IEEESPSSPCOM-TCMeetingatICASSP2017

HiltonNewOrleans,CampRoom,U.S.A.March6,20175pm-6:30pm

Agenda• Calltoorder.Welcomefromthechair(WeiYu)• Approvaloftheagenda• ApprovalofminutesfromthemeetingatICASSP2016(encl.1,vote)• Chair'sreport(encl.2,forinformation)• UpdatefromSPAWC2017(WeiYu)• UpdatefromSPAWC2018(Athina Petropulu)• Policiesandproceduresrevision(encl.3,vote)• DiscussionofPotentialProposalsforSPAWC2019(encl.4,5,6,forinfo.)

• GeorgiaTech.(GeoffreyYeLi)• IndianInstituteofScience(Bhaskar Rao)• EUROCOM(LauraCottatellucci)

• Electronicvoting,SPVideo,etc (ErikLarsson)

ApprovalofAgenda(vote)

ApprovalofMinutesoftheTCMeetingfromICASSP2016(vote)

Chair’sReport- Membership

• Attheendof2016,thefollowing10membersretiredfromservice:• Chong-YungChi,DavidLove,MatthewMcKay,AhmedSadek,MilicaStojanovic,WeifengSu,CihanTepedelenlioglu,WolfgangUtschick,SergiyVorobyov,PengfeiXia

• In2017thefollowing10newelectedmembersstartedtheirservice:• TonyQuek,BrunoClerckx,EmilBjornson,ChristophStuder,LauraCottatellucci,OsvaldoSimeone,MingyiHong,VasanthRaghavan,ByonghyoShim,TareqAl-Naffouri.

• Followingmemberswerere-electedforasecondthree-yearterm:• BiaoChen,ChandraMurthy,MathiniSellathurai,PhilippeCiblat,ShiJin,FeifeiGao.

• Diversitymetric:• 5femalemembers,2industrymembers.• 12NorthAmerica,9Europe,1MiddleEast,8AsiaPacific

Chair’sReport- Subcommittees

• Nominationsandelectionssubcommittee:• Joakim Jalden (chair),MinDong,WeiZhang

• Awardssubcommittee:• ErikLarsson(chair),WeiYu,BiaoChen,Urbashi Mitra

• Marconiawardsubcommittee:• Rui Zhang(chair),BrunoClerckx,Yindi Jing,ShiJin

• Industry/governmentsubcommittee:• Eleftherios Karipidis (chair),Raghavan Vasanth

• Newslettersubcommittee:• ChandraMurthy(chair),andWaheed U.Bajwa (IEEESPSvisibilityrepresentative)

• Educationsubcommittee:• MarkkuJuntti (chair),ChristopherStuder,EmilBjörnson

• Geographicalrepresentatives:• MichaelRabbat (Canada),PhillipeCiblat (Europe),TonyQuek (AsiaPacific),ChristophStuder (USA)

TCRepresentationsonIEEEBoards

• IEEESPSTechnicalDirectionsboard(W.Yu)• IEEESPSAwardsBoard(U.Mitra andE.G.Larsson)• SteeringcommitteeofIEEETrans.WirelessComm.(U.Mitra)• Editor-in-ChiefofIEEEWirelessComm.Letters(W.Zhang)

Chair’sReport– AwardWinners

• IEEESIGNALPROCESSINGSOCIETYTECHNICALACHIEVEMENTAWARD• Bhaskar D.Rao,"forfundamentalcontributionstoarrayprocessingandsparsity-basedsignalprocessing.”

• IEEESIGNALPROCESSINGSOCIETYBESTPAPERAWARD• ChinKeong HoandRui Zhang,for"OptimalEnergyAllocationforWirelessCommunicationsWithEnergyHarvestingConstraints",IEEETransactionsonSignalProcessing,Volume60,No.9,Sept.2012.

• IEEESIGNALPROCESSINGLETTERSBESTPAPERAWARD• YeYang,Qiang Li,Wing-KinMa,Jianhua GeandP.C.Ching,for"CooperativeSecureBeamformingforAFRelayNetworksWithMultiple",IEEESignalProcessingLetters,Volume20,No.1,January2013.

• IEEEFELLOWClassof2016amongcurrentTCmembers:• Wing-KinMa,Rui Zhang

Chair’sReport– AwardNominations

• 2016IEEESPSBestPaperAward• "BilinearGeneralizedApproximateMessagePassing— PartI:Derivation;PartII:Applications"byJasonT.Parker,PhilipSchniter andVolkan Cevhe,IEEETransactionsonSignalProcessing,Volume62,No.22,November2014.successful

• 2016IEEESPSYoungAuthorBestPaperAward• JackHo,forthepaperco-authoredwithWeePengTay,TonyQ.S.Quek andEdwinK.P.Chong,“RobustDecentralizedDetectionandSocialLearninginTandemNetworks”,IEEETransactionsonSignalProcessing,Volume63,No.19,October2015.successful

• IEEESPSDistinguishedLecturer• Athina Petropulu,successful

Chair’sReport– AwardNominations

• 2016IEEESPSTechnicalAchievementAward:Zhi-Quan(Tom)Luo,notsuccessful• 2016IEEESPSSocietyAward:GeorgiosB.Giannakis,notsuccessful• 2016IEEESPSIndustrialLeaderAward:JohnM.Cioffi,notsuccessful• 2016IEEESPSMagazineBestPaperAward:“ConvexOptimization-basedBeamforming”,A.B.Gershman,N.D.Sidiropoulos,S.Shahbazpanahi,M.Bengtsson,andB.Ottersten,notsuccessful• 2016IEEESPSMagazineBestColumnAward:“OptimalMultiuserTransmitBeamforming:ADifficultProblemwithaSimpleSolutionStructure”byEmilBjornson,MatsBengtsson,andBjornOttersten,notsuccessful

Chair’sReport– ICASSPStatistics

ICASSP2012(Kyoto) 115acceptedoutof218submitted 8.3%of ICASSP

ICASSP2014(Florence) 205acceptedoutof387submitted+5SPLpapers

11.6%of ICASSP

ICASSP2013(Vancouver) 187acceptedoutof391submitted+12SPLpapers

11.0%of ICASSP

ICASSP2015(Brisbane) 75acceptedoutof153submitted+14SPLpapers

6.8%of ICASSP

ICASSP2016(Shanghai) 116acceptedoutof240submitted+9SPLpapers

9.0%of ICASSP

ICASSP2017(NewOrleans) 72acceptedoutof146submitted+4SPLpapers

5.8%of ICASSP

Chair’sReport– SPAWCStatistics

SPAWC2012(Cesme,Turkey) 119acceptedoutof171submitted 124attendees

SPAWC2013 (Darmstadt,Germany) 158acceptedoutof237submitted 184attendees

SPAWC2014 (Toronto,Canada) 102acceptedoutof121submitted 132attendees

SPAWC2015 (Stockholm,Sweden) 140acceptedoutof207submitted 178attendees

SPAWC2016 (Edinburgh,UK) 173acceptedoutof260submitted 210attendees

SPAWC2017 (Sapporo,Japan) 100submissions asofMarch6,amongwhich72areregularsubmissions,28invited.Thereareatotalof90invitedpapers.ExtendedDeadline:March10,2017

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• Financialresults:• 2015:Surplusof$27Koutof$68Kexpenses(28%surplus)• 2016:Surplusof£14Koutof£67Kexpenses(17.5%surplus)

Chair’sReport– GlobalSIP Participation• GlobalSIP 2013:5SPCOMsymposiaoutof18intotal• GlobalSIP 2014:6SPCOMsymposiaoutof13intotal• GlobalSIP 2015:3symposia(#7,#8,#12)withclearconnectiontoSPCOM• GlobalSIP 2016:

• M.Rabbat co-organizedasymposiumonSPOverNetworks• Z.-Q.LuoandM.Hongco-organizedasymposiumonDistributedInformationProcessing,OptimizationandResourceAllocationoverNetworks

• M.Juntti co-organizedasymposiumonTransceiversandSPfor5GandmmWave.• SPCOMrelatedsymposiaonInfoTheoreticSecurity(Schaefer,Boche),CognitiveRadio(Poor)

• GlobalSIP 2017:• Z.-Q.LuoandM.Hongareco-organizingasymposiumonDistributedOptimizationandResourceAllocationoverNetworks

• M.Rabbat isco-organizingasymposiumonGraphSignalProcessing• SPCOMrelatedsymposiumonFull-duplex(Gross)

Chair’sReport– TasksAhead

• February15,2017:• NominationsfortheMarconiaward(passed,nosubmissionthisyear)

• May31,2017:• NominationsforDistinguishedLecturers• Responsible:TCchair,Awardssubcommittee

• September1,2017:• NominationsforBPA,YABPA,MBPA,LBPA,OPA,SIPAandTA• Responsible:TCpast-chair,Awardssubcommittee

• November15,2017:• Vice-ChairandMembershipelectioncompleted• Responsible:Electionsandnominationssubcommittee

• February15,2018:• NominationsfortheMarconiaward• Responsible:Marconisubcommittee

UpdatefromSPAWC2017• AdvancedSPSmemberregistrationfee:$550USD($225forstudents)• ReceptionatSapporoTVTower.BanquetatSapporoParkHotel.• Accommodations:$100USDfortypicalhotels.• Sponsorship:USD20,000fromKDDIFoundationandTelecommunicationsAdvancementFoundation

http://www.spawc2017.org

UpdatefromSPAWC2017

• GeneralChairs:• YasutakaOgawa,WeiYu,Fumiyuki Adachi

• TPCChairs:• Tomoaki Ohtsuki,LutzLampe,Wing-Kin(Ken)Ma

• SpecialSessionChair:• TonyQ.S.Quek (16specialsessionsplanned)

• PlenarySpeakers:• AdaPoon,StanfordUniversity• HaraldHass,UniversityofEdinburgh• Gesualdo Scutari,PurdueUniversity• VincentLau,HongKongUniversityofScienceandTechnologies• Yukihiko Okumura,NTTDoCoMo

UpdatefromSPAWC2018• Dates,Venue,andBudget:• June25-28,2018atEliteHotelinKalamata,Greece.• Hotelcontractsigned:114€(single)135€(double).• Registrationfeesexpectedtobe300-400 €range(150€forstudents).

ApprovalofChangesinTCPoliciesandProcedures(vote)

SPAWC2019

• TheTCaimstodecideSPAWCtwoyearsinadvance• NormalprocedureistomakedecisionatICASSP,butthisyear’scall-for-proposalwasonlyissuedinFebruary.Wewillvotebyemail.

• Keydates:• ICASSP2019:May12-17,Brighton,UK• ICC2019:May20-24,Shanghai,China• ISIT2019:July7-14,Paris,France

• ExpressionofinterestsalsoreceivedforSPAWC2020(China)andSPAWC2021(India)

ProposalforSPAWC2019atGeorgiaInstituteofTechnology

Atlanta,USA

Geoffrey(Ye)LiandXiaoli Ma

ProposalforSPAWC2019atIndianInstituteofScience(IISc)

Bangalore,India

ChandraMurthyandBhaskar Rao

ProposalforSPAWC2019inFrenchRiviera

DavidGesbert,LauraCottatellucci,FlorianKaltenberger

OtherBusiness

• ElectronicVoting

• SPCOMvideo