IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCC)
Minutes of Technical Committee Meeting at ICC 2023, held by video conference.

May 10, 2023

1. Introductions – The TC meeting was started at 9:30 AM EST. The SPCC Chair Prof. Jingxian Wu introduced the agenda of the meeting and welcomed all SPCC members to the meeting. Instructions to maintain the meeting through the Zoom tool were provided.
2. Minutes of GLOBECOM 2022 – The minutes of GLOBECOM 2022 SPCC TC meeting were approved.
3. SPCC Scope, Objectives, Organization Structure, and TC Recertification – The Charter and objectives of the TC, structure and P&Ps were presented. Current and past officers were introduced as well. Moreover, SPCC-TC has been successfully recertified for 2023-2024 with very positive feedbacks.
4. Technical Program Committee Reports

• WC Symposium – GLOBECOM 2022: Co-chairs for the symposium include Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 336 and the number of accepted papers was 134, with an acceptance rate of 40%. There were 27 sessions.
• SPC Symposium – GLOBECOM 2022: Co-chairs for the symposium include Nan Zhao (Dalian Univeristy of Technology), who was recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 176 and the number of accepted papers was 70, with an acceptance rate of 39.8%. There were 18 sessions.
• SPC Symposium – ICC 2023: Co-chairs for the symposium include Junqing Zhang (University of Liverpool), 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 (ENSEA) and Mingyue Ji (University of Utah), who were recommended by SPCC. The number of submissions was 320 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.
• CT Symposium – GLOBECOM 2023: Co-chairs for the symposium include Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London), who was recommended by SPCC.
• SPC Symposium – ICC 2024: Co-chairs for the symposium include Yanjun Pan (University of Arkansas), who was recommended by SPCC.
• WC Symposium – ICC 2024: Co-chairs for the symposium include Gaojie Chen (University of Surrey), who was recommended by SPCC.
• CT Symposium – ICC 2024: Co-chairs for the symposium include Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez (University of Granada), who was recommended by SPCC.

5. Other Endorsed Conferences by SPCC

• 2023 IEEE 3nd International Conference on Information Communication and Software Engineering (ICICSE), April 2023, Chongqing, China, http://www.icse.org/index.html

SPCC representatives:

• • Xianbin Wang, Western University, Canada
  • Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
  • Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas, USA

• Ghana ICSPCS 2023, 16th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication System, 6 – 8 September 2023, Bydgoszcz, Poland, http://icspcs.io.pbs.edu.pl/

      SPCC representatives:

• • Tadeusz Wysocki, University of Nebraska, USA
  • Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada
  • Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK

6. Special Interest Group (SIG) Activity Report

SIG Coordinator: Prof. Fang Fang, Western University, Canada

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 and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

• 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). Chairs include 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.

7. 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.
• Eligibility: A team led by a Student Member or Graduate Student Member of IEEE Communications Society is eligible.
• Application deadline is mid-August 2023, https://www.comsoc.org/membership/ieee-comsoc-student-competition
• ComSoc Student Competition 2022 Winners:

• • FIRST PRIZE: The Owl: An Accessible Immersive Telepresence System for the Future of Human Communication
  • SECOND PRIZE: Internet of Bodies: Digital Holistic Healthcare
  • 12 “HONORARY MENTION” CERTIFICATES

8. SPCC IEEE Standard Activities

• SPCC Representative: Dr. Richie Leo, ZTE Corporation.
• Updates about standards of 3GPP, ITU, and ETSI were provided.

9. SPCC TC Newsletter

• Editor: Prof. Roberto Corvaja, University of Padova, Italy
• Goal: Share important information for the members of the committee; Have some brief contact approximately every six months, after the TC meetings; Become a useful communication tool; it is brief and at the same time open for everybody to contribute.

• The twelfth issue, January 2023, is available at: https://spcc.committees.comsoc.org/files/2023/1/SPCC-Newsletter-Issue-13.pdf
• Share news via corvaja@unipd.it
• ComSoc TC Newsletter, last issue October 2022, at https://tc.boards.comsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/197/2022/11/TCN_10-2022_v5.pdf

10. SPCC Awards

The following three SPCC awards are introduced:

• SPCC Outstanding Service Award (For outstanding contribution to the technical activities sponsored and endorsed by the SPCC technical committee)
• SPCC Technical Recognition Award (For outstanding contribution to the area of signal processing for communications)
• SPCC Best Paper Award (Recognize the outstanding contributions of one paper in the technical areas that are of interests to SPCC)
• SPCC Early Achievement Award (Recognizes members of SPCC who have achieved early career visibility through research and service to the SPCC community)

14. Other Business

Next SPCC meeting will be on-site held during GLOBECOM 2023.

15. Adjourn –The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 AM EST. There were 90 people in attendance.

Attendance List