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Chair: Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University)

Vice Chair: Jianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University) Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore)

Asia Pacific Region AP Newsletter No. 47 June 2015

Official Newsletter of ComSoc Asia Pacific Board www.comsoc.org/~apb

Asia-Pacific Region Officers (2014 – 2015)

Membership Development Committee

Director

Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University)

AP Office

Secretary

Vice Director

Information Services Committee

Special Liaison for ComSoc Activities

Chapters Coordination Commitee

Past Director

Chair: Sumei Sun (I2R) Vice Chair: Wei Zhang (University of New South Wales)

Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University) Takaya Miyazawa (NICT) Youngchul Sung (KAIST)

Kwang Bok Lee (Seoul National University)

Technical Affair Committee

AP Advisors

Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University) Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University) Borhanuddin Mohd Ali (University Putra Malaysia)

Meeting & Conference Committee

Chair: Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University) Vice Chair: Jong-Moon Chung (Yonsei University)

Sasi Pilacheri Meethal (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)

Chair: Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University) Vice Chair: Lingyang Song (Peking University)

Shaodan Ma (University of Macau) Hsuan-Jung Su (National Taiwan University) Hsi-Pin Ma (National Tsing Hua 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) Naohisa Ohta (Keio University) Iwao Sasase (Keio University) Desmond Taylor (University of Canterbury) Tomonori Aoyama (Keio University) Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University) Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University)

Chair: Eiji Oki (University of Electro-Communications) Vice Chair: Liang Zhou (Nanjing University of Posts and

Telecommunications) Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-Sen University)

Fanny Su Ewell Tan

Nei Kato (Tohoku University)

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I. Hot Topics

1.1 Message from Vice Director, Prof. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali

It is well known that R10 has experienced tremendous growth of membership, surpassing many other regions’ membership. This is partly driven by the booming economy experienced by some of the big economies here based on communications technology development. This forms a synergetic relationship between industry development and learned societies like ComSoc, each strengthening the other.

Over these booming years, ComSoc has been giving values to members, whether indirectly through the HQ and regional support centers, or more directly through the chapters in the localities. To date there are more than 40 chapters in R10 alone serving various countries and economies.

Chapters are the entities that are closest to the members and this is where the members could benefit from the membership, so chapters should contrive to organize more activities that benefit the members. The bread and butter activities of a learned society such as meetings and conferences will no doubt continue to be held. Chapters should also look at the future generations to stimulate their interests in the field of communications and to nurture their career development. They should be identified earlier in their studies so that they can be guided to select their specialist areas of interest towards communications. Sponsoring students’ projects competitions at universities and chapter level could be one of the forms that can achieve this objective. This would encourage the students to take up communications technology as their career prospect and form the nucleus of future ComSoc generations.

But chapters should also be outward looking, in that it should also fulfill its social obligations beyond the society members. Activities like helping and providing relief to emergency situations such as tsunami, earthquake, storms or floods since natural disaster is a common fixture of our region. Help can be given in direct form such as becoming volunteers to help out in relief centers, or it could be in indirect form by giving out aids in cash or kinds. Above all, as a learned society, ComSoc members could come out with technology solutions that help to better manage disasters, whether preemptive or post disaster management. From these efforts people will appreciate the relevance of ComSoc at all levels of the society.

Lastly, it is with great pleasure to note that the Asia Pacific region will be hosting the BIG TWO ComSoc conferences in the coming two years. They are namely the ICC16 in Kuala Lumpur 23-27th May 2016, and Globecom17 in Singapore in 2017. I do hope that members from the AP region shall lend all their support to these two events by submitting papers to be presented in these conferences. This is only the first time that ICC has ventured into Southeast Asia, and second time that Globecom has gone to Singapore, after about 30 years’ absence. I hope that we will put up a good show and more AP cities will be given the honour to host ComSoc events in the future. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali Vice Director

Contents I. Hot Topics

1.1 Message from Vice Director, Prof. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali 1.2 IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award and Outstanding Paper Award 1.3 Hot Papers 1.4 Report from Distinguished Lecture Tours (DLTs) 1.5 Report on Activities for Students from Local Chapters

II. Update on Action Plan of APB 2014-2015

2.1 Technical Affair Committee 2.2 Membership Development Committee 2.3 Meeting and Conference Committee

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1.2 IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award and Outstanding Paper Award

1.2.1 Call for Application of the 10th IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board (APB) sponsors the “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. 2012 to Dec. 2014).

Eligibility

§ The upper age limit for the applicant is 35 (i.e., the applicant must be born on or after 1979/01/01) § Applicants must be members of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific region. § The “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” will be given to the best candidate

and the remaining 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 honorarium of US$500.

§ Each recipient of the “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award” will receive a certificate and honorarium of US$250.

Selection Process

IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board will constitute a selection committee to select the winner from the eligible applicants. The committee will then select outstanding young researcher(s) from the remaining applicants.

The application form must be sent to the IEEE ComSoc APB Technical Affairs Committee (TAC) before the deadline. An application form should include:

§ A cover page that contains the applicant's name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax number and e-mail address.

§ Applicant’s biography limited to 400 words. § Description of major research topics and activities over the last 3 years. Citation information is

suggested. (Max. 1 page, A4 size) § A list of publication and conference activities over the last 3 years (only). § Awards/recognitions received over the last 3 years (only).

Remark 1: The last 3 years refers to the duration between January 2012 and December 2014. Remark 2: Applications not adhering to the above guidelines will not be considered.

Important Dates

§ Application Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 § Announcement of Awardees: October 1, 2015 § Award Ceremony at Globecom 2015 December, 2015

Applications must be sent to the following address by e-mail. APB Technical Affairs Committee: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

Any queries should be directed to: APB Technical Affairs Committee: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

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List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Awards (2001-2014)

Year Best Young Researcher Outstanding Young Researcher

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 Tao 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

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1.2.2 Call for Nomination of the 4th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

IEEE Asia-Pacific Board (APB) sponsors "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. 2012 to Dec. 2014). 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 2012 to December 2014).

§ All authors' affiliations must be from the Asia-Pacific region at the time of publication. § The paper should be nominated by IEEE ComSoc members in the Asia-Pacific region. § No self-nomination is 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).

Selection Criteria

§ Quality, originality, utility, timeliness, and clarity of presentation.

Nomination and Selection Processes

IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board will constitute a selection committee to select the award recipient from the eligible nominees.

The nomination form must be sent to the IEEE ComSoc APB Technical Affairs Committee (TAC) before the deadline. A nomination form should include:

§ A cover page that contains the nominator's name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax and e-mail address.

§ Information of the nominated paper, including title, authors' names, affiliations, source (conference/publication details), publication date, and the authors’ contact information.

§ A copy of the nominated paper. § Letter of recommendation (up to 1 page (A4)). § (Option) Supportive information (citation index, number of citations, etc.)

Important Dates

§ Nomination Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 § Announcement of Awardees: October 1, 2015 § Award Ceremony at Globecom 2015 December, 2015

Applications must be sent to the following address by e-mail. APB Technical Affairs Committee: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

Any queries should be directed to: APB Technical Affairs Committee: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

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List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards (2012-2014)

Year Outstanding Paper Award

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 Hu Source: IEEE Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 1354-1367, Mar. 2011

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Review of 2014 IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards The authors of the 2014 IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Papers are invited to briefly introduce their papers and the impact of their results as below.

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

1. What is the major contribution of this paper? Describe how the research is significant and how it addresses an important problem. Since 2010, 3GPP launched the standardization progress of the first version of worldwide machine-to-machine (M2M) communications (also known as machine-type communications, MTC) as one of key technologies in 3GPP Release 11 and future evolutions. One of major requirements of MTC in 3GPP Releases lies in being compatible to LTE-Advanced networks. To target on this specific requirement, potential design challenges and deployment issues for MTC were not well studied. Such unclearness on the system operations obstructed the practice, deployment, and even the subsequent development of MTC. As long-term delegates participating in mobile network standardization meetings and experienced wireless system designers, our major contribution in this article lies in elaborating/summarizing the operation mechanisms in specifications of MTC (in terms of design philosophy, technical features, and implementation requirements), and identifying all design challenges and issues in the air interface of MTC (from physical transmissions, medium multiple access and scheduling, and radio resource control). Most importantly, the pioneering solution of the group based resource access (i.e., Access Grant Time Interval) for MTC devices are provided, which solves the most critical issue of massive accesses in MTC. Such design inspires fundamental operations of various following M2M specifications (such as M2M in ETSI and LTE-M). 2. Are there any new research or results relevant based on this paper? This article and our supportive papers [1][2] may be the first manuscripts comprehensively studying and addressing practical issues of M2M in 3GPP (LTE-Advanced). By solving the severe random access channel congestion in [1] and providing a performance guarantee radio resource management in [2] for an immense amount of MTC devices unclearness on the system operations and engineering concerns for the practice of MTC is eliminated, which thus opens a new frontier of research attracting more than 200 IEEE journal/conference papers. [1] S.-Y. Lien, T.-H. Liau, C.-Y. Kao and K.-C. Chen, “Cooperative Access Class Barring for Machine-to-Machine

Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 27-32, Jan. 2012. [2] S.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, S.-Y. Shih and K.-C. Chen, “Radio Resource Management for QoS Guarantees in

Cyber-Physical Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1752-1761, Sep. 2012.

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

1. What is the major contribution of this paper? Describe how the research is significant and how it addresses an important problem. Interference management in MIMO cognitive radio networks has been a challenging subject for years. On one hand, we cannot rely on primary users to do receiver-side interference cancellation to mitigate the interference from secondary transmitters, because the secondary system is supposed to be “invisible” to the

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primary system. Thus, transmitter-side interference cancellation is the only viable approach. On the other hand, most existing transmitter-side interference cancellation methods depend crucially on the knowledge of the channel matrix on the interfering link. The secondary users, however, do not always have the luxury of knowing the channel matrix to the primary users, as the primary system would not deliberately feedback their channel estimation to the secondary system. The award-winning paper proposes a unified and tractable framework to address the abovementioned issues. It is groundbreaking in two ways. Firstly, it constructed a unified homogeneous quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) formulation that applies to various scenarios with different levels of secondary user channel information and with either deterministic or probabilistic interference temperature constraints. Secondly, built on the recent advances in low-rank semi-definite programming, the paper developed efficient solution algorithms to compute the optimal transmitter-side beamforming vector in polynomial time. Such contribution is very timely, given the rapidly increasing number of mobile virtual network operators (MVOP) worldwide that rely crucially on cognitive radio technologies.

2. Are there any new research or results relevant based on this paper?

Since its publication, the work has inspired many follow-up studies on robust and chance-constrained optimization problems in wireless networks. One thread of the follow-up work extends the formulation approach to formulate deterministic equivalents of stochastic optimization problems that arise in, e.g., MIMO-OFDM, MIMO relay, sensor networks, etc.. In particular, many of the work leverages on the analysis of isotropic random distribution of MIMO beamforming vectors. The other thread of the follow-up work is inspired by the randomization algorithm that the authors proposed to solve complex-valued QCQP problems. This result is a generalization of Nemirovski’s randomization procedure for real-valued QCQP, and is particularly useful in wireless systems with complex-valued channel fading coefficients. Interested readers are referred to [1] for a survey of randomization algorithms of QCQP problems, and to [2] for a summary of recent research in cognitive radio systems. [1] Y. Huang and D. P. Palomar, “Randomized Algorithms for Optimal Solutions of Double-Sided QCQP With

Applications in Signal Processing,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 1093-1108, March. 2014.

[2] L. Lu, X. Zhou, U. Onunkwo, and Y. Li, “Ten years of research in spectrum sensing and sharing in cognitive radio,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2012.

Title: Delay and Capacity Tradeoff Analysis for MotionCast

Authors: Xinbing Wang, Wentao Huang, Shangxing Wang, Jinbei Zhang, Chenhui Hu Source: IEEE Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 1354-1367, Mar. 2011

1. What is the major contribution of this paper? Describe how the research is significant and how it addresses an important problem. This paper focuses on multicast in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETS) and studies the corresponding delay and capacity tradeoff. Specifically, the authors propose transmission schemes with and without redundancy, respectively, and derive capacity and delay in order sense. Multicast is a traffic pattern where one source sends data to multiple destinations. It is a fundamental service for supporting information communication and collaborative task completion among a group of users. Multicast analysis in MANETs is more challenging due to the drastic topology change caused by node mobility. Previous literature was either based on multicast in static networks or unicast in MANETs. This paper is therefore the first attemtp to study multicast capacity and delay in MANETs from a theoretical perspective. The result discloses the correlation between capacity and delay as well as the conditions under which performance gain can be achieved. 2. Are there any new research or results relevant based on this paper? Ever since, a lot of works have emerged based on this paper. Take two specific research works as examples. One is done by Wang et. al. [1], who studies converge-cast in mobile networks. Different from multicast

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where all destinations receive the same data, each of the sources in a convergecast may contribute different data, which will be gathered by the destination. Another work is done by Qin et. al. [2], who evaluation multicast gain under restricted mobility where different nodes are allowed to move with different speeds. The theoretical analysis of this model indicates that the mobility significantly decreases the multicast gain on per-node capacity and delay, though the per-node capacity of both unicast and multicast can be enhanced by mobility. This finding suggests that mobility weakens the distinction between multicast and unicast. [1] X. Wang, L. Fu, X. Tian, Y. Bei, Q. Peng, X. Gan, H. Yu, J. Liu, “Converge-Cast: On the Capacity and Delay

Tradeoffs,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 970-982, June 2012. [2] Y. Qin, X. Tian, W. Wu, X. Wang, “Mobility Weakens the Distinction between Multicast and Unicast,” to appear

in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2015.2407872

1.3 Hot Papers

Essential Science IndicatorsSM (ESI) identifies “hot papers” which date from the last two years and which have received an unusually high number of citations during the most recent two-month period. About 1,800 hot papers are selected (from 22 disciplines), representing the top 0.1% in the two-year period.

– Source: http://archive.sciencewatch.com/about/met/ Below are two ESI Hot Papers as of May 12, 2015. Only 64 papers are listed as ESI Hot Papers out of total 314,785 Web of Science documents in the field of Computer Science.

ESI Hot Title: Massive MIMO for Next Generation Wireless Systems Authors: E. G. Larsson, O. Edfors, F. Tufvesson, and T. L. Marzetta Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 186-195, February 2014.

ESI Hot Title: Energy and Spectral Efficiency of Very Large Multiuser MIMO Systems Authors: H. Q. Ngo, E. G. Larsson, and T. L. Marzetta Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 1436-1449, April 2013. (The following invited article is contributed by Prof. Erik G. Larsson, Linköping University, Sweden)

Massive MIMO

Massive MIMO is a leading 5G technology candidate, that aims at delivering uniformly good service to wireless terminals in high-mobility environments. The key concept is to equip base stations with large arrays of antennas that serve many terminals simultaneously in the same time-frequency resource. Massive MIMO arrays have attractive form factors, for example, at the 2 GHz band, a λ/2-spaced rectangular array with 200 dual-polarized elements would be about 1.5 x 0.75 meters large. Massive MIMO operates in TDD mode and the downlink beamforming exploits the reciprocity of radio propagation, and specifically the base station array uses channel estimates obtained from uplink pilots transmitted by the terminals. This makes Massive MIMO entirely scalable with respect to the number of base station antennas. Base stations in Massive MIMO operate autonomously, with no sharing of payload data or channel state information. Compared to conventional technology, Massive MIMO offers orders-of-magnitude increases in 95%-likely throughput in high-mobility cellular environments, and simultaneously large improvements in radiated energy-efficiency. Some entry-points to the literature on Massive MIMO:

• T. L. Marzetta, “Noncooperative Cellular Wireless with Unlimited Numbers of Base Station Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 3590-3600, November 2010.

• E. G. Larsson, F. Tufvesson, O. Edfors, and T. L. Marzetta, “Massive MIMO for Next Generation Wireless Systems,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 186-195, February 2014.

• J. G. Andrews, S. Buzzi, W. Choi, S. Hanly, A. Lozano, A. C. K. Soong, and J. C. Zhang, “What Will 5G Be?” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1065-1072, June 2014.

• E. Björnson, E. G. Larsson and T. Marzetta, “Massive MIMO: 10 Myths and One Grand Question,” http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06854

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See also the references in these papers, and the webpage for more extensive literature lists. http://www.comsoc.org/best-readings/topics/massive-mimo#overview http://massivemimo.eu

1.4 Report from Distinguished Lecture Tours (DLTs)

Reported by IEEE Asia-Pacific Limited (as of 5 May 2015): We have a total of 7 DLTs and 2 Distinguished Speaker Programs (DSP) approved by IEEE ComSoc for Asia-Pacific as of May this year, and another 2 DLTs are currently in planning stages. The 7 approved DLTs are listed in this report. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015 AP DLT #1: Schedule Plan 14 – 27 October 2015 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ray Hosting Section / Chapter 2015 Section / Chapter Chair Singapore Section A. Alphones Bangalore ComSoc Chapter Srinivas Talabattula Hyderabad ComSoc Chapter Narasimhan Venkatesh Pune ComSoc Chapter Vivek Shankar Deshpande Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ray will be delivering technical talks on “Assistive Technologies for Aged Care” and “Towards Ubiquitous Healthcare in the World: eHealth Perspective” at the following locations:

1. Singapore – 15 October 2015

2. Bangalore – 17 October 2015

3. Hyderabad – 19 October 2015 Lecture Venue One: Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Lecture Venue Two: Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad

4. Pune – 26 October 2015

************************************************************************************************ 2015 AP DLT #2: Schedule Plan 14 – 23 May 2015 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Nei Kato Hosting Chapter 2015 Chapter Chair Xian ComSoc Chapter Jiandong Li Beijing ComSoc Chapter Xiaofeng Tao Harbin ComSoc Chapter Weixiao Meng Prof. Nei Kato will conduct a lecture series on “Device-to-Device (D2D): Research Trend and Future Perspective” at the following lecture venues:

1. Xian – 15 May 2015 Lecture Venue: Xidian University

2. Beijing – 18 May 2015

Lecture Venue One: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) Lecture Venue Two: Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)

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3. Harbin – 21 May 2015 Lecture Venue: Harbin Institute of Technology

************************************************************************************************ 2015 AP DLT #3: Schedule Plan 23 July – 1 August 2015 Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Lingyang Song Hosting Chapter 2015 Chapter Chair Kansai ComSoc Chapter Minoru Okada Sendai ComSoc Chapter Nei Kato Tokyo ComSoc Chapter Shinichi Nomoto Dr. Lingyang Song will present the topic of “Full-duplex Communications and Networks” and “Device-to-Device Communications” at the following locations:

1. Kansai – 24 July 2015

2. Sendai – 27 July 2015

3. Tokyo – 29 July 2015

4. Muroran – 31 July 2015

************************************************************************************************ 2015 AP DLT #4: Schedule Plan 15 – 20 December 2015 Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Rath Vannithamby Hosting Section / Chapter 2015 Section /

Chapter Chair Sri Lanka Section Ruwan Ranaweera Sri Lanka ComSoc Chapter Dileeka Dias Dr. Rath Vannithamby will present the topic of “5G Evolution and Candidate Technologies” at the following locations:

1. Galle – 17 December 2015

2. Peradeniya – 18 December 2015

3. Moratuwa – 19 December 2015 ************************************************************************************************ 2015 AP DLT #5: Schedule Plan 2 – 12 May 2015 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tom Hou Hosting Chapter 2015 Chapter Chair Seoul ComSoc Chapter Sunghyun Choi Beijing ComSoc Chapter Xiaofeng Tao Nanjing ComSoc Chapter Lianfeng Shen Prof. Tom Hou will deliver a technical talk on “Advances in Wireless Networking for Cyber Physical Systems”

1. Seoul – 4 May 2015 Lecture Venue: Seoul National University

2. Beijing – 6 May 2015

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Lecture Venue: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

3. Nanjing – 11 May 2015 Lecture Venue: Southeast University

************************************************************************************************ 2015 AP DLT #6: Schedule Plan 10 – 19 May 2015 Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Tarik Taleb Hosting Organizer Contact Person Doshisha University Jun Cheng KDDI Labs Kazunori Takeuchi Future University of Hakodate Xiaohong Jiang Dr. Tarik Taleb will be presenting a technical talk on “Towards 5G: Carrier-Grade Programmable Virtual Mobile Networks” at the following locations:

1. Doshisha University – 11 May 2015

2. KDDI Labs – 14 May 2015

3. Future University of Hakodate – 15 May 2015 ************************************************************************************************ 2015 AP DLT #7: Schedule Plan 21 June – 7 July 2015 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ray Hosting Chapter 2015 Chapter Chair Beijing ComSoc Chapter Xiaofeng Tao Xian ComSoc Jiandong Li Harbin ComSoc Weixiao Meng Shanghai ComSoc Xinwan Li Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ray will be conducting a technical talk on “Assistive Technologies for Aged Care” at the following lecture venues:

1. Beijing – 22 June 2015

2. Xian – 24 June 2015

3. Harbin – 2 July 2015

4. Shanghai – 6 July 2015

************************************************************************************************ Summary: The 7 approved DLTs for Asia Pacific reported in this AP Newsletter are mostly scheduled around Q3 and Q4 in 2015. These approved DLTs cover areas in India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Korea and Singapore. Another 2 approved Distinguished Speaker Programs (DSP) are conducted by Prof. Tom Hou in Singapore on 15 April 2015 and Prof. Sonia Aissa in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 18 May 2015. Some of the popular technical topics that relate to wireless communications systems, for instance “Device-to-Device (D2D) communication” are very much of interest to the audience in Asia Pacific region, as this would be the innovative feature of next-generation cellular networks. Another up and coming topic of interest is “Assistive Technology” especially in countries that face an aging population. We hope that the distinguished lecturers and their host organizers of these 7 DLTs have a successful and fruitful lecture series. We look forward to sharing their experiences in the next issue of AP Newsletter.

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Written by Ewell Tan IEEE Asia-Pacific Limited ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1.5 Report on Activities for Students from Local Chapters

The AP Newsletter solicits articles on activities organized by local chapters with students as the target participants, including reports on student competition, research seminar, summer workshop / project, and student training course. The following report is an update of student activities held by local chapters from January to April 2015. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A one-day workshop on 5G was organized by the IEEE Communications Society Xi’an Chapter at the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Networks, Xidian University on March 28, 2015. Mr. REN Zhiyuan, Associate Professor, School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University conducted the workshop. The workshop started with a brief introduction by Prof. GAO Xinbo on the computer and information technology progress in Xidian University. Topics including the key technologies for 5G mobile communications, LTE-A Networks, Next Generation Cellular Networks, and Smart Metering Utility Networks were discussed briefly. The workshop was initiated by scholars from Taiwan and mainland of China. Over 70 students from various Engineering Colleges attended the workshop. ************************************************************************************************ The tradition of organizing the three days International Multi Topic Conference, which was first held in 2008, was continued in 2015 too under the guidance of the chief organizer Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chowdary at one of the finest universities of Pakistan – Mehran University of Engineering and Technology. The IMTIC’15 held from 11th – 13th of Feb, with the support of various organizations such as HEC Islamabad, IEEE, European Union ERASMUS MUNDUS, CTIF and other prestigious universities around the globe. IMTIC’15 brought together a wide spectrum of international experts to facilitate a creative environment for the promotion of collaboration and knowledge transfer. From 2008 to 2015, through seven successful years this internationally renowned conference has triumphantly brought together around 2000 above attendees, more than 200 authors from 52 countries around the earth, over 80 technical sessions and beyond 60 keynote speakers from some of the most technologically enlightened countries of the world such as USA, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Malaysia, Japan, Italy, Qatar, UAE, KSA, France, Korea and Sweden. As per past practice Springer Verlag Germany has also honored this multi topic conference by having its proceedings published in its indexed CCIS series. The Day 1 “The opening ceremony” started with the welcome address of the chief organizer who spoke of the milestones achieved by the conference through 8 year history of breakthroughs that also included over 20 PhD Symposiums, 80 poster sessions and more than 16 tutorials based on emerging topics related to the advancements of today’s world. His address was followed by the VC of MUET, Dr. MA Uquili, to introduce the concept: “MY UNIVERSITY” in Mehran. After a few more addresses by various dignities took place the ribbon cutting ceremony and the conference sessions begun. The next day, was inaugurated the poster competition that showcased some excellent innovative ideas proposed by the students in different technological zones, whereas side by side the conference sessions that also included the Skype sessions were carried out. In each session were discussed numerous researches in different aspects related to the modern

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world evolution. With a cherry at the top, the last day of IMTIC’15 was worth appreciating as it ended up the three-day event with cultural colors of Pakistan, a cultural walk representing the amazing traditions of the country. II. Update on Action Plan of APB 2014-2015

2.1 Technical Affair Committee (TAC)

The TAC focuses on coordinating all technical related activities in the AP region, which includes fostering award activities in the AP region, suggesting technical sessions, reviewers, and organizers from the AP region for ComSoc workshops and conferences, proposing distinguished lecturers and transactions editors from the AP region. In recent years, the TAC has hosted two AP regional awards, namely, the Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award and the Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award. The winners of the awards in 2014 have been announced at GLOBECOM 2014. In this newsletter, we announce the call for application of the 2015 Young Researcher Award and the call for nomination of the 2015 Outstanding Paper Award. Details are given in the respective call for application and nomination. In 2015, we will continue to devote our efforts in the following action items: l Promote the winners of the 2014 APB Young Research and Outstanding Paper Awards. l Announce the call for application of the 2015 APB Young Researcher Award. l Announce the call for nomination of the 2015 APB Outstanding Paper Award. l Form committees to select the 2015 APB award winners.

2.2 Membership Development Committee (MDC)

The following shows ComSoc member statistics (as of Dec. 2014) in IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific Region): l 13,178 ComSoc members in total (See Table I)

n Represent 27.4% out of 48,120 ComSoc members

n 11,168 higher grade members

u Graduate students are included in higher grade members, who have the voting right.

n 2,010 student members (1,485 or 74% are from India)

l 41 chapters/councils in total (See Table II)

n 603 members (corresponding to 5%, from Korea, China, and Pakistan) are not part of any chapter/council (See Table III)

l 11 sister societies from 9 countries (See Table IV)

Proposal: l Desired to set up new chapters/councils in Korea, China, and Pakistan

l Need to find out why there are extraordinarily many student members in India, and then learn from India

l Desired to have more Indian colleagues involved with APB activities

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Table I. Number of ComSoc Members by Country/Region in IEEE Region 10

Country/Region Higher Grade Member

Student Member Total # of Chapters % 1 India 2,919 1,485 4,404 10 33% 2 China 2,083 89 2,172 7 16% 3 Japan 1,670 22 1,692 3 13% 4 Australia 1,301 51 1,352 7 10% 5 Korea 670 14 684 1 5% 6 Taiwan 628 41 669 2 5% 7 Malaysia 500 56 556 1 4% 8 Singapore 419 9 428 1 3% 9 Pakistan 224 109 333 2 3%

10 Indonesia 176 19 195 1 1% 11 New Zealand 162 12 174 1 1% 12 Bangladesh 94 50 144 1 1% 13 Sri Lanka 96 36 132 1 1% 14 Thailand 92 2 94 1 1% 15 Philippines 60 13 73 1 1% 16 Vietnam 36 2 38 1 0% 17 Others 38 - 38 - 0%

Total 11,168 2,010 13,178 41 100%

Table II. List of ComSoc Chapters in IEEE Region 10

Chapter/Council Area Country/Region Higher Grade Membership

Student Membership Total

1 Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory Australia 100 - 100

2 Bangalore Bangalore India 551 163 714 3 Bangladesh Bangladesh Bangladesh 94 50 144 4 Beijing Beijing China 834 40 874 5 Bombay Bombay India 294 143 437 6 Delhi Delhi India 341 199 540 7 Gujarat Gujarat India 113 61 174 8 Harbin Harbin China 53 - 53 9 Hong Kong Hong Kong China 410 9 419

10 Hyderabad Hyderabad India 339 227 566

11 India Council Kharagpur India 48 1 49 Uttar Pradesh India 223 57 280

12 Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia 176 19 195

13 Japan Council

Fukuoka Japan 72 2 74 Hiroshima Japan 41 1 42 Nagoya Japan 108 6 114 Sapporo Japan 21 - 21 Shikoku Japan 27 - 27 Shin-Etsu Japan 16 - 16 Tokyo Japan 1,053 11 1,064

14 Kansai Kansai Japan 233 2 235

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15 Karachi Karachi Pakistan 68 57 125 16 Kerala Kerala India 184 223 407 17 Kolkata Kolkata India 306 46 352 18 Lahore Lahore Pakistan 56 30 86 19 Macau Macau China 18 - 18 20 Madras Madras India 428 344 772 21 Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia 500 56 556

22 Nanjing Nanjing China 311 21 332

23 New South Wales New South Wales Australia 440 17 457

24 New Zealand North, South and Central

New Zealand Central

New Zealand 56 - 56 New Zealand North New Zealand 73 6 79 New Zealand South New Zealand 33 6 39

25 Northern Australia Northern Australia Australia 26 3 29 26 Pune Pune India 92 21 113 27 Queensland Queensland Australia 164 5 169

28 Republic of Philippines

Republic of Philippines

Republic of Philippines 60 13 73

29 Sendai Sendai Japan 99 - 99 30 Seoul Seoul Korea 425 8 433 31 Shanghai Shanghai China 169 3 172 32 Singapore Singapore Singapore 419 9 428 33 South Australia South Australia Australia 84 5 89 34 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 96 36 132 35 Tainan Tainan Taiwan 125 10 135 36 Taipei Taipei Taiwan 503 31 534 37 Thailand Thailand Thailand 92 2 94 38 Victorian Victorian Australia 374 13 387 39 Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam 36 2 38 40 Western Australia Western Australia Australia 113 8 121 41 Xian Xian China 108 4 112

Total 10,605 1,970 12,575 Table III. List of Areas WITHOUT ComSoc Chapters in IEEE Region 10 Area Country/Region Higher Grade

Membership Student Membership Total Total per Country

Chengdu China 113 11 124 192

Wuhan China 67 1 68 Changwon Korea 31 2 33

251 Daejeon Korea 151 4 155 Kwangju Korea 25 0 25 Taegu Korea 38 0 38 Islamabad Pakistan 100 22 122 122 Others 38 0 38 38 Total 563 40 603 603 Table IV. List of Sister Societies in IEEE Region 10 Country/Region Sister Society URL 1 Australia Australian Computer Society (ACS) https://www.acs.org.au 2 China China Institute of Communications (CIC) - 3 China The Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) http://www.cie-china.org

4 India The Institute of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers (IETE) http://www.iete.org/

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5 India Communications Multimedia Applications Infrastructure (CMAI) http://www.cmai.asia

6 Japan The Institute of Electronics, Information & Communication Engineers (IEICE-CS) http://www.ieice.org/cs

7 Malaysia The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) http://www.myiem.org.my 8 Singapore Singapore Computer Society (SCS) https://www.scs.org.sg

9 Korea The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS) http://www.kics.or.kr

10 Taiwan Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE) http://www.ciee.org.tw

11 Vietnam The Radio & Electronics Association of Vietnam (REV) -

References: [1] IEEE Annual Statistics Report.

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/statistics/index.html [2] AP ComSoc Membership Statistics and Graphs.

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/ieee/apo/ComSoc/Comsoc_StatsandGraphs.html [3] ComSoc Sisiter Societies. http://www.comsoc.org/about/SisterSocieties/agreements

2.3 Meeting and Conference Committee (MCC)

Upcoming conferences

Conference Name Conference Date City Country/Region Paper Submission Deadline

IEEE PIMRC 2015 Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2015 Hong Kong China Apr. 15, 2015

IEEE DySPAN 2015 Sept. 29-Oct 2, 2015 Stockholm Sweden May 3, 2015

APCC 2015 Oct. 14-16, 2015 Kyoto Japan Apr. 20, 2015

WCSP 2015 Oct. 15-17, 2015 Nanjing China Jun. 15, 2015

IEEE SmartGridComm 2015 Nov. 2-5, 2015 Miami USA Apr. 19, 2015

IEEE/CIC ICCC 2015 Nov. 2-4, 2015 Shenzhen China Jun. 1, 2015

IEEE GLOBEOM 2015 Dec. 6-10, 2015 San Diego USA Apr. 15, 2015

IEEE WCNC 2016 Apr. 3-6, 2016 Doha Qatar Sept. 15, 2015

IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Apr. 10-15, 2016 San Francisco USA Jan. 15, 2016

IEEE ICC 2016 May 23-27, 2016 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia TBD