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IEEE ComSoc Society Radio Communications Committee (RCC)

Chair: Andrea Giorgetti

University of Bologna Italy

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/andrea.giorgetti andrea.giorgetti@unibo.it

Vice-Chair: Yuan Shen Tsinghua University

China http://oa.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn/~shenyuan/ shenyuan_ee@tsinghua.edu.cn

Secretary: Jemin Lee Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of

Science and Technology Korea

https://sites.google.com/site/jeminleeweb jmnlee@dgist.ac.kr

Minutes for the meeting held on May 24, 2017 IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France

1. Introduction The Committee Chair Andrea Giorgetti opened the Radio Communications Committee (RCC) meeting at 12:40 pm. There were 62 members present, and a list of participants is attached at the end of these minutes together with some photos. The Chair presented the agenda:

1. Welcome/Introductions 2. Approval of Agenda 3. Approval of GC’16 RCC Meeting Minutes (available on the website) 4. Conferment of 2017 IEEE ComSoc RCC Outstanding Service Award 5. Report on Conference/Workshop Activities 6. Report on Standards Activities 7. Student Competition: Communication Technology May Change the World 8. New Business items 9. Next RCC meeting 10. Adjourn

After the presentation of the agenda, Prof. Moe Z. Win requested to add an item related to the discussion of some issues encountered in the final step of the publication process in IEEE Journals and Transactions. The assembly agreed to add this point in the agenda.

2. Approval of the Agenda The agenda was approved.

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3. Approval of IEEE Globecom 2016 RCC Meeting Minutes The minutes (circulated via RCC email list and website) were approved. 4. Conferment of 2017 IEEE ComSoc RCC Outstanding Service Award The 2017 IEEE Communications Society’s RCC Outstanding Service Award was given to Prof. Hanna Bogucka. Dr. Adrian Kliks received the award during the meeting on the behalf of Prof. Bogucka.

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5. Report on Conference/Workshops activities Reports on the RCC sponsored conferences/workshops are available in the slides downloadable from the RCC website. Conferences/workshops and corresponding RCC representatives are listed below (see slides for details):

• GLOBECOM 2016: Hyundong Shin (CRN), Dania Marabissi, Yuan Shen (SPC) • ICC 2017: Fulvio Babich (CT), Davide Dardari (WC) • GLOBECOM 2017: Andrea Conti (WC) • IINTEC2017: Andrea Giorgetti, Nan Wu, Ruei-Hau Hsu • COMCAS2017: Flavio Zabini, Tingting Zhang, Mohapatra Parthajit • ICSPCS 2017: Hans-Juergen Zepernick, Tadeusz Wysocki, Lajos Hanzo • ISWCS 2017: Tingting Zhang, Andreas Springer, Jue Wang • ICT 2017: Alessandro Bazzi, Flavio Zabini, Yuan Shen • ICC 2018: Andrea Giorgetti (SPC) • GLOBECOM 2018: Yuan Shen (WC)

6. Report on Standard Activities ComSoc Standards Board Technical Committee Liaisons Report The RCC representative, Dr. George Chrisikos, prepared slides to report on standards activity. The ComSoc Standards Board (SB) objective is the discussion of IEEE/ComSoc standards development projects, new standardization initiatives, procedures, operational issues, and in partnership with the IEEE-SA Standards Board. IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Standards Development Board (SDB) • Approved standards:

IEEE 269-2010: IEEE Standard Methods for Measuring Transmission Performance of Analog and Digital Telephone Sets, Handsets, and Headsets

IEEE 269a-2012: IEEE Standard Methods for Measuring Transmission Performance of Analog and Digital Telephone Sets, Handsets, and Headsets - Amendment 1

IEEE 661-1979: IEEE Standard Method for Determining Objective Loudness Ratings of Telephone Connections

IEEE 1329-2010: IEEE Standard Method for Measuring Transmission Performance of Speakerphones

IEEE 1652-2008: IEEE Standard for the Application of Free Field Acoustic Reference to Telephony Measurements

IEEE 1902.1-2009: IEEE Standard for Long Wavelength Wireless Network Protocol IEEE 1903-2011: IEEE Standard for the Functional Architecture of Next Generation

Service Overlay Networks (NGSON) IEEE 1904.1-2013: IEEE Standard for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive

Optical Networks (SIEPON) IEEE 1904.1-Conformance03-2014: IEEE Standard for Conformance Test

Procedures for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, IEEE Std 1904.1(TM) Package A, B, C

IEEE 2410-2015: IEEE Standards for Biometrics Open Protocol Standard (BOPS)

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IEEE 1906.1-2015: IEEE Recommended Practice for Nanoscale and Molecular Communication Framework

IEEE 1652-2016: IEEE Standard for Translating Head and Torso Simulator Measurements from Eardrum to Other Acoustic Reference Points

• Active projects: P269: Standard for Measuring Electroacoustic Performance of Communication

Devices P269: Standard for Measuring Electroacoustic Performance of Communication

Devices P1903.1: Standard for Content Delivery Protocols of NGSON P1903.2: Standard for Service Composition Protocols of NGSON P1903.3: Standard for Self-Organizing Management Protocols of NGSON P1904.1: Standard for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks

(SIEPON) P1904.2: Standard for Management Channel for Customer-Premises Equipment

Connected to Ethernet-Based Subscriber Access Networks P1908.1: Virtual Keyboard Standard for Indic Languages P1910.1: Standard for Meshed Tree Bridging with Loop Free Forwarding P1911.1: IEEE Draft Standard — Adoption of HDBaseT Specification Version 1.1.0 P1911.2: IEEE Draft Standard — Adoption of HDBaseT Specification Version 2.0 P1911.3: Standard for HDBaseT 5Play P1912: Standard for Privacy and Security Architecture for Consumer Wireless

Devices P1913: Software-Defined Quantum Communication P1914.1: Standard for Packet-based Fronthaul Transport Networks P1914.3: Standard for Radio Over Ethernet Encapsulations and Mappings P1915.1: Standard for Software Defined Networking and Network Function

Virtualization Security P1916.1: Standard for Software Defined Networking and Network Function

Virtualization Performance P1917.1: Standard for Software Defined Networking and Network Function

Virtualization Reliability P1918.1: Tactile Internet: Application Scenarios, Definitions and Terminology,

Architecture, Functions, and Technical Assumptions P1920.1: Aerial Communications and Networking Standards P1921.1: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Bootstrapping Procedures P1922.1: A method for calculating anticipated emissions caused by virtual machine

migration and placement P1922.2: A method to calculate near real-time emissions of information and

communication technology infrastructure P1923.1: Computation of energy efficiency upper bound for apparatus processing

communication signal waveforms P1924.1: Recommended practice for developing energy efficient power-proportional

digital architectures P1925.1: Energy Efficient Dynamic Line Rate Transmission System

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P1926.1: A Functional Architecture of Distributed Energy Efficient Big Data Processing

P1927.1: Services Provided by the Energy-efficient Orchestration and Management of Virtualized Distributed Data Centers Interconnected by a Virtualized Network

P1928.1: A Mechanism for Energy Efficient Virtual Machine Placement P1929.1: An Architectural Framework for Energy Efficient Content Distribution P1930.1: Recommended Practice for Software Defined Networking (SDN) based

Middleware for Control and Management of Wireless Networks P1931.1: An Architectural Framework for Real-time Onsite Operations Facilitation

(ROOF) for the Internet of Things

Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks Standards Committee (DySPAN-SC) • Approved standards:

IEEE 1900.1-2008: IEEE Standard Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management

IEEE 1900.2-2008: IEEE Recommended Practice for the Analysis of In-Band and Adjacent Band Interference and Coexistence Between Radio Systems

IEEE 1900.4-2009: IEEE Standard for Architectural Building Blocks Enabling Network-Device Distributed Decision Making for Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

IEEE 1900.4a-2011: IEEE Standard for Architectural Building Blocks Enabling Network-Device Distributed Decision Making for Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks Amendment 1: Architecture and Interfaces for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks in White Space Frequency Bands

IEEE 1900.5-2011: IEEE Standard for Policy Language Requirements and System Architectures for Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems

IEEE 1900.6-2011: IEEE Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Other Advanced Radio Communication Systems

IEEE 1900.1a-2012: IEEE Standard for Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management Amendment: Addition of New Terms and Associated Definitions

IEEE 1900.4.1-2013: IEEE Standard for Interfaces and Protocols Enabling Distributed Decision Making for Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

IEEE 1900.6a-2014: IEEE Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Other Advanced Radio Communication Systems – Amendment 1: Procedures, Protocols, and Data Archive Enhanced Interfaces

IEEE 1900.6-2011/Cor 1-2015: IEEE Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Other Advanced Radio Communication Systems – Corrigendum 1

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IEEE 1900.7-2015: IEEE Standard for Radio Interface for White Space Dynamic Spectrum Access Radio Systems Supporting Fixed and Mobile Operation

• Active projects: P1900.1: Standard Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access:

Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management

P1900.5.1: Standard Policy Language for Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems P1900.5.2: Method for Modeling Spectrum Consumption P1900.6b: Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic

Spectrum Access and other Advanced Radio Communication Systems. Spectrum Database Interfaces Amendment.

Power Line Communication Standards Committee (PLC-SC) • Approved standards:

IEEE 1775-2010: IEEE Standard for Power Line Communication Equipment - Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Requirements – Testing and Measurement Methods - co-sponsored with the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Power System Communications Committee (PSCC)

IEEE 1901-2010: IEEE Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications

IEEE 1901.2-2013: IEEE Standard for Low Frequency (less than 500 kHz) Narrow Band Power Line Communications for Smart Grid Applications

IEEE 1905.1-2013: IEEE Standard for a Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous Technologies

IEEE 2030.5-2013: IEEE Adoption of Smart Energy Profile 2.0 Application Protocol Standard

IEEE 1905.1a-2014: IEEE Standard for a Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous Technologies Amendment 1: Support of New MAC/PHYs and Enhancements

IEEE 1909.1-2014: IEEE Recommended Practice for Smart Grid Communications Equipment — Test Methods and Installation Requirements

IEEE 1901.2a-2015: IEEE Standard for Low-Frequency (less than 500 kHz) Narrowband Power Line Communications for Smart Grid Applications – Amendment 1

• Active projects:

P1901.1: Medium Frequency (less than 15 MHz) Power Line Communications for Smart Grid Applications

P1905.1a: Standard for a Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous Technologies Amendment: Support of new MAC/PHYs and enhancements

P1909.1: Recommended Practice for Smart Grid Communication Equipment – Test methods and installation requirements

P2030.5: Standard for Smart Energy Profile Application Protocol

All IEEE standard activities have been listed in RCC website at the link: http://rc.committees.comsoc.org/conferences/

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We have two RCC members involved in the IEEE 1900.1 Working group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access”: Dr. Oliver Holland (Vice Chair of the WG) and Dr. Adrian Kliks (Secretary of the WG). Dr. Oliver Holland reported on the ongoing standardization activities within the WG. IPIN International Standards Committee Report The RCC representative, Dr. Andrea Conti, presented the ongoing standards activity on IPIN International Standards. • IPIN (Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation) [http://ipin-conference.org/]

Location information of devices in indoor environments has become a key issue for many emerging applications. However, there is no overall and easy solution.

IPIN brings together researchers, system developers, and service providers in the area of indoor positioning and navigation.

IPIN is one of the largest and very active communities working in indoor positioning and navigation worldwide with hundreds of participants, both from academia and industry, during the annual IPIN conference.

First annual IPIN conference hosted by ETH Zurich in 2010. IPIN 2017 conference will be at Sapporo, Japan. (http://www.ipin2017.org/)

• IPIN International Standards Committee Part of IPIN organization Develops standards through the collaboration of academia, industry and government

organizations. Developed standards: Vendor neutral, technology-agnostic, open architecture

standards based on the OSI model. • Meetings

Regularly scheduled conference calls Face-to-face during annual IPIN conference

• Vision Ubiquitous indoor navigation: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone

• Mission Enable seamless indoor navigation around the globe by defining open architecture

and technology agnostic standards. • Committee Structure

1. Architecture Subcommittee 2. Industry Liaison Subcommittee 3. IPIN Liaison Subcommittee 4. Mapping Subcommittee 5. Membership Subcommittee 6. Publication Subcommittee 7. Standards Organization Liaison Subcommittee 8. Cyber Security Subcommittee 9. Technology Subcommittee 10. User Interface Subcommittee

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7. ComSoc student competition program ComSoc has launched a Student Competition Program, for graduate and undergraduate students. Please review details presented at: http://www.comsoc.org/communications-technology-changing-world The theme of the competition is "Communications Technology Changing the World". The RCC representative for the ComSoc Student Competition is Dr. Alberto Rabbachin, European Commission, a.rabbachin@ieee.org 8. New Business Items The members have been informed about three major recognitions received by our active members, and past recipients of the RCC Technical Recognition Award:

• IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award William C. Lindsey - For contributions to synchronization and digital communications technologies.

• IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal: H. Vincent Poor - For fundamental contributions to signal processing and its application to digital communications

• IEEE Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award: Moe Z. Win - For contributions to the foundation of wireless communication and localization networks

Selected Distinguished Lecturers • Mohsen Kavehrad, Pennsylvania State University • Luiz DaSilva, Trinity College Dublin (renewed, 2nd term)

Best readings www.comsoc.org/best-readings List of papers (w/commentary and hyperlinks) online. One new every quarter: power line communications; cognitive radio; broadband access; green communications; multi-tier cellular networks (Andrea Conti, RCC); localization (Yuan Shen, RCC) Recertification of TCs Evaluation of 1/3 of TCs every year: RCC selected in 2017 Report submitted (deadline May 1st). Waiting for the evaluation result (GC’17). New Award: Early achievement award • Recognize members of the RCC who have achieved early career visibility in the field

through research and service, and who • have participated in the RCC (e.g., attended RCC meetings, served RCC in a

significant capacity, been member of the TPC for ICC/GLOBECOM) • are within 10 years of their Ph.D.

• Nomination and selection procedure will be the same as for the Technical recognition award.

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• New guidelines for the RCC Early Achievement Award have been approved in the RCC meeting including award frequency, nomination procedure, eligible criteria, award selection committee, and support for the award.

• The guidelines for the Early Achievement Award will be available on the website at the following link http://rc.committees.comsoc.org/awards/

Approval of the RCC IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee Policies and Procedures (P&P) (Version 8) • The version 8 of RCC IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee Policies

and Procedures (P&P) has been presented to the assembly and approved unanimously. The updated ‘Procedures for Internal TC Awards’ on the version 8 is as follows: 8) Procedures for Internal TC Awards As a part of the TC activities, the Technical Recognition Award, the Outstanding Service Award, and the Early Achievement Award, are established to recognize those ComSoc members who, respectively, have made their significant contributions to the radio communications technological advancement, have distinguished record of service to the TC, and have achieved early career visibility in the field through research and service. Each award will be announced and given once a year during the IEEE ICC and Globecom conferences. Nominations will be solicited by e-mails from the TC members. All nominations must be sent to the TC Secretary. The applications can be from individual researchers on a self-nomination basis, or nominations by other people or research groups. The nomination should include a concise description of the candidate’s accomplishments as related to the TC. The nominations cannot be from the members of the TC Awards Committee. No TC Awards Committee members can be nominated while they are in their service. The TC Awards Committee consists of the TC officers (Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary) and two other TC members nominated by the TC Chair, and amongst all received nominated candidates the TC Award Committee will make the final decisions for the RCC Outstanding Service Award, RCC Technical Recognition Award, and RCC Early Achievement Award, each year.

Communication from Technical & Educational Activities Council (TEAC) - IEEE COMSOC SUMMER SCHOOL: The 3rd Edition will be held on 17-20

July 2017 at the University of New Mexico. - Upcoming articles of Communication History Committee (Chair: Steve

Weinstein) including History of Echo Cancellation (Hanna Bogucka, Poznan University) and History of MIMO (Jack Winters).

Soliciting nominations for the 2017 Technical Recognition Award (Due: Aug. 15) Soliciting nominees for Technical Program Committee activities

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A motion to discuss on current galley proofs of IEEE journal papers Prof. Moe Z. Win made a motion to discuss about some concerns on the current galley proofs of IEEE journal papers and Dr. Andrea Conti seconded the motion. Following that many of our members raised some concerns and complaints about the step between the submission of the camera-ready and the reception of the galley proofs. The main points raised by our members during the meeting are summarized in the following. The current galley proofs process alters considerably the format and math symbols of the manuscript even when it is carefully prepared by the authors following scrupulously the instructions provided by the IEEE on the webpage: https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_templates.html More precisely: - The arrangement of the equations should not be retyped by the editors, unless it

does not comply with the guidelines. We noticed that even when equations have been carefully typed following all the instructions provided by the IEEE, they are unexpectedly retyped with errors and, surprisingly, their aspect is worse than the original.

- The equation font should be reverted into original "computer modern." Unfortunately, the current font is not able to capture the richness of the notation, which usually occurs in Transactions papers with extensive mathematical content. The appearance of complex equations with subscripts, superscripts, combinations of different brackets, etc. now appears far way worse than in the past, and this is due to the change of the font type.

Finally, the editors should be following the IEEE template distributed to authors so that the galley proofs could come up in a form that is almost "expected." In principle, a very scrupulously prepared manuscript that follows all the instructions should not require extensive editing. This should also alleviate the editors’ burden.

The RCC will report these concerns at the IEEE Communications Society level and will provide, if necessary, a proactive effort to improve the publication process. Join the RCC discussion group at http://community.comsoc.org/groups/tc-radio-communications Join the RCC mailing list: rcc@comsoc.org (currently 1117 members) 9. Next RCC meeting The next RCC meeting will be scheduled in Globecom 2017, Singapore. 10. Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 pm.

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Attendees list

First Name Surname Affiliation email

Advian Kliks Poznan University of Technology advian.kliks@et.put.poznan.pl

Ahmed Mohamed Sayed HKUST amas@cse.ust.hk

Alex Calisti Univ. of Bologna alex.calisti@unibo.it

Ali Yassin American University of Beirut ahyou@mail.aub.edu

Ali Ramezani-Kebrya University of Toronto aramezani@ece.utoronto.ca

An Liu Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology eewendaol@ust.hk

Andrea Giorgetti University of Bologna a.giorgetti@unibo.it

Andrea Conti Univ. of Ferrara a.conti@ieee.org

Andreas Springer University of Linz andreas.springer@jku.at

Bossy Bartosz Poznan University of Technology bartosz.bossy@et.put.poznan.pl

Christos Verikoukis GTC cveri@cttc.es

Christos Masouros UCL c.masouros@ucl.ac.uk

Cong Shen Univ. of Science & Tech. of China congshen@ustc.edu.cn

David W. Matolak Univ. of South Carolina matolak@sc.edu

Davide Dardari Univ. of Bologna davide.dardari@unibo.it

Didier Le Ruyet CNAM, Paris leruyet@cnam.fr

Fanggang Wang Beijing Jiaotong Univ. wangfg@bjtu.edu.cn

Fulvio Babich Uni. Of Trieste babich@units.it

George Alexandropoulos Huawei Technologies France alexandg@ieee.org

Gianni Pasolini Univ. of Bologna gianni.pasolini@unibo.it

Guido Carlo Ferrante MIT-SUTD gcf@ieee.org

Hamid Aghvami King's Colleage London hamid.aghvami@kcl.ac.uk

Hamidreza Shariatmadari Aalto University hamidreza.shariatmadari@aalto.fi

Hesham ElSawy KAUST hesham.elsawy@kaust.edu.sa / elsawyhesham@gmail.com

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Hossein Kazemi University of Edinburgh h.kazemi@ed.ac.uk

Imran Shafique Ansari Texas A&M Univ. at

Qatar (TAMUQ) ansarimran@ieee.org

Jack Winters JWC, LLC jack@jackwinters.com

Jemin Lee DGIST jmnlee@dgist.ac.kr

Jingxian Wu Univ. of Arkansas wuj@uark.edu

Jose A. del Peral Rosado UAB joseantonio.delperal

@uab.es

Julian Cheng Univ. of British Columbia julian.cheng@ubc.ca

Jung Hoon Lee Hankuk Univ. of Foureign Studies tantheta@hufs.ac.kr

Junting Chen Univ. of Southern California juntingc@usc.edu

Liang Sun Beihang Univ. sunl@buaa.edu.cn

Li-Chun Wang National Chiao Tung Univ. lichan@g2.nctu.edu.tw

Markku Renfors Tampere University of Technology markku.renfors@tut.fi

Markku Juntti University of OULU markku.juntti@oulu.fi

Marty meyers nmtelcom Consulting martymeyers @gmail.com

Meixia Tao Shanghai Jiao Tong University mxtao@sjtu.edu.cn

Michele Chincoli Eindhoven Univ. of Technology m.chincoli@tue.nl

Moe Win MIT moewin@mit.edu

Mohammad Shikh Bahaei Kings College London m.sbahaei@kcl.ac.uk

Neelesh B. Mehta IISc Bangalore neeleshbmehta@gmail.com

Nizar Zorba Qatar University nizarzorba@yahoo.es

Oliver holland King's Colleage London oliver.holland@kcl.ar.uk

Peter Müller IBM Zurich Research Lab pmu@zurich.ibm.com

Robert Ulman U.S. Army Research Office robert.j.ulman.civ@mail.mil

Rose Hu Utah State Univ. rose.hu@usu.edu

Salama Ikki Lakehead Univ. sikki@lakeheadu.ca

Stefania Bartoletti Univ. of Ferrara & MIT stefania.bartoletti@unife.it

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Takahiko Saba chiba Inst. of Tech saba@cs.it-chiba.ac.jp

Tomoaki Ohtsuki Keio University ohtsuki@ics.keio.ac.jp

Umberto Spagnolini Politecnico di Milano Umberto.Spagnolini @polimi.it

Velio Tralli Univ. of Ferrara velio.tralli@unife.it

Wei Chen Tsinghua University wchen@tsinghua.edu.cn

Wenhan Dai MIT whdai@mit.edu

Witold Krzymień Univ. of Alberta wak@ece.ualberta.ca

Yan Chen Huawei bigbird.chenyan@huawei.com

Ying Cui Shanghai Jiao Tong University cuiying@sjtu.edu.cn

Youssef Nasser AUB yn10@aub.edu.lb

Yuan Shen Tsinghua University shenyuan_ee@mail. tsinghua.edu.cn

Zhenyu Liu MIT zliu14@mit.edu

Some photos taken during the meeting follow.

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