SmartCom 2024 - The 7th International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications -
SmartCom 2024 is organized by IEICE Technical Committee on Smart Radio (SR), co-sponsored by IEICE Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems (RCS), and jointly hosted by RWTH Aachen University and Fraunhofer IPT Aachen, Germany.

ABOUT SMARTCOM

SmartCom is the international workshop jointly organised by several IEICE Technical Committees and technical key players outside Japan. This is the 7th SmartCom in its history, and is hosted in collaboration with academia in Germany and other European countries. 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

SmartCom is a workshop on smart wireless communications, it covers radio technologies, spectrum management, wireless networks, communication theory, and flexible hardware, among others. Due to the recent wireless technology advancement, ubiquitous connectivity is expected in the near future. However, this also leads to the tremendous growth of wireless data traffic, demanding higher data rates. Therefore, smart radio technologies to address these demands are urgently required to sustain future wireless worlds. In this workshop, we discuss the solutions targeting not only the near future but also years beyond 5G and 6G. Expected candidate solutions include ultra-high data-rate systems including microwave/millimeter/terahertz wave devices, dynamic spectrum management, smart IoT systems, the application of AI to wireless networks and so on. The organizing committee expects that the workshop also represents a great opportunity for networking and initiating cooperative research and joint proposals.

PAST AWARDS

SmartCom 2024


Best Paper Awards

  • Completion Time Minimization for UAV-Based Post-Disaster Data Collection
    Renkai Zhao, Gia Khanh Tran (Science Tokyo)
  • Development and Evaluation of Support Node Function for Reliability-ensuring Platform of Cybernetic Avatar
    Homare Murakami, Kazuo Ibuka, Atsushi Wakayama, Shinichi Hama, Jun Amagai, Takeshi Matsumura (NICT)

Best Student Paper Awards

  • Beam Tracking for mmWave Connectivity in Vehicular Scenarios
    Alexander Baron, Firooz B. Saghezchi, Haris Gačanin (RWTH Aachen)
  • Decentralized Multi-agent DRL for Wireless Power Allocation
    Amna Kopic, Ivan Karetic, Erma Perenda, Firooz B. Saghezchi, Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen)

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)