IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Region Newsletter No. 56, December 2019
Saewoong Bahk
No. 56, December 2019
Website: www.comsoc.org/~apb
Edited by Y.-W. Peter Hong, Hiroshi Shigeno, Mianxiong Dong, and Liqun Fu
First, I’d like to briefly report AP Regional Chapter Chairs Congress
(RCCC) that was held last May in Shanghai. The congress was held in
coordination with the IEEE ComSoc Sister and Related Societies Summit,
and co-located with IEEE ICC 2019. It was one Full day conference, held
just before the main ICC conference. There were 28 attendees including 14
chapter chairs. Dr. Sumei Sun, APB vice director, served as program chair
and I served as general chair. Prof. Wei Zhang and Prof. Tomoaki Ohtsuki,
APB vice director, served as session chairs. President Khaled Letaief and
President-elect Vincent Chan gave a speech. Vice president Nei Kato
introduced member and global activities of ComSoc. Dr. Ashutosh Dutta
presented the materials about ComSoc summit framework and future network initiative. Mr. Adam
Greenberg talked about technical activities and industry outreach. Then five APB committee chairs gave a
presentation about each committee’s activities, followed by the presentation from Harbin chapter chair, Prof.
Weixiao Meng. Harbin chapter was the winner of the chapter achievement award (CAA) in 2018. Each
chapter chair has a slot for introducing the activities. The congress was so fruitful since we were able to
exchange and share each one’s experiences throughout the conference.
Second, I’d like to thank the team of IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Asia Pacific Board (APB)
in the term 2018-2019. The AP region is the most promising and dynamic region in terms of number of
members and activities. Following the good tradition, the APB team has put great efforts to expand the
perceived activities for everyone, which include technical work, membership development, information
services, meetings and conferences, and chapter coordination. I would like to express my sincere thanks to
all the AP Chapter Chairs and APB officers below.
Table of Contents
Message from the Asia-Pacific Board Director ......... 1
Trending Topics in the Eyes of Vice Director ........... 3
2019 IEEE ComSoc APB Awards Announcement .... 6
Interview of Best/Outstanding Young Researchers ..11
Report on DLTs/DSPs in the AP Region ..................19
Table of Contents
What’s Up on the Asia-Pacific Board? ..................... 24
Upcoming Conferences ............................................ 25
Asia-Pacific Region Officers 2018-2019.................. 26
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Vice Director Wei Zhang (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Vice Director Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Vice Director Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
Secretary and Treasurer Jemin Lee (DGIST, Korea)
TAC co-Chairs Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
MCC Chair Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
ISC co-Chairs Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University, Japan)
MDC co-Chairs Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea)
Neelesh Mehta (IIS, India)
CCC co-Chairs Youngchul Sung (KAIST, Korea)
Itisa Misra (Jadavpur University, India)
Also, I’d like to thank Ms. Carol Cronin, Administrator of ComSoc, who helped our activities,
including DLT/DSP approval process, AP newsletter distribution, and AP RCCC. I enjoyed working with all
of you very much and will do my best to provide better ComSoc services in the AP region continuously.
I wish you the best of luck and thank you very much!
Saewoong Bahk
IEEE ComSoc APB Director, 2018-2019
Professor at ECE, Seoul National University, Korea
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Smart Healthcare Tomoaki Ohtsuki
Keio University, Japan
Smart healthcare is a concept for an advanced healthcare. For smart
healthcare, we expect improved healthcare services based on ICT
(Information and Communications Technology), where the information
obtained by sensors are exploited, such as on-body (wearable) sensors,
contactless sensors, ambient sensors, and so on. Using the sensor, we can get
even vital data, such as, heart rate, so that we can know not only physical
condition but also mental condition in more detail. Smart healthcare can
remove barriers of costs, distance, and so on, to receive/offer good medical
services. Smart healthcare is also expected in assisted living for elderly
people. For instance, Japan is known as the rapid aging society, “super-aging society”. According to the
Statics, the ratio of people aged 65 years or over to the total population reached 28.4% in 2019. Naturally,
social costs for nursing care and medical expenses will rise. In addition, the number of elderly people living
alone is increasing as well. Smart healthcare is expected to support the super aging society where people can
live healthy and peacefully, while reducing the costs for support dramatically.
To realize such a society, smart technologies are needed. Smart sensor is one of the smart technologies
where it is expected to collect information about people and environments while keeping privacy. For
instance, monitoring people living alone is a crucial issue where the use of camera is usually not allowed or
preferred. There are various sensors developed with satisfying privacy constraints. In the following we
introduce the noncontact heart rate detection method using Doppler sensor and the activity recognition
method using low-resolution thermopile sensor arrays.
Non-contact Heart Rate Estimation using Doppler Sensor
Fig. 1 shows the system model of non-contact heart rate estimation using Doppler sensor. When the
microwaves transmitted by the transmitter Tx are reflected by a subject’s chest, the transmitted microwaves
are Doppler-shifted. The reflected microwaves are then received by the receiver Rx. The received signal is
subsequently down-converted into the baseband signal in which the variation due to heartbeats are included.
Since the variation due to heartbeats is small, its detection can be easily hindered by noise, such as body
motion. Many techniques have been proposed for the detection of heartbeats in the presence of noises [1]-[5].
In addition to heartbeats, other vital signals can be detected using Doppler sensor, such as respiration and
blink [6].
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Activity Recognition using Low-Resolution Thermopile Sensor Arrays
The low-resolution thermopile sensor array has m x n infrared detectors (or pixels) inside. It obtains a
two-dimensional temperature distribution. This kind of sensor is typically used for high performance home
appliances (microwave oven and air conditioner), digital signage, automatic door, and so on. The activity
recognition system using low-resolution thermopile sensor arrays installs the sensor on a ceiling and/or other
places. Fig. 2 shows the examples of a temperature distribution image of a standing person obtained by the
infrared array sensor with 8 x 8 pixels installed on the ceiling. Different from images obtained by cameras,
due to the low-resolution of sensor, we cannot distinguish individuals nor get much information about them.
Thus, we can keep privacy, though it makes difficult to detect activity. The other advantage of the sensor is
that it can detect a person even in darkness by detecting infrared rays. The system extracts several features
from the temperature distribution data and then classifies activities based on those features with high
accuracy [7]. It can also localize people easily.
Fig. 1. A system model of non-contact heart rate estimation using Doppler sensor
Fig. 2. A temperature distribution image of a standing person obtained by the infrared
array sensor with 8 x 8 pixels installed on the ceiling.
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References
[1] A. Tariq and H. Shiraz, “Doppler radar vital signs monitoring using wavelet transform,” in Proc.
Antennas Propagation Conference, pp. 293-296, Nov. 2010.
[2] J. Tu and J. Lin, “Fast acquisition of heart rate in noncontact vital sign radar measurement using
time-window-variation technique,” IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 65, pp. 112-122,
Jan. 2016.
[3] K. Yamamoto, K. Toyoda, and T. Ohtsuki, “Spectrogram-based Non-contact RRI Estimation by
Accurate Peak Detection Algorithm," IEEE Access, Vol. 6, pp. 60369 - 60379, 2018.
[4] C. Ye, K. Toyoda, and T. Ohtsuki, “A Stochastic Gradient Approach for Robust Heartbeat Detection
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Engineering (TBME), Vol. 66, Issue 6, pp. 1730--1741, June 2019.
[5] C. Ye, K. Toyoda, and T. Ohtsuki, “Blind Source Separation on Non-contact Heartbeat Detection by
Non-negative Matrix Factorization Algorithms," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering (TBME),
Online First, pp. 1-13, May 2019. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2915762
[6] K. Yamamoto, K. Toyoda, and T. Ohtsuki, “Doppler Sensor-based Blink Duration Estimation by
Analysis of Eyelids Closing and Opening Behavior on Spectrogram,” IEEE Access, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.
2169-3536, Dec. 2018.
[7] S. Mashiyama, J. Hong, and T. Ohtsuki, “Activity Recognition Using Low Resolution Infrared Array
Sensor," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'2015), pp. 495-500, London, UK,
June 2015.
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IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award
This award honors young researchers who have been active in IEEE ComSoc publications and conference
activities over the last three years (January 2016 to December 2018).
Eligibility
The upper age limit for the applicant is 35 (i.e., the applicant must be born on or after 1983/01/01).
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 2019:
Best Young Researcher Award
Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
for contributions to research on radio resource management in ultra-dense and heterogeneous
networks
Outstanding Young Researcher Awards
Suzhi Bi (Shenzhen University, China)
for contribution to research on wireless powered communication networks
Guoru Ding (Southeast University, China)
for contribution to research on cognitive radio networks
Ruisi He (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
for contribution to research on measurement and modeling of wireless channels
Jie Xu (Guangdong University of Technology, China)
for contribution to research on wireless power transfer
Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
for contribution to research on dynamic spectrum sharing in vehicular networks
Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University, China)
for contribution to research on energy management in wireless networks
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List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Awards (2001-2018)
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
2016 (11th
) Dr. Jun Zhang Dr. Lin Gao
Dr. Namyoon Lee
Dr. Yong Li
Dr. Qian Wang
Dr. Guanding Yu
2017 (12th
) Dr. Xiangyun (Sean) Zhou Dr. Xu Chen
Dr. Junil Choi
Dr. Linglong Dai
Dr. Mianxiong Dong
Dr. Jiajia Liu Dr. Sheng Zhou
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2018 (13th
) Dr. Hui-Ming Wang Dr. Kaigui Bian Dr. Peng Cheng
Dr. Kaoru Ota
Dr. Yuan Shen
Dr. Yong Zeng
Dr. Nan Zhao
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 three years (January 2016 to December 2018).
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 three years (January 2016 to
December 2018).
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.
Remark: A list of IEEE ComSoc journals and conference portfolio events can be found at:
http://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals and http://www.comsoc.org/conferences/portfolio-events
Award Prize
Plaque and honorarium up to US $500 (award total).
Outstanding Paper Award Winners for Year 2019:
Title: Analysis on Cache‐Enabled Wireless Heterogeneous Networks
Authors: Chenchen Yang, Yao Yao, Zhiyong Chen, and Bin Xia
Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 131‐145, Jan. 2016.
Title: Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Mobile-Edge Computation Offloading
Authors: Changsheng You, Kaibin Huang, Hyukjin Chae, and Byoung-Hoon Kim
Source: IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1397-1411, Mar. 2017.
Title: On the Outage Probability of Device-to-Device Communication Enabled Multi-Channel
Cellular Networks: A RSS Threshold-Based Perspective
Authors: Jiajia Liu, Hiroki Nishiyama, Nei Kato, and Jun Guo
Source: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 163-175, Jan. 2016.
http://www.comsoc.org/publications/journalshttp://www.comsoc.org/conferences/portfolio-events
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List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards (2012-2018)
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.
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, Sept. 2012
2016 (5 th
) 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, Nov. 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, Jul. 2013
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2017 (6th
)
Title: Relay-by-smartphone: realizing multihop device-to-device communications
Authors: Hiroki Nishiyama, Masaya Ito, and Nei Kato
Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume: 52, Issue: 4, April 2014
Title: Hybrid Full-/Half-duplex System Analysis in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Authors: Jemin Lee and Tony Q. S. Quek
Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume: 14, Issue: 5, May 2015
2018 (7 th
) Title: Nonorthogonal Multiple Access for 5G: Solutions, Challenges, Opportunities, and
Future Research Trends
Authors: Linglong Dai, Bichai Wang, Yifei Yuan, Shuangfeng Han, Chih-Lin I, and
Zhaocheng Wang
Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 74-81, Sept. 2015.
Title: Gathering Optimization by Dynamic Sensing and Routing in Rechargeable Sensor
Networks
Authors: Yongmin Zhang, Shibo He, and Jiming Chen
Source: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1632-1646, 2016.
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Best Young Researcher Award Winner
Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
Haijun Zhang (M'13-SM'17) is currently a Full Professor in Department of
Communications Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
(USTB), China. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of British
Columbia (UBC), Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree in Beijing University of
Posts Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2013. From 2016, he joined USTB as a Full
Professor.
Dr. Zhang’s research interests span a wide range of topics in wireless
communications, including radio resource management in ultra-dense networks and heterogeneous small cells
networks. He has published 50+ IEEE Journal papers. He is now serving as an editor of IEEE Transactions on
Communications, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Communications
Letters. He serves/served as Symposium Chair of Globecom'19 and IWCMC’18, Track Chair of WCNC’20,
General Co-Chair of GameNets'16, TPC Co-Chair of INFOCOM'18 IECCO Workshop. He received the IEEE
ComSoc Young Author Best Paper Award in 2017 and IEEE ComSoc CSIM TC Best Journal Paper Award in
2018, URSI Young Scientist Award in 2018. He received the National Science Fund for Outstanding Young
Scholars in 2018.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research fields?
Over the last three years, we have been carrying out a wide range of research topics in wireless
communications, including resource optimization and mobility management in ultra dense networks and
heterogeneous small cell networks. Resource optimization is very important to enhance the spectral efficiency
and energy efficiency in ultra dense networks. We proposed iterative gradient user association and power
allocation schemes in ultra dense networks. In addition, due to the diversity of 5G application scenarios, new
mobility management schemes are greatly needed to guarantee seamless handover in network-slicing-based
5G systems. We proposed joint power and subchannel allocation mechanism for network-slicing-based
spectrum-sharing two-tier heterogeneous small cell networks.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
The growth of global devices and connections leads to higher user demands on future mobile networks.
Under the condition of limited spectrum resources, traditional mobile networks can no longer meet the service
needs of more terminals, so we will continue to study radio resource management in 6G mobile
communications and Terahertz high speed communications. And due to the emergence of new mobile
communication application scenarios such as virtual reality and smart city, the future mobile network based on
AI has become a promising development direction. In the next few years, we will try to develop both the theory
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and algorithms of resource allocation and mobility management in future mobile networks based on AI, to
contribute to future wireless network planning and optimization problems.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner
Suzhi Bi (Shenzhen University, China)
Suzhi Bi (S'10–M'14- SM’19) is currently an Associate Professor with the
College of Electronic and Information Engineering at Shenzhen University, China.
He received the B. Eng. degree in Communications Engineering from the Chu
Kochen Honors College at Zhejiang University, China, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree
in Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013.
From 2013 to 2015, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He was a
Research Engineer intern with the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, in
2010, and a visiting student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA, in 2012.
His research interests mainly involve in the performance analysis and optimizations in energy-efficient
communication networks, wireless power transfer, mobile computing, and smart power grid communications.
Dr. Bi has authored over 60 top-tier journal and conference papers, including 5 ESI highly cited papers and 1
hot paper, and received close to 2000 Google Scholar citations. He was a recipient of the IEEE
SmartGridComm 2013 Best Paper Award, received two times the Shenzhen University Outstanding Young
Faculty Award in 2015 and 2018, and the "Pearl River Young Scholar" award by the Department of Education
of Guangdong Province in 2018. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access (2016-2019), the TPC chair
of IEEE Globecom 2019 Selected Areas in Communications: Smart Grid Communications, TPC Co-chair of
IEEE ICCS 2018 Special Session on Massive Data Processing in 5G Wireless Networks, and TPC Co-chair of
MLICOM 2018 Green Communications Symposium.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
Limited battery capacity and low computing capability are two fundamental performance bottlenecks of
size-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) wireless devices to handle complex tasks. Our recent works on
wireless powered edge computing systems showed that a seamless integration of wireless power transfer and
edge computing technologies can effectively tackle the problems. To achieve maximum computation
performance, our major technical focus was on solving the combinatorial user binary offloading decisions
and the coupling resource allocation problem under multi-user scenarios. We first proposed a scalable
decomposition-based mixed integer optimization algorithm, and further designed a novel Deep
Reinforcement learning-based Online Offloading (DROO) data analytic framework that can achieve
near-optimal performance and fast online implementation under fading channels. Interestingly, the proposed
approaches are found effective in solving a class of mixed integer optimization problems that are widely
encountered in wireless communication systems.
2. Where do you see your research headings in the next 2 years?
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An edge computing system includes a mixture of communication, computation, and storage resources.
To handle stochastic workloads, dynamic resource allocation is a key performance-enhancing technique, yet
difficult to implement in practice due to the unknown modeling errors and the time-consuming calculation of
optimization algorithms. In light of the seemly inevitable tradeoffs between the optimization objective and
implementation complexity, on one hand, I am interested in finding the theoretical performance limits of
edge computing systems to capture the interplays between different edge resources. On the other hand,
encouraged by the recent advances in data analytic techniques, I am motivated to design online resource
allocation methods that rely on minimum model knowledge, aiming to achieve both excellent system
performance and fast calculation in dynamic environments.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner
Guoru Ding (Army Engineering University & Southeast University, China)
Guoru Ding received the B.S. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering
from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2008, and the Ph.D. (Hons.) degree in
communications and information systems from the College of Communications
Engineering, Nanjing, China, in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he was a
Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the National Mobile Communications
Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing. He is now with the College
of Communications Engineering, Army Engineering University as an Associate
Professor of the National High Frequency Communications Research Center of
China. His research interests include cognitive radio, cognitive internet of
things, UAV communications, and spectrum data analytics over wireless networks.
Dr. Ding has served as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
(special issue on Spectrum Sharing and Aggregation for Future Wireless Networks) and an Editor for the
Journal of Communications and Information Networks. He is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Cognitive Communications and Networking. He received the Best Doctoral Thesis Award of the China
Institute of Communications in 2016, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2017, and the Excellent
Young Scientist of Wuwenjun Artificial Intelligence in 2018. He was also a recipient of several Best Paper
Awards from IEEE WCSP 2009, IEEE VTC 2014-FALL, and IEEE WCSP 2018, etc.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
Drones, also known as mini-unmanned aerial vehicles, have attracted increasing attention due to their
boundless applications in communications, photography, agriculture, surveillance, and numerous public
services. However, the deployment of amateur drones poses various safety, security, and privacy threats. To
cope with these challenges, amateur drone surveillance has become a very important but largely unexplored
topic. We first propose a vision, named Dragnet, by tailoring the recently emerging Cognitive Internet of
Things framework for amateur drone surveillance. Next, we present the key enabling techniques for Dragnet in
detail, accompanied by the technical challenges and open issues. Furthermore, we provide an exemplary case
study on the detection and classification of authorized and unauthorized amateur drones. Also, we develop a
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robust spectrum sharing framework for air-ground integrated wireless communications, where the idea of
close-loop control is highlighted with cognitive internet of things-based amateur drone surveillance and
non-convex optimization-based wireless resource allocation as the key enabling techniques.
2. Where do you see your research headings in the next 2 years?
In the next couple of years, my research headings will focus on intelligent communications-enabled
Cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT). Current research on Internet of Things (IoT) mainly focuses on how to
enable general objects to see, hear, and smell the physical world for themselves, and make them connected to
share the observations. In this paper, we argue that only connected is not enough, beyond that, general objects
should have the capability to learn, think, and understand both physical and social worlds by themselves. This
practical need impels a new paradigm, named CIoT, to empower the current IoT with a “brain” for high-level
intelligence, for enabling the capability to bridge the physical world (with objects, resources, etc.) and the
social world (with human demand, social behavior, etc.), and enhance smart resource allocation, automatic
network operation, and intelligent service provisioning.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Ruisi He (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Ruisi He (S’11-M’13-SM’17) received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Beijing
Jiaotong University (BJTU), Beijing, China, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. Since
2015, he has been with the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety,
BJTU, where he has been a Full Professor since 2018. Ruisi He has been a Visiting
Scholar in Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, University of Southern California,
USA, and Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His research interests include
measurement and modeling of wireless channels, machine learning and clustering
analysis in communications, vehicular and high-speed railway communications, 5G
massive MIMO and high frequency communication techniques.
Ruisi He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Magazine, and the IEEE Communications Letters. He serves as the Early Career Representative
(ECR) of Commission C, International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He received 2017-2019 Young Talent
Sponsorship Program of China Association for Science and Technology, the Second Prize of the Natural
Science Award for Scientific Research Achievements of the Ministry of Education in China in 2016, the Best
Ph.D. Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2016, the URSI Young Scientist Award in 2015, and
five Best Paper Awards in conferences.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
High-speed railway (HSR) is considered as one of the most sustainable developments for ground
transportation, where wireless communications play a key role. For HSR communication system design, a
scene partitioning standard is proposed by us for GSM-Railway (GSM-R) and LTE-Railway (LTE-R)
systems, which has been adopted by the RAILWAY INSTITUTES OF ENGINEERING in China. Based on
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450 MHz and 930 MHz channel measurements from a large number of HSR cells in eight typical HSR
scenarios, a series of large- and small-scale wireless channel models are developed by us, including path loss,
shadow fading distribution and correlation, and small-scale fading. Based on the proposed models, the link
budgets for GSM-R and LTE-R are conducted and the results are accepted by the STANDARD INSTITUTE
OF CHINA RAILWAY. The performances of GSM-R and LTE-R with high mobility are evaluated based on
measurements and simulations.
2. Where do you see your research headings in the next 2 years?
The future railway communications require higher data rate of reliable transmission, where higher
frequency, larger size of antenna array, and more bandwidths are needed. My future research interest is
motivated by the above background and focuses on measurements and modeling of multiple dimension
non-stationary channels with high mobility. I’m also interested in wireless channel modeling for 5G/6G
applications, e.g., in vehicle-to-everything, terrestrial-satellite, UAV, and IoT scenarios.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Jie Xu (Guangdong University of Technology, China)
Jie Xu (S’12–M’13) is currently a Professor with the School of Information
Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, China. He received the B.E. and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China, in 2007 and
2012, respectively. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Research Fellow with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of
Singapore. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the
engineering systems and design pillar with the Singapore University of Technology
and Design. He has published over 90 IEEE journal and conference papers, which
have attracted more than 3300 Google Scholar citations.
Dr. Xu was a recipient of the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award and
the IEEE/CIC ICCC 2019 Best Paper Award. He serves as the Symposium Co-Chair of the IEEE Globecom
2019 Wireless Communications Symposium, the Workshop Co-Chair of ICC 2018 and ICC 2019 Workshop
on UAV Communications, and the Tutorial Co-Chair of the IEEE/CIC ICCC 2019. He is serving or served as
an Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and the Journal of Communications and Information
Networks, an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications
and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
We propose a new unified design of mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT)
to provide massive low-power wireless devices with enhanced computation capability and sustainable energy
supply in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In particular, we study a scenario when a multi-antenna access
point (AP) employs the transmit energy beamforming to wirelessly charge multiple devices, and each device
relies on the harvested energy to execute their respective computation tasks via local computing and/or task
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offloading. We jointly optimize the AP’s transmit energy beamformer at the energy supply side, as well as the
devices’ communication and computation resource allocation at the energy demand side, for maximizing these
devices’ task execution performance, subject to their individual energy neutrality constraints. This work has
provided useful insights for realizing self-sustainable mobile computing networks.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
Recently, mobile edge caching, computation, and learning have been recognized as emerging techniques,
which push various network functions (such as content caching, cloud computing and machine learning) to the
edge of wireless networks to enabled new applications (e.g., autonomous driving, virtual reality, and
augmented reality) with real-time machine-to-machine and machine-to-human interactions. The emergence of
mobile edge networks also imposes many new design challenges, which need to be dealt with from an
interdisciplinary perspective by exploiting techniques from wireless communications, computer science, and
control. My research focus in the next 2 years will be on the development of fundamental theory and practical
methods to address these new challenges in mobile edge networks.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
Haibo Zhou (M'14-SM'18) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China, in 2014. He
worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate at University of
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from Sept. 2014 to Sept. 2017, respectively. Since Nov.
2017, He has been an Associate Professor at Nanjing University (NJU), Nanjing,
China. His current research focuses on radio resource and mobility management,
medium access control, and network performance optimization in the field of
vehicular ad hoc networks.
Dr. Zhou was a recipient of the Thousand Talents Program for Young Professionals of China (2019),
High-level Innovation and Entrepreneurial Talent of Jiangsu Province of China (2019), Six-Top Talent of
Jiangsu Province of China (2019), High-level Innovation and Entrepreneurial Doctor of Jiangsu Province of
China (2018). His papers received the Best Paper of Journal of Communications and Information Networks
(2018), IEEE TCGCC Best Conference Paper Award (2017), Best Paper Award of WCSP (2015). He
currently serves an Associate Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE
Wireless Communications Letter. He also served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Communications and
Information Networks, Guest-Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, Hindawi International Journal of
Distributed Sensor Networks, and IET Communications.
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?
How to design low-latency, high-reliability dynamic vehicle access and intelligent switching methods is
the core technology and one of the biggest challenges for vehicle networking applications. We are the early
research team worldwide to establish the wide-coverage and high-capacity vehicle access model by leveraging
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the TV White Space (TVWS) technology. Especially, we propose an adaptive vehicular data piping framework
for the joint utilization of three types of vehicular data pipes (DSRC, TVWS, and cellular) for the optimal
dynamic vehicular access. We design a log-sum-exp (LSE) approximation-based TVWS geolocation database
access approach and formulate the adaptive vehicular data piping problem for dynamic DSRC/TVWS
spectrum sharing as a coalitional formation game. Our proposed coalitional formation approach can reach the
optimal and Nash-stable vehicular data pipe selection partition in a distributed way.
2. Where do you see your research headings in the next 2 years?
To support the lately emerged demands from the mobility world, e.g., Intelligent Transportation Systems,
advanced driving, and autonomous vehicles, etc., conventional connected vehicles technologies are evolving
from Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications to Internet of Vehicles (IoV). With the advent of big data,
my future research interest in the next two years lies in the fundamental theories and key technologies of big
data driven IoV. We will conduct researches in big data driven IoV modeling and performance evaluation. In
addition, we will design big data assisted vehicular communication protocols.
Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University, China)
Zhenyu Zhou (M'11-SM'17) received his M.E. and Ph.D degree from
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 2008 and 2011 respectively. He is currently a
Full Professor at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China
Electric Power University, China. Since April 2019, he has been a full professor
at the same university. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access,
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and a Guest
Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and Transactions on Emerging
Telecommunications Technologies.
He has published more than 40 IEEE Transaction, Journal, and Magazine Papers. He was the recipient
of the IET Premium Award in 2017, the IEEE ComSoc Green Communications and Computing Technical
Committee 2017 Best Paper Award, the IEEE Globecom 2018 Best Paper Award, the IEEE ComSoc Green
Communications and Computing Technical Committee 2018 Best Paper Award, IEEE ComSoc
Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) Technical Committee 2019 Best Paper Award,
and IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2019 Best
Paper Award. His research interests mainly focus on resource allocation in device-to-device (D2D)
communications, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, smart grid communications, and Internet of
things (IoT). He is a senior member of IEEE, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), and China Institute of
Communications (CIC).
1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research fields?
D2D/M2M communications are important technologies for the successful realization of Internet of
Things (IoT). I addressed the key problem of low energy efficiency in D2D networks with energy-constrained
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devices via resource allocation. Then, I extended my work on D2D to M2M communications, and developed
several high reliability and low latency resource allocation schemes.
2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?
IoT will play a big role in Energy Internet due to its ubiquitous connectivity and autonomous data
exchange capability. However, QoS guaranteeing is always a significant concern in both academia and
industry. Due to the complicated communication environment in Energy Internet and the limited battery
capacity of IoT devices, conventional resource allocation schemes developed for 5G public networks may
not work well and it is urgent to investigate resource allocation in power IoT. We need to consider the
characteristics of channel, noise, and interference in power grid as well as the specific service requirement of
Energy Internet. In the next few years, I will cooperate with major power companies in China and
international scholars to tackle this challenge and validate our theory from the perspective of real-world
engineering applications.
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In 2019, IEEE Communications Society has approved 16 Distinguished Lecturer Tours in the Asia
Pacific Region. We are excited for the success of those that have already taken place and also for those that
are coming up soon. We are on track to having another successful year of DLTs in the Asia-Pacific region.
The followings are the descriptions and reports of these DLTs.
2019 AP DLT#1: 10 – 16 March 2019, DL : Prof. Tony Q. S. Quek
2019 AP DLT#2: 15 – 24 April 2019, DL: Prof. Tony Q. S. Quek
2019 AP DLT #3: 9 – 17 March 2019, DL: Prof. Suresh Subramaniam
2019 AP DLT #4: 1 – 27 May 2019, DL: Prof. Octavia Dobre
2019 AP DLT #5: 14 – 24 March 2019, DL: Prof. Nirwan Ansari
2019 AP DLT #6: 11 – 21 June 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Marco Di Renzo
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Shanghai Chapter Xinwan Li
Shenzhen Chapter Simon Pun
Chengdu Chapter Zheng Ma
Prof. Marco Di Renzo delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Shanghai, China – 13 June 2019
Lecture Venue: Donghua University
2. Zhuhai, China – 16 March 2019
Lecture Venue: Jinan University
3. Chengdu, China – 19 March 2019
Lecture Venue: Chendu University
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2019 AP DLT #7: 22 – 27 May 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Roberto Saracco
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Shangahi Chapter Xinwan Li
Prof. Roberto Saracco delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Shanghai, China – 23 May 2019
Lecture Venue: Shanghai University
2. Shenzhen, China – 27 May 2019
Lecture Venue: Huawei Campus
2019 AP DLT #8: 20 – 31 July 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Angela Yingjun Zhang
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Tokyo Chapter Tomohiko Taniguchi
Kansai Chapter Takeshi Higashino
Prof. Angela Yingjun Zhang delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Kyoto, Japan – 20 July 2019
Lecture Venue: Kyoto University
2. Osaka, Japan – 25 July 2019
Lecture Venue: Osaka Prefecture University
3. Tokyo, Japan – 29 July 2019
Lecture Venue: The University of Electro-Communications
2019 AP DLT #9: 23 – 30 November 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Ranga Rao Prasad
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
New Zealand North/South/Central
Chapter
Nurul Sarkar
Prof. Tony Q. S. Quek a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Christchurch, New Zealand – 24 November 2019
Lecture Venue: The University of Canterbury, Christchurch
2. Wellington, New Zealand – 25 November 2019
Lecture Venue: Victoria University of Technology
3. Palmerston North, New Zealand – 26 November 2019
Lecture Venue: Massey University
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4. Auckland, New Zealand – 27, 28 November 2019
Lecture Venue: Auckland University of Technology
2019 AP DLT #10: 23 – 29 June 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tarik Taleb
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Tokyo Chapter Tomohiko Taniguchi
Prof. Tarik Taleb delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Tokyo, Japan – 24 June 2019
Lecture Venue: MEXT
2. Hakodate, Japan – 26 March 2019
Lecture Venue: Future University of Hakodate
2019 AP DLT #11: 26 – 30 May 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Walid Saad
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Xian Chapter Jiandong Li
Seoul Chapter Byounghyo Shim
Prof. Walid Saad delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Wuhan, China – 26 May 2019
Lecture Venue: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
2. Xian, China – 28 March 2019
Lecture Venue: Xidian University
3. Suwon, Korea – 31 May 2019
Lecture Venue: Kyung Hee University
2019 AP DLT #12: 21 – 23 August 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. R. Venkatesha Prasad
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
India Chapter Preetam Kumar
Prof. R. Venkatesha Prasad delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Patan, India – 22 August 2019
Lecture Venue: Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
2. Patan, India – 23 August 2019
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Lecture Venue: National Institute of Technology, Patna
3. Varanasi, India – 24 August 2019
Lecture Venue: Indian Institute of Technology-BHU Varanasi
2019 AP DLT #13: June 20 – 4 July 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Shui Yu
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Beijing Chapter Xiaofeng Tao
Chengdu Chapter Zheng Ma
Prof. Shui Yu delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Chengdu – 1 July 2019
Lecture Venue: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2. Chengdu – 2 July 2019
Lecture Venue: Sichuan University
3. Beijing – 5 July 2019
Lecture Venue: Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication
4. Beijing – 6 July 2019
Lecture Venue: Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
5. Beijing – 7 July 2019
Lecture Venue: North China University of Technology
2019 AP DLT #14: 6 – 14 August 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tony Q. S. Quek
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Taipei Chapter Rung-Hung Gau
Tainan Chapter Wern-Ho Sheen
Macau Chapter Shaodan Ma
Prof. Tony Q. S. Quek delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Hsinchu – 6 August 2019
Lecture Venue: National Chiao-Tung University
2. Hsinchu – 7 August 2019
Lecture Venue: National Tsing Hua University
3. Tainan – 8 August 2019
Lecture Venue: National Cheng Kung University
4. Taipei – 9 August 2019
Lecture Venue: National Taiwan University
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5. Macau – 14 August 2019
Lecture Venue: University of Macau
2019 AP DLT #15: 17 – 24 November 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Suresh Subramaniam
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Tokyo Chapter Tomohiko Taniguchi
Kansai Chapter Kazuo Kumamoto
Seoul Chapter Byonghyo Shim
Prof. Suresh Subramaniam delivered a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Sapporo, Japan – 18 November 2019
Lecture Venue: Hokkaido University
2. Tokyo, Japan – 19 November 2019
Lecture Venue: Keio University
3. Seoul, Korea – 22 November 2019
Lecture Venue: Seoul National University
2019 AP DLT #16: 19 Dec. 2019 – 5 Jan. 2020
Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Yingjun Angela Zhang
Hosting Chapter 2019 Section / Chapter Chair
Singapore Chapter Sumei Sun
Macau Chapter Shaodan Ma
Beijing (Shenzhen) Chapter Simon Pun
Prof. Yingjun Angela Zhang will deliver a lecture series at the following locations:
1. Singapore
Lecture Venue: Singapore University of Technology and Design
2. Shenzhen, China
Lecture Venue: Shenzhen University
3. Macau
Lecture Venue: University of Macau
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– APB Committee Reports
Technical Affairs Committee (TAC)
TAC is responsible for the selection of the APB Young Researcher Awards and the APB Outstanding Paper
Awards. This year, we received 27 applications for the APB Young Researcher Awards and 7 nominations for
the APB Outstanding Paper Awards. Out of them, the winners of 1 Best Young Researcher Award, 6
Outstanding Young Researcher Awards, and 3 APB Outstanding Paper Awards have been selected through
careful review and discussions. Please see section on “2019 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board Awards
Announcement” for further details.
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 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)
The focus of the MDC is on promoting and furthering the interests of individual members worldwide to
increase member retention, renewal, recruitment, and recognition. The AP region currently has 8792 ComSoc
members, which constitutes 32.7% of the total IEEE ComSoc membership (26589 members). Of these, 8123
are higher grade members and 669 are student members. While the total ComSoc membership has remained
about the same, the AP region membership has increased by 4.4% over the past one year.
Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC)
Mission of CCC
- Plan and coordinate the Regional Chapter meeting once a year where possible - Collaborate with the AP Office in running the DLT program - Support the AP Office in organizing Executives' visit to Chapters
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- Collaborate with Sister Societies in the AP region.
News
In the past several years, we were very successful in accommodating all the above mission items. A good
number of Distinguished Lecture Tours and pilot program of technical presentation using the IEEE Internet
Conferencing Service have been organized in the AP Region. In this year, we have provided 16
Distinguished Lecture Tours in the AP region and organized the 2019 Asia Pacific Regional Chapters Chair
Congress (AP-RCCC) in conjunction with ICC 2019 in Sanghai.
Conference Name Conference Date City Country Paper Deadline
IEEE CCNC 2020 Jan. 10-13, 2020 Las Vegas USA closed
OFC 2020 Mar. 8-12, 2020 San Diego, CA USA closed
IEEE ISPLC Mar. 31-Apr. 3,
2020 Malaga Spain Dec. 1, 2019
IEEE WCNC 2020 Apr. 6-9, 2020 Seoul South
Korea closed
IEEE INFOCOM 2020 Apr. 27-30, 2020 Beijing China closed
IEEE ICBC 2020 May 3-6, 2020 Toronto Canada Dec. 2, 2019
IEEE CTW 2020 May 17-20, 2020 Banff Canada Feb. 24, 2020
IEEE ICC 2020 June 7-11, 2020 Dublin Ireland closed
IEEE SECON 2020 June 22-25, 2020 Como Italy Jan. 12, 2020
IEEE CNS 2020 June 29-Jul. 1,
2020 Avignon France Jan. 18, 2020
IEEE NETSOFT June 29-Jul. 3,
2020 Ghent Belgium Dec. 2, 2019
IEEE/CIC ICCC 2020 Aug. 9-11, 2020 Chongqing China April 30, 2020
(draft)
IEEE PIMRC 2020 Aug. 31-Sept.3,
2020 London UK March 20, 2020
IEEE SmartGridComm 2020 Oct. 6-8, 2020 Tempe USA TBD
APCC 2020 Oct. 12-14, 2020 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia May 31, 2020
IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Dec. 7-11, 2020 Taipei City Taiwan April 15, 2020
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Asia-Pacific Region Officers (2018 – 2019)
Director:
Saewoong Bahk
Past Director:
Takaya Yamazato
Vice Directors:
Tomoaki Ohtsuki
Sumei Sun
Wei Zhang
Secretary and Treasurer:
Jemin Lee
AP Office:
Ewell Tan
Munir Mohamned
ComSoc Liaison:
Hsiao-Hwa Chen
Nei Kato
Borhanuddin Mohd Ali
Technical Affairs Committee:
Chairs: Sunghyun Choi
Hung-Yun Hsieh
Vice Chairs: Lingyang Song
Tony Q.S. Quek
Meetings & Conferences Committee:
Chairs: Meixia Tao
Vice Chairs: Chan-Byoung Chae
Information Services Committee:
Chairs: Y.-W. Peter Hong
Hiroshi Shigeno
Vice Chairs: Mianxiong Dong
Liqun Fu
Membership Development Committee:
Chairs: Byonghyo Shim
Neelesh Mehta
Vice Chairs: Hsuan-Jung Su
Chapters Coordination Committee:
Chairs: Youngchul Sung
Iti Saha Misra
Vice Chairs: Sheng Zhou
Koji Yamamoto
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)
Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University)
Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University)
Naohisa Ohta (Keio University)
Iwao Sasase (Keio University)
Desmond Taylor (University of Canterbury)
Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University)
Takaya Yaamazato (Nagoya University)
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