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IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Region Newsletter No. 50, December 2016

No. 50, December 2016

Website: www.comsoc.org/~apb

Edited by Y.-W. Peter Hong, Hung-Yung Hsieh, Tony Q. S. Quek, and Wan Choi

Takaya Yamazato

Congratulations to the Malaysia Chapter!

The Malaysia Chapter won 2016 Chapter-of-the-Year Award. Because of their

great accomplishment, they are chosen from all ComSoc chapters worldwide. The

chapter will receive a plaque/honorarium of $2,000, and its chair will be honored

during the IEEE GLOBECOM Awards Luncheon ceremony.

The Malaysia Chapter is also chosen as the winner of (AP Region) Chapter

Achievement Award (CAA). The chapter will receive a plaque and honorarium of $1,000, and they will be

honored during the Awards Luncheon ceremony.

What an accomplishment... outstanding! The Malaysia Chapter really makes us proud.

As the Director of AP region, I examined 19 chapter questionnaires. Among those, the activities of

Malaysia was excellent. They held ten membership development seminar, 24 educational or public relations

programs and student activity meetings, 12 activities for young and student members, 13 activities that local

communications industry involved. Further, they organized nine full day/half day seminars, symposia or

conferences, hosted 4 DLT series with the total of 9 talks and 2 DSPs, and had 31 technical meeting.

For this year, they plan to conduct 15 membership development programs, and four paper awards; Best

Paper Award, Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Best MSc/MEng Thesis Award, and Best Undergraduate Final Year

Project (FYP) Award. And we all know the success of ICC 2016 in KL is brought by the local organizers

who work tirelessly to provide value to the participants by providing exceptional services. With those

activities, I would image no one can deny their excellences. They deserve high praise for the awards.

Way to go, the Malaysia Chapter!

Table of Contents

Message from the APB Director ……...……………... 1

Trending Topics in the Eyes of IEEE Fellows ……….. 2

2016 IEEE ComSoc APB Awards Announcement ..…. 5

Interview of Best/Outstanding Young Researchers ….. 9

Interview of Outstanding Paper Award Winners …… 15

Table of Contents

Report on DLTs/DSPs in the AP Region ………..….. 18

What’s Up on the Asia-Pacific Board? …………….. 26

Upcoming Conferences …………………………….. 27

Asia-Pacific Region Officers 2016-2017 …………... 28

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– Ying-Chang Liang

Spectrum Refarming

- A New Paradigm of Spectrum Sharing for Cellular Networks

Dr. Ying-Chang Liang

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China

To meet the explosive growth of data traffic, in the past two decades, the cellular networks have evolved

from the old generations (i.e., 2G and 3G) to the new ones (i.e., 4G). The legacy networks will not cease

operations immediately after the new ones are deployed, and in fact they will have to continue to serve the

legacy users for a significant period of time before being phased out. The consequential multi-RAT (radio

access technologies) heterogeneity leads to severely under and uneven utilization of cellular spectrum. Thanks

to the spectrum aggregation adopted by the new generation cellular networks, the legacy cellular spectrum has

great potential to be explored as excellent complementary radio resource via intelligent spectrum access

technologies to boost the service and capacity performance of the future cellular networks.

Spectrum refarming (SR) is such an innovative spectrum sharing technique which supports different

generations of cellular networks to operate in the same radio spectrum. It is different from the traditional

refarming of spectrum where legacy bands can be re-allocated only when they are vacant. Since radio spectrum

is a limited and expensive resource, SR is considered as a promising solution for mobile service operators not

only to provide cost-effective services to their customers, but also to solve the spectrum scarcity problem faced

by them.

The most challenging issue in SR is to release the dependence on the direct cooperation between the

primary and secondary systems, in particular, when the legacy primary system is reluctant to upgrade but has

to be protected. Without such cooperation, the new generation networks need to quantify the interference

margin that defines the maximum interference tolerable by the legacy networks, and predict its introduced

interference, in order to offer proper protection to legacy services. Moreover, the optimal resource allocation

of the secondary system by jointly considering the optimal operation of the legacy network via indirect

interaction between the two systems is of high significance for further improving the utilization of the legacy

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spectrum.

Opportunistic SR: LTE over GSM bands Concurrent SR: LTE over WCDMA bands

Designed

WCDMA

load

Reduced

WCDMA

load

Occupied

GSM band

LTE Subcarriers

Empty

GSM bands

To address the aforementioned challenges, our research group has recently made significant contributions

to SR between OFDMA and CDMA networks. We first quantify the interference margin by investigating the

asymptotic behaviour of the legacy CDMA users via the Random Matrix Theory. By making use of the property

of cell site sharing, we then intelligently predict the mutual interference between the primary and secondary

systems, making the proposed SR system a perfect application of cognitive radio technology which can be

readily implemented in practice. We further jointly optimize the resource allocation for the OFDMA system

and single/multi-band CDMA system. Attractively, in virtue of the power control mechanism of the primary

CDMA system, though the optimization algorithm is merely executed by the secondary OFDMA system, it

can make the primary and secondary systems to simultaneously achieve the optimal status. Besides OFDMA

macrocell sharing with CDMA spectrum, we have also investigated resource allocation for OFDMA small

cells sharing with legacy spectrum. Related research results have been published in recent IEEE journals and

conferences, including “Robust Joint Resource Allocation for OFDMA-CDMA Spectrum Refarming System”,

and “Spectrum Refarming: A New Paradigm of Spectrum Sharing for Cellular Networks” in IEEE Trans on

Communications, “Dynamic Broadband Spectrum Refarming for OFDMA Cellular Systems” in IEEE Trans

on Wireless Communications. One of the key contributors in this series of work is Dr Shiying Han, who is

now with Nankai University, China.

– Jinhong Yuan

Massive M2M Communications

Dr. Jinhong Yuan

University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia

Machine to machine (M2M) or machine-type communication (MTC) is playing a significant role for the

upcoming 5G wireless networks, where a large number of simple, low cost and energy-constrained devices are

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wirelessly connected without or with minimum human intervention. Industry analysts predict that over 25

billion devices will be connected to cellular mobile networks worldwide by 2020. These devices range from

sensors or actuators for area-covering measurements in wide areas, to sensors with low latency in body-area

networks. While M2M communications include a very wide range of use in applications, the common factor

for all of these applications is that a massive number of devices transmit small packets sporadically. This is

vastly different from the characteristics of the conventional human type communications, e.g. mobile

broadband (MBB) systems, which require very high data rates. This difference imposes new requirements for

cellular mobile networks in order to support the massive M2M access.

An important issue for the massive M2M communication is to provide efficient access and connections,

which is very challenging due to the substantial number of devices, their limited transmitted power and the

uncoordinated nature of the transmissions. Recently, various low power wide area (LPWA) technologies have

been proposed by industries, which include the ultra-narrow band approach in SigFox and the spread spectrum

method in LoRa. To provide scalability, mobility support and to meet the requirements for future growth in the

Internet of Things (IoT), mobile IoT (MIoT) technologies are proposed by the 3rd Generation Partnership

Project (3GPP) standard, including Narrow-Band IoT (NB-IoT), Extended Coverage GSM for the Internet of

Things (EC-GSM-IoT), and the Long-Term Evolution for Machines (LTE-M). Despite the fast development

of MTC and IoT technologies, some serious challenges remain to make MTC and IoT capable of serving a

diverse range of vertical industries, and supporting a range of applications and deployment scenarios for mobile

terminals/devices with low power, latency and cost, and large coverage, and high reliability and security.

In the research community, researchers have made good progress in designing novel transmission

protocols, in terms of new short packet transmissions, short frame formats, short channel code designs,

advanced random channel access mechanisms and power/energy management mechanisms. Many improved

random access protocols have been proposed to accommodate the massive devices, such as the strongest user

collision resolution scheme (SUCR) and coded-slotted ALOHA (CSA). With random access, the probability

of preamble collisions increases with the number of active devices. The one shot transmission mechanism with

combination of payload and control signalling transmission is very attractive for MTC/IoT as it can bring gains

in reduced control signalling overhead and reduced terminal energy consumption. A coded slotted ALOHA

combined with compressive sensing multi-user detection (CS-MUD) scheme or physical-layer network coding

(PNC) scheme employs coding and interference cancelation to significantly improve the random access

throughput.

In our Wireless Communications Research Lab at UNSW Australia, we have recently developed CSA

schemes for erasure channels to improve the system throughput and expected traffic load. We also have

designed short channel codes with good reliability and rate compatibility for MTCs. In addition, we built a

testbed for the CSA system by using the software defined radio USRP RIO platform to demonstrate the CSA

access efficiency. While the initial research is very promising, the deployment of many antennas at the base

station can bring gains in coverage and reduce power consumption for devices. Furthermore, novel grant-free

transmissions, preamble designs and security issues remain topics for future research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP

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IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award

This award honors young researchers who have been very active in IEEE ComSoc publications and

conference activities over the last 3 years (Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2015).

Eligibility:

The upper age limit for the applicant is 35 (i.e., the applicant must be born on or after 1980/01/01).

The applicant must be a member of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific region.

The “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” will be given to the best candidate,

and other candidates will be considered for the “Outstanding Young Researcher Award(s)”.

Award Prize:

The recipient of “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” will receive a

certificate and an honorarium of US$500.

Each recipient of the “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award” will

receive a certificate and an honorarium of US$250.

Young Researcher Award Winners for Year 2016:

Best Young Researcher Award

Jun Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China)

for his contributions to the analysis and optimization of dense wireless cooperative networks.

Outstanding Young Researcher Awards

Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China)

for his contributions to network economics and game theory

Namyoon Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

for his contributions to the development of advanced interference management techniques in

wireless networks

Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China)

for his contribution to social-aware optimization framework and mechanisms for

communications and networking

Qian Wang (Wuhan University, China)

for his contributions to cloud security and wireless networking security

Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China)

for his contribution to wireless communications and networking

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List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Awards (2001-2015)

Year Best Young Researcher Outstanding Young Researchers

2001 (1st) Dr. Byoung-Hoon Kim Dr. Wen-Jyi Hwang

Dr. Eiji Oki

Dr. Tomoaki Otsuki

Dr. Shiann-Tsong Sheu

2005 (2nd) Dr. Qian Zhang Dr. Ki-Dong Lee

Dr. Jia-Chin Lin

Dr. Naoki Wakamiya

2007 (3rd) Dr. Phone Lin Dr. W. Choi

Dr. H. Harai

Dr. H. F. Lu

2009 (4th) Dr. Tarik Taleb Dr. Sangheon Pack

Dr. Wei Zhang

Dr. Xinbing Wang

Dr. Meixia Huang

Dr. Jianwei Huang

2010 (5th) Dr. Wei Chen Dr. Y.-W. Peter Hong

Dr. Bang Chul Jung

Dr. Ting See Ho

2011 (6th) Dr. Rui Zhang Dr. Himal Asanga Suraweera

Dr. Chee Wei Tan

Dr. Wenyi Zhang

Dr. Shinya Sugiura

Dr. Jiming Chen

2012 (7th) Dr. Dusit Niyato Dr. Chi Zhang

Dr. Lingyang Song

Dr. Chau Yuen

Dr. Chan Byoung Chae

Dr. Sudip Misra

2013 (8th) Dr. Mathew McKay Dr. Feifei Gao

Dr. Kyoung-Jae Lee

Dr. Rongxing Lu

Dr. Hiroki Nishiyama

Dr. Caijun Zhong

2014 (9th) Dr. Yulong Zou Dr. Nan Yang

Dr. Haojin Zhu

Dr. Kaishun Wu

Dr. Jemin Lee

Dr. Mugen Peng

2015 (10th) Dr. Mo Li Dr. Tsung-Hui Chang

Dr. Xiang Cheng

Dr. Lingjie Duan

Dr. Zubair Fadlullah

Dr. Shibo He

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IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

This award honors outstanding original papers authored by members in the Asia-Pacific region and

published in IEEE ComSoc journals and conferences over the last 3 years (Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2015).

Eligibility:

The paper must be published in IEEE ComSoc journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and so

on (including those technically co-sponsored by ComSoc) in the last 3 years (January 2013 to

December 2015).

All authors' affiliations must be from the Asia-Pacific region at the time of publication.

The paper should be nominated by an IEEE ComSoc member from the Asia-Pacific region.

Self-nomination is not accepted.

Award Prize:

Plaque and honorarium up to US $500 (award total).

List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards (2012-2015)

Year Outstanding Papers

2012 (1st) Title: Eigenvalue-based Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive Radio

Authors: Yonghong Zeng and Ying-Chang Liang`

Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 6, pp.1784-1793, June 2009

2013 (2nd) Title: Distance-adaptive Spectrum Resource Allocation in Spectrum-sliced Elastic

Optical Path Network

Authors: Masahiko Jinno, Bartlomiej Kozicki, Hidehiko Takara, Atsushi Watanabe,

Yoshiaki Sone, Takafumi Tanaka, and Akira Hiran

Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48, no. 8, pp.138–145, Aug. 2010

Title: Joint Optimization for One and Two-way MIMO AF Multiple-relay Systems

Authors: Kyoung-Jae Lee, Hakjea Sung, Eunsung Park, and Inkyu Lee

Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 3671–3681,

Dec. 2010.

Outstanding Paper Award Winners for Year 2016:

Title: Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture design and rate-energy tradeoff

Authors: Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho

Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications (Volume: 61, Issue: 11, November 2013)

Title: Relaying protocols for wireless energy harvesting and information processing

Authors: Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy.

Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Volume: 12, Issue: 7, July 2013)

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Title: Cell Zooming for Cost-Efficient Green Cellular Networks

Authors: Zhisheng Niu, Yiqun Wu, Jie Gong, and Zexi Yang

Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 74–79,Nov. 2010.

2014 (3rd) Title: Toward Ubiquitous Massive Accesses in 3GPP Machine-to-Machine

Communication

Authors: Shao-Yu Lien, Kwang-Cheng Chen, Yonghua Lin

Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 66-74, Apr. 2011

Title: Optimal Spectrum Sharing in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks via Semidefinite

Programming

Authors: Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang and Anthony Man-Cho So

Source: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 362-372,

Feb. 2011

Title: Delay and Capacity Tradeoff Analysis for MotionCast

Authors: Xinbing Wang, Wentao Huang, Shangxing Wang, Jinbei Zhang, Chenhui Huj

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

2015 (4th) Title: Enabling Wireless Power Transfer in Cellular Networks: Architecture, Modeling

and Deployment

Authors: Kaibin Huang and Vincent K. N. Lau

Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 902-912,

Feb. 2014

Title: Modeling and Analysis for Spectrum Handoffs in Cognitive Radio Networks

Authors: Li-Chun Wang, Chung-Wei Wang, and Chung-Ju Chang

Source: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1499-1513, Sep.

2012

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Best Young Researcher Award Winner Jun Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China)

Dr. Jun Zhang received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the

University of Science and Technology of China in 2004, the M.Phil. degree in

Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006, and

the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of

Texas at Austin in 2009. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University

of Science and Technology (HKUST). Dr. Zhang co-authored the book

“Fundamentals of LTE” (Prentice-Hall, 2010). He is the recipient of 4 best paper

awards, including the 2016 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, the 2014 Best Paper

Award for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, the Best Paper Award of IEEE ICC 2016,

and the Best Paper Award of IEEE PIMRC 2014. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless

Communications, and served as a MAC track co-chair for IEEE WCNC 2011. His research interests include

wireless communications and networking, green communications and computing, and signal processing.

1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field?

For me, the most significant work I’ve contributed is “Group Sparse Beamforming for Green Cloud-RAN”,

published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. It provided a principled way to design

adaptive strategies in dense wireless networks via convex optimization. The framework proposed in this work

can be applied broadly in resource allocation and signal processing for dense wireless networks. For example,

it has been applied to investigate antenna selection, user admission, offloading decision for mobile computing,

as well as beamforming design in wireless caching systems. For its significance, this paper received the 2016

Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.

2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years?

My research in the near future will focus on wireless caching and mobile edge computing. By equipping

storage and computation units at radio access points, it will bring new dimensions to wireless networking and

enable new types of mobile applications. Wireless caching will help with scalable content delivery and

backhaul traffic reduction, while mobile edge computing is able to meet the ever-increasing demands for high

computation intensity with low latency in mobile applications. There are lots of research opportunities in such

systems. In particular, it is intriguing to investigate the interaction among the radio resource, storage resource,

and compute resource.

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Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China)

Lin Gao (S'08-M'10) is an Associate Professor in the Department of

Electronic and Information Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology,

Shenzhen, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2010. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in

the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong

Kong from 2010 to 2015, and a Visiting Researcher in the Communication

Theory Center at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in 2008. His research interests

are in the interdisciplinary research field combining telecommunications and

microeconomics, with particular focus on the game-theoretic modeling and analysis for cognitive radio

networks, TV white space networks, 5G communications, mobile Internet, and Internet-of-Things.

Dr. Gao has published more than 50 papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings

of communications and networking. He has co-authored 3 books, including "Wireless Network Pricing" in

Morgan & Claypool (2013) and "Economics of Database-Assisted Spectrum Sharing" in Springer (2016). He

is the co-author of 1 ESI Highly Cited Paper, the co-recipient of 3 Best (Student) Paper Awards from WiOpt

2013-2015, and the co-recipient of 1 Best Paper Award Finalist from IEEE INFOCOM 2016. He received the

IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2016.


TV white space network is one of the most promising commercial realizations of dynamic spectrum

sharing, where unlicensed white space devices explore and exploit the unused or under-utilized TV broadcast

frequency band (called TV white spaces) via a geo-location database. The long-term success of such a novel

network requires proper business models and comprehensive economic analysis. We are the first to propose

and investigate various business market models for TV white space networks, including spectrum trading

market, information trading market, and hybrid spectrum and information market. Our research on information

trading market received the Best Paper Award from WiOpt 2014.


The fast development of mobile devices embedded with rich sensors, storage, and strong communication

and computation capability, brings forth a tendency of moving some centralized computing tasks originally

resided on the cloud to the mobile side, leading to the so-called crowd computing. Typical examples include

mobile crowd sensing and user-provided connectivity. In such crowd-sourced scenarios, it is critical to design

proper incentive mechanisms that offer sufficient economic incentives for mobile device users to contribute

their precious resource. In our future work, we will focus on the economic analysis and incentive mechanism

design for various crowd computing scenarios.

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Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Namyoon Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

Namyoon Lee is an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering

Department at POSTECH. He received his Ph. D. in the Department of Electrical

and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in 2014. He also

received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Daejeon in 2008

and B.E. degree from Korea University, Seoul, Korea in 2006. From February

2008 to June 2011, he was with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)

in Korea, where he designed next generation wireless communication systems and

involved standardization activities of the 3GPP LTE-A. He was also with Nokia

Research Center at Berkeley as a Senior Researcher, where he participated in the design of future WLAN

systems (e.g., IEEE 802.11ax and 802.11ay) from December 2014 to May 2015. He was with Wireless

Communications Research (WRC) at Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA from May 2015 to Feb. 2016. His primal

research interest is to develop and analyze future wireless communication systems using tools including multi-

antenna network information theory, stochastic geometry, and machine learning algorithms.

Mr. Lee was a recipient of the 2009 Samsung Best Paper Award, the 2014 Student Best Paper Award

(IEEE Seoul Section), and the Recognition Award in Intel Labs 2015. He was also an Exemplary Reviewer for

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in both 2013 and 2015.


Interference creates a fundamental barrier in attempting to improve throughput in wireless networks,

especially when multiple concurrent transmissions share the wireless medium. In recent years, significant

progress has been made on characterizing the capacity limits of wireless networks under the premise of global

and instantaneous channel state information at transmitter (CSIT). In practice, however, the acquisition of such

instantaneous and global CSIT as a means toward cooperation is highly challenging due to the distributed

nature of transmitters and dynamic wireless propagation environments. In many limited CSIT scenarios, the

promising gains from interference management strategies using instantaneous and global CSIT disappear,

often providing the same result as cases where there is no CSIT. Is it possible to obtain substantial performance

gains with limited CSIT in wireless networks, given previous evidence that there is marginal or no gain over

the case with no CSIT? To shed light on the answer to this question, in my recent research, I characterized

several achievable sum of degrees of freedom (sum-DoF) of wireless interference networks when limited CSIT

is available.


My future research plan for the next 2 years is to explore some fundamental connections between coding

theory and machine learning from a communication system design perspective. Very recently, I have made an

interesting connection between blind detection problems and classification problems in supervised learning

for the MIMO system with low-resolution ADCs, which has been considered as a future massive MIMO

architecture. I have expected that this interdisciplinary research vector will open a new area for next-generation

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communication systems.

Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China)

Dr. Yong Li (S'09-M'12-SM'16) received the B.S. degree from Huazhong

University of Science and Technology in 2007, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees

in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, in 2009 and 2012, respectively.

During 2012 and 2013, he was a Visiting Research Associate with Telekom

Innovation Laboratories and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

respectively. During 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Scientist with the University

of Miami. Currently, he is a Faculty Member of the Department of Electronic

Engineering, Tsinghua University.

His research interests are in the areas of wireless networks and mobile computing. He has published in

IEEE/ACM Transactions, conferences and Magazines with total more than 150 research papers and total

citations of 2000. Among them Five are ESI Highly Cited Papers in Computer Science. Dr. Li has Four

IEEE/AEI Conference Best Paper (run-up) Awards, and has served as General Chair, Technical Program

Committee (TPC) Chair and Symposium Chair, and TPC Member for couples of international workshops and

conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, WWW, PAM, ICWSM, MASS, GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, ICCCN,

IWCMC, PIMRC, etc. He is currently on the editorial board of three journals: Journal of Communications and

Networking, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and Sensors, and also server

as the Guest Editor of the IEEE Access and ACM/Springer MONET.


In order to effectively support the interaction applications such as multimedia sharing and social network

services among the mobile proximity users, my major research contributions over the last three years are in

the topic of device-to-device and opportunistic communications. Aiming to establish a new paradigm to solve

this problem, I proposed a social behavior aware optimization framework and corresponding solution for

cellular communication networks, which couples the social behaviors with physical layer resource allocations.

By modeling the mobility pattern and social behavior for cellular users through mining the big data, we

establish a behavior aware optimization framework for cellular communications and networks based on the

profound understanding of the interplay between human behavior and universal resource allocations.


By focusing on characterizing the mobile traffic, web and information usage traces based on large-scale

and long-time mobile big data, which is collected from the commercial mobile operator with larger scales of

thousand base stations and mobile users spanning over a year, we plan to qualitatively visualize and

quantitatively characterize the spatio-temporal human behaviors in the cyber-physical spaces including

mobility regularity, traffic consumption patterns, social friendship activity, online information and commodity

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consumption, etc. Based on these fundamental findings and credible models, we further plan to investigate

how to utilize these important insights on how to deal with the problems encountered with the current mobile

networks including traffic congestion offloading, green communications, solidified architecture, etc.

Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner

Qian Wang (Wuhan University, China)

Qian Wang is currently a Professor and the Director of the Network

Information System Security & Privacy (NIS&P) Lab in School of Computer

Science, Wuhan University, where he joined as an Associate Professor in June

2012 and was fast promoted to Full Professor in March 2013. He received the B.S.

degree from Wuhan University, China, in 2003, the M.S. degree from Shanghai

Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy

of Sciences, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of

Technology, USA, in 2012, all in Electrical Engineering. His current research

interests include Data Storage, Search and Computation Outsourcing Security, Wireless Systems Security,

Multimedia Security, and Applied Cryptography. He has published (including those got accepted) more than

70 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, including IEEE TDSC, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS,

IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Network, ACM MobiCom, ACM CCS,

IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, ICDCS, ESORICS etc., and they have been highly cited. According to Google

Scholar (as of October 2016), his total citation has exceeded 6,500. More than 11 of his publications have been

each cited higher than 100 times, with the highest exceeding 1,600 times.


My most significant work is “Enabling Public Auditability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in

Cloud Computing” published in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 22 (5), 847-859, 2011.

We addressed the problem of public auditing for cloud data storage and proposed an efficient and secure

protocol enabling both public auditability and data dynamics. We also extend our scheme to support scalable

and efficient public auditing where multiple delegated auditing tasks from different users can be performed

simultaneously. Our proposed highly innovative ideas have opened up new research directions along all these

lines, laying solid foundations with far-reaching impact that has influenced many follow-up cloud data security

works today.


In big data systems, machine learning plays an important role due to its effectiveness in discovering hidden

information and valuable knowledge. Data privacy concerns, however, have greatly hindered the utilization of

the large-scale data, which is the key for the success of machine learning. My current research focus on privacy-

preserving machine learning/deep learning security designs, which is still in the early stage. The research

results and findings in this area will eliminate the dilemma between data utilization and privacy preservation

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and are expected to receive more and more attentions in the near future from both academia and industry.

Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner

Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China)

Guanding Yu (S'05-M'07-SM'13) received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in

communication engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2001

and 2006, respectively. After that, he joined Zhejiang University, where he is an

Associate Professor in the College of Information and Electronic Engineering.

From 2013 to 2015, he was also a Visiting Professor at the School of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. His

research interests include energy-efficient communication and green networks,

device-to-device communications, full-duplex communications, and LTE in

unlicensed spectrum.

Dr. Yu has served as a guest editor of IEEE Communications Magazine special issue on Full-Duplex

Communications, an editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Series on Green

Communications and Networking, and a lead guest editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine special

issue on LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum. He is now serving as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Green

Communications and Networking, an associate editor of IEEE Access and an editor of KSII Transactions on

Internet and Information Systems. He regularly sits on the TPC boards of prominent IEEE conferences such

as ICC, GLOBECOM, and VTC. He received the 2016 Exemplary Reviewer Award from the IEEE

Transactions on Communications of the IEEE Communications Society.


D2D communication is an important technique for the LTE Release 12 and future standards. In D2D

networks, potential D2D users can communicate in three respective modes, namely cellular mode, reuse mode,

and dedicated mode. In my work, I proposed a joint communication mode selection and resource allocation

algorithm to maximize the overall network capacity. I also revealed potential hop gain, proximity gain, and

reuse gain incurred by D2D communications and investigated how to use them to optimize the performance

of both cellular and D2D users.


In the next two years, my research will focus on the unlicensed LTE technology, which has been considered

as a promising way to improve the cellular network capacity. Specifically, my research aims at solving the stiff

challenges of the unlicensed LTE technology, such as fair network coexistence between LTE and WiFi

networks, unlicensed spectrum sharing and access, quality-of-service provision, etc. I will utilize the

optimization theory, game theory, and machine learning tools to develop effective protocols and algorithms

towards a more spectral-efficient and energy-efficient unlicensed LTE system.

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Title: Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture design and rate-energy tradeoff

Authors: Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho

Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications (Volume: 61, Issue: 11, November 2013)

Abstract:

Simultaneous information and power transfer over the wireless channels potentially offers great

convenience to mobile users. Yet practical receiver designs impose technical constraints on its hardware

realization, as practical circuits for harvesting energy from radio signals are not yet able to decode the carried

information directly. To make theoretical progress, we propose a general receiver operation, namely, dynamic

power splitting (DPS), which splits the received signal with adjustable power ratio for energy harvesting and

information decoding, separately. Three special cases of DPS, namely, time switching (TS), static power

splitting (SPS) and on-off power splitting (OPS) are investigated. The TS and SPS schemes can be treated as

special cases of OPS. Moreover, we propose two types of practical receiver architectures, namely, separated

versus integrated information and energy receivers. The integrated receiver integrates the front-end

components of the separated receiver, thus achieving a smaller form factor. The rate-energy tradeoff for the

two architectures are characterized by a so-called rate-energy (R-E) region. The optimal transmission strategy

is derived to achieve different rate-energy tradeoffs. With receiver circuit power consumption taken into

account, it is shown that the OPS scheme is optimal for both receivers. For the ideal case when the receiver

circuit does not consume power, the SPS scheme is optimal for both receivers. In addition, we study the

performance for the two types of receivers under a realistic system setup that employs practical modulation.

Our results provide useful insights to the optimal practical receiver design for simultaneous wireless

information and power transfer (SWIPT).

1. What is the major contribution of this paper?

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) via radio signals has been studied for

single-antenna channels by Varshney in 2008, for frequency-selective channels by Grover and Sahai in 2010,

and for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels by Zhang and Ho in 2013. The radio signals in prior

studied SWIPT receivers, however, is not truly harvested and decoded concurrently. This paper proposed a

generic receiver operation that subsumes many practically implementable techniques for simultaneously

harvesting energy and decoding signals, such as time switching, power splitting, and on-off switching. Another

key observation made is that signal strength requirement for energy harvesting and signal decoding is severely

asymmetrical in a SWIPT receiver. Current communication receivers, which are designed only for decoding

signals, are shown to perform poorly for SWIPT. This paper thus proposed a first-ever integrated receiver

design by integrating the front-end components of information and energy receivers, thus achieving a smaller

form factor that is optimized for SWIPT.

2. Are there any new researches or results relevant to this paper? How do you see the development of this

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research in the near future?

The theoretical development of SWIPT has accelerated significantly in the last few years. The key insight

revealed in this paper has inspired substantial follow-up investigations on SWIPT which generalized the rate-

energy trade-off in various system and channel models as well as under more complex practical constraints.

Another important new direction is to focus on making SWIPT feasible for widespread use in daily lives. The

standard receiver architecture, comprising of down-converter, analogue-to-digital converter and baseband

processing, has served the wireless communication research and applications very well for a long time. In light

of SWIPT requirements, new receiver architectures would be studied and implemented. We strongly believe

that the momentum that SWIPT has been gathering will continue and lead to useful applications and products

in the near future.

Title: Relaying protocols for wireless energy harvesting and information processing

Authors: Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy.

Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Volume: 12, Issue: 7, July 2013)

Abstract:

An emerging solution for prolonging the lifetime of energy constrained relay nodes in wireless networks

is to avail the ambient radio-frequency (RF) signal and to simultaneously harvest energy and process

information. In this paper, an amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying network is considered, where an energy

constrained relay node harvests energy from the received RF signal and uses that harvested energy to forward

the source information to the destination. Based on the time switching and power splitting receiver

architectures, two relaying protocols, namely, i) time switching-based relaying (TSR) protocol and ii) power

splitting-based relaying (PSR) protocol are proposed to enable energy harvesting and information processing

at the relay. In order to determine the throughput, analytical expressions for the outage probability and the

ergodic capacity are derived for delay-limited and delay-tolerant transmission modes, respectively. The

numerical analysis provides practical insights into the effect of various system parameters, such as energy

harvesting time, power splitting ratio, source transmission rate, source to relay distance, noise power, and

energy harvesting efficiency, on the performance of wireless energy harvesting and information processing

using AF relay nodes. In particular, the TSR protocol outperforms the PSR protocol in terms of throughput at

relatively low signal-to-noise-ratios and high transmission rates.

1. What is the major contribution of this paper?

This paper addresses an interesting problem of how microwave power transfer can benefit wireless

communication networks. It is among the first few efforts to propose the idea of using wireless power transfer

to sustain an energy-constrained relay, or in general a transmitting node, for wireless communications.

Specifically, the paper proposed and analysed two relaying protocols for wirelessly powered relays. Compared

to conventional relaying protocols which only have the information-receiving phase and information-

forwarding phase, the newly developed protocols have an additional energy-harvesting phase. The energy

harvested in the additional phase via wireless power transfer directly determines the energy consumption in

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the information-forwarding phase. Regarding the protocol design, the energy-harvesting phase is either

inserted before the information-receiving phase such that a certain portion of time is dedicated to wireless

power transfer, or merged with the information-receiving phase for simultaneous information and power

transfer.

2. Are there any new researches or results relevant to this paper? How do you see the development of this

research in the near future?

The paper has triggered a large number of follow-up studies on relay and cooperative communications

with wireless power transfer capability. The techniques and metrics developed in the paper have been utilised

and extended other types of wireless networks featuring RF energy harvesting. Although wireless-powered

communication in general has already become a major research topic in the wireless communication research

community, current research and development is still far from mature. In our opinion, an important future

research direction will be looking at feasibility and practicality of using wireless power transfer to sustain

communication networks. Certainly not all relay and cooperative networks can be powered remotely and

wirelessly. Identifying emerging application scenarios with feasible energy transfer requirement and

appropriate quality of service of cooperative data communication will help steering the research into the

desired direction.

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Congratulations on another successful year of Distinguished Lecturer Tours (DLTs) and Distinguished

Speaker Programs (DSPs)! This year, IEEE Communications Society has approved 16 DLTs and 6 DSPs in

the Asia Pacific Region. Please see the following for further details.

2016 AP DLT #1: 15-24 January 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana

Hosting Chapter 2016 Section / Chapter Chair

Bombay Chapter Sanjay Pawar

Gujarat Chapter Nagendra Prakash Gajjar

Pune Chapter Vivek Shankar Deshpande

Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana delivered a lecture series on “Internet to ‘Internet of Things’ to ‘Internet of

Everything’ – The Evolution Continues” at the following locations:

1. Mumbai, India – 18 January 2016

Lecture Venue: SNDT Women’s University

2. Ahmedabad, India – 21 January 2016

Lecture Venue: Ahmedabad University

3. Pune, India – 23 January 2016

Lecture Venue: Maharashtra Institute of Technology

2016 AP DLT #2: 14-19 March 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Jalel Ben Othman


Bombay Chapter Sanjay Pawar

Pune Chapter Vivek Shankar Deshpande

Gujarat Chapter Nagendra Prakash Gajjar

Prof. Jalel Ben Othman delivered a lecture series on “Stochastic tools used to model IEEE 802.16 (WIMAX)

protocol” and “DoS in wireless network is an issue or a fatality” at the following locations:

1. Bombay, India – 15 March 2016

Lecture Venue: SNDT Women’s University, and DY Patil institute of technology

2. Pune, India – 16 March 2016

Lecture Venue: Pune university

3. Ahmedabad, India – 18 March 2016

Lecture Venue: Nirma University

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2016 AP DLT #3: 23 May – 4 June 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Zhu Han


Malaysia Chapter Fazirulhisyam Hashim

Delhi Chapter Manav Bhatnagar

Singapore Chapter Yong Liang Guan

Prof. Zhu Han delivered a lecture series on “Physical Layer Security Game”, “Wireless RF Energy Harvesting”,

“Matching Game Theory in Wireless Networking”, and “Case Study of Big Data Analysis for Smart Grid” at

the following locations:

1. Singapore – 23 May 2016

Lecture Venue: National University of Singapore

2. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 27 May 2016

Lecture Venue: Portal Rasmi Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia

3. Delhi, India – 31 May 2016

Lecture Venue: IIT Delhi

2016 AP DLT #4: 13-14 May 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini


Bangladesh Chapter Shaikh Anwarul Fattah

Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini delivered a lecture series at the following locations:

1. Bangladesh – 14 May 2016

Lecture Venue: Dhaka University

2016 AP DLT #5: 20-27 May 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Dusit Niyato


Seoul Chapter Sunghyun Choi

Tokyo Chapter Shin Nomoto

Prof. Dusit Niyato delivered a lecture series at the following locations:

1. Seoul, Korea – 20 May 2016

Lecture Venue: Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)

2. Tokyo, Japan – 24 May 2016

Lecture Venue: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

http://www.upnm.edu.my/

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3. Sapporo, Japan – 26 May 2016

Lecture Venue: Hokkaido University

2016 AP DLT #6: 21-28 July 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Jianwei Huang


Tokyo Chapter Shin Nomoto

Kansai Chapter Kazuo Kumamoto

Prof. Jianwei Huang delivered a lecture series at the following locations:

1. Tsukuba, Japan – 22 July 2016

Lecture Venue: University of Tsukuba

2. Hokkaido, Japan – 24 July 2016

Lecture Venue: Hakodate Kokusai Hotel

3. Osaka, Japan – 27 July 2016

Lecture Venue: Osaka Institute of Technology

2016 AP DLT #7: 28-30 March 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Jiajia Liu


Taipei Chapter Hsiao-feng Lu

Prof. Jiajia Liu has presented a lecture at the following location:

1. Taipei, Taiwan – 29 March 2016

Lecture Venue: National Taiwan University

2016 AP DLT #8: 22-28 May 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Mahbub Hassan



Prof. Mahbub Hassan delivered a lecture series on “Battery-free Internet of Things:

Making the most of energy harvesting”” at the following locations:


Lecture Venue: UCSI University Kuala Lumpur


Lecture Venue: UPNM/Telekom Malaysia RnD


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Lecture Venue: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur

2016 AP DLT #9: 29 May-19 June 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. J. B. Othman


New Zealand North, South &

Central Chapter

Nurul Sarkar

Prof. J. B. Othman delivered a lecture series at the following locations:

1. Melbourne, Australia – 30 May 2016

Lecture Venue: University of Melbourne

2. Canberra, Australia – 1 June 2016

3. Sydney, Australia – 3 June 2016

4. Auckland, New Zealand – 7 June 2016

Lecture Venue: Auckland University of Technology

5. Wellington, New Zealand – 8 June 2016

6. Brisbane, Australia – 13 June 2016

7. Townsville, Australia – 14 June 2016

8. Adelaide, Australia – 15 June 2016

2016 AP DLT #10: 19-29 May 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Ying-Dar Lin


Singapore Chapter Yong Liang Guan


Thailand Chapter Keattisak Sripimanwat

Prof. Ying-Dar Lin delivered a lecture series on “Network Cloudification: Turning Communications to

Computing with SDN and NFV” and “Sharing Experiences in International Academic Services and Research”

at the following locations:


Lecture Venue: Nanyang Technological University

2. Malaysia – 23 May 2016

Lecture Venue: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

3. Malaysia – 27 May 2016

Lecture Venue: Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology

http://www.utar.edu.my/

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2016 AP DLT #11: 17 May-3 June 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Anthony Chan


Singapore Chapter Guan Yong Liang


Indonesia Chapter Rina Pudji Astuti

Philippine Chapter Joel J Marciano

Prof. Anthony Chan will be delivering a lecture series at the following locations:


Lecture Venue: Nanyang Technological University


Lecture Venue: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur

2016 AP DLT #12: 23 Sept-5 Oct 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Anura Jayasumana


Kerala Chapter Senthilkumar K B

Kolkata Chapter Iti Saha Misra

Prof. Anura Jayasumana delivered a lecture series at the following locations:

1. Cochin, India – 26 September 2016

2. Calicat, India – 27 September 2016

3. Kharagpur, India – 30 September 2016 – 2 October 2016

2016 AP DLT #13: 19-25 June 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Luiz A. DaSilva


Kolkata Chapter Iti Saha Misra

Prof. Luiz A. DaSilva delivered a lecture series on “Sharing Infrastructure and Spectrum:

A Vision for the Future of Mobile Networks” and “Using Game Theory to Model

Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks” at the following locations:

1. Kolkata, India – 20 June 2016

Lecture Venue: Jadavpur University

2. Kharagpur, India – 21 & 22 June 2016

Lecture Venue: IIT Kharagpur

3. Bengaluru, India – 24 June 2016

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Lecture Venue: Indian Institute of Science

2016 AP DLT #14: 13-17 June 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tarik Taleb


Tokyo Chapter Shinichi Nomoto

Prof. Tarik Taleb delivered a lecture series at the following locations:

1. Hakodate, Japan – 13 June 2016

Lecture Venue: Future University of Hakodate

2. Yokohama, Japan – 15 June 2016

Lecture Venue: IEEE HPSR & iPOP 2016

3. Tokyo, Japan – 16 June 2016

Lecture Venue: The University of Tokyo

2016 AP DLT #15: 4-15 July 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Yu Cheng


Nanjing Chapter Lianfeng Shen

Shanghai Chapter Xiwan Li

Beijing Chapter Xiaofeng Tao

Prof. Yu Cheng delivered a lecture series at the following locations:

1. Hangzhou, China – 11 July 2016

Lecture Venue: Zhejiang University

2. Shanghai, China – 13 July 2016

Lecture Venue: Shanghai Jiaotong University

3. Beijing, China – 15 July 2016

Lecture Venue: Tsinghua University

2016 AP DLT #16: 18-22 December 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Dusit Niyato


Thailand Chapter Keattisak Sripimanwat

Prof. Dusit Niyato will be delivering a lecture series at the following locations:

1. Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand – 19 December 2016

Lecture Venue: Ubon Ratchathani University

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2. Bangkok, Thailand – 20 December 2016

Lecture Venue: King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi

3. Bangkok, Thailand – 21 December 2016

Lecture Venue: King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

2016 AP DSP #1: 16 February 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Lingyang Song


Sendai Chapter Nei Kato

Prof. Lingyang Song delivered a lecture at the following location:

- Sendai, Japan – 16 February 2016

Lecture Venue: Sendai Chapter

Topic: Caching as a Service: Wireless Caching Mechanism Design for Service Providers

2016 AP DSP #2: 1 June 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Nirwan Ansari


Indonesia Chapter Rina Pudji Astuti

Prof. Nirwan Ansari delivered a lecture at the following location:

- Jakarta, Indonesia – 1 June 2016

Lecture Venue: Kalbis Institute

Topic: On Greening Broadband Access

2016 AP DSP #3: 27 May 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tarik Taleb



Prof. Tarik Taleb delivered a lecture at the following location:

- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 27 May 2016

Lecture Venue: International Islamic University Malaysia

Topic: Towards 5G: On Mobile Network Softwarization

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2016 AP DSP #4: 19 May 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Zhensheng Zhang


Harbin Chapter Weixiao Meng

Prof. Zhensheng Zhang delivered a lecture at the following location:

- Harbin, China – 19 May 2016

Topic: Cognitive Networks/Dynamic Spectrum Access in Wireless Networks: Overview

2016 AP DSP #5: 16 June 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tom Hou


Xi’An Chapter Jiandong Li

Prof. Tom Hou delivered a lecture at the following location:

- Xi’An, China – 16 June 2016

Lecture Venue: Xidian University

Topic: Achieving Optimal Performance for Programmable Wireless Networks

2016 AP DSP #6: 18 October 2016

Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Liuqing Yang


Nanjing Chapter Lianfeng Shen

Prof. Liuqing Yang delivered a lecture at the following location:

- Nanjing, China – 18 October 2016

Topic: On Energy-Harvesting Relay Networks: Full-Duplex and Relay Selection

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– APB Committee Reports

Technical Affairs Committee

This year APB Technical Affair Committee (TAC) received 8 nominations for the APB Outstanding Paper

Awards. Through careful review and discussions, the committee unanimously decided to give the awards to

the following two papers:

APB Outstanding Paper Awards 2016 (2 papers):

- Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho. "Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture

design and rate-energy tradeoff." IEEE Transactions on Communications, 61, no. 11 (2013): 4754-4767.

- Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy. "Relaying protocols for wireless

energy harvesting and information processing." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 12, no.

7 (2013): 3622-3636.

Both papers are ESI Highly Cited Papers and have contributed significantly to the research community (with

400+ Google Scholar citations each by 10/2016).

This year APB TAC received 29 applications for APB Young Researcher Awards. Through careful review and

discussions, the committee unanimously decided to give the awards to the following six researchers:

APB Best Your Researcher Award (1 awardee)

- Jun Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China): For his contributions to

the analysis and optimization of dense wireless cooperative networks

APB Outstanding Young Researcher Awards (5 awardees listed alphabetically):

- Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China): For his contributions to network economics

and game theory

- Namyoon Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea): for his contributions to the

development of advanced interference management techniques in wireless networks

- Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China): For his contribution to social-aware optimization framework and

mechanisms for communications and networking

- Qian Wang (Wuhan University, China): For his contributions to cloud security and wireless networking

security

- Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China): for his contribution to wireless communications and

networking

We would like to congratulate all the awardees for their excellent work, and thank the nominators of the

Outstanding Paper Awards for their kind contributions. We look forward to seeing all awardees in

GLOBECOM 2016.

Meeting and Conference Committee (MCC)

MCC coordinates meeting and conference activities in the APB region. Please see “Upcoming Conferences”

for a list of upcoming conferences in the IEEE Communications Society.

Information Services Committee (ISC)

The main task of ISC is to publish semi-annual AP Newsletters for release during the IEEE ICC and Globecom

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conferences, manage the APB homepage, manage the APB email broadcast to its members, and liaise the

contribution to the IEEE Global Communication Newsletter (GCN).

- For the AP Newsletter, in addition to conventional topics such as call for awards, DLT report, and

committee/local chapter activity report, ISC continues to look for new design ideas in terms of layout and

content to bring better awareness of the APB and improve bonding of members.

- For the APB homepage, after migrating to the new hosting site, ISC continues to improve the look, content,

and functionality of the APB homepage, such as the inclusion of information from sister societies.

- For the email broadcast, ISC takes care of dissemination of call for papers/participation under approval of

AP Director, announcement of homepage and newsletter updates, approval of subscription requests, and

so on. ISC is currently looking to improve two-way interactions between the APB and its members.

Membership Development Committee (MDC)

Greetings! For the term 2016/2017 Meixia Tao and I serve as the co-chairs of the membership development

committee (MDC) together with Osamu Muta, Hai Lin and Munir Mohammed as vice chairs. The MDC is

working to promote ComSoc membership throughout the AP region by helping establish new ComSoc chapters

and better serving regional needs. Due to the worldwide economic recession, the number of ComSoc members

in the AP region has decreased from 13,178 to 7,733 from 2014 to 2015 with a larger decreasing rate for student

members. This seems certainly a challenge to ComSoc at the current stage. However, we have opportunities

with emerging new technologies such as internet-of-things, smart cities and autonomous vehicles. In these new

emerging technology trends, communication surely has roles and should take initiatives. While the number of

ComSoc members decreased last year, there also have been vigorous activities to develop new ComSoc

communities and to promote membership throughout the region. Many distinguished lecture tours were given

and many student activities were held. Furthermore, the Chengdu chapter in China was newly established in

2015 and the Daejeon chapter in Korea is under establishment. We thank you all for such support and services.

For continuation and further development of ComSoc membership in the AP region, we need your kind support

and involvement. See you in Globecom 2016.

Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC)

- Collaborate with the ComSoc Office in running Distinguished Lecturer Tours (DLTs) and Distinguished

Lecturer Programs (DLPs)

- Collaborate with the Comsoc Office in coordinating ComSoc Executives' visit to Chapters

Conference Name Conference Date City Country Paper Deadline

IEEE DySPAN 2017 Mar. 6-9, 2017 Baltimore USA Oct. 15, 2016

IEEE WCNC 2017 Mar. 19-22, 2017 San Francisco USA Oct. 7, 2016

IEEE INFOCOM 2017 May 1-4, 2017 Atlanta USA Jul. 29, 2016

IEEE ICC 2017 May 21-25, 2017 Paris France Oct. 28, 2016

IEEE SmartGridComm 2017 Oct. 23-26, 2017 Dresden Germany Apr. 17, 2017

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Asia-Pacific Region Officers (2016 – 2017)

Director:

Takaya Yamazato

Past Director:

Wanjiun Liao

Vice Directors:

Saewoong Bahk

Sumei Sun

Wei Zhang

Secretary:

Hiroshi Shigeno

Takaya Miyazawa

Treasurer:

Hiroshi Shigeno

AP Office:

Fanny Su

Ewell Tan

Munir Mohamned

Special Liaison for ComSoc Activities:

Chen Hsiao-Hwa

Nei Kato

Borhanuddin Mohd Ali

Tomoaki Ohtsuki

Sunghyun Choi

Technical Affairs Committee:

Chairs: Jianwei Huang

Takahiko Saba

Vice Chairs: Lingyang Song

Hsuan-Jung Su

Meetings & Conferences Committee:

Chair: Jiming Chen

Vice Chair: Mianxiong Don

Information Services Committee:

Chairs: Y.-W. Peter Hong

Hung-Yun Hsieh

Vice Chairs: Wan Choi

Tony Q. S. Quek

Membership Development Committee:

Chairs: Youngchul Sung

Meixia Tao

Vice Chairs: Osamu Muta

Hai Lin

Munir Mohammed

Chapters Coordination Committee:

Chairs: Eiji Oki

Miki Yamamoto

Vice Chairs: Byonghyo Shim

Masaki Bandai

Advisors:

Tomonori Aoyama (Keio University)

Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University)

Daehyoung Hong (Sogang University)

Noriyoshi Kuroyanagi (Chubu University)

Byeong Gi Lee (Seoul National University)

Kwang Bok Lee (Seoul National University)

Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)

Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University)

Naohisa Ohta (Keio University)

Iwao Sasase (Keio University)

Desmond Taylor (University of Canterbury)

Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University)

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