title: Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture design and rate-energy tradeoff
Authors: Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho
Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications (Volume: 61, Issue: 11, November 2013)
Title: Relaying protocols for wireless energy harvesting and information processing
Authors: Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy.
Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Volume: 12, Issue: 7, July 2013)
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Title: Cell Zooming for Cost-Efficient Green Cellular Networks
Authors: Zhisheng Niu, Yiqun Wu, Jie Gong, and Zexi Yang
Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 74–79,Nov. 2010.
2014 (3rd) Title: Toward Ubiquitous Massive Accesses in 3GPP Machine-to-Machine
Communication
Authors: Shao-Yu Lien, Kwang-Cheng Chen, Yonghua Lin
Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 66-74, Apr. 2011
Title: Optimal Spectrum Sharing in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks via Semidefinite
Programming
Authors: Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang and Anthony Man-Cho So
Source: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 362-372,
Feb. 2011
Title: Delay and Capacity Tradeoff Analysis for MotionCast
Authors: Xinbing Wang, Wentao Huang, Shangxing Wang, Jinbei Zhang, Chenhui Huj
Source: IEEE Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 1354-1367, Mar. 2011
2015 (4th) Title: Enabling Wireless Power Transfer in Cellular Networks: Architecture, Modeling
and Deployment
Authors: Kaibin Huang and Vincent K. N. Lau
Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 902-912,
Feb. 2014
Title: Modeling and Analysis for Spectrum Handoffs in Cognitive Radio Networks
Authors: Li-Chun Wang, Chung-Wei Wang, and Chung-Ju Chang
Source: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1499-1513, Sep.
2012
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Best Young Researcher Award Winner Jun Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China)
Dr. Jun Zhang received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the
University of Science and Technology of China in 2004, the M.Phil. degree in
Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006, and
the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Texas at Austin in 2009. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology (HKUST). Dr. Zhang co-authored the book
“Fundamentals of LTE” (Prentice-Hall, 2010). He is the recipient of 4 best paper
awards, including the 2016 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, the 2014 Best Paper
Award for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, the Best Paper Award of IEEE ICC 2016,
and the Best Paper Award of IEEE PIMRC 2014. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, and served as a MAC track co-chair for IEEE WCNC 2011. His research interests include
wireless communications and networking, green communications and computing, and signal processing.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
For me, the most significant work I’ve contributed is “Group Sparse Beamforming for Green Cloud-RAN”,
published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. It provided a principled way to design
adaptive strategies in dense wireless networks via convex optimization. The framework proposed in this work
can be applied broadly in resource allocation and signal processing for dense wireless networks. For example,
it has been applied to investigate antenna selection, user admission, offloading decision for mobile computing,
as well as beamforming design in wireless caching systems. For its significance, this paper received the 2016
Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
My research in the near future will focus on wireless caching and mobile edge computing. By equipping
storage and computation units at radio access points, it will bring new dimensions to wireless networking and
enable new types of mobile applications. Wireless caching will help with scalable content delivery and
backhaul traffic reduction, while mobile edge computing is able to meet the ever-increasing demands for high
computation intensity with low latency in mobile applications. There are lots of research opportunities in such
systems. In particular, it is intriguing to investigate the interaction among the radio resource, storage resource,
and compute resource.
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Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China)
Lin Gao (S'08-M'10) is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Electronic and Information Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology,
Shenzhen, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2010. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in
the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong
Kong from 2010 to 2015, and a Visiting Researcher in the Communication
Theory Center at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in 2008. His research interests
are in the interdisciplinary research field combining telecommunications and
microeconomics, with particular focus on the game-theoretic modeling and analysis for cognitive radio
networks, TV white space networks, 5G communications, mobile Internet, and Internet-of-Things.
Dr. Gao has published more than 50 papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings
of communications and networking. He has co-authored 3 books, including "Wireless Network Pricing" in
Morgan & Claypool (2013) and "Economics of Database-Assisted Spectrum Sharing" in Springer (2016). He
is the co-author of 1 ESI Highly Cited Paper, the co-recipient of 3 Best (Student) Paper Awards from WiOpt
2013-2015, and the co-recipient of 1 Best Paper Award Finalist from IEEE INFOCOM 2016. He received the
IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2016.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
TV white space network is one of the most promising commercial realizations of dynamic spectrum
sharing, where unlicensed white space devices explore and exploit the unused or under-utilized TV broadcast
frequency band (called TV white spaces) via a geo-location database. The long-term success of such a novel
network requires proper business models and comprehensive economic analysis. We are the first to propose
and investigate various business market models for TV white space networks, including spectrum trading
market, information trading market, and hybrid spectrum and information market. Our research on information
trading market received the Best Paper Award from WiOpt 2014.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
The fast development of mobile devices embedded with rich sensors, storage, and strong communication
and computation capability, brings forth a tendency of moving some centralized computing tasks originally
resided on the cloud to the mobile side, leading to the so-called crowd computing. Typical examples include
mobile crowd sensing and user-provided connectivity. In such crowd-sourced scenarios, it is critical to design
proper incentive mechanisms that offer sufficient economic incentives for mobile device users to contribute
their precious resource. In our future work, we will focus on the economic analysis and incentive mechanism
design for various crowd computing scenarios.
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Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Namyoon Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Namyoon Lee is an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering
Department at POSTECH. He received his Ph. D. in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in 2014. He also
received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Daejeon in 2008
and B.E. degree from Korea University, Seoul, Korea in 2006. From February
2008 to June 2011, he was with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
in Korea, where he designed next generation wireless communication systems and
involved standardization activities of the 3GPP LTE-A. He was also with Nokia
Research Center at Berkeley as a Senior Researcher, where he participated in the design of future WLAN
systems (e.g., IEEE 802.11ax and 802.11ay) from December 2014 to May 2015. He was with Wireless
Communications Research (WRC) at Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA from May 2015 to Feb. 2016. His primal
research interest is to develop and analyze future wireless communication systems using tools including multi-
antenna network information theory, stochastic geometry, and machine learning algorithms.
Mr. Lee was a recipient of the 2009 Samsung Best Paper Award, the 2014 Student Best Paper Award
(IEEE Seoul Section), and the Recognition Award in Intel Labs 2015. He was also an Exemplary Reviewer for
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in both 2013 and 2015.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
Interference creates a fundamental barrier in attempting to improve throughput in wireless networks,
especially when multiple concurrent transmissions share the wireless medium. In recent years, significant
progress has been made on characterizing the capacity limits of wireless networks under the premise of global
and instantaneous channel state information at transmitter (CSIT). In practice, however, the acquisition of such
instantaneous and global CSIT as a means toward cooperation is highly challenging due to the distributed
nature of transmitters and dynamic wireless propagation environments. In many limited CSIT scenarios, the
promising gains from interference management strategies using instantaneous and global CSIT disappear,
often providing the same result as cases where there is no CSIT. Is it possible to obtain substantial performance
gains with limited CSIT in wireless networks, given previous evidence that there is marginal or no gain over
the case with no CSIT? To shed light on the answer to this question, in my recent research, I characterized
several achievable sum of degrees of freedom (sum-DoF) of wireless interference networks when limited CSIT
is available.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
My future research plan for the next 2 years is to explore some fundamental connections between coding
theory and machine learning from a communication system design perspective. Very recently, I have made an
interesting connection between blind detection problems and classification problems in supervised learning
for the MIMO system with low-resolution ADCs, which has been considered as a future massive MIMO
architecture. I have expected that this interdisciplinary research vector will open a new area for next-generation
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communication systems.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China)
Dr. Yong Li (S'09-M'12-SM'16) received the B.S. degree from Huazhong
University of Science and Technology in 2007, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, in 2009 and 2012, respectively.
During 2012 and 2013, he was a Visiting Research Associate with Telekom
Innovation Laboratories and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
respectively. During 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Scientist with the University
of Miami. Currently, he is a Faculty Member of the Department of Electronic
Engineering, Tsinghua University.
His research interests are in the areas of wireless networks and mobile computing. He has published in
IEEE/ACM Transactions, conferences and Magazines with total more than 150 research papers and total
citations of 2000. Among them Five are ESI Highly Cited Papers in Computer Science. Dr. Li has Four
IEEE/AEI Conference Best Paper (run-up) Awards, and has served as General Chair, Technical Program
Committee (TPC) Chair and Symposium Chair, and TPC Member for couples of international workshops and
conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, WWW, PAM, ICWSM, MASS, GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, ICCCN,
IWCMC, PIMRC, etc. He is currently on the editorial board of three journals: Journal of Communications and
Networking, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and Sensors, and also server
as the Guest Editor of the IEEE Access and ACM/Springer MONET.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
In order to effectively support the interaction applications such as multimedia sharing and social network
services among the mobile proximity users, my major research contributions over the last three years are in
the topic of device-to-device and opportunistic communications. Aiming to establish a new paradigm to solve
this problem, I proposed a social behavior aware optimization framework and corresponding solution for
cellular communication networks, which couples the social behaviors with physical layer resource allocations.
By modeling the mobility pattern and social behavior for cellular users through mining the big data, we
establish a behavior aware optimization framework for cellular communications and networks based on the
profound understanding of the interplay between human behavior and universal resource allocations.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
By focusing on characterizing the mobile traffic, web and information usage traces based on large-scale
and long-time mobile big data, which is collected from the commercial mobile operator with larger scales of
thousand base stations and mobile users spanning over a year, we plan to qualitatively visualize and
quantitatively characterize the spatio-temporal human behaviors in the cyber-physical spaces including
mobility regularity, traffic consumption patterns, social friendship activity, online information and commodity
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consumption, etc. Based on these fundamental findings and credible models, we further plan to investigate
how to utilize these important insights on how to deal with the problems encountered with the current mobile
networks including traffic congestion offloading, green communications, solidified architecture, etc.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner
Qian Wang (Wuhan University, China)
Qian Wang is currently a Professor and the Director of the Network
Information System Security & Privacy (NIS&P) Lab in School of Computer
Science, Wuhan University, where he joined as an Associate Professor in June
2012 and was fast promoted to Full Professor in March 2013. He received the B.S.
degree from Wuhan University, China, in 2003, the M.S. degree from Shanghai
Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy
of Sciences, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of
Technology, USA, in 2012, all in Electrical Engineering. His current research
interests include Data Storage, Search and Computation Outsourcing Security, Wireless Systems Security,
Multimedia Security, and Applied Cryptography. He has published (including those got accepted) more than
70 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, including IEEE TDSC, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS,
IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Network, ACM MobiCom, ACM CCS,
IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, ICDCS, ESORICS etc., and they have been highly cited. According to Google
Scholar (as of October 2016), his total citation has exceeded 6,500. More than 11 of his publications have been
each cited higher than 100 times, with the highest exceeding 1,600 times.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
My most significant work is “Enabling Public Auditability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in
Cloud Computing” published in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 22 (5), 847-859, 2011.
We addressed the problem of public auditing for cloud data storage and proposed an efficient and secure
protocol enabling both public auditability and data dynamics. We also extend our scheme to support scalable
and efficient public auditing where multiple delegated auditing tasks from different users can be performed
simultaneously. Our proposed highly innovative ideas have opened up new research directions along all these
lines, laying solid foundations with far-reaching impact that has influenced many follow-up cloud data security
works today.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
In big data systems, machine learning plays an important role due to its effectiveness in discovering hidden
information and valuable knowledge. Data privacy concerns, however, have greatly hindered the utilization of
the large-scale data, which is the key for the success of machine learning. My current research focus on privacy-
preserving machine learning/deep learning security designs, which is still in the early stage. The research
results and findings in this area will eliminate the dilemma between data utilization and privacy preservation
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and are expected to receive more and more attentions in the near future from both academia and industry.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner
Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China)
Guanding Yu (S'05-M'07-SM'13) received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in
communication engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2001
and 2006, respectively. After that, he joined Zhejiang University, where he is an
Associate Professor in the College of Information and Electronic Engineering.
From 2013 to 2015, he was also a Visiting Professor at the School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. His
research interests include energy-efficient communication and green networks,
device-to-device communications, full-duplex communications, and LTE in
unlicensed spectrum.
Dr. Yu has served as a guest editor of IEEE Communications Magazine special issue on Full-Duplex
Communications, an editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Series on Green
Communications and Networking, and a lead guest editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine special
issue on LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum. He is now serving as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Green
Communications and Networking, an associate editor of IEEE Access and an editor of KSII Transactions on
Internet and Information Systems. He regularly sits on the TPC boards of prominent IEEE conferences such
as ICC, GLOBECOM, and VTC. He received the 2016 Exemplary Reviewer Award from the IEEE
Transactions on Communications of the IEEE Communications Society.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
D2D communication is an important technique for the LTE Release 12 and future standards. In D2D
networks, potential D2D users can communicate in three respective modes, namely cellular mode, reuse mode,
and dedicated mode. In my work, I proposed a joint communication mode selection and resource allocation
algorithm to maximize the overall network capacity. I also revealed potential hop gain, proximity gain, and
reuse gain incurred by D2D communications and investigated how to use them to optimize the performance
of both cellular and D2D users.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
In the next two years, my research will focus on the unlicensed LTE technology, which has been considered
as a promising way to improve the cellular network capacity. Specifically, my research aims at solving the stiff
challenges of the unlicensed LTE technology, such as fair network coexistence between LTE and WiFi
networks, unlicensed spectrum sharing and access, quality-of-service provision, etc. I will utilize the
optimization theory, game theory, and machine learning tools to develop effective protocols and algorithms
towards a more spectral-efficient and energy-efficient unlicensed LTE system.
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Title: Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture design and rate-energy tradeoff
Authors: Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho
Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications (Volume: 61, Issue: 11, November 2013)
Abstract:
Simultaneous information and power transfer over the wireless channels potentially offers great
convenience to mobile users. Yet practical receiver designs impose technical constraints on its hardware
realization, as practical circuits for harvesting energy from radio signals are not yet able to decode the carried
information directly. To make theoretical progress, we propose a general receiver operation, namely, dynamic
power splitting (DPS), which splits the received signal with adjustable power ratio for energy harvesting and
information decoding, separately. Three special cases of DPS, namely, time switching (TS), static power
splitting (SPS) and on-off power splitting (OPS) are investigated. The TS and SPS schemes can be treated as
special cases of OPS. Moreover, we propose two types of practical receiver architectures, namely, separated
versus integrated information and energy receivers. The integrated receiver integrates the front-end
components of the separated receiver, thus achieving a smaller form factor. The rate-energy tradeoff for the
two architectures are characterized by a so-called rate-energy (R-E) region. The optimal transmission strategy
is derived to achieve different rate-energy tradeoffs. With receiver circuit power consumption taken into
account, it is shown that the OPS scheme is optimal for both receivers. For the ideal case when the receiver
circuit does not consume power, the SPS scheme is optimal for both receivers. In addition, we study the
performance for the two types of receivers under a realistic system setup that employs practical modulation.
Our results provide useful insights to the optimal practical receiver design for simultaneous wireless
information and power transfer (SWIPT).
1. What is the major contribution of this paper?
Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) via radio signals has been studied for
single-antenna channels by Varshney in 2008, for frequency-selective channels by Grover and Sahai in 2010,
and for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels by Zhang and Ho in 2013. The radio signals in prior
studied SWIPT receivers, however, is not truly harvested and decoded concurrently. This paper proposed a
generic receiver operation that subsumes many practically implementable techniques for simultaneously
harvesting energy and decoding signals, such as time switching, power splitting, and on-off switching. Another
key observation made is that signal strength requirement for energy harvesting and signal decoding is severely
asymmetrical in a SWIPT receiver. Current communication receivers, which are designed only for decoding
signals, are shown to perform poorly for SWIPT. This paper thus proposed a first-ever integrated receiver
design by integrating the front-end components of information and energy receivers, thus achieving a smaller
form factor that is optimized for SWIPT.
2. Are there any new researches or results relevant to this paper? How do you see the development of this
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research in the near future?
The theoretical development of SWIPT has accelerated significantly in the last few years. The key insight
revealed in this paper has inspired substantial follow-up investigations on SWIPT which generalized the rate-
energy trade-off in various system and channel models as well as under more complex practical constraints.
Another important new direction is to focus on making SWIPT feasible for widespread use in daily lives. The
standard receiver architecture, comprising of down-converter, analogue-to-digital converter and baseband
processing, has served the wireless communication research and applications very well for a long time. In light
of SWIPT requirements, new receiver architectures would be studied and implemented. We strongly believe
that the momentum that SWIPT has been gathering will continue and lead to useful applications and products
in the near future.
Title: Relaying protocols for wireless energy harvesting and information processing
Authors: Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy.
Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Volume: 12, Issue: 7, July 2013)
Abstract:
An emerging solution for prolonging the lifetime of energy constrained relay nodes in wireless networks
is to avail the ambient radio-frequency (RF) signal and to simultaneously harvest energy and process
information. In this paper, an amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying network is considered, where an energy
constrained relay node harvests energy from the received RF signal and uses that harvested energy to forward
the source information to the destination. Based on the time switching and power splitting receiver
architectures, two relaying protocols, namely, i) time switching-based relaying (TSR) protocol and ii) power
splitting-based relaying (PSR) protocol are proposed to enable energy harvesting and information processing
at the relay. In order to determine the throughput, analytical expressions for the outage probability and the
ergodic capacity are derived for delay-limited and delay-tolerant transmission modes, respectively. The
numerical analysis provides practical insights into the effect of various system parameters, such as energy
harvesting time, power splitting ratio, source transmission rate, source to relay distance, noise power, and
energy harvesting efficiency, on the performance of wireless energy harvesting and information processing
using AF relay nodes. In particular, the TSR protocol outperforms the PSR protocol in terms of throughput at
relatively low signal-to-noise-ratios and high transmission rates.
1. What is the major contribution of this paper?
This paper addresses an interesting problem of how microwave power transfer can benefit wireless
communication networks. It is among the first few efforts to propose the idea of using wireless power transfer
to sustain an energy-constrained relay, or in general a transmitting node, for wireless communications.
Specifically, the paper proposed and analysed two relaying protocols for wirelessly powered relays. Compared
to conventional relaying protocols which only have the information-receiving phase and information-
forwarding phase, the newly developed protocols have an additional energy-harvesting phase. The energy
harvested in the additional phase via wireless power transfer directly determines the energy consumption in
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the information-forwarding phase. Regarding the protocol design, the energy-harvesting phase is either
inserted before the information-receiving phase such that a certain portion of time is dedicated to wireless
power transfer, or merged with the information-receiving phase for simultaneous information and power
transfer.
2. Are there any new researches or results relevant to this paper? How do you see the development of this
research in the near future?
The paper has triggered a large number of follow-up studies on relay and cooperative communications
with wireless power transfer capability. The techniques and metrics developed in the paper have been utilised
and extended other types of wireless networks featuring RF energy harvesting. Although wireless-powered
communication in general has already become a major research topic in the wireless communication research
community, current research and development is still far from mature. In our opinion, an important future
research direction will be looking at feasibility and practicality of using wireless power transfer to sustain
communication networks. Certainly not all relay and cooperative networks can be powered remotely and
wirelessly. Identifying emerging application scenarios with feasible energy transfer requirement and
appropriate quality of service of cooperative data communication will help steering the research into the
desired direction.
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Congratulations on another successful year of Distinguished Lecturer Tours (DLTs) and Distinguished
Speaker Programs (DSPs)! This year, IEEE Communications Society has approved 16 DLTs and 6 DSPs in
the Asia Pacific Region. Please see the following for further details.
2016 AP DLT #1: 15-24 January 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Bombay Chapter Sanjay Pawar
Gujarat Chapter Nagendra Prakash Gajjar
Pune Chapter Vivek Shankar Deshpande
Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana delivered a lecture series on “Internet to ‘Internet of Things’ to ‘Internet of
Everything’ – The Evolution Continues” at the following locations:
1. Mumbai, India – 18 January 2016
Lecture Venue: SNDT Women’s University
2. Ahmedabad, India – 21 January 2016
Lecture Venue: Ahmedabad University
3. Pune, India – 23 January 2016
Lecture Venue: Maharashtra Institute of Technology
2016 AP DLT #2: 14-19 March 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Jalel Ben Othman
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Bombay Chapter Sanjay Pawar
Pune Chapter Vivek Shankar Deshpande
Gujarat Chapter Nagendra Prakash Gajjar
Prof. Jalel Ben Othman delivered a lecture series on “Stochastic tools used to model IEEE 802.16 (WIMAX)
protocol” and “DoS in wireless network is an issue or a fatality” at the following locations:
1. Bombay, India – 15 March 2016
Lecture Venue: SNDT Women’s University, and DY Patil institute of technology
2. Pune, India – 16 March 2016
Lecture Venue: Pune university
3. Ahmedabad, India – 18 March 2016
Lecture Venue: Nirma University
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2016 AP DLT #3: 23 May – 4 June 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Zhu Han
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Malaysia Chapter Fazirulhisyam Hashim
Delhi Chapter Manav Bhatnagar
Singapore Chapter Yong Liang Guan
Prof. Zhu Han delivered a lecture series on “Physical Layer Security Game”, “Wireless RF Energy Harvesting”,
“Matching Game Theory in Wireless Networking”, and “Case Study of Big Data Analysis for Smart Grid” at
the following locations:
1. Singapore – 23 May 2016
Lecture Venue: National University of Singapore
2. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 27 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Portal Rasmi Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia
3. Delhi, India – 31 May 2016
Lecture Venue: IIT Delhi
2016 AP DLT #4: 13-14 May 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Bangladesh Chapter Shaikh Anwarul Fattah
Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Bangladesh – 14 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Dhaka University
2016 AP DLT #5: 20-27 May 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Dusit Niyato
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Seoul Chapter Sunghyun Choi
Tokyo Chapter Shin Nomoto
Prof. Dusit Niyato delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Seoul, Korea – 20 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
2. Tokyo, Japan – 24 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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3. Sapporo, Japan – 26 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Hokkaido University
2016 AP DLT #6: 21-28 July 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Jianwei Huang
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Tokyo Chapter Shin Nomoto
Kansai Chapter Kazuo Kumamoto
Prof. Jianwei Huang delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Tsukuba, Japan – 22 July 2016
Lecture Venue: University of Tsukuba
2. Hokkaido, Japan – 24 July 2016
Lecture Venue: Hakodate Kokusai Hotel
3. Osaka, Japan – 27 July 2016
Lecture Venue: Osaka Institute of Technology
2016 AP DLT #7: 28-30 March 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Jiajia Liu
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Taipei Chapter Hsiao-feng Lu
Prof. Jiajia Liu has presented a lecture at the following location:
1. Taipei, Taiwan – 29 March 2016
Lecture Venue: National Taiwan University
2016 AP DLT #8: 22-28 May 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Mahbub Hassan
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Malaysia Chapter Fazirulhisyam Hashim
Prof. Mahbub Hassan delivered a lecture series on “Battery-free Internet of Things:
Making the most of energy harvesting”” at the following locations:
1. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 23 May 2016
Lecture Venue: UCSI University Kuala Lumpur
2. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 25 May 2016
Lecture Venue: UPNM/Telekom Malaysia RnD
3. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 27 May 2016
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Lecture Venue: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
2016 AP DLT #9: 29 May-19 June 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. J. B. Othman
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
New Zealand North, South &
Central Chapter
Nurul Sarkar
Prof. J. B. Othman delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Melbourne, Australia – 30 May 2016
Lecture Venue: University of Melbourne
2. Canberra, Australia – 1 June 2016
3. Sydney, Australia – 3 June 2016
4. Auckland, New Zealand – 7 June 2016
Lecture Venue: Auckland University of Technology
5. Wellington, New Zealand – 8 June 2016
6. Brisbane, Australia – 13 June 2016
7. Townsville, Australia – 14 June 2016
8. Adelaide, Australia – 15 June 2016
2016 AP DLT #10: 19-29 May 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Ying-Dar Lin
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Singapore Chapter Yong Liang Guan
Malaysia Chapter Fazirulhisyam Hashim
Thailand Chapter Keattisak Sripimanwat
Prof. Ying-Dar Lin delivered a lecture series on “Network Cloudification: Turning Communications to
Computing with SDN and NFV” and “Sharing Experiences in International Academic Services and Research”
at the following locations:
1. Singapore – 20 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Nanyang Technological University
2. Malaysia – 23 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
3. Malaysia – 27 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology
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2016 AP DLT #11: 17 May-3 June 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Anthony Chan
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Singapore Chapter Guan Yong Liang
Malaysia Chapter Fazirulhisyam Hashim
Indonesia Chapter Rina Pudji Astuti
Philippine Chapter Joel J Marciano
Prof. Anthony Chan will be delivering a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Singapore – 20 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Nanyang Technological University
2. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 31 May 2016
Lecture Venue: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
2016 AP DLT #12: 23 Sept-5 Oct 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Anura Jayasumana
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Kerala Chapter Senthilkumar K B
Kolkata Chapter Iti Saha Misra
Prof. Anura Jayasumana delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Cochin, India – 26 September 2016
2. Calicat, India – 27 September 2016
3. Kharagpur, India – 30 September 2016 – 2 October 2016
2016 AP DLT #13: 19-25 June 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Luiz A. DaSilva
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Kolkata Chapter Iti Saha Misra
Prof. Luiz A. DaSilva delivered a lecture series on “Sharing Infrastructure and Spectrum:
A Vision for the Future of Mobile Networks” and “Using Game Theory to Model
Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks” at the following locations:
1. Kolkata, India – 20 June 2016
Lecture Venue: Jadavpur University
2. Kharagpur, India – 21 & 22 June 2016
Lecture Venue: IIT Kharagpur
3. Bengaluru, India – 24 June 2016
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Lecture Venue: Indian Institute of Science
2016 AP DLT #14: 13-17 June 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tarik Taleb
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Tokyo Chapter Shinichi Nomoto
Prof. Tarik Taleb delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Hakodate, Japan – 13 June 2016
Lecture Venue: Future University of Hakodate
2. Yokohama, Japan – 15 June 2016
Lecture Venue: IEEE HPSR & iPOP 2016
3. Tokyo, Japan – 16 June 2016
Lecture Venue: The University of Tokyo
2016 AP DLT #15: 4-15 July 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Yu Cheng
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Nanjing Chapter Lianfeng Shen
Shanghai Chapter Xiwan Li
Beijing Chapter Xiaofeng Tao
Prof. Yu Cheng delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Hangzhou, China – 11 July 2016
Lecture Venue: Zhejiang University
2. Shanghai, China – 13 July 2016
Lecture Venue: Shanghai Jiaotong University
3. Beijing, China – 15 July 2016
Lecture Venue: Tsinghua University
2016 AP DLT #16: 18-22 December 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Dusit Niyato
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Thailand Chapter Keattisak Sripimanwat
Prof. Dusit Niyato will be delivering a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand – 19 December 2016
Lecture Venue: Ubon Ratchathani University
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2. Bangkok, Thailand – 20 December 2016
Lecture Venue: King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
3. Bangkok, Thailand – 21 December 2016
Lecture Venue: King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
2016 AP DSP #1: 16 February 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Lingyang Song
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Sendai Chapter Nei Kato
Prof. Lingyang Song delivered a lecture at the following location:
- Sendai, Japan – 16 February 2016
Lecture Venue: Sendai Chapter
Topic: Caching as a Service: Wireless Caching Mechanism Design for Service Providers
2016 AP DSP #2: 1 June 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Nirwan Ansari
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Indonesia Chapter Rina Pudji Astuti
Prof. Nirwan Ansari delivered a lecture at the following location:
- Jakarta, Indonesia – 1 June 2016
Lecture Venue: Kalbis Institute
Topic: On Greening Broadband Access
2016 AP DSP #3: 27 May 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tarik Taleb
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Malaysia Chapter Fazirulhisyam Hashim
Prof. Tarik Taleb delivered a lecture at the following location:
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 27 May 2016
Lecture Venue: International Islamic University Malaysia
Topic: Towards 5G: On Mobile Network Softwarization
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2016 AP DSP #4: 19 May 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Zhensheng Zhang
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Harbin Chapter Weixiao Meng
Prof. Zhensheng Zhang delivered a lecture at the following location:
- Harbin, China – 19 May 2016
Topic: Cognitive Networks/Dynamic Spectrum Access in Wireless Networks: Overview
2016 AP DSP #5: 16 June 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tom Hou
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Xi’An Chapter Jiandong Li
Prof. Tom Hou delivered a lecture at the following location:
- Xi’An, China – 16 June 2016
Lecture Venue: Xidian University
Topic: Achieving Optimal Performance for Programmable Wireless Networks
2016 AP DSP #6: 18 October 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Liuqing Yang
Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair
Nanjing Chapter Lianfeng Shen
Prof. Liuqing Yang delivered a lecture at the following location:
- Nanjing, China – 18 October 2016
Topic: On Energy-Harvesting Relay Networks: Full-Duplex and Relay Selection
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– APB Committee Reports
Technical Affairs Committee
This year APB Technical Affair Committee (TAC) received 8 nominations for the APB Outstanding Paper
Awards. Through careful review and discussions, the committee unanimously decided to give the awards to
the following two papers:
APB Outstanding Paper Awards 2016 (2 papers):
- Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho. "Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture
design and rate-energy tradeoff." IEEE Transactions on Communications, 61, no. 11 (2013): 4754-4767.
- Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy. "Relaying protocols for wireless
energy harvesting and information processing." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 12, no.
7 (2013): 3622-3636.
Both papers are ESI Highly Cited Papers and have contributed significantly to the research community (with
400+ Google Scholar citations each by 10/2016).
This year APB TAC received 29 applications for APB Young Researcher Awards. Through careful review and
discussions, the committee unanimously decided to give the awards to the following six researchers:
APB Best Your Researcher Award (1 awardee)
- Jun Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China): For his contributions to
the analysis and optimization of dense wireless cooperative networks
APB Outstanding Young Researcher Awards (5 awardees listed alphabetically):
- Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China): For his contributions to network economics
and game theory
- Namyoon Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea): for his contributions to the
development of advanced interference management techniques in wireless networks
- Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China): For his contribution to social-aware optimization framework and
mechanisms for communications and networking
- Qian Wang (Wuhan University, China): For his contributions to cloud security and wireless networking
security
- Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China): for his contribution to wireless communications and
networking
We would like to congratulate all the awardees for their excellent work, and thank the nominators of the
Outstanding Paper Awards for their kind contributions. We look forward to seeing all awardees in
GLOBECOM 2016.
Meeting and Conference Committee (MCC)
MCC coordinates meeting and conference activities in the APB region. Please see “Upcoming Conferences”
for a list of upcoming conferences in the IEEE Communications Society.
Information Services Committee (ISC)
The main task of ISC is to publish semi-annual AP Newsletters for release during the IEEE ICC and Globecom
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conferences, manage the APB homepage, manage the APB email broadcast to its members, and liaise the
contribution to the IEEE Global Communication Newsletter (GCN).
- For the AP Newsletter, in addition to conventional topics such as call for awards, DLT report, and
committee/local chapter activity report, ISC continues to look for new design ideas in terms of layout and
content to bring better awareness of the APB and improve bonding of members.
- For the APB homepage, after migrating to the new hosting site, ISC continues to improve the look, content,
and functionality of the APB homepage, such as the inclusion of information from sister societies.
- For the email broadcast, ISC takes care of dissemination of call for papers/participation under approval of
AP Director, announcement of homepage and newsletter updates, approval of subscription requests, and
so on. ISC is currently looking to improve two-way interactions between the APB and its members.
Membership Development Committee (MDC)
Greetings! For the term 2016/2017 Meixia Tao and I serve as the co-chairs of the membership development
committee (MDC) together with Osamu Muta, Hai Lin and Munir Mohammed as vice chairs. The MDC is
working to promote ComSoc membership throughout the AP region by helping establish new ComSoc chapters
and better serving regional needs. Due to the worldwide economic recession, the number of ComSoc members
in the AP region has decreased from 13,178 to 7,733 from 2014 to 2015 with a larger decreasing rate for student
members. This seems certainly a challenge to ComSoc at the current stage. However, we have opportunities
with emerging new technologies such as internet-of-things, smart cities and autonomous vehicles. In these new
emerging technology trends, communication surely has roles and should take initiatives. While the number of
ComSoc members decreased last year, there also have been vigorous activities to develop new ComSoc
communities and to promote membership throughout the region. Many distinguished lecture tours were given
and many student activities were held. Furthermore, the Chengdu chapter in China was newly established in
2015 and the Daejeon chapter in Korea is under establishment. We thank you all for such support and services.
For continuation and further development of ComSoc membership in the AP region, we need your kind support
and involvement. See you in Globecom 2016.
Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC)
- Collaborate with the ComSoc Office in running Distinguished Lecturer Tours (DLTs) and Distinguished
Lecturer Programs (DLPs)
- Collaborate with the Comsoc Office in coordinating ComSoc Executives' visit to Chapters
Conference Name Conference Date City Country Paper Deadline
IEEE DySPAN 2017 Mar. 6-9, 2017 Baltimore USA Oct. 15, 2016
IEEE WCNC 2017 Mar. 19-22, 2017 San Francisco USA Oct. 7, 2016
IEEE INFOCOM 2017 May 1-4, 2017 Atlanta USA Jul. 29, 2016
IEEE ICC 2017 May 21-25, 2017 Paris France Oct. 28, 2016
IEEE SmartGridComm 2017 Oct. 23-26, 2017 Dresden Germany Apr. 17, 2017
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Asia-Pacific Region Officers (2016 – 2017)
Director:
Takaya Yamazato
Past Director:
Wanjiun Liao
Vice Directors:
Saewoong Bahk
Sumei Sun
Wei Zhang
Secretary:
Hiroshi Shigeno
Takaya Miyazawa
Treasurer:
Hiroshi Shigeno
AP Office:
Fanny Su
Ewell Tan
Munir Mohamned
Special Liaison for ComSoc Activities:
Chen Hsiao-Hwa
Nei Kato
Borhanuddin Mohd Ali
Tomoaki Ohtsuki
Sunghyun Choi
Technical Affairs Committee:
Chairs: Jianwei Huang
Takahiko Saba
Vice Chairs: Lingyang Song
Hsuan-Jung Su
Meetings & Conferences Committee:
Chair: Jiming Chen
Vice Chair: Mianxiong Don
Information Services Committee:
Chairs: Y.-W. Peter Hong
Hung-Yun Hsieh
Vice Chairs: Wan Choi
Tony Q. S. Quek
Membership Development Committee:
Chairs: Youngchul Sung
Meixia Tao
Vice Chairs: Osamu Muta
Hai Lin
Munir Mohammed
Chapters Coordination Committee:
Chairs: Eiji Oki
Miki Yamamoto
Vice Chairs: Byonghyo Shim
Masaki Bandai
Advisors:
Tomonori Aoyama (Keio University)
Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University)
Daehyoung Hong (Sogang University)
Noriyoshi Kuroyanagi (Chubu University)
Byeong Gi Lee (Seoul National University)
Kwang Bok Lee (Seoul National University)
Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)
Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University)
Naohisa Ohta (Keio University)
Iwao Sasase (Keio University)
Desmond Taylor (University of Canterbury)
Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University)