IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCC)
Minutes of Technical Committee Meeting at GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, 2023

December 5, 2023

1. Introductions – The TC meeting was started at 4:00 PM MYT. The SPCC Secretary Dr. Yuanwei Liu introduced the agenda of the meeting and welcomed all SPCC members to the meeting.
2. Minutes of ICC 2023 – The minutes of ICC 2023 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 – ICC 2023: Co-chairs for the symposium include Junqing Zhang (University of Liverpool, UK), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 119 and the number of accepted papers was 49, with an acceptance rate of 41.2%. There were 6 oral sessions and 5 interactive sessions.
• WC Symposium – ICC 2023: Co-chairs for the symposium include Arsenia Chorti (Ecole Nat. Sup. de l’Electronique et de ses Apps) and Mingyue Ji (University of Utah), who were recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 324 and the number of accepted papers was 126, with an acceptance rate of 39%. There were 17 oral sessions and 9 interactive sessions.
• SPC Symposium – GLOBECOM 2023: Co-chairs for the symposium include Lingjia Liu (Virginia Tech) and Fang Fang (Western University), who were recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 173 and the number of accepted papers was 69, with an acceptance rate of 39.9%. There were 16 sessions.
• CT Symposium – GLOBECOM 2023: Co-chairs for the symposium include Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 162 and the number of accepted papers was 64, with an acceptance rate of 39.5%. There were 9 oral sessions and 4 interactive sessions.
• SPC Symposium – ICC 2024: Co-chairs for the symposium include Yanjun Pan (University of Arkansas), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 108.
• WC Symposium – ICC 2024: Co-chairs for the symposium include Gaojie Chen (University of Surrey), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 237.
• CT Symposium – ICC 2024: Co-chairs for the symposium include Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez (University of Granada), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 112.

6. Other Endorsed Conferences by SPCC

• International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networkin (CommNet) 2023, Rabat, Morocco, December 11-13 2023. https://www.commnet-conf.org/
  
  SPCC representatives:

• • George K. Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Faissal El Bouanani, Mohammed V University, Morocco
• International Conference on Future Communications and Networks (FCN), Queenstown, New Zealand, December 17-20, 2023. http://www.future-forum.org.cn/en/fcn2023/index.html 

  SPCC representatives:

• • Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China
  • Cheng Li, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada
  • Shaodan Ma, University of Maccu, China

7. Special Interest Group (SIG) Activity Report

SIG Coordinator: Prof. Fang Fang, University of Durham, UK

The following SIGs reported their activity:

• SIG on Signal Processing Techniques in 6G Communication Systems. Chairs include Chongwen Huang, Zhejiang University, China and George Alexandropoulos, National.
• SIG on Signal Processing Techniques for Big Data and Wireless Edge Intelligence. Chair: Jie Xu, University of Miami; Vice Chair: Mingzhe Chen, University of Miami.
• SIG on REconFigurabLE Intelligent Surfaces for Signal Processing and CommunicatIONS (REFLECTIONS).  Chair: Alessio Zappone (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio); Vice Chair: Daniel B. da Costa (Federal University of Ceará); Vice Chair: Mark F. Flanagan (University College Dublin); Vice Chair: Qingqing Wu (University of Macau); ETC/best readings liaison: Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University).
• SIG on Signal Processing Techniques for Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA). Chair: Yuanwei Liu, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Vice Chair: Zhiguo Ding, The University of Manchester, UK; Vice Chair: Octavia A. Dobre, Memorial University, Canada; Secretary: Xidong Mu, Queen Mary University of London.
• SIG on Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS). Chairs: Weijie Yuan, Southern University of Science and Technology, China; Emanuele Viterbo, Monash University, Australia; Ronny Hadani, Cohere Technologies, USA; Giulio Colavolpe, Parma University, Italy; Zhiqiang Wei, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Secretary: Shuangyang Li, University of New South Wales, Australia;  Advisors: Robert Schober, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Jinhong Yuan, University of New South Wales, Australia; Andreas Molisch, University of Southern California, USA.
• SIG on Near Field Communications for Next Generation Mobile Networks. Chairs: Cunhua Pan, Southeast University, China; Keshav Singh, National Sun Yat-sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Vice-chairs: Robert Schober, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Yonina Eldar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Linglong Dai, Tsinghua University, China; Chongwen Huang, Zhejiang University, China; George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Haiyang Zhang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Marco Di Renzo, Paris-Saclay University, France; Yuanwei Liu, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Emil Björnson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Changsheng You, Southern University of Science and Technology, China. Secretary: Sandeep Kumar Singh, National Sun Yat-sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

8. ComSoc Student Competition

SPCC Representative: Prof. Rui Dinis, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Goal is to recognize students who demonstrate the capacity to improve the lives of people through the application of communication technology. A team led by a Student Member or Graduate Student Member of IEEE Communications Society is eligible. Application deadline is mid August

9. SPCC IEEE Standard Activities

• SPCC Representative: Dr. Richie Leo, ZTE Corporation.

Updates about standards of 3GPP, ITU, and ETSI were provided.

10. SPCC TC Newsletter

• Editor: Prof. Roberto Corvaja.
• Goal: to share important information for the members of the committee; to have some brief contact approximately every six months; to become a useful communication tool; it will be brief and at the same time open for everybody to contribute.

The thirteenth issue, June 2023, is available at:

https://site.ieee.org/com-spce/files/2023/06/SPCC-Newsletter-Issue-13.pdf

11. SPCC Awards

The recipients of the SPCC awards 2022 are:

• SPCC Outstanding Service Award: N/A
• SPCC Technical Recognition Award: Prof. Marco Di Renzo
• SPCC Best Paper Award: X. Peng, Z. Qin, D. Huang, X. Tao, J. Lu, G. Liu, and C. Pan, “A Robust Deep Learning Enabled Semantic Communication System for Text,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2022, pp. 2704-2709.
• SPCC Early Achievement Award: Dr. Fang Fang.

14. SPCC Election

• Election of new SPCC officers has been held at this TC meeting. 12 active members voted during the election. The newly elected officers are
  • Chair: Ana Garcia Armada
  • Vice Chair: Yuanwei Liu
  • Secretary: Fang Fang

15. Other Business

Next SPCC meeting will be held during ICC 2024.

16. Adjourn –The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 PM MYT. There were 36 people in attendance.

Attendance List