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Vice Director

Chair: SaewoongBahk(Seoul National

University)

Vice Chair: Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University) SasiPilacheriMeethal (Center for Development of Advanced Computing)

Secretary: Young-June Choi (Ajou University)

Asia Pacific Region AP Newsletter No. 42 Dec2012

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

Asia-Pacific Region Officers (2012 – 2013)

Director

Information Services Committee

Chair: Jae-Hyun Kim (Ajou University)

Vice Chair: Young-Chai Ko (Korea University) Sanjay Pawar (Usha Mittal Institute of Technology) Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST) Hung-YunHsieh (National Taiwan University)

Secretary

Kwang Bok Lee (Seoul National University)

Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University) MuralidharanRaghavan() Takaya Yanazato (Nagoya University)

Wan Choi (KAIST)

Oh-Soon Shin (Soongsil University)

Fanny Su

Ewell Tan

TomoakiOhtsuki (Keio University)

AP Office

Meeting & Conference Committee

Technical Affair Committee

Membership Development Committee

Chair: Chengyang Yang(Beihang University)

Vice Chair: Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of

Posts and Telecommunications) Jong-Moon Chung (YonseiUniversity)

Vice Director

Special Liaison for ComSoc Activities

Chair: Jianwei Huang(The Chinese University of

Hong Kong)

Vice Chair: Rui Zhang(National University of

Singapore)

Youngchul Sung(KAIST)

Chair: KoheiShiomoto(NTT)

Vice Chair: Takaya Miyazawa(National Institute of

Information and Communication

Technology) Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University)

Chapters Coordination Commitee

AP Advisors

Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University)

DaehyoungHong (Sogang University)

NoriyoshiKuroyanagi (Chubu University)

ByeongGiLee (Seoul National University)

Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)

NaohisaOhta (Keio University)

IwaoSasase (Keio University)

Desmond Taylor (University of Canterbury)

Tomonori Aoyama (Keio University) ZhishengNiu (Tsinghua University)

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I. Hot Topics

1.1 Message from AP Vice Director, R Muralidharan

Greetings !!! Hope you all are doing well. James Clerk Maxwell's equations predicting

the existence of electromagnetic radiation propagating at the speed of light were made

public in 1865; in 1888 Hertz had demonstrated generation of electromagnetic waves,

and that their properties were similar to those of light.

In 1895, J.C. Bose an Indian Scientist, gave his first public demonstration of

electromagnetic waves, in Calcutta, India, using them to ring a bell remotely and to

explode some gunpowder. The frequencies used were as high as 60 GHz. In 1896 the

Daily Chronicle of England reported: "The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted signals to a

distance of nearly a mile and herein lies the first and obvious and exceedingly valuable application of this

new theoretical marvel." Popov in Russia was doing similar experiments, but had written in December 1895

that he was still entertaining the hope of remote signalling with radio waves. The first successful wireless

signalling experiment by Marconi on Salisbury Plain in England was not until May 1897. (IEEE Transactions

on Microwave Theory and Techniques, December 1997, Vol. 45, No. 12, pp. 2267-2273). According to the

ITU statistics, there are 6 Billion cell phones in the World of which 940 Million are in India and over a Billion

are in China.

The best innovation in the Engineering sector, in my considered opinion is the Telephony and its latest

isotope, the Cell phone.Industrial revolution and modern industry necessitates people to move away from

their close families for work. The community living wherein families used to live together changed

dramatically and nuclear families became the order of the day. This brought in the pain of separation.

People suffered a lot, away from the close and dear ones, which they were not used to. It is this agony that

has been solved by Telephony. A son working in distant area can call up his Mom and talk to her as if he is

next to her and share their thoughts and emotion and love.

Then came the Cell phones – a major paradigm shift in Telephony. Earlier in the wired telephony we used

to call a number and now we can reach an Individual wherever he/she is. The distances that we had to go in

industrial revolution has been shortened to zero by cell telephony. Today we have more than 6 Billion cell

phones on our Planet Earth whereas the total population is only 7 Billion. These numbers are testimony to

its popularity and use. This indeed is the reason why Telephony and its advances are considered the best

innovation in engineering sector that has touched everyone’s life. We, the communication professionals,

have in our own ways, contributed to the development of wireless communication and we should be proud

that Society has indeed benefitted by it. We indeed have “advanced Technology for humanity”. IEEE has

come up with many popular communication engineering standards and collectively we have fulfilled the

objective of IEEE. Each one of us will feel contended and now I request each one of you to motivate a fellow

Contents

I. Hot Topics

1.1 Message from AP Vice Director,R Muralidharan 1.2 Report from Distinguished Lecture Tour(DLT) and Chapter Chair report

II. Action Plan of APB 2012-2013

2.1 Technical Affair Committee 2.2 Information Services Committee 2.3 Chapters Coordination Committee 2.4 Membership Development Committee

III. Upcoming conference

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professional who is not a member of IEEE ComSoc to join it and share the success of reaching out to

humanity. Looking forward to the large community of IEEE ComSoc professionals continuously advancing

technology for humanity,

Best wishes and regards,

R. Muralidharan

Vice Director- IEEE ComSoc APB

Past Chair – IEEE India Council & Bombay Section

Past Member – IEEE ComSoc Standards Board

Past Chair – ComSocIndustryIndia program

1.2 Report from Distinguished Lecture Tour(DLT) and Chapter Chair report

Report on the Distinguished Lecture Tours (DLTs)

Report on Distinguished Lecture Tours (DLTs)

(Reported by IEEE Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters – as of 2 November 2012)

This year in 2012, we have a total of 10 DLTs approved in Asia Pacific Region and a few more interests to

conduct DLTs in our region again next year. This is a great milestone, as we have achieved the highest

numbers of DLT programs conducted in our region since 2005.

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2012 AP DLT #3: 4 – 14 August 2012

Lecturer: Falko Dressler Hosting Chapter 2012 Chapter Chairs

Pune ComSoc Chapter Mandar Khurjekar

Hyderabad ComSoc Chapter Deergha Rao Korrai

Bangalore ComSoc Chapter Subir Saha

Kerala ComSoc Chapter Sasi P M

Dr. Falko Dressler delivered the lecture topics on “Biologically-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and

Networking” and “Protocol Engineering for Vehicular Communications” at the following locations:-

1. Pune – 7 August 2012 (Tuesday)

Venue: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and Infosys

2. Hyderabad – 9 August 2012 (Thursday)

Venue: Tata Consultancy Services

3. Bangalore – 10 August 2012 (Friday)

Unable to conduct the lecture due to health issue

4. Kerala – 11 August 2012 (Saturday)

Unable to conduct the lecture due to health issue

Summary Report from Dr. Falko Dressler

I’d like to briefly report about my recent DL tour through southern India, visiting Pune and Hyderabad.

Originally, another two stops had been planned at Bangalore and Kerala but unfortunately, I had to cancel

the tour due to health issues.

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Nevertheless, I can report that the tour was perfectly organized by Ewell Tan (IEEE Asia Pacific). The contact

was initially established by Korrai D Rao (Hyderabad). I’d like to thank all the organizers very much for all

their kind help! My trip included two stops, giving lectures on two different topics. I attach the abstracts

used for announcing the lectures in the respective local chapters.

August 3, 2012: I started the trip flying to Mumbai (Bombay), arriving very late night (1am), just taking a

taxi to the hotel. I’ve spent 2 days in Mumbai visiting the city and learning about the local history.

August 6, 2012: My first DLT stop was Pune. Prof. Mandar Khurjekar kindly picked me up at the airport and

organized a very calm and clean hotel in Pune. We briefly discussed about the differences of the academic

systems in Europe and India and also about possibilities for Indian students to spend some time at a

European university.

In the early afternoon, I gave a lecture on Bio-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking. The

lecture was organized at the local university. The meeting was mainly organized by the local student

chapter – a fact that also helped a lot to attract the lecture to many MSc and PhD students. I counted more

than 100 attendees, most of them from university. After the talk, very active and positive discussions were

going on. The local organizers have spent a lot of effort and time to make this lecture a success.

August 7, 2012: Still in Pune, I gave a second lecture on Protocol Engineering for Vehicular Communications.

This time, the meeting place was in some industry park organized by Infosys. The character of the meeting

was of course more industry related compared to the first lecture. I was told that many of the about 150

attendees (!) were from several small and medium businesses. The meeting was also very professionally

organized. We’ve spent also some time before and after the lecture to discuss the need for industry people

to actively contribute to IEEE and the possibilities of such seminars and lectures.

August 8, 2012: After arriving in Hyderabad, I met the vice chair of the local IEEE chapter. They organized

again a very nice accommodation in the center of the city.

In the afternoon, I gave my last lecture on this tour on Protocol Engineering for Vehicular Communications.

Unfortunately, I had to leave right after the meeting. The lecture was organized by Korrai D Rao in some

industrial facility. This was a joined event with the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Unfortunately, I had to cancel the remaining 3 lectures due to some health problems. I want to thank all the

local organizers for their help and assistance in this very critical moment. In particular, I’d like to thank Prof.

Khurjekar for his help getting me to some local medical doctor. I also like to thank all the COMSOC people

involved for their very warm wishes and support.

Meanwhile, I am fully recovered again. I regret that I was not able to visit all the other places but still I think

the DLT was a great success given the many positive and fruitful discussions. ************************************************************************************************

Dr. Falko Dressler delivered lecture at Infosys, Pune

on 7th

August 2012

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2012 AP DLT #4: 10 – 19 July 2012

Lecturer: Xavier Fernando Hosting Chapter 2012 Chapter Chairs

Madras ComSoc Chapter N R Alamelu

Kerala ComSoc Chapter Sasi P M

Bangalore ComSoc Chapter Subir Saha

Dr. Xavier Fernando delivered his technical presentation at the following locations:- 1. Madras – 12 July 2012 (Thursday)

Topic: Radio over Fiber for Wireless Communications

2. Kerala

Calicut: 13 July 2012 (Friday) – Topic: Communication and Signal Processing in Smart Grid

Cochin: 14 July 2012 (Saturday) – Topic: Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Green Buildings

Trivandrum: 15 July 2012 (Sunday) – Topic: Low Interference Wireless Communications for

Biomedical Application

3. Bangalore – 17 July 2012 (Tuesday)

Topic: Radio over Fiber for Wireless Communications

Summary Report from Prof. Xavier Fernando

I am delighted to report a very successful IEEE COMSOC Distinguished Lecture Tour in South India, during

July 11 – 17, 2012. I visited five different cities in three states giving seven lectures during this trip.

My sincere thanks to Dr. Mehmet Ulema, Director - Membership Programs Development, Dr. Sabu, DLT

Coordinator, Keralaand Ms. Ewell Tan of IEEE Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters, Singapore for making this

tour a reality.

In Chennai, Prof. Subramanian, Secretary of COMSOC Chennai Chapter coordinated events. I visited the

Chrompet, campus of Anna University on July 11th where, Prof. Vaidehi Vijayakumarand Dr. Srikanth was

the hosts. The lecture was on ‘Communication Requirements for Smart Grid’. The audiences were very keen

on the smart grid technologies that would enable incorporating renewable sources, as India is struggling to

meets its demand.

Next day, July 12 morning I visited the Arupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu. Dr. Vijendra

Babu, Head of ECE Department introduced me. My lecture was again on the Smart Grid. There were over

100 audiences, mostly students.

The same day afternoon I went to the Anna University, Guindy campus. The host was IEEE Chennai Section

Vice Chair Dr. Mohan. The topic was ‘Radio over Fiber for Wireless Communications’. There were over 80

audiences who showed great interest on the topic. One professor was asking about using A/D converters to

overcome the nonlinearity of ROF. Another researcher was asking how UWB signals can be optically

generated and transmitted over fiber.

The next day I went to Calicutin Kerala where, Kerala’s prestigious National Institute of Technology (NIT) is

located. Prof. K. P.Mohandas, Chair, IEEE Malabar Subsection welcomed me and Prof. Abraham T. Mathew

introduced me to the audience. The talk was again on Smart Grids. About 75 participants attended the

lecture. Dr. Sameer, Secretary, IEEE Malabar subsection thanked me and the audience. My speech in NIT

Calicut about smart grid initiatives for distributed power generation appeared in the Calicut edition of the

Indian National Newspaper, The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-

kerala/article3644505.ece).

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Next day, July 14th, I went to Cochin (Kochi) in Kerala state. Dr. Suresh Nair, Vice Chair, IEEE Kochi

Subsection rendered the welcome address. Here, I gave seminar on ‘Wireless Sensor Networks for Green

Building’. There were 35 participants of whom 15 were from Industry and 20 from academia.

Next day, July 15th, I went to Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. The lecture was held at the Centre

for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC) and the topic was “Low Interference Wireless

Communications for Biomedical Applications”. I was introduced to the audience by Mr. Pradeep

Balachandran, Secretary, COMSOC, Kerala chapter. In the closing ceremony, a memento was presented to

me by Mr. Koruthu P Varughese, Past-Chair of IEEE Kerala Section. Mr. Prem Krishnan, Treasurer, ComSoc,

Kerala Chapter, proposed the Vote of Thanks.

Finally, I went to Bangalore in Karnataka state. Prof. Srinivas of IISC warmly welcomed me. My lecture was

on July 17th on Radio over Fiber. There were about 70 people attended the lecture. There were a group of

engineers from the highly reputed Tata Consultancy Service (TCS).

Overall, the DLT experience was wonderful. I thank the COMSOC for giving me this rewarding opportunity.

************************************************************************************************ 2012 AP DLT #5: Scheduled Plan 18 – 24 November 2012

Lecturer: Koichi Asatani Hosting Chapter 2012 Chapter Chairs

New Zealand North & South

ComSoc Chapter

Nurul Sarkar

New Zealand Central ComSoc

Chapter

Paul Teal The lecture topic of “Trends in NGN and its issues” will be presented by Dr. Koichi Asatani at the following

locations:-

1. New Zealand North and South, Auckland – 19 November 2012 (Monday)

2. New Zealand North and South, Christchurch – 21 November 2012 (Wednesday)

3. New Zealand Central, Wellington – 22 November 2012 (Thursday)

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2012 AP DLT #6: 14-18 October 2012

Lecturer: Marco Chiani

Hosting Chapter 2012 Chapter Chairs

Malaysia ComSoc Chapter Sieh Kiong Tiong

Prof. Marco Chiani has delivered his lectures at the following locations:-

1. Kuala Lumpur – 15 October 2012 (Monday)

Venue: International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM)

Topic: Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio: fundamental limits and multiple antenna based

methods.

2. Pahang – 16 October 2012 (Tuesday)

Venue: Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP)

Topic: Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio: fundamental limits and multiple antenna based

methods.

3. Putrajaya – 17 October 2012 (Wednesday)

Venue: Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)

Topic: Fundamentals and Advances in MIMO Communication Systems and Networks *************************************************************************************

2012 AP DLT #7: 27 July – 15 Aug 2012

Lecturer: Michael Fang

Hosting Chapter / Section 2012 Chapter Chairs

Shenzhen ComSoc Chapter Qinyu Zhang

Chengdu Section Houjun Wang

Beijing ComSoc Chapter Xiaofeng Tao

Dr. Michael Fang has presented his technical presentations at the following locations:-

1. Shenzhen – 30 July 2012 (Monday)

Venue: Harbin Institute of Technology

Topic: “Small World Phenomena in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks” and “A Novel Architectural

Design for Cognitive Radio Networks”.

2. Chengdu – 6th & 7th July 2012 (Monday & Tuesday)

Venue & Topic:

(i) “A Novel Architectural Design for Cognitive Radio Networks" at Southwest Jiaotong University

(SWJTU)

(ii) "How Should Cross-layer Design Be Done for Wireless Networks?” at University of Electronic

Science and Technology of China (UESTC)

(iii) "ID-based Cryptographic Approach to Addressing Security Issues in Wireless Networks" at

Xihua University

3. Beijing – 15 August 2012 (Wednesday)

Venue: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Topic: How Should Cross-layer Design Be Done for Wireless Networks?

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Summary Report from Dr. Michael Fang

My first talks were given at the Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology established in Shenzhen,

with which my host, the local IEEE ComSoc chapter Chair Dr. Qinyu Zhang is also a Professor and a Dean.

Local chapter really took advantage of this lecture tour and asked me to deliver two talks (“cognitive radio

networks” and “social networks”). Although my tour was during summer vacation time, the talks were well

attended and attracted more than 40 attendees. To help student members, I was asked to give an additional

talk on how to do research, which was hosted by Professor Xiaoxia Huang at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced

Technologies (SIAT), China Academy of Science, where I also had the opportunity to visit the Institute’s

impressive R&D facilities and their products.

My first talk in Chengdu was on cognitive radio networks hosted by Dr. Xumin Fang, Professor and Chair of

the Department of Communications Engineering at Southwest Jiao Tong University (SWJTU). The talk was

very well received with many lively questions. During this period, Dr. Fang and Dr. Pingzhi Fan, Vice President

of SWJTU, also talked about their research effort on communications and networking over high-speed

transportation systems, particularly their National 973 Project.

My second talk in Chengdu was on cross-layer design and was hosted by the University of Electronic Science

of Technology of China (UESTC), the new campus with very impressive modern architectural designed

building and facilities, part of the university expansion movement in China. Many intriguing questions were

raised, which had also benefited my research greatly. To publicize the ComSoc, I was asked to deliver a talk

on wireless security in the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at Xihua University, a newly

renovated program with tremendous interest in nurturing young faculty in telecommunications. I was happy

to share with them not only on technical research, but also on IEEE (ComSoc) issues.

My final tour stop is in Beijing, the capital of China. Dr. Xiaofeng Tao, the newly elected Chair for IEEE

ComSoc Beijing Chapter, hosted my talk on cross-layer design at Beijing University of Posts and

Telecommunications (BUPT). Attendees came from various institutes and asked many interesting questions. I

was also offered tours to two National Key laboratories sited at BUPT and exchanged research ideas with

many faculty and students during this visit.

In Beijing, I have also delivered multiple lectures not scheduled in my lecture tour but offered me the

opportunity to publicize IEEE ComSoc. Thanks to Dr. Song Ci, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering

from University of Nebraska at Lincoln, I had the opportunity to visit Institute of Acoustical Science at

Chinese Academy of Science where impressive research on Internet of Things has been conducted. I gave

three talks on social networks, cross-layer optimization and how to do research to disseminate my research,

share my research experience and spread the words of IEEE ComSoc. I was particularly impressed by the

research environment and the interest of over 40 attendees in my talks, which compelled me to make a few

more trips to this institute for research exchange during my short stay in Beijing.

This was indeed a fruitful lecture tour for me. It would not be possible without the help from a few

volunteers. Ms. Ewell Tan, executive of IEEE Asian Pacific Region, had done a fantastic job in shepherding

and coordinating this lecture tour. My appreciation is also extended to those from local chapters for their

arrangements and hospitality and they are: Drs. Pingyi Fan, Xiaoxia Huang and Qinyu Zhang from Shenzhen

chapter; Drs. Pingzhi Fan, Xuming Fang, Gang Feng, Rong He, Li Hao, Zhen Ma, Houjun Wang, and Mr. Yue

Zhao from Chengdu Section; and Drs. Chenyang Yang, Xiaofeng Tao, Song Ci and Ms. Ying Qi from Beijing

Chapter.

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2012 AP DLT #8: 22 – 30 July 2012

Lecturer: Mischa Dohler

Hosting Chapter / Section 2012 Chapter Chairs

Shanghai ComSoc Chapter Xinwan Li

Shenzhen ComSoc Chapter Qinyu Zhang

Beijing ComSoc Chapter Xiaofeng Tao

Dr. Mischa Dohler conducted his technical presentations at the following locations:-

1. Shanghai - 23 July 2012 (Monday)

Venue: Shanghai Jiaotong University

Topic: The Emerging Paradigm of Femtocells

2. Shenzhen – 26 July 2012 (Thursday)

Venue: Harbin Institute of Technology

Topic: Machine-to-Machine in Smart Grid & Smart Cities: Technologies, Standards, and

Applications.

3. Beijing – 27 July 2012 (Friday)

Venue: Beihang University

Topic: The Emerging Paradigm of Femtocells

Summary Report from Dr. Mischa Dohler IEEE Comsoc kindly sponsored my Distinguished Lectureship Tour (DLT) to the Asia-Pacific Region, notably

China, where I was kindly welcomed by the IEEE Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing ComSoc Chapters.

The overall preparations of this DLT went very smooth. I had the full and timely support of Ewell Tan, admin

executive of the IEEE Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters, who coordinated my schedule with the chapters

and their chairs, requested the funding from Comsoc, among other issues.

Talk at Shenzhen Institute

of Advanced Technology

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The lectures which have been chosen by the chapters were on the emerging topics of femtocells (Shanghai

and Beijing) and machine-to-machine (Shenzhen). Each of the lectures has attracted in average some 30

people, always being a healthy mix of staff and students. Given that the Bell Labs in Shanghai as well as

BUPT and ICT in Beijing also profited from my presence, the overall exposure of the lectured topics was to

about 150 people. The large exposure has ensured a lot of really lively discussions before, during and after

the lectures.

Notably, even though not directly related to the topics of this DLT, our paper on “Is the PHY Layer dead?” has

had an enormous impact in China and, no matter where I went, this paper and its impact onto academic

research, governmental funding and industrial developments were discussed in great length and passion. I

was very pleased that, with China traditionally enjoying a very PHY-oriented R&D landscape, our message

was heard and appropriate measures considered.

Furthermore, related to femto cells and M2M, questions were raised on the suitability to do PHY-oriented

research, their applicability to emerging 4G and beyond standards, and the possibility of applying native

research at all layers to these systems under consideration. Also, questions related to the future challenges

have been very constructive.

With all teams, I also had the opportunity to discuss many emerging technology and research issues in

China, and how they relate to worldwide developments. Again, I was very pleased that the BuNGee project

which CTTC participated in, was appreciated as one of the first serious contenders for 5G high-capacity

design.

A very important outcome of this tour was also the possibility of the many collaborations which will likely

emerge from this visit. I am very much looking forward to to working with this emerging R&D force in China,

whether they are part of academic or industry.

The feedback I had from my lecture has been very positive. I have tried purposely to keep the lectures

simple, not to overload with mathematics but rather expose concepts and trends, leaving a lot of room for

discussions and hopefully inspiring the audience. The slides of the all lectures are now available on my

website with videos to be uploaded by the end of the year; distribution to all universities in China and the

region are very much encouraged.

The reception of the individual chapters, through Prof Xinbing Wang and Prof. Xinwan Li (Shanghai), Prof.

Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen) and Prof. Chenyang Yang (Beijing), has been exceptional. Be it the timely pick-up

from the airport, the provisioning of the lodging, the fantastic lunches with their discussions, and the

encouragement of their local ComSoc members to attend – I really felt wonderfully taken care of. Thank you!

To summarize, it is apparent that China is a major force in wireless system design worldwide, and I hope that

this DLT served to inspire a new generation of researchers and stir innovative research lines to further

corroborate the leadership position of the Asia-Pacific Region. *************************************************************************************

Photo taken with Beijing ComSoc Chapter

Chair and some members

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2012 AP DLT #9: 8 – 15 October 2012

Lecturer: K. K. Ramakrishnan

Hosting Chapter 2012 Chapter Chairs

Singapore ComSoc Chapter Cheng Tee Hiang

Indonesia ComSoc Chapter Satriyo Dharmanto

Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan has delivered his lecture topics at the following

locations:-

1. Singapore – 9th & 15th October 2012 (Tuesday & Monday)

Venue: Nanyang Technology University

Topic: “Enterprise-ready Cloud Computing and Storage Services” and “Building an end to end

nationwide IPTV service”

2. Indonesia – 11th

, 12th

and 13th

October 2012 (Thursday, Friday and Saturday)

Venue: Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH), Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) and Institut

Technology Telkom (ITT)

Topic: “Enterprise-ready Cloud Computing and Storage Services”

Summary Report from Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan

This is a trip report on my IEEE DLT tour of Singapore and Indonesia in October 2012.

I reached Singapore on Oct. 9th early in the morning (1 am) and presented my DLT talk at Nanyang

Technological University at the School of EEE in the afternoon (2:30 pm). The hosts were Prof. Guan Yong

Liang and Prof. Gaoxi (Kevin) Xiao from the Division of Communication Engineering. The initial plan of 60-90

minute talk went to 2 hours, with a good amount of interaction from the audience. We had 20-30 people in

the audience, with a good number of faculty members and graduate students. There were several insightful

questions from both faculty members as well as the students. We then had some informal discussion and

dinner with 4 faculty members. It was a pleasant experience.

On Oct. 10th, I flew to Jakarta, Indonesia. I was received by faculty members from Universitas Pelita

Harapan, Jakarta, and was subsequently met by Mr. Satriyo Dharmanto, Chair of the Indonesian COMSOC

chapter and Ms Agnes Irwanti, secretary of IEEE Indonesia Section for dinner. The next morning, on Oct.

11th, I met with the Dean of Engineering, Dr. Herman Y. Kanalebe, the Head of the Dept. of Electrical

Engineering, Prof. Ihan Martoyo, Prof. Henri Uranus and other faculty members who were very gracious and

hospitable. After lunch, we went to give the DLT seminar – and to my surprise, it was arranged as a large

event with multiple speakers, with the DL talk featured as the Keynote speech. It was wonderful to meet the

President of the University and have such a large audience of more than 175 people who were very

interested in the topic of Cloud Computing. I ended up taking about 90 minutes for the talk including many

questions. We had to stop taking questions after a while (which showed that people were very interested in

the topic of Cloud Computing) and had to leave for the airport. Mr. Dharmanto and Ms. Irwanti were

wonderful hosts, who took total and complete care of me. I have to thank them for their wonderful and kind

hospitality.

We flew to Yogyakarta – Indonesia, and stayed overnight. The next morning, Oct. 12th, a very nice

arrangement was made, with a large event with multiple speakers once again, around the topic of Cloud

Computing, and the DL talk was featured as the Keynote. After lunch, I had about 75 minutes for the talk at

the University Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. We had about 175 people registered

for the event, and almost all of them stayed until the very end. The organizers had an interesting approach

to deal with questions, with a small gift bag provided for each of the people asking question, thus

encouraging a lot of questions. It was very pleasant to see such a large number of people interested in the

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topic and asking many questions. I came back to Jakarta that night. I was met by Mr. Arief Hamdani

Gunawan, past Chair of IEEE ComSoc Indonesia Chapter and Board Member of IEEE Indonesia Section and

drove straight to Bandung, Indonesia, reaching the destination at about 3 am.

The next day, on Saturday Oct. 13, the event arranged was similar to the previous two – with almost 200

participants that attended the whole event, where the DL talk was featured as the Keynote. The event was

organized at the Institut Teknologi Telkom (ITT), Bandung – Indonesia. My Keynote was broken up into 2

one-hour talks, part one before and part two after lunch. This was probably a bit longer than needed for the

audience. There were a lot of questions after the first part, before lunch. Immediately afterwards, we drove

back to Jakarta (a 3 hour trip). The folks at Bandung were very hospitable, making the somewhat tiring trip

more tolerable.

Overall, my travel to Indonesia was extremely well organized, with very large audiences and the folks

organizing the 3 events (under the direction of Mr. Satriyo Dharmanto and Ms. Agnes Irwanti) took great

care to make them satisfying events with large participation, having multiple associated talks to make the

event a whole afternoon/whole day event that was worthwhile to the participants and one for which they

ensured that there was wide publicity. I would highly recommend subsequent DLTs to Indonesia, although

maybe it should be with a little more breaks, so that the travel is not too tiring on the DL.

Finally, I gave a 2nd IEEE DL in Singapore on Oct. 15th, 2012 on the topic of building an end-end IPTV service

at Nanyang Technological University at the School of EEE. My host was Dr. Peter Chong from the Division of

Communication Engineering. The talk was for 90 minutes and there were about 30 faculty members and

students (including faculty members and students from NUS in Singapore). This was a much more interactive

discussion, with a lot of questions from the participants. After lunch and a discussion with Prof. Peter Chong,

I had a meeting with Prof. Yonggang Wen, from the Computer Engineering Dept. which was productive with

potential for future discussions.

Overall, it was a satisfying and pleasant experience, going to Singapore and Indonesia for the IEEE

Distinguished Lecture Tour. I have to particularly thank Ms. Ewell Tan, who had tremendous patience and

understanding for scheduling this DLT. We had to go through multiple iterations to work out the rather

complex schedule and she was very understanding and helpful in working with me to get the whole tour arranged – and in the end it all worked out.

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Summary Report from Singapore ComSoc Chapter

IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), Singapore Chapter, hosted two IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

Seminars in October 2012. The Distinguished Lecturer was Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan who is a Distinguished

Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs-Research. The first seminar was held on 9 October 2012 and the

second seminar was held on 15 October 2012. Both seminars were held at the School of Electrical and

Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Both seminars were attended

by students, lecturer and public participants from ICT related research institutes and industries.

First Seminar – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 09 October 2012

The first IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer Seminar by Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan, entitled

“Networking the cloud: enterprise computing and storage”, was held on 09 October 2012. Dr.

Ramakrishnan gave a rather detailed introduction to the state of art of enterprise computing and storage

on cloud as well as the main challenges we currently have. The discussions were then mainly focused on a

few critical cloud computing issues including load shifting and balancing, data recovery and management,

and handling of peak in demands, etc. In the question and answer session, Dr. Ramakrishnan answered the

audience’s questions on security and privacy, billing policy and service guarantee, data allocation, and

comparisons between centralized and distributed data managements etc. The feedbacks from audiences

and participants were very positive, which showed that the seminar was highly successful.

The second seminar by Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan, entitled “Building an end-end nationwide IPTV service”, was

held on 15 October 2012. During the seminar, Dr. Ramakrishnan discussed issues related to building an IPTV

backbone and making it robust to failures. He also addressed failure recovery in some detail including the

use of MPLS fast re-route at the network layer. Finally he described P2P protocols and then examined how

P2P and IP Multicast can be combined harmoniously to deliver on-demand video content over a

metropolitan area. During the question and answer session, Dr. Ramakrishnan answered the audience’s

questions well and in detail. The feedbacks from audiences and participants showed that they liked the

presentation and found themselves benefiting from it.

In conclusion, both seminars were on frontier research topics in communications and networking, with

distinctive focus on applications to industry and possible future developments. Both presentations were very

clear and inspiring. Feedbacks from the audiences and participants were very good, which showed that the

seminars were well organized.

Written by Prof. Cheng Tee Hiang

Singapore ComSoc Chapter Chair Summary Report from Indonesia ComSoc Chapter

IEEE Communications Society (Comsoc), Indonesia Chapter has hosted a Distinguished Lecturer Tour (DLT) in

October 2012. The program in the form of Seminar was held in three different universities, in Jakarta (DKI),

Yogyakarta (Central Java) and Bandung (West Java). All of the seminars was attended by both student,

lecturer and public participants from ICT related Industries, in Indonesia.

The first day was held in UNIVERSITAS PELITA HARAPAN (UPH), Jakarta – Indonesia.

The total attendances are about 178, consist of IEEE members 13, non-member 165, with academic sector

about 80% and Industry about 20%.

In this seminar, the audience response is very active response and interactive, where there are several

questions related to the topic asked to all of the speakers. The seminar was held on Thursday, 11 October

2012, 13.00 – 16.00 local time, at MYC Building, UniversitasPelitaHarapan, Karawaci Campus, Tangerang,

Indonesia.

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The second day was held in UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA (UGM), Yogyakarta - Indonesia

The total attendances was about 175, consist of about 15 IEEE members (including Student member), 160

non-member, from Academic sector about 75% and Industry about 25%. In this seminar, audience responses

are very active response, interactive and so many questions to be asked to the speakers. The seminar was

held on Friday, 12 October 2012, from 09.00 to 16.30, local time. Seminar venue at University Center,

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

The third day was held in Institute Teknologi Telkom (ITT), Bandung – Indonesia.

The total attendances in this seminar was about 200, consist of IEEE members about 25 (including Student

member) and non-member about 175, with participant from academic sector about 70% and Industry about

30%. In this seminar and talk show, audiences response are very active response and very interactive. The

seminar was held on Saturday, 13 October 2012, 09.00 – 17.00 local time, with venue at Auditorium Gedung

K, Kampus IT Telkom Bandung – Indonesia.

In all the three different venues, the opportunity of member recruitment and retention is quite high. We

suggest to continuing this DLT programs in the near future, with combination of Academic and Industrial

lectures.

Written by Satriyo Dharmanto

Indonesia ComSoc Chapter Chair

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2012 AP DLT #10: 20 September – 1 October 2012

Lecturer: Narayan Mandayam Hosting Chapter 2012 Chapter Chairs

Bangalore ComSoc Chapter Subir Saha

Pune ComSoc Chapter Mandar Khurjekar

Hyderabad ComSoc Chapter Deergha Rao Korrai

Prof. Narayan Mandayam has presented his technical presentations at the following locations:- 1. Bangalore – 21

st September 2012 (Friday)

Topic: Network Coding as a Dynamical System

2. Pune – 24th

& 25th

September 2012 (Wednesday & Thursday)

Topic: Towards Green Techniques for Wireless Communications; Network Coding as a Dynamical

System

3. Hyderabad – 26th

September 2012 (Wednesday)

Topic: Towards Green Techniques for Wireless Communications; Network Coding as a Dynamical

System

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the distinguished lecturers who have

conducted the DLTs in our region this year.

We believe the DLT programs have brought substantial benefits to our members and potential

members as they have deepened their technical knowledge through networking with the

distinguished lecturers who are coming from diverse technical background and culture.

Not to be forgotten, we would also like to give a big thank you to all the AP Chapters for their

hospitality extended to the ComSoc Distinguished Lecturers. We look forward to another exciting

distinguished lecture tours in our Region next year!

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ComSoc Seoul Chapter Report (Written by Chapter Chair Saewoong Bahk)

Workshop report: The 2nd SNU/INMC Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless Networking

Following the IEEE SECON conference which was held in Seoul from June 19-21, there was a workshop

titled: The 2nd SNU/INMC Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless Networking on June 22nd (Fri), 2012. This

workshop wastechnically sponsored by IEEE ComSoc Seoul Chapter, and financially hosted by INMC and

Seoul National University, Korea.

There were more than 100 active participants who are graduate students and faculty members in Korea and

overseas. The speakers invited for this workshop were well known people in networking society, especially

in wireless and sensor and adhoc networking. We had so wonderful time in discussion and socialization as

networking engineers.

The program is given below.

� Workshop Chair: Saewoong Bahk

� Program Co-Chairs: Sunghyun Choi and Taekyoung Ted Kwon

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(snapshot of the workshop )

(speakers and organizers)

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II. Action Plan of APB 2012-2013

2.1 Technical Affair Committee Winners of Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award

2.1.1. The 7th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award

This year there were twenty five high-quality submissions from many countries in Asia Pacific Region. The

award selection committee was composed of all TAC members, APB Director, and past APB Director,

including Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University), Sasi Pilacheri Meethal (Center for Development of

Advanced Computing), Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University), Young-june Choi (Ajou University), and Kwang Bok

Lee (Seoul National University), and Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University). Comprehensive review was done

for two months.

Final award winners are:

Best Young Researcher:

DusitNiyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Outstanding Young Researchers:

a. Chi Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

b. Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)

c. Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

d. Chan Byoung Chae (Yonsei University, Korea)

e. Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology, India)

The award ceremony will be held at the APB meeting of IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, CA, USA.

2.1.2 The First IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

This year is the first time of this award. There were seven nominations from countries in Asia Pacific region.

The award selection committee was composed of all TAC members, APB Director, and past APB Director,

including Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University), Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University), Sasi Pilacheri

Meethal (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), Young-june Choi (Ajou University), Kwang Bok

Lee (Seoul National University), and Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University). Comprehensive review was done

for two months. Final award winner is:

Paper Title: "Eigenvalue-based spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio"

Authors: Yonghong Zeng and Ying-chang Liang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

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

Nominator: Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Award ceremony will be held at the APB meeting of IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, CA, USA.

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2.2 Information Services Committee (ISC) (Reported by Prof. Jae-Hyun Kim)

2.2.1 Mission of ISC

a. To manage and update the AP Region Homepage to provide new and important information for

the AP Regional ComSoc members

b. To publish and distribute the AP Region email news

c. To publish and distribute AP Newsletters

d. To provide a liaison to the IEEE Global Communication Newsletter (GCN)

e. To collaborate with the AP Office in information service related matters

2.2.2 ISC Action Plan

Paper media

a. Published AP Newsletter No. 41 at ICC 2012 : prepared by Prof. Young Chae Ko

b. Planning to Publish and distribute the AP Newsletter No. 42 at ICC 2012 : prepared by Prof.

Sanjay Sahebrao Pawar

Electronic media

a. Update of the website of AP region by Prof. Juchuck Kang and Prof. Hung-Yun Hsieh

b. Updated information of new APB officers for 2012-2013

c. Updated a message from AP Director

d. Uploaded AP Newsletter No. 41

e. Call for application for the 7th

AP Young Researcher Award

2.3 Chapters Coordination Committee

Mission of CCC

• to plan and coordinate the Regional Chapter meeting once a year where possible

• to collaborate with the AP Office in running the DLT program

• to support the AP Office in organizing Executives visit to Chapters

In the past several years, we were very successful in accommodating all the above mission items. A good

number of Distinguished Lecture Tours and pilot program of technical presentation using the IEEE Internet

Conferencing Service have been organized in the Asia Pacific Region. These are reported in the previous

issues of the Newsletter.

CCC Action Plan

• to continue assistance in selection and organization of high level Distinguished Lecturer Tours in

the region

• to negotiate with the APB Director for funding for the next Asia Pacific Regional Chapters Chair

Congress

• to plan for organizing the next regional chapter meeting once or twice during 2012-2013 period

• to search and assist in organizing executives’ visits to Chapters

• to find alternative and less expensive methods for Chapter Chairs meetings

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2.4 Membership Development Committee

2.4.1 Mission of MDC

a. To manage the AP Regional e-mail system containing all AP Regional ComSoc members

b. To provide information and analyze statistics related to membership in the AP Region and

overall

c. To collaborate with the ISC and the AP Office in relation to information distribution

d. To coordinate with other ComSoc organizations in developing Sister Societies

2.4.2 MDC Recent Activities

a. Establish ComSoc Chapter in Facebook:

b. Rolled out the IEEE Member Geographic Activities Strategic Plan to 43 ComSoc Chapters in AP

region

c. Launch a Regional Webinar program, which allows that the talks could be given by some

distinguished speaker to the members of our region and the chapters

2.4.3 MDC Action Plan

a. Continue to establish ComSoc Chapter in Facebook

b. Continue to establish Regional Webinar

c. Encourage the members to start new chapters

III. Upcoming conference

- APCC 2013: http://apcc.pro/apcc/

29 - 31 August, 2013, Bali Island, Indonesia

Since 1993, APCC has been a technical forum for researchers and engineers to interact and disseminate

information on the latest developments in advanced communication and information technologies.

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for presentation at the conference and

publication in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be published in the APCC 2012 Conference

Proceedings (EI-indexed) and in IEEE Xplore.

- IEEE ICC: http://www.ieee-icc.org/

9-13 June, Budapest, Hungary

The International Conference on Communications (ICC) is one of the two flagship conferences of the IEEE

Communications Society, together with IEEE Globecom. Each year the ICC conference attracts about 2-3.000

submitted scientific papers, a technical program committee involving about 1.500 experts provides more

than 10.000 reviews, the conference being finally attended by 1.500 - 2.000 professionals from all around

the world. IEEE ICC is therefore one of the most significant scientific events of the networking and

communications community, a must-attend forum for both industrials and academics working in this area.

The ICC conference is a five-day event, three days being dedicated to the technical symposia and two days

to tutorials and workshops. The program of the technical symposia includes oral or poster presentations of

about 1.000 scientific papers, grouped into 12 thematic tracks, and 18 to 20 parallel sessions. In addition,

the conference program includes workshops, tutorials, keynote talks from industrial leaders and renowned

academics, panel discussions, a large exposition, business and industrial forums.

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In 2013 the IEEE ICC conference will be held for the first time in Eastern Europe, previous conferences being

organized in cities such as Ottawa (2012), Kyoto (2011), Cape Town (2010), Dresden (2009), Beijing (2008),

Glasgow (2007), Istanbul (2006), Seoul (2005), Paris (2004) or Anchorage (2003). In 2014 the conference will

be hosted by Sydney.

- INFOCOM 2013: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/

April 14-19, 2013 - Turin, Italy

The IEEE Conference on Computer Communications addresses key topics and issues related to computer

communications, with emphasis on traffic management and protocols for both wired and wireless

networks. Material is presented in a program of technical sessions, panel discussions and workshops. The

first INFOCOM conference took place in 1982 and has since taken place at many locations around the world

- China, Japan, Israel, Italy, Spain, Brazil, as well as most regions of the US.