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July 12, 2017:
On Oct 28 and 29, 2017 Hokkaido-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers will be held at Future University Hakodate. All prospective participants are invited to attend this joint conversion to make lectures and discussions. It will be highly appreciated if you would submit papers and make the joint convention a place for lively discussion. It should be noted that researchers who belong other sections than Hokkaido or Sapporo can submit their papers. We look forward to seeing many participats. 2017 IEEE Sapporo Section Student Paper Contest will be opened in conjunction with this joint convention. For the details, please refer to the page of 2017 Hokkaido-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers but in Japanese.
Lecture will be conducted in Japanese.
State-of-the-Art on Projection Mapping Research
Dr. Daisuke Iwai,
Associate Professor
Osaka University
Mon May 15, 2017, 16:00-17:30
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
http://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Projection mapping technologies have been applied in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems. We have been investigating several research issues to realize "ubiquitous projection" environment where any surfaces in our daily space become a seamless cyber-physical interface for AR and VR applications. In this talk, I introduce our recent research activities in this research field.
Daisuke Iwai received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University, Japan, in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. He was a visiting scientist at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany, from 2007 to 2008, and a visiting Associate Professor at ETH, Switzerland, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. His research interests include spatial augmented reality and projector-camera systems. He is a member of the IEEE.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshinori Dobashi
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
doba(at)ime.ist.hokudai.ac.jp
Human Motion Understanding
Dr. Hubert P. H. Shum,
Associate Professor
Northumbria University (UK)
Wed Apr 26th, 2017, 16:30-18:00
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
http://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Due to the recent advancement in motion capture hardware and motion-based applications, human motion analysis has become an increasingly popular research area. Its core problem is to model human motion in a meaningful way, such that we can generalize knowledge to recognize, analyze and synthesize movement. Motion related applications nowadays such as motion-based gaming, 3D character animation, autonomous surveillance and smart robots are the results of the area. The problem of human motion analysis is important as it connects different research fields. Taking an example of motion gaming with the Microsoft Kinect, the system first applies computer vision techniques to identify human body parts. Then, artificial intelligence is introduced to understand the meaning of the movement and perform human-computer interaction. Virtual reality techniques based on movement are sometimes used to enhance gaming immersiveness. Character animation and graphical rendering algorithms are implemented to render the controlled virtual character. In this talk, I will discuss the importance of human motion analysis in computer science. With the support of my research projects, I will demonstrate how motion analysis can connect different research fields, including computer graphics, games and vision. I will show how my projects achieve impact in research and the society, and conclude my presentation with future opportunities and potential directions.
I am an Associate Professor (Reader) in Computer Science and the Programme Leader of BSc (Hons) Computer Animation and Visual Effects at Northumbria University. I lead research team focusing on computer graphics and computer vision, utilizing and managing the Motion Capture and Virtual Reality Laboratory. The team consists of three faculty members, 2 post-docs and 8 PhDs. Before this, I worked as a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, a Lecturer at the University of Worcester, a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN Japan, and a research assistant at the City University of Hong Kong. I received my PhD degree from the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, as well as my Master and Bachelor degrees from the City University of Hong Kong. I have received £124,000 from EPSRC for a project on human motion analysis and £12,000 from the Royal Society. I have also been a funding officer of a €3.03 million Erasmus Mundus project. On top of these, I have received more than £210,000 from Northumbria University to hire PhD students and purchase research equipment. I have research collaborations with academics around the world such as Waseda University, the University of Edinburgh, INRIA France.
Yoshinori Dobashi
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
doba(at)ime.ist.hokudai.ac.jp
Customized Mobile Networking in 5G
Prof. Tarik Taleb
School of Electrical Engineering,
Aalto University, Finland
(Research Group: http://mosaic-lab.org/)
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 10:40-11:40
Future University Hakodate, Room: R791
The telecom industry keeps reinventing itself. Soon, the world will be experiencing the 5th generation mobile networks (5G). These 5G mobile systems are expected to meet different strict requirements beyond the traditional operator use cases. Major obstacles to overcome in 5G systems are principally the highly-centralized architecture of mobile networks along with the static provisioning and configuration of network nodes built on dedicated hardware components. This has resulted in lack of elasticity and flexibility in deployment of mobile networks; rendering their run-time management costly, cumbersome and time-consuming.
On the other hand, mobile networks are nowadays architected to serve all mobile users; ensuring some degree of service-level differentiation, by making decisions on different user profiles, but with no specific tailoring of the functioning to the specific user needs. However, statistics demonstrate that users do not behave all in the same way. Furthermore, a single mobile network usually ensures the communication for all service types, regardless of the suitability of its available functionality to deliver these services with acceptable Quality of Experience and network efficiency. It becomes then apparent that having the same mobile network architecture serving all mobile users, let alone all mobile applications, despite the diversity they exhibit in their attitudinal response to mobile services, have to be rethought.
5G systems need to accommodate elasticity, flexibility, dynamicity, scalability, manageability, agility and customization along with different levels of service delivery parameters according with the service requirements. For this purpose, different requirements have to be met and numerous associated challenges have to be subsequently tackled. This talk will touch upon the recent trends the mobile telecommunications market is experiencing and discuss the challenges these trends are representing to mobile network operators. To cope with these trends, the talk will then showcase the feasibility of on-demand creation of cloud-based elastic mobile networks, along with their lifecycle management. The talk will introduce a set of technologies and key architectural elements to realize such vision, turning end-to-end mobile networking into software engineering. The talk will particularly showcase the need for the deep customization of mobile networks at different granularity levels: per network, per application, per group of users, per individual users and even per data of users. The talk will also assess the potential of Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined Networking and Network Slicing to provide the appropriate customization and highlights the technology challenges. The talk will also elaborate on a high level architectural solution addressing a massive multi-slice environment.
Prof. Tarik Taleb is an IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer and a senior member of IEEE. He is currently Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. He is the director of the MOSA!C Lab (http://mosaic-lab.org/). Prior to his current academic position, he was working as Senior Researcher and 3GPP Standards Expert at NEC Europe Ltd, Heidelberg, Germany. He was then leading the NEC Europe Labs Team working on R&D projects on carrier cloud platforms, an important vision of 5G systems. Before joining NEC and till Mar. 2009, he worked as assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan, in a lab fully funded by KDDI. From Oct. 2005 till Mar. 2006, he worked as research fellow at the Intelligent Cosmos Research Institute, Sendai, Japan. He received his B. E degree in Information Engineering with distinction, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Sciences from Tohoku Univ., in 2001, 2003, and 2005, respectively.
Prof. Taleb's research interests lie in the field of architectural enhancements to mobile core networks (particularly 3GPP's), mobile cloud networking, network slicing, network function virtualization, software defined networking, mobile multimedia streaming, inter-vehicular communications, and social media networking. Prof. Taleb has been also directly engaged in the development and standardization of the Evolved Packet System as a member of 3GPP's System Architecture working group. Prof. Taleb is a member of the IEEE Communications Society Standardization Program Development Board. As an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry, Prof. Taleb founded the "IEEE Workshop on Telecommunications Standards: from Research to Standards", a successful event that got awarded "best workshop award" by IEEE Communication Society (ComSoC). Based on the success of this workshop, Prof. Taleb has also founded and has been the steering committee chair of the IEEE Conf. on Standards for Communications and Networking (http://www.ieee-cscn.org/).
Prof. Taleb is the general chair of the 2019 edition of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'19) to be held in Marrakech, Morocco. He is/was on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Journal on Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and a number of Wiley journals. Till Dec. 2016, he served as chair of the Wireless Communications Technical Committee, the largest in IEEE ComSoC. He also served as Vice Chair of the Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee of IEEE ComSoc (2006-2010). He has been on the technical program committee of different IEEE conferences, including Globecom, ICC, and WCNC, and chaired some of their symposia.
Prof. Taleb is the recipient of the 2009 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher award (Jun. 2009), the 2008 TELECOM System Technology Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (Mar. 2008), the 2007 Funai Foundation Science Promotion Award (Apr. 2007), the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter Young Author Award (Dec. 2006), the Niwa Yasujirou Memorial Award (Feb. 2005), and the Young Researcher's Encouragement Award from the Japan chapter of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) (Oct. 2003). Some of Prof. Taleb's research work have been also awarded best paper awards at prestigious conferences.
Xiaohong Jiang, Professor
Future University Hakodate
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 10:30-12:00, 13:00-14:30, 14:45-16:15
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
http://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Eryk Dutkiewicz, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Ren Ping Liu, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Xiaojing Huang, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
Research into Radio Environment Maps for Emerging 5G and IoT Networks
Eryk Dutkiewicz, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
The high demand for wireless Internet including emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications is putting extreme pressure on better utilisation of the available radio spectrum. The expected spectrum "crunch" requires highly efficient radio resource management schemes with low complexity and high responsiveness to the changing network conditions. Spectrum sharing is regarded as an essential approach to regaining access to otherwise unused spectrum and it is considered an essential component in the development of IoT and 5G networks. Spectrum sharing can be conducted at different time scales. As the time scale of the operation of spectrum sharing decreases, the possibility for utilising more available spectrum holes increases. However, the shorter time scale brings with it challenges. Efficient decisions regarding the use of spectrum sharing require accurate knowledge of the spatial and temporal spectrum use in a geographical area of interest. This knowledge can be represented in Radio Environment Maps which need to be generated efficiently and accurately. In this presentation we give an overview of the spectrum sharing concept and its emergence in standards activities for IoT and 5G networks. We also present our research on spectrum sharing including theoretical methods for efficient and accurate generation of Radio Environmental Maps and radio spectrum measurements campaigns on UTS campus in Sydney to enable Smart Building and Smart City IoT applications.
Professor Eryk Dutkiewicz obtained his PhD (Telecommunications) from the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1996. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at Motorola Laboratories in Sydney where he managed a wireless research laboratory. During that time he was also deeply involved in the development of the popular WiFi technology. He is currently the Head of School of Computing and Communications at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He has held visiting professorial appointments at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, City University of Hong Kong and Coventry University in the UK. He is an author of over 200 research papers and several book chapters. His professional activities in recent years included participation on various International Steering Committees. He is the General Chair of IEEE VTC 2017-Spring in Sydney.
Markov Modelling: from Wi-Fi to 5G and Beyond
Ren Ping Liu, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Markov chain is the main analytical tool for IEEE 802.11 modelling and analysis. However, existing 2-dimensional (2-D) Markov chain models of Wi-Fi systems are unable to capture the complete QoS performance and queueing behaviour due to the lack of an adequate finite buffer model. We propose a 3-dimensional (3-D) Markov chain that integrates the 802.11 system contention resolution and queueing processes into one model. The 3rd dimension, that models the queue length, allows us to accurately capture important QoS measures, delay and loss, plus throughput and queue length, for realistic 802.11 systems with finite buffer under finite load.
The Markov theory has since been extended and applied in other areas, leading to many research outcomes, including vehicular networks (VANET), WiFi localization, energy efficient design in the Internet of Things (IoT), and recently coexistence design and analysis of LTE in unlicensed spectrum under the LAA/5G framework.
Ren Ping Liu is a Professor at the School of Computing and Communications in University of Technology Sydney, where he leads Network Security Lab in the Global Big Data Technologies Centre. Prior to that he was a Principal Scientist at CSIRO, where he led wireless networking research. He specialises in network design and modelling, and has delivered networking solutions to a number of government agencies and industry customers. Professor Liu was the winner of Australian Engineering Innovation Award and CSIRO Chairman's medal. Professor Liu has over 100 research publications, and has supervised over 30 PhD students. His research interests include 5G spectrum sharing, resource management, IoT energy efficient design, and network security.
Professor Liu is the founding chair of IEEE NSW VTS Chapter and a Senior Member of IEEE. He served as TPC chair for BodyNets2015, ISCIT2015, WPMC2014, as OC co-chair for VTC2017-Spring, BodyNets2014, ICUWB2013, ISCIT2012, SenSys2007, and in Technical Program Committee in a number of IEEE Conferences. Ren Ping Liu received his B.E.(Hon) and M.E. degrees from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Achieving High-Speed Aerial Backbone Transmission for Air-Space-Ground Integrated Information Networks
Xiaojing Huang, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Air-space-ground integrated communication and networking is one of the most important targets of global research and development efforts. High-speed aerial backbones are the key components of such space information networks since they interconnect the spaceborne, airborne and ground based transmission platforms to form a seamless communications system. Currently, there have been some significant advances in spaceborne based communications networks. As the 5G mobile system emerges, ground based networks are also becoming more and more mature. However, there are still significant challenges in achieving high-speed aerial backbone links for the airborne based communications networks. This presentation gives a brief overview of current state-of-the-art in airborne based backbone technologies, and discusses how to realize high-speed transmission for air-to-air links and air-to-ground links from a high-altitude aerial platform using millimetre wave, multiple input multiple output, and full-duplex technologies. Research directions for achieving low cost and high flexibility aerial backbones using unmanned aerial vehicles are also suggested.
Xiaojing Huang received the B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor of information and communications technology with the School of Computing and Communications and the Program Leader of Mobile Sensing and Communications with the Global Big Data Technologies Center, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia.
He was a Principal Research Engineer with the Motorola Australian Research Center from 1998 to 2003, and an Associate Professor with the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, from 2004 to 2008. He has been a Principal Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia, and the Project Leader of the CSIRO Microwave and mmWave Backhaul projects since 2009. He was a recipient of the CSIRO Chairman's Medal and the Australian Engineering Innovation Award in 2012 for exceptional research achievements in multigigabit wireless communications. With over 28 years of combined industrial, academic, and scientific research experience, he has authored over 250 book chapters, refereed journal and conference papers, major commercial research reports, and has filed 29 patents.
Professor Xiaojing Huang has served as Technical Program Committee Chairs and/or Co-Chairs for a number of international conferences such as ISCIT (2007,2010, 2012-2014, and 2016), ICUWB2013, WPMC2014, and VTC2017-Spring.
Spectrum sharing on 5G communication networks
Ying He, Dr., Lecturer
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 13:00-14:30
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
http://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
The wireless communication systems have dramatically changed the world by connecting people and devices in recent years. We are currently standing at the 4th generation (4G) in the evolution and drawing the picture for the next generation (5G) wireless communication systems. For which, we are aiming at 1000x increase of the capacity. Despite all efforts on the coding and modulation techniques, the growth of capacity is physically restricted by the limited spectrum resource. Therefore, spectrum sharing has been proposed to break this constraint. Our work on the current spectrum sharing frameworks includes two main spectrum sharing frameworks: Spectrum Access System (SAS) in U.S and Licensed Shared Access (LSA) in Europe. We address the common and differing factors then propose access and interference mitigation methods for SAS and LSA. SAS is a hierarchical access model with three tiers of users – incumbents, Priority Access Licensees (PAL) and General Authorised Access (GAA) users. We propose a PAL-GAA co-channel interference mitigation technique that does not expose base station locations. The distribution of the aggregated interference is derived using Probability Density Function and Characteristic Function. The optimal exclusion zone size is found through an approximation of a convex problem and our approach reduces the exclusion zone size substantially. We also propose the access and coexistence methods between different tiers in LSA and SAS.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
Sensitive Ambient RF Energy harvesting Using Rectenna
Negin Shariati Moghadam, Dr., Lecturer School of Computing and Communications University of Technology Sydney
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 13:00-14:30
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
http://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Radio Frequency (RF) energy harvesting has experienced a rapid development in recent years due to the increasing number of RF transmitter sources producing an abundant ambient microwave energy waste. Furthermore, the development of wireless power transmission (WPT) technologies has triggered impetus for RF energy harvesting. Hence, RF energy scavenging is a promising solution as it has the potential to provide a sustainable energy source to meet upcoming demands. Efficient ambient RF energy scavenging is a very challenging issue, as it deals with the low RF power levels available in the environment. The scavengeable power levels are generally unknown and can vary unpredictably; therefore sparking research interest to develop highly sensitive RF energy scavengers to capture ambient RF signals over a range of low input power levels. Her research focuses on a real life RF energy scavenging approach to generate electrical power in urban environments. During my PhD, I developed highly sensitive and efficient ambient RF energy scavenging system and method to harvest a broad range of very low level ambient RF power.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
2017 International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI)
May 13-17, 2017, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference #: 40775
2017 IEEE HISTory of ELectrotechnolgy CONference (HISTELCON)
Aug 7-8, 2017, Kobe, Japan
Conference #: 40292
2017 10th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)
Aug 31-Sep 2, 2017, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference #: 42032
2017 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
Sep 18-21, 2017, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference #: 41048
2017 Eighth International Workshop on Signal Design and Its Applications in Communications (IWSDA)
Sep 24-28, 2017, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference #: 41376
Thursday, February 16, 2017 (16:30-17:15)
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
http://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Thursday, February 16, 2017 (17:15-17:50)
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
http://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Shuntaro Makino, Hokkaido University
Enhancement of optical nonlinearity in coupled resonator optical waveguide based on slotted 1-D photonic crystal cavity, IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 7, no. 6, Dec. 2015.
Jia Liu, Future University Hakodate
End-to-End Delay Modeling in Buffer-Limited MANETs: A General Theoretical Framework, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.15, no. 1, pp.498-511, 2016.
Kazuki Ichikawa, Kitami Institute of Technology
A single-polarization holey fiber with anisotropic lattice of circular air holes, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol.33, No.18, pp.3866-3871, Sep. 2015.
Ryosuke Harakawa, Hokkaido University
Extraction of hierarchical structure of Web communities including salient keyword estimation for Web video retrieval, in Proc. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp.1021-1025, 2015.
渡邊 天, Muroran Institute of Technology
手書き図形認識のための多重仮説ファジィモデル生成法
橘 友和, Tomokazu Tachibana, Hokkaido University
EAS機器による植込み型医療機器EMI試験のための近傍磁界分布評価
Magnetic Near-Field Distribution Estimation of Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) Systems for Active Implantable Medical Device EMI Assessment
藤山 はるか, Haruka Fujiyama, Hokkaido University
水素エネルギーを含む最適電源構成のモデル化
Modeling of the Best Power Generation Mix including Hydrogen Energy
佐藤 潤一, Junichi Sato, Otaru University of Commerce
クロスワードパズル生成問題の新しい定式化
A New Formulation of the Crossword Puzzle Generation Problem
原川 良介, Ryosuke Harakawa, Hokkaido University
Signedネットワーク解析に基づくWeb映像集合の階層構造抽出に関する一検討
A Note on Extracting Hierarchical Structure of Web Video Groups Based on Signed Network Analysis
仲俣 涼平, Ryohei Nakamata, Hokkaido University
側面励起型X点プラズマ装置におけるイオン輸送特性解析
Analysis of ion transport in X-point plasmas excited by a side-surrounding RF antenna
IEEE Sapporo Section Secretary/Treasurer
Hiroshi Tsutsui
Hokkaido University
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Nishi 9, Kita 14, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0814, JAPAN
Tel: +81-11-706-6490
hiroshi.tsutsui(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp