IEEESPSSPCOM-TCMeetingatICASSP2018

Calgary,CanadaApril18,20187:00am-8:30am

Agenda• Calltoorder;Welcomefromthechair• Approvaloftheagenda• Chair'sreport• ReportfromSPAWC2017(WeiYu)

• UpdatefromSPAWC2018(Ubli Mitra,Athina Petropulu,Waheed Bajwa)

• UpdatefromSPAWC2019(LauraCottatellucci,DavidGesbert)• ProposalforSPAWC2020• GeorgiaTech.(Zhengdao Wang,Xiaoli Ma,andGeoffreyYeLi)

• DiscussionofAwardNominationProcess (Joakim Jaldén)

ApprovalofAgenda(vote)

Chair’sReport- Membership

• TheTCheldaVice-ChairelectioninOctober2017.• Threecandidatesstoodforelection:Joakim Jaldén,GeraldMatz,andChandraMurthy.• Theresult:Joakim Jaldén waselectedastheVice-Chairfor2018.

• Thefollowingsevenmembershadtheirtermsendingin2017:• ErikLarsson(PastChair)• Yindi Jing,Wing-KinMa,Urbashi Mitra,MichaelRabbat,AlejandroRibeiro,Rui Zhang.

• Twoareeligibleforre-election:• Yindi Jing,Wing-KinMa. Bothwereelectedforanother3-yearterm(2018-2020)

• Thefollowingfivenewmemberswereelectedfora3-yearterm(2018-2020):• ElisabethdeCarvalho,Meixia Tao,LutzLampe,AliTajer,DirkSlock• 32excellentcandidatesstoodforelection(!)

• Diversitymetric:• 6 femalemembers,2industrymembers.• 9 NorthAmerica(4inCanada),11Europe,1MiddleEast,8AsiaPacific

Chair’sReport- Subcommittees

• Nominationsandelectionssubcommittee:• WeiZhang(chair),Mathini Sellathurai,BiaoChen

• Awardssubcommittee:• Joakim Jalden (chair),WeiYu,Wing-Kin(Ken)Ma,MinDong

• Marconiawardsubcommittee:• BrunoClerckx (chair),Yindi Jing,ShiJin

• Industry/governmentsubcommittee:• Eleftherios Karipidis (chair),Raghavan Vasanth

• Newslettersubcommittee:• ChandraMurthy(chair),andWaheed U.Bajwa (IEEESPSvisibilityrepresentative)

• Educationsubcommittee:• EmilBjörnson (chair),ChristopherStuder

• Geographicalrepresentatives:• LutzLampe(Canada/US/Americas),PhillipeCiblat (Europe),TonyQuek (AsiaPacific)

TCRepresentationsonIEEEBoards• IEEESPSTechnicalDirectionsboard(W.Yu)• IEEESPSAwardsBoard(U.Mitra andE.G.Larsson)• IEEESPSFellowReferenceCommittee(Z.-Q.Luo,U.Mitra)• SteeringcommitteeofIEEETrans.WirelessComm.(U.Mitra)• SteeringcommitteeofIEEETrans.MobileComputing(T.Davidson)• SteeringcommitteeforIEEEWirelessCommun.Letters(D.Love)• Editor-in-ChiefofIEEEWirelessComm.Letters(W.Zhang)• RFIDCouncil:(Feifei Gao)

Chair’sReport– AwardNominations• IEEESPSSocietyAward:Yonina Eldar,(notsuccessful)• IEEESPSTechnicalAchievementAward:GeoffreyYeLi,(notsuccessful)• IEEESPSBestPaperAward:(nonomination)• IEEESPSYoungAuthorBestPaperAward:

• Morteza Mardani,GonzaloMateos,andGeorgiosB.Giannakis,“SubspaceLearningandImputationforStreamingBigDataMatricesandTensor”,IEEETransactionsonSignalProcessing,vol.63,no.10,pp.2663-77,May15,2015. (successful)

• IEEESPSMagazineBestPaperAward:• W.Saad,Z.Han,M.Debbah,A.Hjorungnes andT.Basar,"Coalitionalgametheoryforcommunicationnetworks,"inIEEESignalProcessingMagazine,vol.26,no.5,pp.77-97,Sept.2009. (notsuccessful)

• IEEESPSMagazineBestColumnAward:• R.Faragher,"UnderstandingtheBasisoftheKalman FilterViaaSimpleandIntuitiveDerivation"[LectureNotes],inIEEESignalProcessingMagazine,vol.29,no.5,pp.128-132,Sept.2012.(successful)

Chair’sReport– DistinguishedLecturers

• IEEESPSDistinguishedLecturers• GeertLeus,(successfullynominatedbytheTCforthisyear)• Wing-Kin(Ken)Ma,(currentTCmember)• RickBlum,(formerTCmember)• Athina P.Petropulu (successfullynominatedbytheTCfromlastyear)

• IEEESPSDistinguishedIndustrialSpeaker• ThomasMarzetta(successfullynominatedbytheTCforthisyear)

Chair’sReport– AwardWinners

• DonaldG.FinkOverviewPaperAward:• LuLu,GeoffreyYeLi,A.LeeSwindlehurst,AlexeiAshikhmin,Rui Zhang:“AnOverviewofMassiveMIMO:BenefitsandChallenges”,IEEEJournalofSelectedTopicsinSignalProcessing,Volume8,No.5,October2014

• IEEESIGNALPROCESSINGSOCIETYBestPaperAward:• Foad Sohrabi,WeiYu:“HybridDigitalandAnalogBeamformingDesignforLarge-ScaleAntennaArrays”,IEEEJournalofSelectedTopicsinSignalProcessing,Volume10,No.3,April2016

• IEEESIGNALPROCESSINGSOCIETYYoungAuthorBestPaperAward:• Jie Xu,LiangLiu,(Co-Author:Rui Zhang),“MultiuserMISOBeamformingforSimultaneousWirelessInformationandPowerTransfer”,IEEETransactionsonSignalProcessing,Volume62,No.18,September2014

• IEEEFELLOWClassof2017• TonyQ.S.Quek (currentTCmember)• Mounir Ghogho,Weifeng Su,Sergiy Vorobyov (pastTCmembers)

Chair’sReport– ICASSPStatisticsICASSP2012(Kyoto) 115acceptedoutof218submitted 8.3%

of ICASSP

ICASSP2014(Florence) 205acceptedoutof387submitted+5SPLpapers

11.6%of ICASSP

ICASSP2013(Vancouver) 187acceptedoutof391submitted+12SPLpapers

11.0%of ICASSP

ICASSP2015(Brisbane) 75acceptedoutof153submitted+14SPLpapers

6.8%of ICASSP

ICASSP2016(Shanghai) 116acceptedoutof240submitted+9SPLpapers

9.0%of ICASSP

ICASSP2017(NewOrleans) 72acceptedoutof146submitted+4SPLpapers

5.8%of ICASSP

ICASSP 2018(Calgary) 80accepted outof171submitted+4SPLpapers(Comparison:SAM147submissionsSPTMhas331submissions)

6.2%of ICASSP

Chair’sReport– SPAWCStatistics

SPAWC2012(Cesme,Turkey) 119acceptedoutof171submitted 124attendees

SPAWC2013 (Darmstadt,Germany) 158acceptedoutof237submitted 184attendees

SPAWC2014 (Toronto,Canada) 102acceptedoutof121submitted 132attendees

SPAWC2015 (Stockholm,Sweden) 140acceptedoutof207submitted 178attendees

SPAWC2016 (Edinburgh,UK) 173acceptedoutof260submitted 210attendees

SPAWC2017 (Sapporo,Japan) 178accepted outof256submitted 268attendees

SPAWC 2018(Kalamata,Greece) 281papersubmitted(RegularPapers:162.SpecialSession:107.InvitedThematicPapers:12)

• Financialresults:• 2015:Surplusof$27Koutof$68Kexpenses(28%surplus)• 2016:Surplusof£14Koutof£67Kexpenses(17.5%surplus)• 2017:Surplusof$24Koutof$129Kexpenses(18.8%surplus)

Chair’sReport– GlobalSIP Participation• GlobalSIP 2016:

• M.Rabbat co-organizedasymposiumonSPOverNetworks• Z.-Q.LuoandM.Hongco-organizedasymposiumonDistributedInformationProcessing,OptimizationandResourceAllocationoverNetworks

• M.Juntti co-organizedasymposiumonTransceiversandSPfor5GandmmWave.• SPCOMrelatedsymposiaonInfoTheoreticSecurity(Schaefer,Boche),CognitiveRadio(Poor)

• GlobalSIP 2017:• Z.-Q.LuoandM.Hongco-organizedasymposiumonDistributedOptimizationandResourceAllocationoverNetworks

• M.Rabbat co-organizedasymposiumonGraphSignalProcessing• SPCOMrelatedsymposiumonFull-duplex(Gross)

• GlobalSIP 2018:• Z.Q.LuoandM.Hongareco-organizingDistributedResourceAllocationandLearning.• SPCOMrelatedsymposia:GreenCommunications(Zhi Ding),5GSatelliteNetwork,IntelligentVehicleCommunication,mmWave,NetworkSecurity(Yingbo Hua)

Chair’sReport– TasksAhead• February15,2018:

• NominationsfortheMarconiaward(passed,nosubmissionthisyear)

• April20,2018:• SPAWCPaperReviewsandDecisions(TPCCo-ChairsofSPAWC)

• May31,2018:• NominationsforDistinguishedLecturers(Responsibility:TCchair,Awardssubcommittee)

• September1,2018:• NominationsforPaperAwards:BPA,YABPA,MBPA,LBPA,OPA,SIPA(Responsibility:TCVice-Chair,Awardssubcommittee)• NominationsforSocietyAward,TechnicalAchievementAward(Responsibility:TCChair,Awardssubcommittee)

• November15,2018:• Membershipelectioncompleted (Responsibility:Electionsandnominationssubcommittee)

• November– December2018:• ICASSPPaperReviewsandDecisions(Responsibility:TC-chair)

• February15,2019:• NominationsfortheMarconiaward(Responsibility:Marconisubcommittee)

ReportfromSPAWC2017• AdvancedSPSmemberregistrationfee:US$575(JPY60,000)• ReceptionatSapporoTVTower.BanquetatSapporoParkHotel.• TwoStudentBestPaperAwards• Regularpaperacceptancerate:58%.• Invitedspecialsession:76papers;15sessions.

AttendeeStatisticsofSPAWC2017

Japan NorthAmerica

Europe

ChinaHongKongSpecialAdmin.RegionofChina

Taiwan

Korea

IndiaSingapore Australia

Others

A record of 268 attendees

UpdatefromSPAWC2018and2019• SPAWC2018:June25-28,2018inKalamata,Greece.• SPAWC2019:July2-5,2019inCannes,France• Bothareontrack!

SPAWC2020

• TheTCaimstodecideSPAWCtwoyearsinadvance• NormalprocedureistomakedecisionatICASSP.• Keydates:• INFOCOM2020:April27-30,Beijing,China• ICASSP2020:May4-9,Barcelona,Spain• ICC2020:June7-11,Dublin,Ireland• ISIT2020:July??,LosAngeles,USA

• ProposalfromGeorgiaTech• ExpressionofinterestsfromTaiwan

ProposalforSPAWC2020atGeorgiaInstituteofTechnology

Atlanta,USA

Geoffrey(Ye)Li,Zhengdao Wang,Xiaoli Ma

AwardNominationProcess

• In2016alargenumberofpaperswereconsidered,resultingin• Alargenumberofawardlevel(long)reviews• Alotofworkinthevotingprocess

• In2017thenumberofpapersconsideredwerereduced• Almostallawardlevelreviewscamebacknegative• MostpositiveforpaperswithTCco-authors• NoBPAnominationwasmadebytheTC

• nopaperreachedasufficientnumberofendorsements• Bothchair(awardscommittee)andvice-chair(co-author)excused

Discussion

• Waswhathappened(noBPAnomination)aproblem?

• Shouldwehavealargernumberofawardlevelreviewsagain?

• Otherinput?

MembershipElection

• CurrentScheme:• Lastyear,wehad7openingsand32candidates.• EveryTCmemberhas7votes.Endorsementsareusedtobreakties.• Votesareusuallyveryclose.Tiesalmostalwayshappen.• Itisdifficulttodecidethebest7among32candidates.

• PossibleChangeofProcedure:• Allowfractionalvotes,between0to1,uptoonedecimal.• EachTCmemberhas7points,whichcanbedistributedtomanycandidates.• TCmemberscanstillvoteasintheoldscheme,iftheywish.• Tieswillunlikelytooccur.• Endorsementnowreallymeans“endorsement”.