No. 52, December 2017

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1 No. 52, December 2017 Website: Edited by Y.-W. Peter Hong, Hung-Yun Hsieh, Tony Q. S. Quek, and Wan Choi Table of Contents Message from the APB Director... 1 Words from Sister Society IEEE ComSoc APB Awards Announcement... 3 Interview of Best/Outstanding Young Researchers... 7 Interview of Outstanding Paper Award Winners Table of Contents Report on DLTs/DSPs in the AP Region What s Up on the Asia-Pacific Board? Upcoming Conferences Asia-Pacific Region Officers Takaya Yamazato How quickly time flies! My term as the AP Director is left for another one month only. During past two years, our team works tirelessly to provide value to our members by providing exceptional services. Vice Director Prof. Saewoong Bahk and Technical Affairs Committee Co-Chairs, Prof. Jianwei Huang and Prof. Takahiko Saba have done excellent jobs on selecting Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards and Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Awards. Vice Director Dr. Sumei Sun and Information Services Committee Co-Chairs, Prof. Yao-Win Peter Hong and Prof. Hung-Yun Hsieh updated our new homepage and published AP Newsletters. Meeting & Conference Committee Chair Prof. Jiming Chen has collected conferences in our region. Vice Director Prof. Wei Zhang and Membership Development Committee Co-Chairs: Associate Prof. Youngchul Sung and Prof. Meixia Tao have reported lates membership statistics. Prof. Wei Zhang helps to organize Asia-Pacific Regional Chapter Chairs Conference (AP RCCC). Chapters Coordination Committee Co-Chairs Prof. Eiji Oki leads DLT/DSP approval process, and Prof. Miki Yamamoto coordinates Sister Societies. APB Secretaries, Associate Prof. Hiroshi Shigeno and Dr. Takaya Miyazawa, supported our activities together with AP office, Ms. Fanny Su and Ms. Ewell Tan, and IEEE India Office, Mr. Munir Mohammed. Ms. Carol Cronin, Administrator of ComSoc, also helped our activities, including DLT/DSP approval process, AP newsletter distribution, and AP RCCC. If it had not been for her support, we would have failed in organizing AP RCCC. Last but not the least, I would like to express my sincere thanks again to all the APB officers and also AP Chapter Chairs. I enjoyed working with you very much and will do my best for a prosperous future of AP region. Please continue your high supports to the newly selected director and his/her team to provide even better service to our local members. I also encourage as many of our members as possible to get involved and serve on one of the committees, as the best networking often occurs when you are working toward a common goal. Thank you and Sayonara.

2 2 Introduction to IEICE Communications Society (IEICE-CS) Kohei Shiomoto Vice President, the IEICE-CS The IEICE-CS, the Communications Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, was established in We are celebrating the 100th anniversary this year. Since 1995, the IEICE has been organized as four societies and one group: Engineering Sciences Society (ESS), Communications Society (CS), Electronics Society (ES), Information and Systems Society (ISS), and Human Communication Group (HCG). Communications Society (CS) deals with information communication technologies. As of March 2017, the IEICE-CS accommodates 10,606 members including 1,253 overseas members from 51 countries. Two pillars of the activities of the IEICE-CS are publication services and technical committee conferences. Regarding publications services, the IEICE Transactions on Communications is published monthly ( and is included in SCI (Science Citation Index). Papers are published on-line immediately after acceptance. 289 papers were published in 2016, average time to the first review result notification was 2.8 months. IEICE Transactions on Communications in Japanese is published monthly. IEICE Communications Express (ComEX) is published monthly as online letter journal and is included in ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index). Papers are DOI attached and openly accessible through the Internet ( Papers with multimedia files such as movie files can be published. Short papers are published in a short time after acceptance. Published on-line immediately after acceptance (35 days before publication). The average time to the review result notification is 20 days. GLOBAL NEWSLETTER is published quarterly that reports the Communications Society s activities and conferences. Communications Society Magazine, B-plus is published quarterly that reports technical reviews, surveys, practical topics etc. in Japanese and available online free of charge. News is issued occasionally since Regarding technical committees (TCs), currently 21 regular and 7 ad-hoc TCs are active. Each regular TC organizes TC conferences 4 times or more per year to stimulate early feedback and discussion by allowing any type of presentation including R&D result, idea and discussion without peer review. Technical report is issued for each conference. About 2,800 papers are presented at the conferences per year. Ad-hoc TCs organize conferences to discuss special, hot or interdisciplinary topics. Each conference havs various style of discussions including regular presentation, tutorial, hands-on, and contest. IEICE-CS also provides some services to the members of the sister societies based on agreements with individual societies: IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), Korean Information and Communications Society (KICS), Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science (KIEES), Informatiostechnische Gesellschaft within The Verband Der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik (VDE/ITG), China Institute of Communications (CIC), IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMCS).

3 3 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 to Dec. 2016). Eligibility: The upper age limit for the applicant is 35 (i.e., the applicant must be born on or after 1981/01/01). 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 2017: Best Young Researcher Award Xiangyun (Sean) Zhou (The Australian National University, Australia) for his contributions and leadership in physical-layer security research Outstanding Young Researcher Awards Xu Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China) for his contributions to socially-driven mobile networking and computing Junil Choi (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) for his contributions to the design of FDD massive MIMO systems Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China) for his contributions to the development and application of wireless transmission technologies Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan) for his contributions to modeling, analysis, and optimization of cyber-physical systems Jiajia Liu (Xidian University, China) for his contributions to device-to-device communications Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University, China) for his contributions to green wireless communications

4 4 List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Awards ( ) Year Best Young Researcher Outstanding Young Researchers 2001 (1 st ) Dr. Byoung-Hoon Kim Dr. Wen-Jyi Hwang Dr. Eiji Oki Dr. Tomoaki Otsuki Dr. Shiann-Tsong Sheu 2005 (2 nd ) Dr. Qian Zhang Dr. Ki-Dong Lee Dr. Jia-Chin Lin Dr. Naoki Wakamiya 2007 (3 rd ) Dr. Phone Lin Dr. W. Choi Dr. H. Harai Dr. H. F. Lu 2009 (4 th ) Dr. Tarik Taleb Dr. Sangheon Pack Dr. Wei Zhang Dr. Xinbing Wang Dr. Meixia Huang Dr. Jianwei Huang 2010 (5 th ) Dr. Wei Chen Dr. Y.-W. Peter Hong Dr. Bang Chul Jung Dr. Ting See Ho 2011 (6 th ) Dr. Rui Zhang Dr. Himal Asanga Suraweera Dr. Chee Wei Tan Dr. Wenyi Zhang Dr. Shinya Sugiura Dr. Jiming Chen 2012 (7 th ) Dr. Dusit Niyato Dr. Chi Zhang Dr. Lingyang Song Dr. Chau Yuen Dr. Chan Byoung Chae Dr. Sudip Misra 2013 (8 th ) Dr. Mathew McKay Dr. Feifei Gao Dr. Kyoung-Jae Lee Dr. Rongxing Lu Dr. Hiroki Nishiyama Dr. Caijun Zhong 2014 (9 th ) Dr. Yulong Zou Dr. Nan Yang Dr. Haojin Zhu Dr. Kaishun Wu Dr. Jemin Lee Dr. Mugen Peng 2015 (10 th ) Dr. Mo Li Dr. Tsung-Hui Chang Dr. Xiang Cheng Dr. Lingjie Duan Dr. Zubair Fadlullah Dr. Shibo He 2016 (11 th ) Dr. Jun Zhang Dr. Lin Gao Dr. Namyoon Lee Dr. Yong Li Dr. Qian Wang Dr. Guanding Yu

5 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award 5 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 to Dec. 2016). 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 2014 to December 2016). 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). Outstanding Paper Award Winners for Year 2017: Title: Relay-by-smartphone: realizing multihop device-to-device communications Authors: Hiroki Nishiyama, Masaya Ito, and Nei Kato Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, (Volume: 52, Issue: 4, April 2014) Title: Hybrid Full-/Half-duplex System Analysis in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Authors: Jemin Lee and Tony Q. S. Quek Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, (Volume: 14, Issue: 5, May 2015) List of Winners of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards ( ) Year Outstanding Papers 2012 (1 st ) 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 , June (2 nd ) 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 , Aug 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 , Dec

6 6 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 ,Nov (3 rd ) 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 , Apr 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 , Feb 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 , Mar (4 th ) 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 , Feb 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 , Sep (5 th ) Title: Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture design and rate-energy tradeoff Authors: Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho Source: IEEE Transactions on Communications (Volume: 61, Issue: 11, Nov. 2013) Title: Relaying protocols for wireless energy harvesting and information processing Authors: Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy. Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Volume: 12, Issue: 7, Jul. 2013)

7 7 Best Young Researcher Award Winner Xiangyun (Sean) Zhou (Australian National University, Australia) Xiangyun (Sean) Zhou received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Australian National University (ANU) in From June 2010 to June 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UNIK, University of Oslo in Norway. He joined the ANU in June 2011 and currently works as a Senior Lecturer. His research interests are in the field of communication theory and wireless networks. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. Dr. Zhou has been serving as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications since 2014 and IEEE Communications Letters since He previously served as a Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine in 2015 on the special issue of Wireless Physical Layer Security. He was an organizer of various international workshops at ICC and Globecom He also served as a symposium/track chair for 2016 IEEE ICCC and 2017 IEEE VTC-Spring. Previously, he chaired the joint chapter of IEEE Communications and Signal Processing Societies in the ACT Section of Australia in Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field? While the research on physical layer security has picked up a lot of momentum in the past decade, it still seems distant away from standardization and large-scale commercial use. A core issue is the lack of a widelyaccepted performance metric that is easily measurable in practice. Looking back at my research on this topic in the last eight years, I really like the work that triggered rethinking on the secrecy metrics, by revealing the fundamental limitations of the existing metrics and proposing new metrics that inform practical design and give insight into measurable eavesdropping performance. The future of physical layer security relies on more efforts in this line of research. 2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years? My ongoing research is moving towards enabling communication and networking technologies for lowcomplexity energy-constrained IoT devices. Wireless communication security continues to be an important issue and physical-layer approaches have their unique features that suit various IoT application scenarios. Communication among energy-constrained devices can be potentially enabled by energy harvesting, backscattering, and wireless-powered communications. It is an exciting time to contribute to the next generation communication platform for future IoT applications.

8 8 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Xu Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Xu Chen (S'09-M'12) is a Full Professor at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, China, and currently leading the Smart Mobile Networking and Computing Laboratory. He received B.Eng. from South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2008, and Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA from Aug to Feb. 2014, and then a Humboldt Scholar Fellow at Institute of Computer Science of University of Goettingen, Germany from April 2014 to Aug Dr. Chen has published over 60 scientific papers in leading international conferences and journals, many of which appear in top-tier conferences such as MOBIHOC, ICDCS and INFOCOM and top-tier journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TON and IEEE TMC. Dr. Chen received the prestigious Humboldt research fellowship awarded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2014 Hong Kong Young Scientist Runner-up Award, 2016 Thousand Talents Plan Award for Young Professionals of China, Honourable Mention Award of 2010 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), Best Paper Runner-up Award of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), and Best Paper Award of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field? With the explosive growth of online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and WeChat, more and more people are actively involved in online social interactions, which have opened up a new avenue for socially-aware cooperative network design. Motivated by this, we have developed a novel socially-driven framework of social group utility maximization to enable effective and efficient collaborative network resource sharing by exploiting the social tie structure among mobile users. Such cooperation among mobile devices with trust enables self-organizing networking, and has potential to achieve substantial gains in spectral efficiency and lead to significant increases in network capacity. Our work on social group utility maximization received 2014 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Runner-Up Award. 2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years? Mobile edge computing is a new paradigm that provides low latency as well as agile computation augmenting services for supporting many computation-intensive intelligent mobile applications via efficient computation offloading at network edges. Along this line, we have a recent work Efficient Multi-User Computation Offloading for Mobile-Edge Cloud Computing published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. By drawing on a synergy of advanced mathematical tools including game theory, dynamic optimization and stochastic analysis, we are going to develop transformational and innovative ideas and techniques of exploring social, computation and communication dimensions for efficient edge computing system design, by taking into account variety of system factors including network dynamics, resource heterogeneity, incentive constraint and energy efficiency.

9 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Junil Choi (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) 9 Junil Choi received the B.S. (with honors) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in He is now with the department of electrical engineering at POSTECH as an assistant professor. From 2007 to 2011, he was a member of technical staff at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) where he contributed to advanced codebook and feedback framework designs for the 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced and IEEE m standards. Before joining POSTECH, he was a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in the design and analysis of massive MIMO, mmwave communication systems, distributed reception, and vehicular communication systems. Dr. Choi was a co-recipient of a 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the 2013 Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Signal Processing for Communications Symposium Best Paper Award, and a 2008 Global Samsung Technical Conference Best Paper Award. He was awarded the Michael and Katherine Birck Fellowship from Purdue University in 2011; the Korean Government Scholarship Program for Study Overseas in ; and the Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Student Research Award in Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field? Massive MIMO has been driving a considerable interest from both academia and industry. Although most work from academia focused on TDD to rely on channel reciprocity and sidestep difficult challenges of downlink channel training and quantization of FDD with a large number of antennas, the industry is extremely interested in deploying FDD massive MIMO for many practical reasons, e.g., backward compatibility. In my recent work, I designed practical downlink channel training and quantization techniques for FDD massive MIMO. Many channel quantization techniques I developed were presented during 3GPP standardization meetings, and one of my downlink training papers received a 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. 2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years? Massive MIMO is now facing a new era of practical implementations. In addition to designing FDD massive MIMO systems, I am also interested in using non-ideal hardware components for massive MIMO to reduce the implementation cost and power consumption caused by using a large number of antennas. My pioneer work on massive MIMO symbol detection and channel estimation using one-bit ADCs has gained considerable interest recently. There are still many practical issues on implementing massive MIMO systems, and I will devote myself to these interesting problems to make practical massive MIMO systems for next several years.

10 10 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China) Linglong Dai (M 11 SM 14) received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2003, the M.S. degree (with the highest honor) from the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree (with the highest honor) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in From 2011 to 2013, he was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, where he has been an Assistant Professor since 2013 and then an Associate Professor since He has authored over 50 IEEE journal papers and over 30 IEEE conference papers with over 2500 citations. He also holds 13 granted patents. His current research interests include massive MIMO, millimeter-wave communications, multiple access, and sparse signal processing. He has received four conference Best Paper Awards from IEEE ICC 2013, IEEE ICC 2014, IEEE ICC 2017, and IEEE VTC 2017-Fall. He has also received IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Best Paper Award in 2015, URSI AP-RASC Young Scientist Award in 2016, and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Outstanding Young Scholar Award in He currently serves as the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Communications Letters. 1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field? My most significant contribution to the research field is to develop the framework of efficient acquisition and utilization of high-dimensional channel state information in the emerging massive MIMO systems. I firstly proposed the non-orthogonal pilot design based on the compressive sensing theory to solve the challenging problem of massive MIMO channel estimation in the downlink, and then I proposed the subspace codebook to realize the efficient channel feedback in the uplink. Finally, a near-optimal successive interference cancellation (SIC)-based hybrid precoding scheme was proposed to significantly reduce the power consumption and hardware cost of massive MIMO systems. The developed framework has also been implemented and verified in a 128-antenna massive MIMO prototype. 2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years? My research in the near future is to evolve massive MIMO at higher frequencies, with more antennas, and in wider applications. Specifically, currently massive MIMO is mainly developed in the sub-6 GHz microwave frequencies, while the move to higher frequencies including millimeter-wave (mmwave) and Terahertz (THz) is very promising to further increase the data rate. Second, the use of more antennas (e.g., from 128 to 1024 antennas or even more) is able to provide higher antenna gain to enhance the link reliability. Finally, massive MIMO is mainly considered for terrestrial communications now, while it can be also extended to wider applications such as space communications (including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), stratospheric balloons, and satellites) and ocean communications to enlarge the coverage.

11 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan) Mianxiong Dong received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Aizu, Japan. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. He was a JSPS Research Fellow with School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu, Japan and was a visiting scholar with BBCR group at University of Waterloo, Canada supported by JSPS Excellent Young Researcher Overseas Visit Program from April 2010 to August Dr. Dong was selected as a Foreigner Research Fellow (a total of 3 recipients all over Japan) by NEC C&C Foundation in His research interests include Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, and Cyber-Physical Systems. He has received best paper awards from IEEE HPCC 2008, IEEE ICESS 2008, ICA3PP 2014, GPC 2015, IEEE DASC 2015, IEEE VTC 2016-Fall, FCST 2017 and 2017 IET Communications Premium Award. Dr. Dong serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN), IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Cloud Computing, IEEE Access, as well as a leading guest editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS). He has been serving as Leading Symposium Chair of IEEE ICC 2019, Student Travel Grants Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, and Symposium Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, He is the recipient of IEEE TCSC Early Career Award 2016, IEEE SCSTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2017 and The 12th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field? For me, the most significant work in the last three years is the paper named Joint Optimization of Lifetime and Transport Delay under Reliability Constraint Wireless Sensor Networks, which is published in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). This is the first work achieving all of network reliability, transport performance, and lifetime optimization for the complex cluster based networks. A key finding is that we theoretically analyze the node energy consumption and transport delay under certain reliability, and conclude that there exists the optimal cluster radius to maximize the network lifetime and minimize the transport delay. 2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years? My future research plan in the next two years is to employ the state-of-the-art deep learning technologies in the network optimization. In the era of big data, deep learning plays an important role due to its strong abilities in feature extraction and pattern recognition. With the large number of data captured from various network devices, we plan to look for some new theories and approaches, using deep learning methods, in order to further optimize the energy consumption, transfer rate, QoE, security and many other factors in the communication process. 11

12 12 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Jiajia Liu (Xidian University, China) Jiajia Liu (S 11-M 12-SM 15) received his Ph.D. degree in information sciences from Tohoku University in He has been a Full Professor at the School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, since 2013, and has been the director of the Institute of Network Science and Technology at Xidian University since He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in many high quality publications, including prestigious IEEE journals and conferences. His research interests include mobile ad hoc networks, mobile edge computing, vehicle security, D2D communication. He received the Best Paper Awards from many international conferences including IEEE flagship events, such as IEEE GLOBECOM in 2016, IEEE WCNC in 2012 and He was the recipient of the prestigious 2012 Niwa Yasujiro Outstanding Paper Award due to his exceptional contribution to the analytics modeling of two-hop ad hoc mobile networks. He was also a recipient of the Tohoku University President Award 2013, Graduate School of Information Sciences Dean Award 2013, Professor Genkuro Fujino Award 2012, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Students Abroad 2011 and the RIEC Student Award He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. 1. Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field? In my case, it is Device-to-Device Communications Achieve Efficient Load Balancing in LTE-Advanced Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 21, no. 2, pp.57-65, April We presented, as the first work, a general method of utilizing device-to-device (D2D) communication for efficiently detouring traffic from highly congested cells to neighboring idle ones. In light of the emerging ultra-dense heterogeneous deployment of various small cells, our method has brought up lots of promising opportunities and solutions, since in such deployment the link distance between a base station and a mobile user is almost on the same scale as that of D2D link. 2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years? Observing the dynamic change in spatial dimension caused by the ultra-dense deployment of small cells, I will re-investigate available and ongoing communications and networking techniques, such as massive MIMO, CoMP, SON, carrier aggregation, full duplex radio, and D2D communications. Also, as mobile users suffer from much more frequent and complicated handovers when moving around, I will explore how to implement effective mobility management, and inter-cell resource allocation and cooperation so as to guarantee the QoE of end-users in afflicted area.

13 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University, China) 13 Sheng Zhou is an associate professor in Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. From January to June 2010, he visited Wireless System Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University. From November 2014 to January 2015, he was a visiting researcher in Central Research Lab of Hitachi Ltd., Japan. His research interests include cross-layer design for multiple antenna systems, cloud radio access networks, and green wireless communications. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award from APCC in 2009 and 2013, ICCT 13, WCSP 13, and ITC 13. He was recognized as the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer in 2015, and has been serving as an associate editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters since He served as the guest co-editor for the IEEE/CIC China Communications feature topic on Energy Conservation and Harvesting for Green Communications. He served as the symposium/track co-chair of APCC 17, IEEE PIMRC 17, and IEEE ICCC 15; as the publicity chair of IEEE ICC 16, ITC 16, IEEE Online GreenComm 14, and IEEE ICCC Please briefly introduce the most significant work you have contributed to the research field? An important path of green wireless communications is exploiting renewable energy. I have been working on the challenging problem of applying the unstable renewable energy in wireless networks with QoS guarantee. One of my most significant works is designing effective ways of using the harvested energy via jointly scheduling the energy and information storages, so as to address the unmatched renewable energy arrivals and traffic demands over time. Via proactive caching and push, the renewable energy can be more efficiently utilized while guaranteeing timely content delivery. This work has shed lights on understanding the fundamental connection between the energy and information with timeliness constraints. 2. Where do you see your research heading in the next 2 years? In the next two years, my research will mainly focus on the timely information delivery with energy constraints, with attentions on the latency related performance metrics like age of information, inter-delivery time, and etc. The key challenge lies in meeting the stringent latency requirements, given the multifold dynamics from traffic arrivals, dynamic energy harvesting, and channel variations. The research will be adopted under specific applications, e.g., sensing-based control, artificial intelligence with wireless data collection. Accordingly, we will try to reveal the impact of energy consumption from sensing and transmission, on the performance of control and machine learning mechanisms.

14 14 Title: Relay-by-Smartphone: Realizing Multihop Device-to-Device Communications Authors: Hiroki Nishiyama, Masaya Ito, and Nei Kato Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, (Volume: 52, Issue: 4, April 2014) Abstract: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami drastically changed Japanese society, and the requirements for ICT was completely redefined. After the disaster, it was impossible for disaster victims to utilize their communication devices, such as cellular phones, tablet computers, or laptop computers, to notify their families and friends of their safety and confirm the safety of their loved ones since the communication infrastructures were physically damaged or lacked the energy necessary to operate. Due to this drastic event, we have come to realize the importance of device-to-device communications. With the recent increase in popularity of D2D communications, many research works are focusing their attention on a centralized network operated by network operators and neglect the importance of decentralized infrastructureless multihop communication, which is essential for disaster relief applications. In this article, we propose the concept of multihop D2D communication network systems that are applicable to many different wireless technologies, and clarify requirements along with introducing open issues in such systems. The first generation prototype of relay by smartphone can deliver messages using only users' mobile devices, allowing us to send out emergency messages from disconnected areas as well as information sharing among people gathered in evacuation centers. The success of field experiments demonstrates steady advancement toward realizing user-driven networking powered by communication devices independent of operator networks. 1. What is the major contribution of this paper? The paper addresses on device-to-device multi-hop communications which allows us to communicate with each other even in disaster affected area without using network infrastructures. By relaying data via surrounding smartphones based on WiFi, information can be shared between not only near people but also people in a far distance. Therefore, we can expect many future applications such as communications in emergency cases caused by disasters, coupons delivery and advertisements in shopping centers, sharing information in crowded event places, and so forth. The idea can be easily used to expand the Wi-Fi coverage from less than 100 meters of the original Wi-Fi coverage to more than two to three kilometers depending on the relay hops and how much a user tolerates delay in the application. The prototype has been successfully implemented to combine with Wi-Fi access points to provide wider coverage areas than the areas those systems could originally provide. 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? Not only the idea is brand new but also authors have successfully put the idea into practice use. After the field test of the prototype during , the name Relay-by-Smartphone has been filed for trademark

15 15 registration by a leading Japanese software company KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING Inc.. The product of this idea has been commercialized by this company together with NTT and has been delivered to university for preparation of next disaster. In August 2016, the Replay-by-Smartphone system has been brought to Philippine Cebu Island, which was heavily affected by Super Typhoon in 2013 to further show its effectiveness in various disaster scenes. Title: Hybrid Full-/Half-duplex System Analysis in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Authors: Jemin Lee and Tony Q. S. Quek Source: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, (Volume: 14, Issue: 5, May 2015) Abstract: Full-duplex (FD) radio has been introduced for bidirectional communications on the same temporal and spectral resources so as to maximize spectral efficiency. In this paper, motivated by the recent advances in FD radios, we provide a foundation for HDHNs, composed of multi-tier networks with a mixture of APs, operating either in bidirectional FD mode or downlink HD mode. Specifically, we characterize the network interference from FD-mode cells, and derive the HDHN throughput by accounting for AP spatial density, self-ic capability, and transmission power of APs and users. By quantifying the HDHN throughput, we present the effect of network parameters and the self-interference cancellation (IC) capability on the HDHN throughput, and show the superiority of FD mode for larger AP densities (i.e., larger network interference and shorter communication distance) or higher self-ic capability. Furthermore, our results show operating all APs in FD or HD achieves higher throughput compared to the mixture of two mode APs in each tier network, and introducing hybridduplex for different tier networks improves the heterogeneous network throughput. 1. What is the major contribution of this paper? The full-duplex radio has become a promising technology for future wireless networks. However, there are challenging issues due to the inevitable self-interference, received from own transmission, and increased network interference from larger number of concurrent transmitting nodes. Hence, it is crucial to investigate the performance of full-duplex systems in a network setting, especially in the interference-limited large-scale networks. This paper develops a fundamental framework of the novel hybrid-duplex heterogeneous cellular networks, which are composed of multi-tier networks with a mixture of APs operating either in bidirectional full-duplex or downlink half-duplex mode. Using the stochastic geometry, the modeling methodology and understanding of network interference from full-duplex nodes are provided. The optimal portion of full-duplex mode APs is given in terms of the network throughput according to the self-interference cancellation capability and network parameters. The results in this paper provides practical insights on the best configuration of full- /half-duplex systems in heterogeneous networks. 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? In a recent few years, the full duplex radios has been actively researched in various network settings. The

16 16 performance of full-duplex enabled networks has been investigated for (massive) MIMO systems, device-todevice (D2D) communications, ultra-dense networks, and also physical layer security. Furthermore, recently, the full duplex radios have also been considered for mobile caching systems and mobile edge computing systems. Despite of current active researches, there are still challenges and issues to be solved to really implement full duplex systems in commercial networks. To make the full duplex system more reliable in practice, the research for the interactive designs between the network aspect (e.g., interfering nodes and antenna setup) and the full duplex radio aspect (e.g., self-interference cancellation and power control) are expected. Furthermore, the practical performance of full-duplex radios needs to be investigated in various scenarios to provide feasible system parameters and network setups.

17 17 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 3 DSPs in the Asia Pacific Region. Please see the following for further details*. *Some information below is extracted from the DLT approval letters and may differ slightly from the actual events AP DLT #1: 9-15 January 2017 by Prof. Rath Vannithamby 2017 AP DLT #2: 4-11 Feb 2017 by Prof. Tarik Taleb 2017 AP DLT #3: 20 July 30 July 2017 by Prof. Jiajia Liu 2017 AP DLT #4: 9 Feb.-3 March 2017 by Prof. Liuqing Yang 2017 AP DLT #5: March 2017 by Prof. Ashutosh Dutta 2017 AP DLT #6: 6-10 March 2017 by Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen (Details of the above can be found in the May 2017 issue of the APB newsletter.) 2017 AP DLT #7: April 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tarik Taleb Hosting Chapter Tokyo Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Hidenori Nakazato Prof. Tarik Taleb delivered a lecture series at the following locations: 1. Tokyo, Japan 13 April 2017 Lecture Venue: Waseda University 2. Tokyo, Japan 14 April 2017 Lecture Venue: NICT or The University of Tokyo 3. Hokkaido, Japan 18 April 2017 Lecture Venue: Future University of Hakodate 2017 AP DLT #8: 29 June-11 July 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Tom Hou Hosting Chapter Kansai Chapter Tokyo Joint Chapter Sendai 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Kazuo Kumamoto Hidenori Nakazato Nei Kato Prof. Tom Hou delivered a lecture series on Pushing the Capacity Envelope of Wireless Networks: Opportunities and Challenges at the following locations: 1. Kyoto, Japan 30 June 2017

18 18 Lecture Venue: Kyoto University 2. Tokyo, Japan 6 July 2017 Lecture Venue: National Institute of Informatics 3. Sendai, Japan 10 July 2017 Lecture Venue: Tohoku University DLT Report by Prof. Tom Hou: (The following is a shortened version of the DLT report provided by Prof. Tom Hou) 1. Kyoto, Japan My first stop of this tour was Kyoto, Japan. My host was Prof. Koji Yamamoto of Kyoto University. Kyoto University is ranked as a top university in Japan. The City of Kyoto is within ComSoc s Kansai chapter and the chapter chair is Prof. Kazuo Kumamoto of Osaka Institute of Technology. The title of my lecture was Pushing the Capacity Envelope of Wireless Networks: Opportunities and Challenges. My lecture focused on how to exploit advanced physical (PHY) layer technologies such as cognitive radio, massive MIMO, full duplex, mmwave to improve throughput performance at the network level. Although it is well known that these technologies can improve point-to-point throughput performance, it remains unclear whether such performance gain can be retained in a complex network environment. A fundamental exploration of this question is important not only for gaining new theoretical understanding, but also is critical for the design of algorithms and network protocols in the field. In my talk, I pointed out the challenges in the modeling and optimization of these new physical layer technologies in a network environment with the goal of pushing the capacity envelop at the network level. As a case study, I presented my recent research on how to exploit 60 GHz mmwave technologies to improve throughput in a WLAN. Attendees of my lecture include Profs. Masahiro Morikura, Koji Yamamoto, and Takayuki Nishio of Kyoto University, Prof. Kazuo Kumamoto of Osaka Institute of Technology, and a group of more than 10 graduate students. Following my talk, we had an excellent Q&A session. After my lecture, Prof. Koji Yamamoto hosted a luncheon for me at a traditional Japanese tempura restaurant. This is my first time to see every kind of meat and vegetable can be cooked in tempura style. They were delicious. 2. Tokyo, Japan My second stop on this DLT was Tokyo, Japan. My host was Prof. Yusheng Ji of National Institute of

19 19 Informatics (NII). Tokyo is under ComSoc Sapporo-Shinetsu-Tokyo-Nagoya-Shikoku-Hiroshima-Fukuoka Joint Sections Chapter and is among the largest ComSoc chapters in Asia Pacific region. Chapter chair is Prof. Hidenori Nakazato of Waseda University. My lecture was well attended by people from academia, government labs, and industry. Among the attendees were Kazuo Hagimoto (President and CEO of NTT Electronics Corp.), Dr. Naoki Oguchi (Research Manager of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.), Prof. Hidenori Nakazato of Waseda University (Chair of ComSoc Tokyo joint chapter), Prof. Yusheng Ji, Prof. Megumi Kaneko, and Dr. Lei Zhong of NII, Dr. Kien Nguyen of NICT, Prof. Celimuge Wu of the Univ. of Electro-Communications, and Prof. Zhi Liu of Shizuoka University. We had an extended Q&A session after my lecture. There were some questions geared toward the practical implementation of 60GHz mmwave based WLAN. There were also some researchers who had been following my work on MIMO network research. They raised a few questions on modeling and optimization of MIMO networks. After my lecture, Prof. Ji hosted a luncheon for me at the prestigious GakushiKaikan near NII. GakushiKaikan was constructed as a club house to enhance the friendship and communication of the graduates from seven major Japanese universities (Hokkaido University, Tohoku University, The University of Tokyo, Nagoya University, Kyoto University, Osaka University, and Kyushu University) in It is quite befitting of my DLT as Kyoto University and Tohoku University are my two stops of this tour and many of the attendees of my lectures came from these universities. After the luncheon, Prof. Ji had a meeting with me in her NII office and gave me an overview of research activities at NII. We also discussed future visits and collaboration opportunities between our institutions. 3. Sendai, Japan The last stop of my DLT was Sendai. My host was Prof. Nei Kato of Tohoku University. Prof. Kato gave me a warm welcome at Sendai train station and then treated me with a Japanese lunch. Then we headed to Tohoku University for my lecture. Following the lecture, Prof. Kato met with me and we discussed the upcoming US-Japan research collaboration program by NSF and NICT.

20 AP DLT #9: 9 July 13 July 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Anura Jayasumana Hosting Chapter Lahore Chapter Karachi Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Kashif Bashir Faisal Karim Shaikh Prof. Anura Jayasumana delivered a lecture series at the following locations: 1. Lahore, Pakistan 9 July 2017 Lecture Venue: FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences Lahore 2. Lahore, Pakistan 10 July 2017 Lecture Venue: University of Engineering & Technology 3. Lahore, Pakistan 10 July 2017 Lecture Venue: Lahore University of Management Sciences 4. Karachi, Pakistan 11 July 2017 Lecture Venue: Sir Syed University 5. Hyderabad, Pakistan 12 July 2017 Lecture Venue: Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro 2017 AP DLT #10: July 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen Hosting Chapter Beijing Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Tao Xiaofeng Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen delivered a lecture series at the following locations: 1. Xiamen, China 19 July 2017 Lecture Venue: School of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University 2. Xiamen, China 20 July 2017 Lecture Venue: Jimei University 3. Fuzhou, China 22 July 2017 Lecture Venue: Fuzhou University 2017 AP DLT #11: July 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Song Guo Hosting Chapter New Zealand North South & Central Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Nurul Sarkar Prof. Song Guo Lin delivered a lecture series at the following locations: 1. Auckland, New Zealand 26 July 2017 Lecture Venue: Auckland University of Technology 2. Wellington, New Zealand 27 July 2017

21 Lecture Venue: Victoria University of Wellington 3. Palmerston North, New Zealand 28 July 2017 Lecture Venue: Massey University 4. Christchurch, New Zealand 30 July 2017 Lecture Venue: University of Canterbury AP DLT #12: 30 July 4 August 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Marco Di Renzo Hosting Chapter Tokyo Joint Chapter Kansai Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Hidenori Nakazato Minoru Okada Prof. Marco Di Renzo delivered a lecture series on On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry at the following locations: 1. Tokyo, Japan 1 August 2017 Lecture Venue: University of Electro-Communications 2. Fukuoka, Japan 2 August 2017 Lecture Venue: Kyushu University 3. Osaka, Japan 3 August 2017 Lecture Venue: Osaka Prefecture University DLT Report by Prof. Marco Di Renzo: (The following is a shortened version of the DLT report provided by Prof. Marco Di Renzo) On 1 August 2017, I gave my first lecture at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Tokyo. My hosts were Professor Koji ISHIBASHI and Professor Koichi ADACHI. My talk was given in the morning and was titled On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry. I discussed my current research on stochastic geometry modeling of cellular networks and my recent research results on Spatial Modulation for multiple-antenna systems. The lecture was attended by 25+ professors and students from UEC but also from researchers based in local companies, e.g., NEC. In addition, the chair of the Tokyo Chapter of COMSOC, Professor Hidenori Nakazato, attended the talk. The talk was

22 22 very interactive and engaging with the audience. In the afternoon, I had the opportunity to visit UEC and to discuss with local students about their research activities. Below is a picture taken during my talk. In the late afternoon on 1 August 2017, I left Tokyo to reach Fukuoka. On 2 August 2017, I gave my second lecture at Kyushu University in Fukuoka. My host was Professor Osamu MUTA. My talk was given in the morning and was titled On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry. I discussed my current research on stochastic geometry modeling of cellular networks and my recent research results on Spatial Modulation for multipleantenna systems. The lecture was attended by 20+ professors and students. Among them, there were a few representative people from local companies among which Fujitsu and Panasonic, as well as a few visiting students from Egypt. I received many questions from the audience and we engaged in a very long and fruitful discussion. In the afternoon, I had the opportunity to visit a research center of the University and to discuss with local students and professors about their research activities. Below is a picture taken after my talk with some people who attended it. In the late afternoon on 2 August 2017, I left Fukuoka to reach Osaka. On 3 August 2017, I gave my third lecture at Osaka Prefecture University in Osaka. My host was Professor Hai LIN. My talk was given in the morning and was titled On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry. I discussed my current research on stochastic geometry modeling of cellular networks and my recent research results on Spatial Modulation for multipleantenna systems. The lecture was attended by 15+ professors and students. I received many questions from the students, especially about the experimental activities on Spatial Modulation research and the prototype that I am developing with Orange Labs. In the afternoon, I had the opportunity to visit the University and to meet the students of Professor Hai LIN and to discuss possible collaboration opportunities with them. In the late afternoon on 3 August 2017, I left Osaka to reach Tokyo. I left Tokyo on 4 August 2017 to go back to Paris, France. I take this opportunity to thank all my hosts as well as the IEEE people in the US headquarter for their help and support with the planning of the DLT and for the very warm hospitality during my entire stay in Japan.

23 2017 AP DLT #13: 4-7 August 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Wei Zhang 23 Hosting Chapter Shanghai Chapter Nanjing Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Xinwan Li Lianfeng Shen Prof. Wei Zhang delivered a lecture series on The Drones are Coming! and Beam Modulation for MIMO at the following locations: 1. Shanghai, China 4 August 2017 Lecture Venue: Shanghai Jiaotong University 2. Nanjing, China 7 August 2017 Lecture Venue: Southeast University DLT Report by Prof. Wei Zhang: (The following is a shortened version of the DLT report provided by Prof. Wei Zhang) In August 2017, I travelled to Shanghai and Nanjing, China, to give two DL talks. The first talk I delivered was at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), hosted by Prof. Xinbing Wang, Vice Chair of Shanghai Chapter. The topic of my talk is The Drones are Coming! There were about 30 people attending the talk, including postgraduate students, postdoc and academic staff. After the talk, there were active discussions due to the questions raised up by the attendees. I gave my second DL talk at Southeast University, hosted by Prof. Lianfeng Shen, Chair of Nanjing Chapter. The topic of my talk is Beam Modulation for MIMO. The attendees include Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia, FIEEE, Prof. Xiqi Gao, FIEEE, and Prof. Yongming Huang and other faculty member and postgraduate students. We had lots of discussions after the talk.

24 AP DLT #14: 21 November-7 December 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Jalel Ben-Othman Hosting Chapter Tokyo Joint Chapter Sendai Chapter Taipei Chapter Philippines Chapter Singapore Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Hidenori Nakazato Nei Kato Yao-Win Peter Hong Joel Marciano Teng Joon Lim Prof. Jalel Ben-Othman will be delivering a lecture series on DoS in Vanets an issue or a fatality at the following locations: 1. Tokyo, Japan 22 November 2017 Lecture Venue: Keio University 2. Sendai, Japan 24 November 2017 Lecture Venue: Sendai University 3. Taipei, Taiwan 28 November 2017 Lecture Venue: National Taiwan University 4. Hsinchu, Taiwan 29 November 2017 Lecture Venue: National Tsing Hua University 5. Manilla, Philippines 1 December 2017 Lecture Venue: University of the Philippines Diliman 6. Manilla, Philippines 2 December 2017 Lecture Venue: University of Manilla 7. Singapore 4 December 2017 Lecture Venue: National University of Singapore 2017 AP DLT #15: December 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Dusit (Tao) Niyat Hosting Chapter Tokyo Joint Chapter Thailand Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Hidenori Nakazato Keattisak Sripimanwat Prof. Dusit (Tao) Niyat will deliver a lecture series at the following locations: 1. Tokyo, Japan 13 December 2017 Lecture Venue: The University of Electro-Communications 2. Tokyo, Japan 14 December 2017 Lecture Venue: Tokyo Institute of Technology 3. Osaka, Japan 15 December 2017 Lecture Venue: Osaka University 4. Bangkok, Thailand 25 December 2017 Lecture Venue: King Mongkut s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

25 AP DLT #16: (Dates to be determined) Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. R Venkatesha Prasad Hosting Chapter Sri Lanka Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Dileeka Dias Prof. R Venkatesha Prasad will deliver a lecture series at the following locations: 1. Kandy, Sri Lanka Lecture Venue: University of Peradeniya 2. Galle, Sri Lanka Lecture Venue: University of Ruhuna 3. Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Lecture Venue: University of Moratuwa 2017 AP DSP #1: 24 February 2017 by Prof. Lingyang Song 2017 AP DSP #2: March 2017 by Prof. Ali Begen (Details of the above can be found in the May 2017 issue of the APB newsletter.) 2017 AP DSP #3: November 2017 Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Fawzi Behmann Hosting Chapter Malaysia Chapter 2017 Section / Chapter Chair Aduwati Sali Prof. Fawzi Behmann will deliver a lecture at the following location: - Malaysia 27 November 2016