SmartCom 2019 - The 6th International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications -
SmartCom 2019 is organized by IEICE Technical Committee on Smart Radio (SR) and Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

ABOUT SMARTCOM

SmartCom is the international workshop jointly organised by several IEICE Technical Committees and technical key players outside Japan. This is the 6th SmartCom in its history, and is hosted in collaboration with academia in the USA. The workshop targets smart wireless communications, and provides a great opportunity for discussing a smarter wireless world in the future. The organizing committee expects that the workshop also represents a great opportunity for networking and initiating cooperative research and joint proposals.

SCOPE

The scope of SmartCom 2019 includes radio technologies, spectrum management, wireless networks, communication theory, flexible hardware, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for wireless systems, among others. Recent advancement of wireless technologies, mobile applications, and ubiquitous connectivity requires the support of huge volumes of wireless data traffic, demanding higher data rates. Hence, smart communication technologies to address this data demand are urgently required to sustain the future wireless world. In this workshop, we discuss solutions targeting not only the near future but also years beyond 2020, e.g., 5G, beyond 5G and the Internet of things (IoT). Expected candidate solutions include small cells, heterogeneous networks including microwave/millimeter wave devices, dynamic spectrum management, machine learning for wireless communications, and so on.

PAST AWARDS

SmartCom 2019


Best Paper Awards

  • Joint Channel and AP/STA Assignment for Infrastructure-Mode IEEE 802.11 Multi-Interface Wireless Mesh Networks
    Tomoki Takahashi, Tomio Kamada, Chikara Ohta, Naoyuki Tamura (Kobe Univ.), Taka Maeno (Space-Time Engineering Japan)
  • IBM's mmWave 5G Software Defined Phased Array Radio (SDPAR): A Platform for Fast Channel Measurements, Beam Optimization and Beyond
    Arun Paidimarri, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Mark Ferriss, Mark Yeck, Xiaoxiong Gu, Alberto Valdes-Garcia (IBM Research)

Best Student Paper Awards

  • Intra-Cluster Modeling for mm-wave Communications in the Presence of Blockages
    Yavuz Yaman, Swapnil Mhaske, Predrag Spasojevic (Rutgers University)
  • Millimeter-Wave WBAN for Overcrowded Environment: Evaluation of Throughput with Consideration of the Human Body Direction
    Taichi Yokouchi (Tohoku Univ.), Kohei Akimoto (Akita Prefectural Univ.), Mizuki Motoyoshi, Suguru Kameda, Noriharu Suematsu (Tohoku Univ.)

SmartCom 2018


Best Paper Awards

  • Phase Noise Compensation for mm-Wave MU-MIMO OFDM Systems
    -- Phase-Noise-Robust Channel Estimation and PER Characteristics Evaluation --

    Yuyuan Chang, Kazuhiko Fukawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  • Direct RF undersampling receiver for wireless IoT real-time spectrum monitor using high-speed clock switching
    Tomoyuki Furuichi, Mizuki Motoyoshi, Suguru Kameda, Noriharu Suematsu (Tohoku University)

Best Student Paper Awards

  • Device-free Indoor Localization utilizing BLE devices by controlling advertisement channels
    Junming Jiang, Azril Haniz, Kentaro Saito, Jun-ichi Takada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

SmartCom 2017


Best Paper Awards

  • Performance Characterization of Urban HetNets with Multi-RAT Small Cells
    Gourab Ghatak, Antonio De Domenico (CEA LETI), Marceau Coupechoux (Telecom ParisTech)
  • Analysis of Utilizing Lossless Networks for Self-Interference Cancellation Purpose in Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers
    Ramez Askar, Abdulsalam Hamdan, Wilhelm Keusgen, Thomas Haustein (Fraunhofer HHI)

Best Student Paper Awards

  • Received-Power-Aware Design of Transmission Probability for Frameless ALOHA
    Shun Ogata, Koji Ishibashi (The University of Electro-Communications)

SmartCom 2016


Best Paper Awards

  • Iterative Detection and Decoding of Implicitly Concatenated Channel Code in Bluetooth Low Energy
    Shinsuke Ibi, Seiichi Sampei (Osaka University)
  • Toward Realization of a New Wireless Transmission Technology: -- Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Multiplexing --
    Doohwan Lee, Hirofumi Sasaki, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Tadao Nakagawa (NTT)

Best Student Paper Awards

  • An Ultrawideband Conformal Loop Antenna for Wireless Capsule Endoscope System
    Miah Md Suzan, Katsuyuki Haneda, Clemens Icheln, Afroza Khatun (Aalto University), Ken-ichi Takizawa (NICT)

Best Technical Exhibition Awards

  • Modular Multi- Wireless-Technology Enabled IoT
    Konstantin Mikhaylov, Juha Petajajarvi, Marko Makelainen, Anton Paatelma, Tuomo Hanninen (Centre for Wireless Communications)

SmartCom 2015


Best Paper Awards

  • Inter-carrier Interference Compensation Scheme for Millimeter Wave OFDM Systems
    Yuyuan Chang, Gia Khanh Tran, Kei Sakaguchi, Kiyomichi Araki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Best Technical Exhibition Awards

  • Multi-Beam Based Spatial Multiplexing for EHF-band Massive MIMO System and Evaluation by Outdoor Experimental Trial
    Akihiro Okazaki, Hideki Morishige, Kenji Nakagawa, Hiroki Iura, Shigeru Uchida, Kazuaki Ishioka (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Tatsunori Obara, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okuyama (NTT DOCOMO), Atsushi Okamura (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.)

SmartCom 2014


Best Paper Awards

  • Efficient and Scalable Distributed Autonomous Spatial Aloha Networks via Local Leader Election
    Jiangbin Lyu (National University of Singapore), Yong Huat Chew (I2R), Wai Choong Wong (National University of Singapore)

Best Student Paper Awards

  • Statistical Propagation Channel Interpolation for Detecting Illegal Radio Emitters in Urban Environments
    Azril Haniz, Gia Khanh Tran, Ryosuke Iwata (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kei Sakaguchi (Osaka University), Jun-ichi Takada (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Daisuke Hayashi, Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Shintaro Arata (Koden Electronics)

Best Technical Exhibition Awards

  • Broadband Spectrum Sensing Platform based on Received Waveform Cross-correlation using Distributed Sensors
    Takayuki Yamada, Doohwan Lee, Hiroyuki Shiba, Yo Yamaguchi, Takana Kaho, Tadao Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Uehara (NTT)