The SPCC Technical Committee Meeting took place on December 9, 2024, during GC 2024. The meeting agenda includes the approval of the agenda and last meeting minutes, a report on SPCC TC activities, and the presentation of the SPCC Awards and the winners of the Student Challenge. Additionally, Prof. Andrea Conti will deliver an invited talk titled “Location Awareness in Beyond 5G Networks”. You can access the meeting slides via this link.

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCC)
Minutes of Technical Committee Meeting at GLOBECOM, Cape Town, South Africa, 2024

December 9, 2024

  1. Introductions – The TC meeting was started at 7:40am (Central European Time – Madrid). The SPCC Chair Prof. Ana Garcia Armada introduced the agenda of the meeting and welcomed all SPCC members to the meeting.
  2. Minutes of ICC 2024 – The minutes of ICC 2024 SPCC TC meeting were approved.
  3. SPCC Scope, Objectives and Organization Structure – The Charter and objectives of the TC, structure and P&Ps were presented. Current and past officers were introduced as well.
  4. Technical Program Committee Reports
  • SPC Symposium – GLOBECOM 2024: Co-chairs for the symposium include Zhijin Qin (Tsinghua University, China), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 127 and the number of accepted papers was 51, with an acceptance rate of 40.15%. There were 10 sessions.
  • RIS-SAC Symposium – GLOBECOM 2024: Co-chairs for the symposium include Qingqing Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 74 and the number of accepted papers was 29, with an acceptance rate of 39%. There were 5 oral sessions and 1 interactive session.
  • SPC Symposium – ICC 2025: Co-chairs for the symposium include Dimitrie C. Popescu (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 126.
  • WC Symposium – ICC 2025: Co-chairs for the symposium include Lin Bai (Beihang University), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 307.
  1. Special Interest Group (SIG) Activity Report

SIG Coordinator: Melda Yuksel, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

The following SIGs reported their activity:

  • SIG on Near Field Communications for Next Generation Mobile Networks. Chairs include Cunhua Pan, Southeast University, China and Keshav Singh, National Sun Yat-sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
  • SIG on Signal Processing Techniques for Big Data and Wireless Edge Intelligence. Chairs include Jie Xu, University of Miami and Mingzhe Chen, University of Miami.
  • SIG on REconFigurabLE Intelligent Surfaces for Signal Processing and CommunicatIONS (REFLECTIONS). The Chair is Alessio Zappone, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio.
  1. SPCC Awards

The recipients of the SPCC awards 2024 are:

  • SPCC Technical Recognition Award: Prof. Andrea Conti
  • SPCC Best Paper Award: M. T. Mamaghani, X. Zhou, N. Yang, A. L. Swindlehurst and H. V. Poor, “On the Information Leakage Performance of Secure Finite Blocklength Transmissions over Rayleigh Fading Channels,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024, pp. 1467-1472.
  • SPCC Early Achievement Award: Prof. Cunhua Pan
  1. SPCC Student Challenge and Contest– TC innovation projects funded by IEEE ComSoc.

A jury of the IEEE SPCC TC has selected the set of finalist teams and one winner team after an Online workshop where 2 finalists presented their proposals.

  1. Invited Talk

“Location Awareness in Beyond 5G Networks” by Prof. Andrea Conti.

  1. Other Business

Next SPCC meeting will be held during ICC 2025.

  1. Adjourn – The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 am (Central European Time – Madrid). There were 76 people in attendance.

 

Attendance list

  1. Akram Shafie
  2. Alejandro Castillo
  3. Alessio Zappone
  4. Ana Garcia Armada
  5. Andrea Conti
  6. Andrea Giani
  7. Anna Guerra
  8. Arman Farhang
  9. Aung Hnin Parn
  10. Bibo Wu
  11. Bingqing Wang
  12. Bonan An
  13. Boya Di
  14. Carlos A. Gomez Vega
  15. Chenhao Qi
  16. Daniel Benevides da Costa
  17. Danilo Lelin Li
  18. Dimitrios Manias
  19. Dirk Wübben
  20. Dong Wang
  21. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
  22. El-Sayed M. El-Alfy
  23. Fang Fang
  24. Francesco Guidi
  25. Fulvio Babich
  26. Girim Kwon
  27. Hadi Sarieddeen
  28. Hao Jiang
  29. Hsuan-Jung Su
  30. Hyowon Kim
  31. Italo Atzeni
  32. Jeongwan Kang
  33. Jinming Zhang
  34. Jinwei Liu
  35. Junil Choi
  36. Kapal Dev
  37. Kun Chen-Hu
  38. Leyi Zhang
  39. Lianet Méndez-Monsanto
  40. Liang Liu
  41. Lisu Yu
  42. Mark Flanagan
  43. Marwa Chafii
  44. Máximo Morales Céspedes
  45. Melda Yuksel
  46. Milad Tatar Mamaghani
  47. Moe Win
  48. Na Xue
  49. Nianzu Li
  50. Nomi Lae
  51. Phone Myat MIn
  52. Qingliang Li
  53. Ranjan K. Mallik
  54. Roberto Corvaja
  55. Rui Dinis
  56. Ruikang Zhong
  57. Saúl Fenollosa
  58. Saw Nang Paing
  59. Shuangyang Li
  60. Shuowen Zhang
  61. Sunwoo Kim
  62. Telex Ngatched
  63. Ufuk Keskin
  64. Wei Liu
  65. Weijie Yuan
  66. Wu Tong
  67. Xianbin Wang
  68. Xiangyun (Sean) Zhou
  69. Xiaoxia Xu
  70. Xidong Mu
  71. Yichi Zhang
  72. Yike Xie
  73. Yuan Shen
  74. Yuanwei Liu
  75. Zahra Mobini
  76. Zhaolin Wang