Kato Kawamoto Laboratory, Tohoku University, Japan

Kato (M2) made a presentation entitled “Stable and Efficient Inter-Satellite Optical Wireless Communication through Connection of Intersecting Orbits” and received the Student Paper Award at 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring), that was held in Singapore from June 24th to 27th, 2024.

Assistant Prof. Hashida made a presentation entitled “Size Optimization of Intelligent Reflecting Surface under Partial Blockage”, Iizuka (M1) made a presentation entitled “Proposal of Coordination Function Selection to Improve Performance of Multi-AP Coordination in WLAN”, Tanabu (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Hierarchical Codebook Design for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-aided Dynamic Wireless Network” at Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems, that was held in Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan in June 2024.

Hibi (D1), Matsuura (M2), Oshima (M1), Hinohara (B4), and Mashiko (M1) made presentations, and Hinohara (M1) and Mashiko (M1) was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2024 Workshop was held on June 2024 in Jeju, Korea.

Prof. Ariyoshi made a presentation entitled “Creating Value through Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks for B5G/6G”, Iwamoto (M2) made a presentation entitled “Spectral Efficiency Analysis of IRS Beam Sweeping with Dedicated Frequency Bands”, Endo (M2) made a presentation entitled “Dividing Control Scheme for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces towards the Realization of Multiple Simultaneous Connections” and Sekimori (M2) made a presentation entitled “Frequency Prism in Delay Adjustable Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Long Distance Communications in LEO Satellite Networks” and Endo received the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2024) , that was held in Denver, USA from June 9th to 13th, 2024. The award is given to the author(s) of the best paper presented at the conference.