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Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Meeting

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETYWireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC)

GC2019, HawaiiWed., 11/12/201912:00 pm– 1:30pm

Current Officers:Chair: Wei Zhang, UNSW Australia

Vice Chair: Bechir Hamdaoui, Oregon State Univ.Secretary: Yue Gao, Queen Mary Univ. of London

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AgendaApproval of the AgendaApproval of last WTC Meeting MinutesWTC: General Information and Mission StatementWTC AwardsWTC ActivitiesUpdates from TEAC & TC Board§ WTC P&P revisions§ TC Newsletter

Any other Business?Adjourn

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Minutes of WTC meeting held at ICC2019

Chaired by WTC Secretary: Yue GaoIn Attendance: WTC members

Approval of the AgendaApproval of GC 18 meeting minutes Introduction of WTC mission statement WTC Award § Introduction of WTC Recognition Award§ Introduction of WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award

WTC 2018 Recognition Award ceremony§ Professor Robert Heath

Update of WTC activities and conference endorsement § Conference endorsement (ICCC 2019, WCSP 2019, NanoCom)§ Nominations of symposium co-chairs of ICC and GC

Endorsement of IEEE Fellows § 3 endorsement were submitted in Feb 2019

Nominations for DL: A call-for-nomination will be announced in August 2019Update of Mailing list and website Updates from TEA-C Adjourn

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WTC - general informationv Website: http://wtc.committees.comsoc.org/

§ About 1,500 members § Our members are encouraged to volunteer in professional activities

v Becoming WTC member§ Open to all ComSoc members§ Need to subscribe to WTC mailing list (Instructions are in WTC web page)§ Note: signing attendance sheet does not make you a WTC member

v Becoming active WTC member§ Need to attend 2+ of five prior regularly scheduled WTC meetings.

v Mailing list: [email protected]§ Can opt out of mass emails; just log onto system and click appropriate box§ WTC Chair emails are sent to all members

§ Opting out of WTC Chair emails can only be done by terminating your membership; this can also be done through the web

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WTC mission statement

The mission of WTC is to sponsor publications, conferences,technical sessions, workshops, and other information exchanges onarchitectures, applications, systems, terminals and technologies toprovide wireless, mobile, location-independent communication andcomputing in voice, data and visual media. Its areas of interestinclude techniques for achieving portability, ubiquity andtransparency using mobile and wireless networks ranging fromphysical layer, MAC layer, network layer to application layer. Thecommittee also assumes the proactive duty to nominate suitablecandidates for ComSoc and IEEE awards, propose distinguishedlecturer candidates, and endorse deserving candidates for theelection to IEEE Senior Member and Fellow grade, makecontributions to standards in an organized form.

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v Two Awards§ WTC Recognition Award§ WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award

v 2019 WTC Award Committee§ Chair: Shuguang Cui (Past Chair of WTC)§ Current WTC Chair (Wei Zhang)§ 2nd Past WTC Chair (Tarik Taleb)§ 3rd Past WTC Chair (Ross Murch)§ A WTC member representing WTC membership (Junshan

Zhang)

WTC Awards

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WTC Recognition Award

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BASIS FOR JUDGING§ A person with a high degree of visibility and contribution in the field of "Wireless

and Mobile Communications Theory, Systems, and Networks“

PRESENTATION§ Annually (as appropriate). § No more than two awards will be given per year.

NOMINATION§ Solicited from the WTC members annually. § Should include a (short) sentence for "what service or accomplishment" the

person is nominated for and a one page supporting material. § Additionally, two letters supporting the nomination may be sent to the WTC

Award Committee Chair.

WTC Recognition Award

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WTC Recognition Award – Past Recipients2018 Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton Univ., Canada; Prof. Robert Heath, UT Austin, USA2017 Prof. Robert Schober, FAU, Germany; Prof. Mohsen Guizani, Univ. of Idaho, USA2016 Prof. Junshan Zhang, ASU, USA; Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Saudi Arabia2015 Prof. Romano P. Fantacci, Florence University, Italy; Prof. Chengshan Xiao, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA2014 Prof. Yuguang “Michael” Fang, University of Florida, USA ;2014 Prof. Gerhard P. Fettweis, TechnischeUniversität Dresden , Germany 2013 Prof. Geoffrey Li, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 2012 Prof. Zhi Ding, UC Davis, USA and Prof. Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA 2011 Prof. Kwang-Cheng Chen., National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan and Prof. Khaled B. Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kang, China 2010 Prof. Leonard J. Cimini Jr., University of Delaware, USA and Prof. H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, USA 2009: Prof. Jerry Gibson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University, USA 2008: Prof. David Falconer, University of Carleton, Canada and Prof. Ted Rappaport, University of Texas at Austin, USA 2007: Prof. Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK and Prof. Gordon Stuber, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 2006: Prof. Vijay Bhargava, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and Prof. Robert De Marca, CETUC, Pontifical Catholic Univ., Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL 2005: Prof. Hamid Aghvami, King's College, London, UK and Dr. Justin C-I Chuang, Broadcom, USA 2004: Prof. Steve Rappaport, State University of New York, USA 2003: Prof. Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalborg, Denmark 2002: Prof. Elvino S. Sousa, Univ. of Toronto, Canada & Prof. Imrich Chlamtac, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA

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The IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) is proud to present the 2019 WTC Recognition Award to

Professor Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

for his exceptional research contributions to resource management in wireless networks

Wei Zhang Shuguang CuiIEEE WTC Chair WTC Award Committee ChairDecember 2019 December 2019

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WTC Recognition Award Winner: Sherman ShenXuemin (Sherman) Shen (M’97–SM’02–F’09) received the Ph.D. degree inelectrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in1990. He is currently a University Professor with the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. Hisresearch focuses on resource management, wireless network security, socialnetworks, 5G and beyond, and vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He is aregistered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, an Engineering Institute ofCanada Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, a Royal Society ofCanada Fellow, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular TechnologySociety and Communications Society.

Dr. Shen received the R.A. Fessenden Award in 2019 from IEEE, Canada, theJames Evans Avant Garde Award in 2018 from the IEEE Vehicular TechnologySociety, the Joseph LoCicero Award in 2015 and the Education Award in 2017from the IEEE Communications Society. He has also received the ExcellentGraduate Supervision Award in 2006 and the Outstanding Performance Award 5times from the University of Waterloo and the Premier’s Research ExcellenceAward (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada. He served as theTechnical Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair for the IEEE Globecom’16, theIEEE Infocom’14, the IEEE VTC’10 Fall, the IEEE Globecom’07, the SymposiaChair for the IEEE ICC’10, the Tutorial Chair for the IEEE VTC’11 Spring, and theChair for the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on WirelessCommunications. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGSJOURNAL and the Vice President on Publications of the IEEE CommunicationsSociety.

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The IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) is proud to present the 2019 WTC Recognition Award to

Professor Jeff Andrews

for his fundamental contributions to analysis and design of wireless communication systems


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WTC Recognition Award Winner: Jeff AndrewsJeffrey Andrews (S’98, M’02, SM’06, F’13) received the B.S. inEngineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College, and theM.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Heis the Cullen Trust Endowed Professor (#1) of ECE at the University ofTexas at Austin. He developed Code Division Multiple Access systemsat Qualcomm from 1995-97, and has served as a consultant toSamsung, Nokia, Qualcomm, Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Intel, Microsoft,Sprint, and NASA. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Board ofArtemis Networks and GenXComm, and is co-author of the booksFundamentals of WiMAX (Prentice-Hall, 2007) and Fundamentals ofLTE (Prentice-Hall, 2010). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEETransactions on Wireless Communications from 2014-2016 and isChair of the IEEE Communications Society Emerging TechnologiesCommittee.Dr. Andrews is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and has been co-recipient of 15 paper awards including the 2016 IEEE CommunicationsSociety & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2014IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2014 and 2018 IEEE Leonard G.Abraham Prize, the 2011 and 2016 IEEE Heinrich Hertz Prize, and the2010 IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award. He received the 2015Terman Award, the NSF CAREER Award, is an IEEE Fellow, andreceived the 2019 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu technical field award.

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WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award

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WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award(new award!)

This award recognizes WTC members who have achieved early career visibilityin the field through research and service to WTC.

No more than two awards will be given per year.

The nominee must: be an IEEE ComSoc Member and an active WTC member at the time of nomination (see P&P for “active WTC member"), have been involved significantly with research related to the areas of wireless communications, and be within 10 years since completion of Ph.D. at the time of nomination.

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The IEEE WTC is proud to present the 2019 WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award to

Professor Jie Xu

for his contributions to Energy Harvesting and Wireless Powered Communications


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WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winner: Jie Xu

Jie Xu (S’12–M’13) is currently a Professor with the School ofInformation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology,China. He received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from theUniversity of Science and Technology of China, in 2007 and2012, respectively. From 2012 to 2016, he was a Post-DoctoralResearch Fellow with the National University of Singapore andthe Singapore University of Technology and Design. He haspublished over 90 IEEE journal and conference papers, whichhave attracted more than 3300 Google Scholar citations.Dr. Xu was a recipient of the 2017 IEEE Signal ProcessingSociety Young Author Best Paper Award and the IEEE/CICICCC 2019 Best Paper Award. He serves as the Symposium Co-Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2019 Wireless CommunicationsSymposium. He is serving or served as an Editor for the IEEEWireless Communications Letters, and a Guest Editor for theIEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE Journal on SelectedAreas in Communications.

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WTC ActivitiesEndorsement of Conferences for ComSoc technical co-sponsorshipv Conference should be relevant to WTCv At least three WTC members should be involved in the conf TPCv Conference shall enjoy a good reputation among the community v WTC endorses a number of conferences every year

Nomination for Symposium Co-Chairs of ICC and Globecomv Nominations have already been made up to GC 2021v Let us know if you are interested in participating in the future

Endorsement of IEEE Fellowshipv 3 endorsements were made in Feb 2019v 2 were successfully elevated to IEEE Fellow in Nov. 2019

Nomination for ComSoc Distinguished Lecturersv 4 nominations made in September 2019v 1 granted

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Updates from TEA-C and TC Board

WTC P&Ps revisions (members’ approval)v WTC P&Ps are revised to align with newly revised TC Board P&Psv Main revisions are at:

1) Section 4 – Post election:- Outgoing WTC chair shall report election results to WTC membership, Director-TC Board and

VP-TEAC within two weeks.- Election results become valid when approved by Director-TC Board and VP-TEA - Director-TC Board or VP-TEA shall notify serving WTC chair within two weeks from receipt of

the Election Report. - If election results are not authorized, Director-TC Board shall organize a new election on

behalf of the TC.

2) Section 7 – Nomination & Election of WTC Awards- WTC Chair shall send Awards Selection Report to Director-TC Board for approval. - Director-TC Board shall approve the Awards Selection Report within two weeks of receipt. - If report is not approved, WTC Chair shall be contacted to discuss the issues raised. - A revised report may be submitted to Director for approval. - If issues are not resolved between Director-TC Board and WTC Chair, VP-TEAC shall bring

the matter to the TEA-C for a final decision.

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Updates from TEA-C and TC Board

New ComSoc TC Newsletter is launchedv First issue out: https://www.comsoc.org/publications/tcn/2019-nov

https://www.comsoc.org/publications/tcn/2019-nov

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Any other Business?

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Thank You!

Next WTC meeting will be held at ICC 2020 in Dublin

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