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Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Technical Committee (SPCE)

Minutes of Technical Committee Meeting at ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

May 26, 2016

1. Introductions – The TC meeting was started at 11:30 AM. The SPCE Chair Dr. Hai Lin introduced the agenda of the meeting and welcomed all SPCE members to the meeting. Attendees introduced themselves.

2. Minutes of Globecom 2015 – The draft minutes of Globecom 2015 SPCE TC meeting were shown and the Chair checked with audience if there were any corrections. There were no requests for modification or other comments and the minutes were then approved to be posted on the SPCE web site.

3. Technical Program Committee Reports

A. SPC Symposium – ICC’16: Co-Chairs of the SPCE to the SPC Symposium: Hsiao-Chun Wu (LSU, USA), Shaodan Ma (University of Macau) and Tomohiko Taniguchi (Fujitsu, Japan); the symposium received a total of 159 submissions; 61 papers were accepted (38.4% acceptance rate). The submitted papers were reviewed by a total of 157 TPC members.

B. WCS Symposium – ICC’16: Co-Chairs of WCS Symposium include Xiaohu Ge (HUST, China), Dimitrie Popescu (Old Dominion University, USA), Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada) and Rui Zhang(National University of Singapore). The Representative of the SPCE to the WCS Symposium is Dimitrie Popescu. This symposium received a total of 490 submissions; 194 papers were accepted (38.8% acceptance rate). The submitted papers were reviewed by a total of 325 TPC members.

C. CT Symposium – ICC’16: Co-Chairs of WCS Symposium include Marco Chiani (University of Bologna, Italy), Marios Kountouris (Supelec, France), Xu (Judy) Zhu (University of Liverpool, UK). The Representative of the SPCE to the CT Symposium is Xu (Judy) Zhu. This symposium received a total of 134 submissions; 53 papers were accepted (39% acceptance rate). The submitted papers were reviewed by a total of 151 TPC members.

D. SPC Symposium – GLOBECOM 2016: Co-chairs for the symposium include Dania Marabissi (University of Florence, Italy), Trung Q. Duong (Queens University Belfast, UK), and Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China). The Representative of the SPCE is Trung Q. Duong. The total submissions received are 153, 174 TPC members secured with each paper allocated to at least 3 reviewers. Decision not made yet.

E. WCS Symposium – GLOBECOM 2016: Co-chairs for the symposium include Yiqing Zhou (Chinese Academy of Science, China), Machail Matthaiou (Queens University Belfast, UK), Shaodan Ma (University of Macau), and Nader Alagha (European Space Agency). The total submissions received are 455, 366 TPC members secured with each paper allocated to at least 3 reviewers. Decision not made yet.

F. CT Symposium – GLOBECOM 2016: Co-chairs for the symposium include Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark), Jinhong Yuan (University of South Wales, Australia), Philippa Martin (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). Jinhong Yuan was commended by SPCE. The total submissions received are 141, 113 TPC members secured with each paper allocated to at least 5 reviewers. Decision not made yet.

4. Other Endorsed Conferences by SPCE

ICSPCS 2015 (Cairns, Australia, December 2015), members involved Tadeusz A. Wysocki, Jinhong Yuan, Octavia Dobre

ICCE 2016 (Ha Long, Vietnam, July 2016), members involved Chau Yuen, Ha Nguyen, Trung Q. Duong

ASMS/SPSC 2016 (Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 2016), members involved Tomaso de Cola, Hung Nguyen, Haijun Zhang

IEEE Sarnoff 2016 (Newark, New Jersey, September 2016), members involved Liang Xiao, Guosen Yue, Tam N. Vu

WCSP 2016 (Yangzhou, China, October 2016), members involved Yulong Zou, Lingyang Song, Shi Jin

ICSPCS 2016 (Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia, Dec 2016), members involved Tadeusz Wysocki, Takahiro Saba, Salman Durani

ICNC 2017 (Silicon Valley, USA, Jan 2017)

5. Special Interest Group (SIG) Activity Report – The TC Chair Dr. Hai Lin overviewed the recent initiatives of SPCE in engaging the members. The following SIGs have been organized recently:

A. SIG on Signal Processing Techniques in 5G Communication Systems. Chairs include Chau Yuen, SUTD, Singapore; Woon Hau Chin, Toshiba Research Lab, UK; Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway; Linglong Dai, Tsinghua University, China and Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA. Over 20 members have been recruited. Recent activities of this SIG includes:

Workshop　”Novel　Waveform　and　MAC　Design　for　5G” @　IEEE　WCNC 2016

A number of special issues have been developed, including IEEE Access Journal, Special Issue on Cooperative and Intelligent Sensing; Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks Journal, Special Issue on Next Generation Wire-less Communication Technologies; EAI Endorsed Transactions on Wireless Spectrum, Special Issue on Cognitive, Cellular, and Mobile Networks; (Submission) A special issue on mmWave communications for 5G; (Submission) A special issue on non-orthogonal multiple access NOMA for 5G

Key roles in major conferences, around 15 conferences have been involved members of this SIG, including Area TPC Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2017; Co-Chair, Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, IEEE ICC 2017; Co-Chair, MAC and Cross-Layer Design Track, IEEE WCNC 2017; TPC Co-Chair, the 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE MSN 2016); Co-Chair, Next Generation Networking Symposium, IEEE ICCC 2016; Co-Chair, Selected Area Communications, IEEE ICCC 2016; Co-Chair, Big data track, WICON 2016; Area TPC Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2016; Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2016; Organizer, Workshop on Multimedia Streaming in Information-/Content-Centeric Networks (MuSIC 2016), in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2016; Co-Chair, Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, IEEE ICC 2016; TPC Co-Chair, The 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2016); Student Travel Grant Co-Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM 2015; Publication Chair, ICCS 2016

B. SIG on Signal Processing Techniques for Big Data in Wireless Networks. Chair: Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas; Vice Chair: Huaiyu Dai, North Carolina State University. Proposed activity plan includes: Journal special issues: JSAC, IEEE Access, EURASIP WIN; Conference workshops and special sessions: Globecom, ICC, WCNC, GlobeSIP; Form LinkedIn group. Recent activity of the SIG include:

Workshop proposals, including IEEE GlobalSIP 2016, Dec. 7 – 9, Washington DC and IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, Dec. 4 – 9, Washington DC

Journal Special Issue proposals including IEEE Access Special Issue on Signal Processing for Big Data and IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Big Data in Wireless Networks

6. New Home Page and Mailing list –　SPCE Chair Hai Lin announced the new SPCE home page and mailing list.

7. Other Business – Next SPCE meeting will be held during GLOBECOM 2016 in Washington DC, USA.

8. Invited talk. Professor Lajos Hanzo of University of Southampton gave an invited talk on A “Spooky Phenomenon at a distance” or a potent wireless tool Dr Einstein? Quantum-Solution in Communications“

9. Adjourn –　The meeting was adjourned at 1:00PM. There were 81 people in attendance.

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