Technical Committee on Transmission, Access, and Optical...

Technical Committee on Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS)

Authors: Athanassios Manikas, Fabrizio Granelli and Steve Hranilovic

Date/Time: Tuesday December 11, 2018 (12:00-13:15)

Meeting Location: Globecom 2018 – Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center (ADNEC),

Capital Suite 8., Abu Dhabi, UAE

Officers: Athanassios Manikas, Chair, [email protected]

Fabrizio Granelli, Vice-Chair, [email protected]

Steve Hranilovic, Secretary, [email protected]

Meeting was called to order at 12:15 (15min late due to issues related to telcon setup)

Participants (18)

• Mauro Biagi, U. Roma, Italy

• Fabrizio Granelli, U. Trento, Italy

• Walter Ceroni, U. Bologna, Italy (telcon)

• Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK

• Steve Hranilovic, McMaster U., Canada

• Athanassios Manikas, Imperial College London, UK

• Subha Sharmo, NTU Singapore, Singapore

• Paschalis Tsiaflakis, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium

• Fang Yang, Tsinghua University, China

• Diana Dawoud, University of Surrey, UK

• Stefano Bregni, Politecnico Milano, Italy

• Taisir Elgorashi, U. Leeds, UK

• Mohan Gurusamy, Nat. U. Singapore, Singapore

• Mamoun Guenach, Ghent U., Beligium (telcon)

• Abdelmoula Bekkali, Waseda U., Japan (telcon)

• Ankush Vashistha, Nanyang Tech. Univeristy, Singapore

• Harsha Chenji, Ohio U., USA

• Vincent Chan, MIT, USA

1. Introduction The Chair, Athanassios Manikas, welcomed all participants and outlined the agenda. First, the attendees

were self-introduced. Then, the attached slides were presented by the Chair and discussed item-by-

item.

2. Approval of IEEE ICC 2018 Minutes

A motion was made by Steve Hranilovic to approve the minutes, the draft of which is posted on TAOS

website (www.comsoc.org/~taos). The motion was seconded by Fabrizio Granelli and the minutes were

approved unanimously without further remarks.

3. Elections The term of the officers of TAOS ended on December 31, 2018 and thus elections were necessary. As is

the convention, Chair and Vice-Chair positions are filled by promoting Vice-Chair and Secretary

respectively. The position of TAOS Secretary was open for candidacy and voting at this meeting.

The Chair explained in detail the candidacy and voting process to all in attendance. Stefano Bregni was

also in attendance (as non-voting member) representing the ComSoc Board of Governors.

After discussions from the TAOS steering committee, Walter Cerroni was nominated to fill the role of

Secretary for the period Jan. 1, 2019-Dec.31, 2020. Current Vice-Chair Fabrizio Granelli gave a brief

overview of Dr. Cerroni’s background highlighting his service to TAOS and the IEEE in general.

Dr. Cerroni left the meeting (he was attending via telcon). The Chair reviewed the list of TAOS members

that were eligible to vote. Following a review of voting procedure, a vote was called and Walter Cerroni

was unanimously elected to the position of Secretary of TAOS for the above period.

4. Newsletters and Sponsorships Athanassios informed the attendees about a number of developments and in particular:

• Tenth issue of TAOS’ Newsletter was scheduled for release in 2019 (and would appear on the

TAOS website).

• A new editor was solicited to replace Jochen Maes from Nokia who wished to step down

o Mauro Biagi volunteered to serve as TAOS Newsletter Editor

• TAOS continues to sponsor the GC/ICC SAC Track:

o Access Networks and Systems (ANS) SAC Track

• TAOS continues to sponsor two symposia in GC/ICC:

o Optical Networks and Systems Symposium (ONS)

o Green Communication Systems and Networks (GCSN) Symposium

5. Conference updates

Main GC/ICC submission trends have not significantly changed. Total number of submissions for

Globecom 2018 (2562) is inline with recent Kansas City ICC 2018 (2431) and Singapore Globecom 2017

(2630). Acceptance rates for the conferences are also relatively stable over the longer term. For

Globecom 2018, the ANS SAC Track had a recovery to historical levels of submissions following a

significant drop in submissions in ICC 2018. Discussion centered on concern for these low numbers and

strategies to improve them going forward.

There is also an overall concern regarding the steadily dropping ONS submission numbers continues to

have lower submission numbers (84 for GC 2017, 71 for ICC 2018, 66 for Globecom 2018). The number

of papers to GCSN is relatively stable (114 for GC 2017, 108 for ICC 2018, 113 for GC18).

• IEEE ICC 2018:

o Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia), Sonia Aissa (Universite du Quebec,

Canada) and Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace) served as TPC Chairs

o Received about 2562 submissions. This is on par with ICC 2018 (around 2431) and

Globecom 2017 (at 2630)

o SAC Symposium: ANS Track, chaired by Mauro Biagi (University of Rome, Italy) (TAOS):

Received 30 submissions and accepted 12 papers (~40%). This is a small number of

papers but represents a return to historial levels after a significant drop at ICC 2018.

The track Chair Mauro made a report of the SAC track emphasizing the following points:

§ Removed PLC from the track for this time. Need more coordination to avoid

overlap with other tracks

§ Ongoing concern regarding number of submissions is low.

§ Scope extended to include wireless access as well.

§ Fabrizzio believe number of submission (12) for ICC 2019 is inaccurate

o Optical Networks and Systems Symposium: co-chaired by Xavi Masip-Bruin (U. Poli.

Catalunya) and Hakki Cankaya (Fijitsu, USA) (TAOS):

§ Received 66 papers: 18 papers on systems and 7 papers on networks.

§ This number of submissions represents a significant downturn over ONS ICC

2018 (71 submissions), ONS GC 2017 (84 submissions) and ONS ICC 2017 (which

had 100 submissions). Also breakdown seems to be moving more towards

systems papers. A hopeful trend is that submissions to the ONS for ICC 2019 are

projected to increase to 80.

§ Acceptance rate of ~38% is typical of earlier years.

§ Discussion followed.

• Fabrizio – It is clear that not always do we have TAOS representative at

chair. Makes it difficult to bring papers in if not from the community.

• Mauro – Make note of topical division in ONS along wireless and wired

optical lines. Perhaps this is an avenue for future growth?

o Green Communications Systems and Networks Symposium: co-chaired by Shahid

Mumtaz (Inst. Telecom. Aveiro, Portugal), Emad Alsusa (Manchester U., UK) and Taisir

El-Gorashi (U. Leeds, UK) (TAOS):

§ Received 113 submissions: ~34% in systems, ~66% in networks. There is

essentially the same as previous years.

§ Acceptance rate is 40% which is in line with conference guidelines

§ Discussion followed:

• Numbers are stable here and seem to have plateaued over the past

offerings.

• Jafaar – Makes mention that the interest in “Green” area is growing and

many “Green” papers that are not submitted to this symposium but

appear in other symposia.

• Suggestions for better marketing and selecting better keywords. Should

be done in TCs and not by Chairs. To ensure consistency and not just

reuse past year words.

• Perhaps ask for hot-topics which should be added CfP

o Workshops and Tutorials at GC 2017

§ There was a total of 692 submitted workshop papers with 317 accepted. This

yielded an acceptance ratio to 45%

• This was noted to be a bit high, but all workshops had less than 50%

acceptance rate.

§ Workshop Chairs: Jaafar Elmirghani (U. Leeds, UK), Kumudu Mumasinghe (U.

Canberra)

§ Discussion and report from Jaafar re: workshops:

• Jaafar overviewed the approval process outlined for Workshp proposals.

• Selection of topics difficult. Topics too close – especially in 5G area

• Some were run as invited talks (not on Xplore). Then rest is poster

session that are in proceedings.

§ Tutorial Chairs: Robert Schober, Vincent Wong.

6. Other Activities/Updates

• ICC 2019 to host the 5th ICC Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications

o Co-Chairs: Mauro Biagi (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy) (TAOS), Zabih Ghassemlooy

(Northumbria Univ., Newcastle, UK), Anna Maria Vegni, (Univ. of RomaTre, Italy)

• Discussions:

o Vincent Chan made suggestions for optical wireless workshop - Integration of Optial

wireless and wired networks for access, crosslink between satellites.

o Mauro - suggests this might be a trouble given timing of LiFi congress is at roughly some

time

o Number of submissions vary betwen 40 and 50 papers. Acceptance ranges 38%-42%

• Editorships of TAOS Members

o Action item to all members to email secretary (Steve Hranilovic) all editorial activities for

the last year.

o Mauro Biagi, Guest Editor of special issue on Optical Wireless Communications (MDPI)

o Athanassios Manikas, MDPI Ed. Board on Intelligent Sensors

• Distinguished Lecturers

o Tarek El-Bawab (2016-7 & 2018-9) – reports that activities are anticipated in the second

half of year

• TAOS Recertification

o TAOS submitted reports for May 2017 recertification.

o No Feedback has been received from the TC’s Recertification Committee.

• Upcoming conferences:

• Athanassios mentioned that Chairs for GC 2019 not yet announced and that ICC 2020 also

not yet announced. He reviewed the nomination process where every TC sends a ranked list

of candidates. He then reviewed the status of symposium Chair approvals:

• ICC 2019 (Shanghai)

o Vidhya Sridhar chair for SAC ANS - approved

o Daniel So as co-chair for GCSN - approved

o No TAOS representative - Rule in GITC - each TC can support 2 chairs and must order

their preference.

• GC 2019 (Hawaii)

o Maode Ma chair for SAC ANS – pending approval

o Kyng Sup Kwak as co-chair for GCSN

o Mohan Gurusamy as co-chair for ONS

• ICC 2020 (Dublin)

o Fabrizio Granelli as Chair for SAC-ANS – pending approval

o Taisir E. H. Elgorashi as co-Chair for GCSN: – pending approval

o Steve Hranilovic as co-Chair for ONS – pending approval

• GC 2020 (Taipei)

o Mamoun Guenach as Chair for SAC-ANS – pending approval

o Daniel So as co-Chair GCSN – pending approval

o Abdelmoula Bekkali as co-Chair ONS – pending approval

• Other TAOS Sponsored Conferences

o TAOS endorsed the following events: NETWORKS 2018, Med-Hoc-Net 2018, ICNC 2019,

NOF 2018.

• FOAN 2010 – TAOS reps. Jaafar Elmirghani, Athanassios Manikas, Steve Hranilovic

• WD 2019 – TAOS reps. Vidhya Sridhar, Taisir Elgorashi, Daniel So

7. Awards

• The TAOS Best Paper Awards in the GC 2018 for ANS Track was not awarded.

• TAOS Best Paper Award in the GC 2017 GCSN Symposium

o "Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in NOMA Heterogeneous Networks with Energy

Harvesting,” by H. Zhang, M. Fend, K. Long, G.K. Karagiannidis, V.C.M. Leung.

• TAOS Best Paper Award in the GC 2017 ONS Symposium

o " Impact of Receiver FOV and Orientation on Dense Optical Networks,” I. Abdalla, M.

Rahaim, T.D.C. Little

7 Other Business Arising • Attendees thanked Athanassios for his service at Chair.

The meeting was adjourned at around 13:20.

Attachments: 1. Meeting Slides

IEEE Communications SocietyTransmission, Access and Optical Systems (TAOS)

Technical Committee

GL 2018 TC Meeting,12:00-13:15, Tue 11th Dec 2018

Capital Suite 8,Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center (ADNEC)

Athanassios Manikas (Thanassis)

Chair, TAOS

A. Manikas (Chair, TAOS) TAOS (Abu Dhabi) 1 / 28

TAOS Agenda

1 Introductions

2 Approval of the ICC 2018 TAOS Meeting Minutes (Kansas City)

3 Elections

4 Newsletters and Sponsorships

5 Conferences: Statistics and Other Information

6 Other Activities/Updates

7 TAOS Best Paper Awards

8 Any Other Business


1. Introduction

Welcome

Introductions


2. Approval of the ICC 2018 meeting minutes

The ICC 2018 minutes (Kansas City) have been provided in advancedof this meeting and can be found in the following web link:http://taos.committees.comsoc.org/files/2018/12/minutes_of_

meetingICC18slides.pdf

status: pending approval

Actions: to approve the ICC 2018 minutesI any corrections in the minutes?I motion that we approve the minutes?I seconder?I Vote:I Decision


http://taos.committees.comsoc.org/files/2018/12/minutes_of_meetingICC18slides.pdf

http://taos.committees.comsoc.org/files/2018/12/minutes_of_meetingICC18slides.pdf

3. Elections

Walter Cerroni’ Brief CV

A¢liation: MSc (1999), PhD (2003)Assistant Professor of Communication Networks (University ofBologna, Cesena Campus, Italy)

TAOSI webmaster (since 2013)I representative for Comsoc Student Competion (2014-16)


Walter’s Selected Editorial Activities

Secretary for the IEEE P1916.1 Working Group on Standard forSoftware Defined Networking and Network Function VirtualizationPerformance;

Series Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, Series onTelecom Software, Network Virtualization, and Software DefinedNetworks;

Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters;

Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine;

Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the IEEE CommunicationsStandards


Walter’s Selected OC activities:

Publication Co-Chair for the 5th IEEE Conference on NetworkSoftwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2019)

Tutorial Co-Chair for IEEE NFV-SDN 2018

Publicity Co-Chair for IEEE CNSM 2018

Tutorial Co-Chair for the 3rd Conference on Cloudification of theInternet of Things (CIoT ’18)


TAOS Voting (Active) Members - GC18

http://taos.committees.comsoc.org/about/taos-voting-members/


http://taos.committees.comsoc.org/about/taos-voting-members/

4. Newsletters and Sponsorships

Newsletter :I The 10th Issue of TAOS newsletter will be published in 2019I New Editor (to replace Jochen Maes, Nokia): ?????

Sponsorships Globecom and ICCI Access Networks and Systems (ANS) track in SACI Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) SymposiumI Green Communication Systems and Networks (GCSN) Symposium


5.Conferences: Statistics and Other Information5.1 GL-18 (Abu Dhabi): Comparison with Previous Conferences

TPC Chairs (GL 2018):I Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney)I Sonia Aïssa (Université du Québec) andI Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace)


5.2. SAC-1 ANS: Comparison with Previous Tracks

SAC—1 ANS Track Chair (GL 2018):I Chair for SAC-ANS: Mauro Biagi (University of Rome) - TAOS


5.3. ONS: Comparison with Previous Symposia

ONS Symposium Chairs (GL 18)I Xavi Masip-Bruin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)I Hakki Cankaya (Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. USA) - TAOS


5.4 GCSN: Comparison with Previous Symposia

GCSN Symposium Chair (GL 18)I Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal)I Emad Alsusa (Manchester University)I Taisir El-Gorashi (University of Leeds) - TAOS


5.5. Statistics - Workshops and Tutorials

Subm Acc %GL 18 Workshops Number of Workshops 43 23 53

Total Workshop papers 692 317 45GL 18 Tutorials Number of Tutorials 56 24 43

Workshop Chairs:I Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds) - TAOSI Kumudu Munasinghe (University of Canberra)

Tutorial ChairI Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander Universität)I Vincent Wong (University of British Columbia)


6. Other Activities/Updates

ICC 19 will host the 5th workshop on Optical Wireless Comms.I Co-Chairs :

F Mauro Biagi , Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy (TAOS)F Zabih Ghassemlooy, Northumbria Univ., Newcastle, UKF Anna Maria Vegni, Univ. of RomaTre, Italy

I Submissions are currently active until January 2019


6. Other Activities/Updates (cont.)

New EditorshipsI Maurio Biagi, Guest editor of a special issue on Optical WirelessCommunications (MDPI).

I Athanassios Manikas, MDPI Editorial Board on Intelligent Sensors

Distinguished LecturersI Tarek El-Bawab (2016-2017, 2nd term: 2018-2019)

TAOS RecertificationI TAOS has submitted a report in May 2017 for "recertification"I No Feedback has been received from the TC’s RecertificationCommittee.


6. Other Activities/Updates (cont.)6.1. Conferences: TAOS Nominations - Future ICC and GlobeCom

ICC 2019 (Shanghai) - Chairs:I SAC-ANS: Vidhya Sridhar (The Technology Partnership, UK) - approvedI GCSN: Daniel So (University of Manchester, UK)- approvedI ONS: —

Globecom 2019 (Hawaii) - Chairs:I SAC-ANS: Maode Ma (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) - ???I GCSN: Kyng Sup Kwak (Inha University, Korea)I ONS: Mohan Gurusamy (National University of Singapore)

ICC 2020 (Dublin) - ChairsI SAC-ANS: Fabrizio Granelli (Univ. Trento, Italy) - pending approvalI GCSN: Taisir Elgorashi (University of Leeds, UK) - pending approvalI ONS: Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada) - pending approval


GL 2020 (Taipei) - Chairs:I SAC-ANS: Mamoun Guenach (Bell Labs, Nokia, Belgium) - pendingapproval

I GCSN: Daniel So (University of Manchester) - pending approvalI ONS: Abdelmoula Bekkali (KDDI Research, Inc. and Waseda University, JP) -pending approval

ICC 2021 (Montreal) - Chairs:I SAC-ANS:I GCSN:I ONS:

GL 2021 (?) - Chairs:I SAC-ANS:I GCSN:I ONS:


6. Other Activities/Updates (cont.)6.2. Other TAOS Sponsored Conferences

reported in ICC 2018 (Kansas City) meeting:I NETWORKS 2018,I Med-Hoc-Net 2018,I ICNC 2019,I NOF 2018:

FOAN 2019 : https://foan.info/I TAOS reps: Jaafar Elmirghani, Athanassios Manikas, Steve Hranilovic

WD 2019 : http://wirelessdays2019.net/I TAOS reps: Vidhya Sridhar, Taisir Elgorashi, Daniel So


http://wirelessdays2019.net/

7. TAOS Best Paper Awards7.1 ONS Best paper - GL 2018

The TAOS Best Paper Awards in the GL 2018 ’s Symposium on"Optical Networks and Systems" (ONS) ,is presented to the paper:

Impact of Receiver FOV and Orientationon Dense Optical Networks

Authors:I Iman Abdalla (Boston University)I Michael Rahaim (University of Massachusetts Boston)I Thomas DC Little; (Boston University & NSF Lighting ERC)


7.2 GCSN Best paper - GL 2018

The TAOS Best Paper Awards in the GL 2018 ’s Symposium on"Green Communications Systems and Networks" (GCSN) ,is presented to the paper:

Energy-E¢cient Resource Allocationin NOMA Heterogeneous Networks

with Energy Harvesting

Authors:I Haijun Zhang, (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China)I Mengting Feng (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China)I Keping Long (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China);I George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece);I Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada).


7.3. ANS Best Paper - GL 2018

The TAOS Best Paper Awards in the GL 2018 ’s"Access Networks and Systems" (ANS) Trackof the Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) Symposum, ispresented to the paper:

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8. Any Other Business


Thank You!


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