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Report on 2020 International Conference on Emerging Technologies for

Communications (ICETC 2020) Tomoaki Ohtsuki*, Masaharu Takahashi*,

Nobuyoshi Kikuma*, Shoji Kasahara*, Kiyoshi Fukuchi*, Takuya Asaka*, Shigeki Shiokawa*, Toru Takahashi*, Takashi Sugihara*,

Yohei Hasegawa*, Takuji Tachibana*, Mikio Hasegawa*, Koya Sato*, Nazuki Honda*, Yoshifumi Morihiro*, Hideaki Tamai*, Dai Kanetomo*,

Motoharu Matsuura*, Masayuki Takase* *ICETC2020 Organizing Committee

1. Introduction The IEICE Communications Society hosted the 2020

International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications (hereinafter referred to as “ICETC2020”) online from December 2-4, 2020 [1]. Figures 1 and 2 present opening ceremony on Dec. 2 and reception on Dec. 4, respectively.

This conference was the first flagship international conference organized by a Society in IEICE. The conference was attended by 589 participants including many students.

Fig. 1 Opening ceremony with Prof. Sasase, IEICE president (left top), Prof. Ohtsuki, General co-chairs

(right top), and Prof. Asaka, Secretary (bottom).

Fig. 2 Reception.

2. Conference Program Figure 3 presents the conference program of

ICETC2020. In this program, seven Keynote sessions, one Tutorial session, six Invited sessions, two Special sessions, 20 Oral sessions, and 22 Short presentation session were held.

In oral and short presentation sessions, 99 accepted papers and 114 accepted short papers were presented, respectively. Pre-recorded videos of most presentations were available on-demand for about a week (see Fig. 4), and all accepted paper were published on IEICE Proceeding Series [2].

Four best papers and five best short presentations, 26 excellent student presentations, and three outstanding contributors were awarded in the award ceremony. Award winners are listed on ICETC2020 program page [3].

3. Keynote

In ICETC2020, seven Keynotes were organized as follows, and all of them were attended by a large number of participants (see Figs. 5, 6, and 7).

Hiroyuki Morikawa (The University of Tokyo)

How to Face “Digital” in Post COVID-19 Era Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University)

Urgency of Information for Context-Aware Timely Status Updates in Remote Control Systems

Takehiro Nakamura (NTT DOCOMO) 5G evolution and 6G

Abbas Jamalipour (The University of Sydney) Edge Computing and Aerial Connectivity for

6G Wireless Networks Shinya Tachimoto (NTT)

IOWN as a new network infrastructure Satoshi Konishi (KDDI Research Inc.)

KDDI's activities for 5G evolution and toward B5G/6G

Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton)

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Fig. 4 On-demand video presentation room.

Fig. 5 Keynote speech by Prof. Zhisheng Niu.

Fig. 6 Keynote speech by Prof. Abbas Jamalipour.

Fig. 7 Keynote speech by Prof. Lajos Hanzo.

Fig. 3 Conference program.

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4. Tutorial In the Tutorial session, the following lecture on deep

learning in communications was presented (see Fig. 8). Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London)

Deep Learning in Wireless Communications

This lecture presented some research results in using deep learning to reduce the complexity of mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP). Then, how to use deep reinforcement learning directly for wireless resource allocation with application in vehicular networks was discussed.

Fig. 8 Tutorial by Prof. Geoffrey Ye Li.

5. Special Session on IEICE International Sections

ICECT2020 has two special sessions on IEICE International Sections and Communications Society Editorial Board. In particular, in the special session on IEICE International sections, the following presentations were presented by nine invited speakers (see Fig. 9).

Tong Ye (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Tony T.

Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) AWGR Modularization and Its Applications

on Optical Switching and Interconnection Guojun Yuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences),

Hongrui Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wenzhe Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Reconfigurable Optical Networking for High-

PerformanceComputing Mariusz Glabowski (Poznan University of

Technology) On Modelling Traffic Overflow in

Multiservice Systems Using Hayward's Approach

Maide Bucolo (Universita degli Studi di Catania), Arturo Buscarino (Universita degli Studi di Catania), Luigi Fortuna (Universita degli Studi di Catania), Mattia Frasca (Universita degli Studi di Catania) Resonance

Punnawish Thuwajit (Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science & Technology (VISTEC)), Nannapas Banluesombatkul (VISTEC), Phattarapong

Sawangjai (VISTEC), Payongkit Lakhan (VISTEC), Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn (VISTEC) Explainable Deep Convolutional Neural

Network in EEG Seizure Onset Prediction Lin Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and

Telecommunications) Intelligent Sensing: Research on Non-contact

Health Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence Based on Bioradar

Dejan Vukobratovic (University of Novi Sad) Cellular Internet of Things: Current State of

the Art and the Road Ahead Zhiyuan Jiang (Shanghai University)

Age of Information and Beyond in Wireless Networks

Long Yu (Southeast University), Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University) Prediction of Wireless MmWave Massive

MIMO Channel Characteristics Based on Graph Attention Networks

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Fig. 9 Special session on IEICE International Sections.

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6. International Advisory Committee To hold this first flagship conference, the organizing

committee has been with great support from TPC Track chairs, TPC members, and Technical Advisors. In addition, the following International Advisory Committee supports the above-mentioned special session and active promotion in IEICE International sections. They are also a chair of each IEICE International section.

Hongxiang Guo (Beijing University of Posts &

Telecommunications) Piotr Zwierzykowski (Poznan University of

Technology) Widhyakorn Asdornwised (Chulalongkorn

University) 7. Information on ICETC2021

ICETC2021 will be held as a hybrid conference at Tokyo University of Science on December 1-3, 2021 (see Fig. 10). We look forward to your participation and cooperation in ICETC2021 [4].

8. Conclusion

Thanks to all of you, ICETC2020, which is the first flagship international conference in IEICE, was ended successfully. Although this conference completely online due to the COVID-19, a large number of papers were submitted to the conference, and many students and researchers participated in each session. This was the first time for many students to attend an international conference, and it was very impressive to see them giving their best presentations and answering

questions with difficulty. We think it was a very good experience for them.

9. References [1] ICETC2020 Homepage,

https://www.ieice.org/cs/icetc/2020/index.html. [2] IEICE Proceeding Series, https://www.ieice.org/publications/proceedings/ [3] ICETC2020 program page, https://www.ieice.org/cs/icetc/program.html. [4] ICETC2021 Home page, https://www.ieice.org/cs/icetc/index.html.

Fig. 10 Conference venue.

Publicized June 1, 2021