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Asst. Prof. Hashida made a presentation entitled “Optimization of Intelligent Reflecting Surface Dimensions Under Partial Blockages” and Hibi (D1) made a presentation entitled “Hierarchical Exploration and Machine Learning With Exploration Results for Autonomous Control of Standalone-Intelligent Reflecting Surface” and Asst. Prof. Hashida received the Best Paper Award at The 24th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2024), that was held in Denarau Island, Fiji, Dec. 2024.

Zhu Yishi (D3), standing out from the competition, has been granted “the 2023 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad” by China Scholarship Council. This award, starting in 2003, was founded by the Chinese government with the purpose of rewarding the academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students studying overseas. Only those with outstanding performance in their PhD studies or post-doctoral research will be considered by the award selection panel and no more than 650 young talents will be granted the award each year all over the world. Prof. Kato received a letter of appreciation from Secretary-General, China Scholarship Council.

Prof. Kato was selected as one of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2024 in the field of Computer Science for the sixth consecutive year.

Mashiko (M1) made a presentation entitled “Validation of the Impact of Bandwidth Reduction by Predicting Communication Demand Using Transfer Learning on Improving the Spectral Efficiency of Satellite Communication Systems” at Space Sciences and Technology Conference that was held in Himeji, Hyogo, Nov. 2024.

Asst. Prof. Tiago, Research Asst. Prof. Guo, Zhu (D3), Songsriboonsit (M2), Sekimori (M2), and Hinohara (M1) made presentations, and Songsriboonsit (M2) and Sekimori (M2) was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2024 Workshop that was held on Nov. 2024 in Beijing, China.

Asst. Prof. Hashida delivered an invited talk entitled “Shared Operation of Intelligent Reflecting Surface among Mobile Network Operators” at The 7th International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications (SmartCom 2024) that was held in Aachen, Germany, Nov. 2024.

Associate Professor Kawamoto transferred to Professor of Graduate School of Information Sciences, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Software Science and Systems, Firmware Sciences on November 1st as professor. He will continue to work with this field as a research collaborator.

Hibi (D1) made a presentation entitled “3D Codebook Construction Strategy based on Control Accuracy Index for Intelligent Reflecting Surface in Near-field”, Iizuka (M1) made a presentation entitled “Performance Evaluation of Coordination Function Selection in Multi-AP Coordination for Next-Generation Wireless LANs”, and Hinohara (M1) made a presentation entitled “Multiple Access Point Coordinated Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Considering Channel Fairness of Non-Coordinated Nodes” at 2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), that was held in Washington DC, USA, Oct. 2024. Hibi received VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2024 Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award and Iizuka and Hinohara received the Student Paper Award.

Mashiko (M1) made a presentation entitled “Optimization of HAPS Placement in Hybrid FSO/RF Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks” at 41st International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2024), that was held in Seattle, USA, Sept. 2024.

Panasonic Holdings and Tohoku University established the “Panasonic Holdings x Tohoku Univ. Co-creation Research Center” on July 1, 2024 at Tohoku University, Aobayama Campus. The co-creation research center will promote research based on intellectual property that combines Panasonic HD’s technological capabilities with Tohoku University’s research capabilities, actively promoting real product implementation to create new value and solve social problems. The institute will start its activities with Professor Nei Kato as the Administrative Support Manager and Associate Professor Yuichi Kawamoto as a participating researcher.

Sekimori (M2) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Multi-Beam Control Using Frequency Prism in Intelligent Reflecting Surface-aided Satellite Communication Systems” at Technical Committee on Satellite Communications that was held in Kochi, Aug. 2024.

Oshima (M1) made a presentation entitled “Dynamic Task Allocation for Distributed Green Data Centers using Optical Satellite Communications” at Technical Committee on Satellite Communications that was held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, July 2024.

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 (M1), and Mashiko (M1) made presentations, and Hinohara (M1) and Mashiko (M1) was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2024 Workshop that 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.

Mashiko (M1) made a presentation entitled “Experimental Evaluations of Intelligent Reflecting Surface at 60 GHz” and Tanabu (M1) made a presentation entitled “Near Fields Experiments of Intelligent Reflecting Surface at 60 GHz” at Technical Committee on Smart Radio that was held in Kagoshima, May 2024. 

The graduation ceremony of Tohoku University was held on Mar. 26, 2024. Hiroaki Hashida (D3) was awarded the Presidential Award for Outstanding Students. The award was established in 2010 to recognize the recipient of the JSPS Ikushi Prize. Guo Qi (D3) was awarded President’s Award of Tohoku University, and Ryuhei Hibi (M2) was awarded the Dean Award of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) of Tohoku University. These awards are selected from 150 students of the GSIS doctor and master courses. The President’s Award is given to 2 students and the Dean Award is given to 4 students.

Hashida (D3) made a presentation entitled “Near- / Far- Field Behaviors of Intelligent Reflecting Surface” and Iwamoto (M1) made a presentation entitled “Analysis of Spectral Efficiency of IRS Beam Sweeping with Dedicated Frequencies” at The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers General Conference that was held in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Mar. 2024. 

Asst. Prof. Tiago, Research Asst. Prof. Shikhar, Hashida (D3), Ibrahim (D1), Tanaka (M2), Hibi (M2), Songsriboonsit (M1), Mashiko (B4), Iizuka (B4), Tanabu (B4), Oshima (B4) and Hinohara (B4) made presentations, and Ibrahim (D1) and Oshima (B4) was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2024 Workshop that was held on 19-21 February 2024 in Naha, Okinawa.

Kato (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Link Selection between Crossing Orbits Based on Pointing Error Probability in Optical Inter-Satellite Communications” and Mashiko (B4) made a presentation entitled “An Energy-Efficient Design of HAPS-based Non-Terrestrial Network through Transmission Power Control of FSO/RF Links” at Technical committee on Satellite Communications that was held in Atami, Kagoshima, Jun. 2023.

Hiroaki Hashida (D3, JSPS Research Fellow) received the certificate and medal at the 14th JSPS Ikushi Prize. The JSPS Ikushi Prize is given by His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus Akihito to encourage and support young scientists who are working diligently to advance their studies and research, and is intended to formally recognize outstanding doctoral students who can be expected to contribute to Japan’s future scientific advancement.
The award ceremony is scheduled to be held at the Meiji Kinenkan in February 2024.

Prof. Kato and Asso. Prof. Zubair Md Fadlullah(Former Asso. Prof. in Kato Lab. and now an Asso. Prof. with Western University, Canada, received the Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.

Yamazaki (M2) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Resource Allocation Modes of NR Sidelink for HAPS Control Towards Latency Reduction in V2V Communications” at Technical Committee on Network Systems, that was held in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan in December 2023.

Hashida (D3), Guo (D3), and Zhu (D2) made a presentation and received the Student Travel Grant at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2023), that was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from December 4th to 9th, 2023.

Prof. Kato was selected as one of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2023 in the field of Computer Science for the fifth consecutive year.

Tohoku University and NEC Corporation opened the “NEC x Tohoku Univ. Co-Creation Institute of Space-Integrated Network for Resilient Digital Transformation” on November 1, 2023 at Tohoku University, Aobayama Campus. Aiming to contribute to the resilience of information systems, NEC will invest in the acceleration of research and development towards the establishment and practical application of new network technologies for Beyond 5G networks and the integration of the space, air, and ground systems. The Institute will start its activities with Professor Nei Kato as the Administrative Support Manager and Associate Professor Yuichi Kawamoto as a participating researcher.

Yamazaki(M2) was awarded 1st IEEE JC Student Activities Award 2022, “Best Activities Award” on July. 1st, 2023. This award is given to students who have made particularly outstanding IEEE JC SB activities and volunteer contributions.

Tanaka (M2) made a presentation entitled “Exploiting Reflection Direction Variation for Phase Control in Multiple Simultaneous IRS Links” and received the Student Travel Grant and the Student Paper Award at 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Spring), that was held in Florence, Italy from June 20th to 23rd, 2023.

At the first workshop of the RCS Research Group held in Sapporo, Hokkaido in June 2023, Endo (M1) presented “A Study on Tradeoff between Split Control and Data Rate in Intelligent Reflecting Surface” and Sekimori (M1) presented “A Study on Frequency Prism by Intelligent Reflecting Surface using Time Delay Devices in Terahertz Band”. Sekimori (M1) presented “A Study on Frequency Prism in Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces with Delay Elements over Terahertz Bands” and Sekimori received the Best Presentation Award.

 Yamazaki (M2) made a presentation entitled “Latency Reduction with Different NR Sidelink Modes in V2X Networks with UAV Support” and received the Student Travel Grant at IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2023) , that was held in Roma, Italy from May 28th to June 1st, 2023.

Tohoku University has conferred Associate Professor Yuichi Kawamoto with title “Distinguished Researchers of Tohoku University”. 

 Associate Professor Yuichi Kawamoto was honored with The Young Scientists’ Award by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT). This prestigious award acknowledges individuals who have made outstanding research contributions in the field of Science and Technology Promotion, recognizing their advancements in the development of science and technology.

Each of “Efficient Phase Control Determination by Codebook without CSI for Standalone IRS Realization” presented by Hibi (M2) at GLOBECOM 2022 and “Federated Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource Allocation for D2D-Aided Digital Twin Edge Networks in 6G Industrial IoT” presented by Guo (D2) at IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics was received the 2022 IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter Student Excellent Research Award. This award is granted to brilliant young researchers by IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter.

 On March 24, 2023, Tanaka (M1) and Matsushita (M2) received the “Best Contribution Award” of the Student Society Activity Contribution Award. This award is given to students who have made significant contributions to the revitalization of the activities of the Tohoku Branch of IEICE through voluntary and active participation in its management.

The graduation ceremony of Tohoku University was held on Mar. 24, 2023. Takahashi (D3) was awarded the President’s Award of Tohoku University. These awards are selected from 138 students of the GSIS doctor and master courses. The President’s Award is given only to 2 students.

Hiroaki Hashida (D2, JSPS Researcher) received the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award Telecom System Technology Award for Students. This award is given to students who have conducted research on the dissemination, development, and promotion of telecommunications from a technical and engineering viewpoint while enrolled in a university undergraduate or graduate school master’s or doctoral course. The award ceremony was held on March 22, 2023 at the Imperial Hotel in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

 On March 5, 2023, a drone flight experience using programming was held for elementary school students at the National Michinoku Morinokohan Park. The Michinoku Park Management Center hosted the event, and our lab members provided full cooperation. A total of 16 elementary school students participated in the morning and afternoon sessions.

Assistant Prof. Tiago, Research Assistant Prof. Shikhar, Hashida (D2), Qi (D2), Yishi (D1), Okawara (M1), Hibi (M1), Tanaka (M1), Matsuura (B4), Endo (B4), Sekimori (B4) and Kato (B4) made presentations, and Assistant Prof. Tiago and Qi (D2) was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2023 Workshop that was held on 20-22 February 2023 in Seoul, Korea.

Hiroaki Hashida (D2, JSPS Fellow) was awarded Yasujiro Niwa Outstanding Paper Award, which is given to the researcher who announced original and excellent contribution in the fields of electronic engineering and information communication and also other related fields such as computer science from 1977. This prize was established to commemorate Dr. Yasujiro Niwa, the first president of Tokyo Denki University. The award ceremony was held at Kitasenju Campus of Tokyo Denki University, with attendance of Ibamoto Gakucho.

 Hiroaki Hashida (D2, JSPS Fellow) was awarded RIEC Tohoku University Student Award, which is created by the Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University. This prize is given to honor promising and excellent graduate students, who are expected to make remarkable contributions to the scientific study in the field of electrical communication in the coming future.

In January 2023, Professor Kato, Associate Professor Kawamoto, Assistant Professor Tiago and Hashida (D2) visited Tennessee Tech University as part of the NICT Japan-US Joint Research Project (JUNO).

A3 Foresight Program 2022 Workshop was held on 18-20 December 2022 in Ariake, Tokyo.

Sekimori (B4) made a presentation entitled “Radio Wave Propagation Property Evaluation of Transparent Reflective Film and the Effects of Shape Variation in Real Environments” at RCS that was held in Maebashi, Gunma from Jan. 2023.

For his contributions to Multi-Access Edge Computing and Beyond 5G Networks, Assistant Prof. Tiago received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Region.

Assistant Prof. Tiago made a presentation entitled “Deep Q Networks with Centralized Learning over LEO Satellite Networks in a 6G Cloud Environment”, Hashida（D2）made a presentation entitled “IRS-aided Communications Without Channel State Information Relying on Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Hibi (M1) made a presentation entitled “Efficient Phase Control Determination by Codebook without CSI for Standalone IRS Realization”  at the IEEE Global Communications Conference 2022 (GLOBECOM 2022) that was held in Rio, Brazil from Dec.  2022.

Assistant Prof. Tiago made a presentation entitled “Study on Deep Neural Networks Applied for Smart Access Point Association in 6G WiGig Networks”, Research Assistant Prof. Shikhar made a presentation entitled “Study on Concept-Drift Aware Intelligent Multi-AP Association over 6G WiGig Network”, Takahashi (D3) made a presentation entitled “Two-Way Relay Communications with Transmission Power Control in a HAPS-Enabled SAGIN”, Hashida (D2) made a presentation entitled “Deep Reinforcement Learning-empowered passive beamforming design in IRS-aided Communications Without Channel State Information”, Hibi (M1) made a presentation entitled “Study on Deep Neural Networks Applied for Smart Access Point Association in 6G WiGig Networks”, Yamazaki (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Studey on Latency Reduction with Different NR Sidelink Modes in V2X Communication and UAV Network”, and  Sekimori (B4) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Frequency Prism of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces with Terahertz Band Delay Elements”. And, Hashida（D2）and Yamazaki（M1） was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2022 Workshop that was held on 18-20 December 2022 in Ariake, Tokyo.

Professor Kato received certificate of appreciation from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) for his outstanding achievements in the research and development of disaster-resistant information and communication technologies.

 Prof. Kato was selected as one of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2022 in the field of Computer Science for the fourth consecutive year.

Hashida (D2) made a presentation entitled “Experimental Evaluations with Transparent Reflectors at 60 GHz” at RCS that was held in Fukuoka, Fukuoka from Nov. 2022.

Takahashi (D3) made a presentation entitled “Transmit Power Control of HAPS for Two-Way Relay Communication in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks” at ICSSC 2022 that was held in Stresa, Italy from Oct. 2022.

Hashida (D2) made a presentation entitled “Selective Reflection Control-based Channel-estimation Overhead Reduction in Distributed IRS-aided Communication” and received award at IEEE TOWERS in Kansai that was held in Osaka on Oct. 2022. 

Prof. Kato received 2022 IEEE  Vehicular Technology Society　Outstanding Service Award from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society due to his exemplary service and leadership as Editor-in-Chief  of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology from 2017 to 2021.

Takahashi (D3) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Transmission Power Control for Efficient Two-Way Relay Communication with High-Altitude Platform Station in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks”, Okawara (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Null Formation Control for Interference Suppression on High-Altitude Platforms Comprising Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network”, and Yamazaki (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Null Formation Control for Interference Suppression on High-Altitude Platforms Comprising Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network” at SAT that was held in Asahikawa, Hokkaido from Jul. 2022.

Hashida (D2) made a presentation entitled “Deep Reinforcement Learning-based IRS-aided Wireless Communication without Channel State Information” and Nakazato (M2) made a presentation entitled “Data Rate Improvement by Combinatorial Optimization of Access Points and Intelligent Reflecting Surface in Joint Transmission” at RCS, Tanaka (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Communication Performance Evaluation of Optimal IRS Placement Determined Through Ray Tracing” and Hibi (M1) made a presentation entitled “Phase Control Determination by Codebook Technology without CSI for Standalone-IRS” at SR, and Nakazima (M2) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Placement and Power Control towards Saving Energy when Using Electric Vehicles as Base Stations in Wireless Mesh Networks in Disaster” at NS that was held in Kanazawa, Ishikawa from Jul. 2022.

At VTC2022-Spring (Helsinki, Finland), in June 2022, “Interference Suppression by Directivity Control Towards Frequency Sharing for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks in Internet of Things” was awarded “VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2022 Student Paper Award” for a paper by Matsushita (M2), and “Radio Access Control of Access Points and Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Data Rate Improvement in Joint Transmission” was awarded “VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2022 Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award” for a paper by Nakazato (M2). 

Research Assistant Prof. Shikhar was awarded Excellent Resarch Award for Young Scientists of ECEI on March 8th, 2022.　This award is given by the Research Faculty Committee of ECEI at Tohoku University in honor of young researchers whose first papers have been published in a number of outstanding journals selected by their laboratories.

Ishigami (M2) was awarded the “Best Contribution Award” of the Student Conference Activity Contribution Award on March 11th, 2022. This award is given to students who have made significant contributions to the revitalization of the Tohoku Section of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers by voluntarily and actively participating in its management.

Ishigami (M2) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Optimization of UAV Positioning and C-OFDMA for High Speed and Large Capacity UAV Network” at NS　(virtual conference) that was held online on Jan. 2022.

Prof. Kawamoto made a presentation entitled “How we construct spatial radio environment with intelligent reflecting surface” at SmartCom Virtual Workshop　(virtual conference) that was held online on Jan. 26th, 2022.

Nakazato (M1) made a presentation entitled “Performance Evaluation of Intelligent Reflecting Surface in Multi-Access Point Network Environment” at RCS　(virtual conference) that was held online on Jan. 21th, 2022.

Takahashi (D2) made a presentation entitled “Practical Subchannel Allocation Scheme with SNR-Based Position Estimation for Satellite Communication Systems”, Hibi (B4) made a presentation entitled “Optimal Codebook Construction Based on Position Information for Stand Alone IRS (SA-IRS) System” and Hibi was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2022 Workshop (virtual conference) held on Feb. 26th, 2022.

Takahashi (D2) made a presentation entitled “Dynamic Scheduling for Updating Traffic Demand Prediction Model and Switching Resource Control in Satellite Communication System”,  Abe (M2) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Minimizing Latency in Satellite Communication Systems Using Task Occurrence Prediction Method for Controlling Computation and Communication Resource”, Tamada(M2) made a presentation entitled “Study on Bandwidth usage Reduction by Traffic Prediction Using Transfer Learning in Satellite Communication Systems”, and Matsushita(M1) made a presentation entitled “A Method of Interference Suppression Using Directivity Control of Array Antennas for Frequency Sharing in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network” at Technical committee on Satellite Communications in online that was held in Feb. 2022.

IEEE Communications Society Internet of Things, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks Technical Committee presented 2021 TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD to Prof. Kato at ICC’21 for his excellent contributions in Internet of Things, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks areas.

Prof. Kato received appreciation certificate from IEEE Communications Society President due to his contributions to the Society during the years of 2020 and 2021 as the Vice-President in charge of MEMBERS & GLOBAL ACTIVITIES.

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2021年11月にオンラインで開催されたIEEE IC-NIDC 2021において、高橋（D2）が「A Practical Approach for SNR-based Subchannel Allocation Considering Inter-Beam Interference in a Satellite Communication System」について発表し、Best Paper Awardを受賞しました。

Prof. Kato was selected as one of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2021 in the field of Computer Science for the third consecutive year. Dr. Zubair Md. Fadlullah (currently Associate Professor at Lakehead University, Canada) and Dr. Fengxiao Tang (currently Professor at Zhongnan University, China), both of whom worked in our laboratory, were also selected for the first time. Both have received the Tohoku University President’s Award in 2010 and 2018, respectively.

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2021年11月、無線通信システム研究会が長崎県長崎市・オンラインのハイブリッド形式で開催され、橋田（D1）が「マルチビーム通信システムにおけるユーザモビリティを考慮したIntelligent Reflecting Surface の割り当てに関する検討」について発表を行いました。

Hashida (D1) was awarded the IEICE RCS Active Researcher Award. This award is given to six researchers under the age of 35 who have given outstanding presentations at IEICE RCS Conferences from May 2020 to April 2021.

Shimada (M2) was awarded the “Best Contribution Award” of the Student Conference Activity Contribution Award on March 24th, 2021. This award is given to students who have made significant contributions to the revitalization of the Tohoku Section of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers by voluntarily and actively participating in its management.

The graduation ceremony of Tohoku University was held on Mar. 25, 2021. Hashida (M2) was awarded the President’s Award of Tohoku University and the Dean’s Award of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) of Tohoku University. Shikhar Verma (D3) was also awarded the Dean’s Award. These awards are selected from 150 students of the GSIS doctor and master courses. The President’s Award is given only to 2 students.

Prof. Kawamoto, Shikhar (D3), Takahashi (D1), Shimada (M2) and Hashida (M2) made presentations at The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers General Conference (virtual conference) in March 2021. 

Takahashi (D1) made a presentation entitled “Communication Demand Prediction and Resource Control in Satellite Communication Systems: A Study on Schedule Adjustment” and was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2021 Workshop (virtual conference) held on Feb. 25th, 2021.

Hashida (M2) made a presentation entitled “Selective Reflection Control-based Channel Estimation Overhead Reduction in IRS-aided Mobile Communication Systems” at RCS　(virtual conference) that was held online on Mar. 5th, 2021.

Shimada (M2) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Allocation of Communication Resources and Computational Resources Using Relay Communication in UAV-mounted Cloudlet System” at Technical Committee on Network Systems (NS) which was held online in Jan. 2021.

Each of “Novel Workload Balancing Method for UAV-based Edge Cloud Computing Systems with Handover” presented by Shimada (M2) at ICC 2020 and “Efficient Power Control for Satellite-Borne Batteries Using Q-Learning in Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Constellations” presented by Tsuchida ( M2 ) at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters was received the IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter Student Excellent Research Award. This award is granted to brilliant young researchers by IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter.

Shimada (M2) was awarded the C&C Best Paper Award for Young Scientists by the paper entitled “Novel Workload Balancing Method for UAV-based Edge Cloud Computing Systems with Handover” at ICC 2020. This Award is given to up to three papers presented at international conferences each year under the “Grant for International Conference Paper Presenters” program.

Shikhar Verma (D3) received the Student Travel Grant for “A Novel IoT-Aware WLAN Environment Identification for Efficient Internet-Wide Port Scan” at the IEEE Global Communications Conference 2020 (GLOBECOM 2020) held in Taiwan in December 2020. 

Shikhar Verma (D3) made a presentation entitled “Security Analysis of Network-oblivious Internet-wide Scan for IEEE 802.11ah Enabled IoT” at VTC2020-Fall, held online in November 2020.

Shikhar Verma (D3) made presentations at IEEE Global Communications Conference 2020 (GLOBECOM 2020) which was held in Taipei, Taiwan, from Dec. 2020.

Prof. Yuichi Kawamoto was awarded the IEEE COMSOC Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award. IEEE COMSOC Asia-Pacific belongs to the IEEE Communications Society, which is the best information and communications society in the world. This award is given to only six researchers who are under 35 years old and have achieved excellent results over the last three years. He received the award for his outstanding research work on unmanned aircraft networks.

In December 2020, the International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications 2020 (ICETC 2020) held online, and Takahashi (D1) delivered an invited talk entitled “An Initial Study on Designing Prediction-Based Resource Allocation in Satellite Communication Systems”.

Prof. Kato was selected as one of the Web of Science’s Highly Cited Researchers 2020 (Computer Science) for the second year in a row.

At VTC-FALL 2020 (virtual conference), in November 2020, “Security Analysis of Network-oblivious Internet-wide Scan for IEEE 802.11ah Enabled IoT” was awarded “VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2020 Student Paper Award” for a paper by Shikhar Verma (D3).

In November 2020, Specially Appointed Associate Prof. Bomin Mao’s paper, “An Absorbing Markov Chain Based Model to Solve Computation and Communication Tradeoff in GPU-Accelerated MDRUs for Safety Confirmation in Disaster Scenarios IEEE Transactions on Computers” was awarded IEEE CS Tokyo/Japan Joint Local Chapters Young Author Award 2020. This award is a new award established in 2020 for the members of IEEE Computer Society Tokyo/Japan Joint Chapter.

Takahashi (D1) and Hashida (M2) will be appointed as a special researcher (DC) of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for the 2021.

Prof. Kawamoto, Takahashi (D1), and Hashida (M2)  made presentations at The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Society Conference (virtual conference) , September 2020.

On August 21, 2020, Takahashi (D1) made an incentive presentation titled “A Study on the Effect of Multi-Beam Placement Control on Throughput in High Throughput Satellite Communication System” at Technical committee on Satellite Communications.

The paper by Takahashi (D1), “A Study on Dual Control of Transmit Power and Beam Directivity for Flexible Resource Allocation in HTS Communication System”, won the Satellite Communications Research Award 2019.  The award is given to a lecture paper given in 2019 at the IEICE Satellite Communications Research Group that is recognized as particularly outstanding and has potential for future success.

Hashida（M2）made a presentation entitled “Intelligent Reflecting Surface Placement Optimization in Cellular Communication Networks for Aerial Vehicles” at RCS (virtual conference)  that was held on July 10th, 2020.

The paper titled “Adaptive Multi-Beam Arrangement for Improving Throughput in HTS Communication System” , written by Masaki Takahashi (D1), won the Best Paper Award in IEEE ICC 2020, which took place from Jun. 7th to 11th, 2020. The award is given to the author(s) of the best paper presented at the conference. Takahashi was also awarded the Student Travel Grant, which is given to a promising young researchers, for this work.

At IEEE International Conference on Communications (virtual conference) that was held from Jun. 7th to 11th, 2020, Takahashi (D1) made a presentation entitled “Adaptive Multi-Beam Arrangement for Improving Throughput in HTS Communication System”, Shimada (M2) made a presentation entitled “Novel Workload Balancing Method for UAV-based Edge Cloud Computing Systems with Handover” and Hashida (M2) made a presentation entitled “Impact of Internet-Wide scanning on IoT Data Communication in Wireless LANs.”

The graduation ceremony of Tohoku University was held on Mar. 25, 2020. Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues (D3) was awarded the President’s Award of Tohoku University and the Dean’s Award of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) of Tohoku University. These awards are selected from 150 students of the GSIS doctor and master courses. 

“A Study on Allocation of Communication Resources and Computing Resources in Edge Cloud Computing Using UAV” was awarded the “Network System Research Award” for a paper by Shimada (M1). This award is given to papers presented at the Network Systems Research Group that are particularly outstanding and are expected to be active in the future.

Takahashi (M2) made a presentation entitled “A Study on the Effect of Multi-Beam Placement Control on Throughput in High Throughput Satellite Communication System” and Tsuchida (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Power Control Method Using Q-learning to Extend Life of Satellite-Borne Batteries in Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Communication System” at Technical committee on Satellite Communications in Ishigaki, Okinawa that was held from Feb. 19 to 20, 2020.

IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Board presented Best Paper Award to Prof. Kato.

 Hayato Shimada(M1) made a presentation at Technical Committee on Network Systems (NS) , that was held in Tokushima, Japan from Dec. 2019, and was awarded the Young Investigator Award.

Takuto Mitsuhashi (M1) made presentations at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019) , that was held in Hawaii, USA,  from Dec. 2019.

Prof. Kato delivered the keynote speech entitled “Deep Learning in Network Traffic Control　—How far we have come and future challenges” at 25th IEEE International conference on Parallel and Dostrobuted Systems (ICPADS 2019) in Tianjin.

Prof. Kato received appreciation certificate from IEEE Communications Society President due to his contributions to the Society during the years of 2018 and 2019 as the Vice-President in charge of MEMBERS & GLOBAL ACTIVITIES.

Hiroaki Hashida (M1), Masaki Takahashi (M2), Research Assistant Prof. Fengxiao Tang, Assistant Prof. Bomin Mao, and Associate Prof. Yuichi Kawamoto made presentations at NSFC-JSPS Collaborative Research Project Workshop, that was held in Beijing, China from November, 2019.

7 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *2 (6th), Yibo Zhou *3 (19th), professor Nei Kato *4 (22th), Fengxiao Tang *5 (30th), professor Nei Kato *6 (32th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *7 (46th).

Prof. Kato delivered the keynote speech at 2019 the 9th International Conference on Communication and Network Security (ICCNS 2019).

According to Clarivate Analytics, Prof. Kato has been selected as a 2019 Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science field. 

The paper “Cloudlets Activation Scheme for Scalable Mobile Edge Computing with Transmission Power Control and Virtual Machine Migration,” published by Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues as the first author, was selected as the best paper of 2018 by the IEEE Transactions on Computers. This award is granted annually to a single paper only based on the impact of the research and ideas of
the manuscript. IEEE Transactions on Computers is the flagship journal of the IEEE Computer Society, an important reference in all areas of computer design.

Kato-Kawamoto Laboratory has won the EKIDEN of ECEI and RIEC Championship for the 11th time. Next year we aim to win again.

Prof. Kato delivered the keynote speech entitled “Deep Learning in Network Traffic Control —How far we have come and future challenges—” at 2019 International Academicia Summit on Smart X & APEC Innovation Technology Dialogue (APEC ITD 2019) in China.

8 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao*1(1th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues*2(6th), professor Nei Kato*3(18th), Yibo Zhou*4 (22th), Bomin Mao*5(31th), professor Nei Kato*6(40th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues*7(41th), Fengxiao Tang*8(47th).

8 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Bomin Mao *2 (5th), Yuichi Kawamoto 3* (5th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *4 (8th), Yibo Zhou *5 (12th), Fengxiao Tang *6 (29th), professor Nei Kato *7 (37th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *8 (43th).

Research Assistant Professor Kawamoto promoted to an Associate professor on October 1st.

Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues made presentations entitled “Hyperparameter Study of Machine Learning Solutions for the Edge Server Deployment Problem” at VTC2019fall.

Research Assistant Prof. Kawamoto, Takahashi(M2), and Hashida(M1) made presentations at The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Society Conference 2019.

Prof. Kato, Research Assistant Prof. Kawamoto, Assistant Prof. Bomin MAO, and Research Assistant Prof. Fengxiao Tang made presentations at Northeast Asia Symposium on IoT with Intelligence(2019).

Prof. Kato made presentations entitled “Networking and Communications for Autonomous Driving” at VTC2019fall.

8 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *2 (3th), professor Nei Kato *3 (7th), Yibo Zhou *4 (10th), professor Nei Kato *5 (18th), Daisuke Takaishi *6 (29th), professor Nei Kato *7 (40th), Fengxiao Tang *8 (42th).

Prof. Kato delivered the keynote speech entitled “Deep Learning in Network Traffic Control —How far we have come and future challenges—” at IEEE International Conference on Communications in China.

8 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yibo Zhou *2 (5th), Daisuke Takaishi *3 (6th), professor Nei Kato *4 (9th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *5 (11th), professor Nei Kato *6 (13th), Fengxiao Tang *7 (32th), professor Nei Kato *8 (40th).

Yuki Goto (M1), Hayato Shimada (M1), and Hiroaki Hashida (M1) made presentations at Technical Committee on Network Systems (NS) , that was held in Osaka, Japan from July, 2019.

 Ayaka Hanyu (M2) made presentations at The 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2019) , that was held in tangier, Morocco from June, 2019. The title of Ayaka Hanyu’s presentation was “On Improving Flight Energy Efficiency in Simultaneous Transmission and Reception of Relay Using UAVs”.

10 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao*1 (1th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *2 (4th), Yibo Zhou *3 (4th), professor Nei Kato *4 (5th), professor Nei Kato *5 (26th), Daisuke Takaishi *6 (27th), professor Nei Kato *7 (28th), Fengxiao Tang *8 (28th), professor Nei Kato *9 (32th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *10 (32th).

May 29-31, 2019, at Wireless Technology Park (WTP) 2019, we participated in Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications “Research and development for radio wave resource expansion” the 12th results presentation meeting and presented our research and development results as one of the participating organizations.

IEEE Communications Society Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee presented 2019 DISTINGUISHED TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNITION AWARD to Prof. Kato at ICC’19(Shanghai, May) for his excellent contributions in Green Communications and Computing areas.

Research Assistant Prof. Kawamoto gave a talk at the Wireless Communication Systems Study Group of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, entitled “Research Trends on Resource Allocation Control Techniques for Improving Frequency Utilization Efficiency in Unmanned Aircraft Systems”.

Assistant Prof. Bomin MAO made presentations at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019), that was held in Shanghai, China from May,  2019. The title of Bomin MAO’s presentation was “An Intelligent Packet Forwarding Approach for Disaster Recovery Networks”. 

9 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao*1 (1th), Yibo Zhou *2 (4th), professor Nei Kato *3 (5th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *4 (10th), professor Nei Kato *5 (22th), Fengxiao Tang *6 (23th), professor Nei Kato *7 (25th), Daisuke Takaishi *8 (35th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *9 (35th).

11 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yibo Zhou *2 (4th), professor Nei Kato *3 (5th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *4 (8th), Yuichi Kawamoto *5 (10th), professor Nei Kato *6 (15th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *7 (19th), Fengxiao Tang *8 (21th), Daisuke Takaishi *9 (35th), Yuichi Kawamoto *10 (41th), professor Nei Kato *11 (43th).

5 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yibo Zhou *2 (5th), Yuichi Kawamoto *3 (7th), professor Nei Kato *4 (8th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *5 (14th).

The graduation ceremony of Tohoku University was held on Mar. 24, 2017 at the Sendai City Gymnasium. Fengxiao Tang (D3) was awarded the President’s Award of Tohoku University, Bomin Mao (D3) was awarded the Outstanding Student Award of Fuculty of Engineering and Information, Tohoku University , Tohn Furutani (M2) was also awarded the Dean’s Award of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) of Tohoku University , and Takuto Mitsuhashi (B4) was awarded the Award of Fuculty of Engineering, Tohoku University.

9 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yibo Zhou *2 (4th), professor Nei Kato *3 (7th), Yuichi Kawamoto *4 (7th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *5 (7th), Fengxiao Tang *6 (12th), Bomin Mao *7 (20th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *8 (23th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *9 (23th).

8 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (2th), professor Nei Kato *2 (5th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *3 (5th), Yibo Zhou *4 (7th), Yuichi Kawamoto *5 (9th), Fengxiao Tang *6 (19th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *7 (20th), Bomin Mao *8 (24th).

9 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), professor Nei Kato *2 (5th), Yuichi Kawamoto *3 (9th),   Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *4 (10th),  Tiago Gama Rodrigues *5 (12th), Fengxiao Tang *6 (12th),  Tiago Gama Rodrigues *7 (14th), Bomin Mao *8 (17th), Daisuke Takaishi *9 (30th).

Fengxiao TANG (D3) and Ryota SASAZAWA (M2) made presentations at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018), that was held in Abu Dhabi, UAE from December, 2018. The title of Fengxiao TANG’s presentation was “Deep Spatiotemporal Partially Overlapping  Channel Allocation : Joint CNN and Activity Vector Approach”. The title of Ryota SASAZAWA’spresentation was “Multilayer Virtual-Cell-Based Resource Allocation in Unmanned Aircraft Systems”. Fengxiao TANG received the Best Paper Award.

Tohn Furutani (M2) made presentations at The 21st International Symposium On Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2018) , that was held in Chiang Rai, Thailand from November, 2018. The title of Tohn Furutani’s presentation was “UAV-Assisted Information Diffusion Technique with Uniquely Virtual Cells Based on Wi-Fi Direct”.

9 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (3th),  professor Nei Kato *3(5th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *4 (6th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *5 (7th),  Fengxiao Tang *6 (12th),  Bomin Mao *7 (19th), Daisuke Takaishi *8 (32th),  Tiago Gama Rodrigues *9 (36th).

Kato Nishiyama Laboratory has won the EKIDEN of ECEI and RIEC Championship for the 10th time. Next year we aim to win again.

9 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (2th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (3th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *3 (4th), professor Nei Kato *4 (5th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *5 (7th), Fengxiao Tang *6 (13th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *7 (14th), Bomin Mao *8 (15th), Daisuke Takaishi *9 (25th).

8 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (3th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *3 (3th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *4 (7th), professor Nei Kato *5 (9th), Fengxiao Tang *6 (16th), Daisuke Takaishi *7 (28th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *8 (41th).

7 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (6th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *3 (7th), professor Nei Kato *4 (14th), Daisuke Takaishi *5 (15th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *6 (23th), Fengxiao Tang *7 (23th), .

Prof. Kato received certificate of appreciation from Founder of NPO corporation : Educating Nepal for the valuable contribution in introduction & implementation of MDRU technology in Nepal.

Prof. Kato delivered a keynote speech at 3rd EAI International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Communications.

8 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (3th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *3 (6th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *4 (11th), professor Nei Kato *5 (19th), Fengxiao Tang *6 (21th), Daisuke Takaishi *7 (33th), Associate professor Hiroki Nishiyama *8 (48th).

9 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Bomin Mao *1 (1th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (3th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *3 (4th), Daisuke Takaishi *4 (10th), Tiago Gama Rodrigues *5 (10th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *6 (17th), professor Nei Kato *7 (25th), professor Nei Kato *8 (26th), Fengxiao Tang *9 (35th).

7 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1 (3th),Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *2 (9th),Fengxiao Tang *3 (9th), professor Nei Kato *4 (10th), professor Nei Kato *5 (11th), Daisuke Takaishi *6 (21th),professor Nei Kato *7 (44th).

Dr. Bomin Mao’s following paper has been ranked as No.1 popular article in IEEE Transactions on Computer for four months in a row.
“Routing or Computing? The Paradigm Shift Towards Intelligent Computer Network Packet Transmission Based on Deep Learning”(*May 2018,*Apr. 2018,*Mar. 2018,*Feb. 2018)

This is the award given to a person who have made significant contributions to the advancement of radio efficient use in their region.

In America, Shikhar Verma made a presentation entitled “Novel Group Paging Scheme for Improving Energy Efficiency of IoT Devices over LTE-A Pro Networks with QoS Considerations” and received the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018) that was held from May. 20 to 24, 2018.

In America, Shikhar Verma made a presentation entitled “Novel Group Paging Scheme for Improving Energy Efficiency of IoT Devices over LTE-A Pro Networks with QoS Considerations” and received the Student Travel Grant at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018) that was held from May. 20 to 24, 2018.

Prof. Nei Kato, Assoc. Prof. Hiroki Nishiyama received Prizes for Science and Technology from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; MEXT. This award is given to who made excellent research achievements in Science and Technology Promotion Category as the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

6 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1 (4th),Fengxiao Tang *2 (8th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *3 (9th), professor Nei Kato *4 (16th), professor Nei Kato *5 (22th), Daisuke Takaishi *6 (23th).

5 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1 (7th),Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *2 (9th), professor Nei Kato *3 (14th), Daisuke Takaishi *4 (29th).

5 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *1 (7th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (7th), professor Nei Kato *3 (11th), Daisuke Takaishi *4 (15th), and Fengxiao tang *5 (48th).

3 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *1 (5th), professor Nei Kato *2 (9th), Daisuke Takaishi *3 (25th).

7 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by professor Yuichi Kawamoto *1 (4th), professor Nei Kato *2 (8th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *3 (11th), Daisuke Takaishi *4 (22nd), Yuichi Kawamoto *5 (24th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *6 (43rd) and Jiajia Liu *7 (48th).

Prof. Kato delivered a keynote speech at The 2017 International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON ’17) entitled “The Deep Learning Vision for Heterogeneous Networks Control – Proposal, Challenges, and Future Perspective -“

Kato Nishiyama Laboratory has won the EKIDEN of Electrical Department Championship for the 9th time. Next year we aim to win again.

6 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by professor Nei Kato *1 (5th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (6th), *3 (16th), Shikhar Verma *4 (31st), Jiajia Liu *5 (38th) and Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *6 (50th).

6 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1 (6th), professor Nei Kato *2 (17th), Shikhar Verma *3 (30th), Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *4 (34th), Jiajia Liu *5 (42th), and Associate professor Zubair Fadlullah *6 (44th).

Yuki Takahashi (M2) , Research Assistant Prof. Yuichi Kawamoto and Jiajia Liu made presentations at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017-Fall) , that was held in Toronto, Canada from September 24th to 27th, 2017. The title of Yuki Takahashi’s presentation was “A TD-LTE-A Based Efficient Radio Access Scheme for Realtime Data Transmission over Relay Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks”, Yuichi Kawamoto’s presentation was “On OFDM-Based Resource Allocation in LTE Radio Management System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) ” and Jiajia Liu’s presentation was “On Physical Layer Security in Finite-Area Wireless Networks: An Analysis Framework”. In this conference, Yuki Takahashi received the Best Paper Award.

3 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Professor Nei Kato *1 (7th), Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (8th), and Daisuke Takaishi *3 (14th).

From Sep. 20 to 21, Prof. Kato delivered an keynote speech entitled “Advanced Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks Technologies to Facilitate Specialized Disaster-resilient Networks” at ICT Disaster Response Conference 2017, Cebu, Philippines.

4 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Daisuke Takaishi *1 (16th), Jiajia Liu *2 (45th), Associate professor Zubair Md. Fadlullah *3 (30th), and professor Nei Kato *4 (9th).

5 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1 (4th), Daisuke Takaishi *2 (14th), Jiajia Liu *3 (27th), Associate professor Zubair Md. Fadlullah *4 (21st), and professor Nei Kato *5 (19th).

3 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1 (1st), Daisuke Takaishi *2 (11th) and Jiajia Liu *3 (40th).

2 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Daisuke Takaishi *1 (15th) and Jiajia Liu *2 (44th).

Research Assistant Prof. Yuichi Kawamoto, Kazuma Kaneko (D3) and Tiago Gama Rodrigues (D1) made presentations at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2017) , that was held in Paris, France from May 21st to 25th, 2017. The title of Yuichi Kawamoto’s presentation was “An Efficient Throughput-Aware Resource Allocation Technique for Data Transmission in Unmanned Aircraft Systems”, Kazuma Kaneko’s presentation was “An Evaluation of Flexible Frequency Utilization inHigh Throughput Satellite Communication Systemswith Digital Channelizer” and Tiago Gama Rodrigues’s presentation was “A PSO Model with VM Migration and Transmission Power Control for Low Service Delay in the Multiple Cloudlets ECC Scenario”. In this conference, Kazuma Kaneko received the Best Paper Award.

3 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1 (3th), Assistant Professor Zubair Md. Fadlullah *2 (32th), and Jiajia Liu *3 (50th).

1 Paper from our laboratory was listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in publication according to the most recent usage statistics. This paper was written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1(2th).

Prof. Kato delivered a keynote speech at 22nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed System(ICPADS2016) entitled “IoT:Towards a Connected Era – Research Direction and Social Impacts -“

We performed a demonstration of Relay-by-Smartphone^® assuming a situation for collecting information of disaster victims outside of communication range, and it was successful in gathering disaster information (name and face photograph of victims) in emergency response headquarters at San Remigio, Cebu, Philippines on Aug. 2nd, 2016. The Relay-by-Smartphone^® technique has been developed by our laboratory.

Through the questionnaire of this demonstration and Relay-by-Smartphone^®, it has been confirmed that the Relay-by-Smartphone^® technique can help gather information, indicating its usefulness in disaster situations. Also, many answers of the questionnaire suggested possibilities for its use in daily life.

Due to their notable contributions, the Certificate of Appreciation was given by the Municipal Mayor of San Remigio to Prof. Nei Kato, Assoc. Prof. Hiroki Nishiyama, Daiki Murayama (M2), Naoki Miyashita (M2), Naoto Yamada (M2), Hiroaki Takagi (M1), and Yuki Takahashi (M1).

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2015年11月17日～19日にフィリピン セブ島のサン・レミジオ市において、耐災害通信技術の実証実験を行い、 現地にて展開されているNTT未来ねっとが開発した「移動式ICTユニット」と、当研究室が開発した 「通信性能最適化アルゴリズム」の連動における実現可能性の検証に成功しました。
本実験は現地にて高く評価され、本実験に参加した加藤寧教授、西山大樹准教授、須藤克弥（D3）、村山大貴（M1）、 栗林秀樹（B4）が市長より感謝状を受賞しました。（学年は2015年11月時点）

5 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Assistant Professor Zubair Md. Fadlullah *1 (37th) , Yuichi Kawamoto *2 (7th), Hirotaka Ujikawa *3 (43th), Daisuke Takaishi (D2, JSPS Fellow) *4 (29th), and Jiajia Liu *5 (45th). The details are as follows.

The Report on Popular Articles (August 2016)

In Beijing, China, Shucong Jia made a presentation entitled “Eco-Udc: An Energy Efficient Data Collection Method For Disaster Area Networks” and received the Best Paper Award at 2016 5th IEEE International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IEEE IC-NIDC 2016) that was held from Sept. 23 to 25, 2016.

4 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1(9th), Katsuya Suto *2 (37th), Daisuke Takaishi (D2, JSPS Fellow) *2 (20th), and Jiajia Liu *3 (44th). The details are as follows.

The Report on Popular Articles (June 2016)

4 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. One of these papers were written in a collaborative research *1. The other papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *2, Katsuya Suto *3, and Daisuke Takaishi (D2, JSPS Fellow) *3. The details are as follows.

The Report on Popular Articles (May 2016)

The A3 annual workshop was held from July 10th to 13th, 2016 in Pyeongchang, Korea, and the following students were awarded the Best Presentation Award for their presentations.
・”A Study on the Power Saving Technology in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Yunseong Lee (M2)
・”Lowering Service Delay in Edge Cloud Computing Through a Hybrid Computation and Communication Approach”, Tiago Gama Rodrigues (M2)
・”A Study on a Mode Selection Method Based on Mobility for Even Spatial Data Dissemination in Multi-Channel D2D Communication”, Hideki Kuribayashi (M1)

3 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recent usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto *1, Katsuya Suto *2, and Daisuke Takaishi (D2, JSPS Fellow) *2. The details are as follows.

The Report on Popular Articles (April 2016)

Thuan Ngo (D3), Masanori Horiuchi (M2) and Hideki Kuribayashi (M1) made presentations at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2016) , that was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from May 23th to 27th, 2016. The title of Thuan Ngo’s presentation was “GHAR: Graph-based Hybrid Adaptive Routing for Cognitive Radio Based Disaster Response Networks”, Masanori Horiuchi’s presentation was “Throughput Maximization for Long-Distance Real-Time Data Transmission over Multiple UAVs” and Hideki Kuribayashi’s presentation was “A Mobility-Based Mode Selection Technique for Fair Spatial Dissemination of Data in Multi-Channel Device-to-Device Communication”. In this conference, Thuan Ngo and Hideki Kuribayashi received the Best Paper Award. The ICC is one of the largest conferences that the IEEE Communications Society organizes. This year, 39% of the 2,469 submitted papers were accepted, and 15 of them were chosen as the Best Paper Award.

Thuan Ngo (D3) made a presentation entitled “A Novel Graph-Based Topology Control Cooperative Algorithm for Maximizing Throughput of Disaster Recovery Networks” at the IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2016-Spring) that was held in Nanjing, China from May 15th to 18th, 2016, and he was awarded the Best Paper Award.

Due to the excellent achievements and contributions to the ad hoc and sensor network community in the world, Prof. Kato was awarded the 2016 OUTSTANDING SERVICE & LEADERSHIP RECOGNITION from IEEE Communications Society Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks Technical Committee.

On May 21st, 2016, Associate Professor Hiroki Nishiyama was awarded the Research Encouragement Award by the Miyagi Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Science. This award is given by the Miyagi Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Science to excellent researches which contribute to the promotion of the industrial science field. Associate Professor Nishiyama won this award for the outstanding research achievement in the development of communication functions for mobile devices in real-time IoT systems.

Assistant Professor Zubair Md. Fadlullah was awarded the Tokin Foundation Research Encouragement Award on March 8th, 2016. This award is given by the Tokin Foundation for Promotion of Science and Technology to recognize research works of young researchers in the engineering field. The selection of the award is based on the originality, inventiveness, difficulty, and contributions to academia and industry of the research.

The graduation ceremony of Tohoku University was held on Mar. 25, 2016 at the Sendai City Gymnasium. Yuichi Kawamoto (D3, JSPS Fellow) was awarded the President’s Award of Tohoku University and the Dean’s Award of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) of Tohoku University. Keisuke Miyanabe (M2) was also awarded the Dean’s Award. These awards are selected from 150 students of the GSIS doctor and master courses. The President’s Award is given only to 2 students, and from the Kato-Nishiyama Laboratory, this is the 6th President’s Award. The Dean’s Award is given to 5 students and 2 were from our laboratory. Students of our laboratory have won the Dean’s Award for 6 years in a row and 2 students receiving the Dean’s Award at the same time is the third time.

Naoki Miyashita (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Novel Using Technique of Digital Beam Forming in the Satellite Network System” and was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 annual workshop held from Feb. 17th to 19th, 2016 in Okinawa, Japan.

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2月20日に開催された東北大学大学院情報科学研究科主催のシンポジウムにおいて、加藤教授が「もしも災害で携帯がつながらなくなったら -被災地でデータをリレーする災害通信網-」と題して講演を行いました。本講演では、スマホdeリレー^®の実証実験をはじめとした本研究室の防災に関する取り組みを紹介し、災害時のデータ通信網の技術課題やスマホdeリレー^®の実用化に向けた今後の展望について見解を述べました。 また、本講演の模様は、NHKにてニュース報道（2月21日 ）されました。

スマホdeリレー^®の詳細に関しての特設ページはこちら

6 Papers from our laboratory were listed among the top 50 monthly downloaded articles in their respective publication according to the most recently usage statistics. These papers were written by Yuichi Kawamoto (D3, JSPS Fellow) *1, Katsuya Suto (D3, JSPS Fellow) *2, Daisuke Takaishi (D1, JSPS Fellow) *3, and Jiajia Liu *4 *5 *6. The details are as follows.

The Report on Popular Articles (December 2015)

Assistant Professor Zubair Md. Fadlullah was awarded the IEEE COMSOC Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award. IEEE COMSOC Asia-Pacific belongs to the IEEE Communications Society, which is the best information and communications society in the world. This award is given to only five researchers who are under 35 years old and have achieved excellent results over the last three years. He was awarded this exceptional award for his excellent research achievements in wireless networking and security.

Kenta Ito (M2) made a presentation entitled “A Power-Aware Air Interface Scheduling Scheme for Improving Network Connectivity in Solar Powered Wireless Mesh Networks” at 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015) , that was held in San Diego, USA from Dec. 6th to 10th, 2015.

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2015年10月23日に実施された東北大学総合防災訓練において、耐災害性に優れた情報通信技術の一つとしてスマホdeリレー^®の実証実験を行い、キャンパスの被災状況や学生からの声を効率的に収集・伝達することに成功しました。

また、本実験の詳細に関しては下記ページからご覧いただけます。

・［特設ホームページ］「スマホdeリレー^®」の紹介

On Nov. 30th, 2015, the awards ceremony of IEEE Sendai Section Student Awards 2015 was held at the Tohoku University, Katahira Campus. In this ceremony, Naoki Miyashita was awarded The Best Paper Prize for the presentation of “The Efficient Frequency Sharing in Integrated Satellite/Terrestrial Systems” made at the 2015 Tohoku-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan, from Aug. 27th to 28th, 2015.

On Nov. 24th, 2015, we participated in a research interaction event which was held in Taipei, Taiwan, as part of the JST Infrastructure Development for Promoting International S&T Cooperation. We had discussions on network construction technology needed to realize IoT services for the research on “Effective and Secure innovative ID management technology for Large Scale IoT”. In this event, there were research reports and discussions in the form of workshops at the National Taiwan University, and there were valuable exchanges of ideas between researchers.

Yuichi Kawamoto (D3, JSPS Fellow) was awarded RIEC Tohoku University Student Award, which is created by the Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University. This prize is given to honor promising and excellent graduate students, who are expected to make remarkable contributions to the scientific study in the field of electrical communication in the coming future.

In Shenzhen, China, Yunseong Lee (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Novel Network Design and Operation for Reducing Transmission Power in Cloud Radio Access Network with Power over Fiber” and received the Best Paper Award at IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China 2015 (ICCC 2015) that was held from Nov. 2 to 4, 2015.

In Nanjing, China, Keisuke Sato made a presentation about “A Modeling Technique Utilizing Feedback Control Theory for Performance Evaluation of IoT System in Real-time” and he received the Best Paper Award at 2015 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2015) held from Oct. 15 to 17, 2015.

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・河北新報掲載記事（外部リンク）

・Greetings from the Director of ROEC

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須藤克弥（D3、JSPS研究員）がJSPS海外特別研究員（Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad）に採用されることが内定しました。我が国の学術の将来を担う国際的視野に富む有能な研究者を養成・確保することを目的としている本制度では、 若手のポスドクや助教が採用されることが多く、博士課程在学中の学生が採用されることは稀であり、今後の活躍が期待されます。

Associate Professor Hiroki Nishiyama, NTT docomo, and Kozo Keikaku Engineering have shared the Advanced Technical Grand Award of Originality, which is given to the young researchers who announced an excellent contribution. This prize aims to promote cooperation among government, industry, and academia and develop technical experts and students of science and technology. The award ceremony was held at the Meiji Kinenkan in Akasaka, Tokyo, with the attendance of Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado on Jul. 8, 2015.

Keisuke Miyanabe (M2) made a presentation entitled “Novel Power Saving Mechanisms for a Cloud Radio Access Network with Power over Fiber” and was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 annual workshop held from February 1st to 4th, 2015 in Beijing, China.

Prof. Kato took over as the EiC of IEEE Network Magazine from July 1st, 2015. IEEE Network Magazine is the most influential magazine in the networking area with high Impact Factor (IF).

・Introduction of new EiC

In London, UK, Yuichi Kawamoto (D3, JSPS Fellow) and Shin Koseki (M2) made presentations at IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2015), that was held from June 8 to 12 2015. The title of Yuichi Kawamoto’s presentation was “A Method for Collecting Uniform Amount of Fresh Data from Areas with Varying Population Density” and Shin Koseki’s presentation was “Earth Stations Deployment for Maximizing System Throughput in Satellite/Solar-Powered Mesh Integrated Network”.

The IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2015-Spring) was held in Glasgow, Scotland, from May. 11 to 14, 2015, and Katsuya Suto (D3, JSPS Fellow) made a presentation of “A Failure-Tolerant and Spectrum-Efficient Wireless Data Center Network Design for Improving Performance of Big Data Mining”, and he received the IEEE VTS Japan 2015 Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award.

The commencement ceremony of Tohoku University was held on Mar. 25, 2015 at the Sendai City Gymnasium. Daisuke Takaishi (M2) was awarded the President’s Award of Tohoku University and the Dean’s Award of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) of Tohoku University. Kazuma Kaneko (M2) was also awarded the Dean’s Award. These awards are selected from 150 students of the GSIS doctor and master courses. The President’s Award is given only to 2 students, and from the Kato-Nishiyama Laboratory, this is the 5th President’s Award. The Dean’s Award is given to 4 students and 2 were from our laboratory. Students of our laboratory have won the Dean’s Award for 5 years in a row and 2 students receiving the Dean’s Award at the same time is the second time.

The A3 annual workshop was successfully held at Busan, Korea from 4th to 7th February, 2015. In this workshop, the participants, in particular young researchers, actively reported and discussed their current research. The workshop gave the participants a good opportunity to share valuable ideas/information, and also enhanced cooperation and friendship between many researchers and students from various nations.
The A3 Foresight Program was established for the world-leading academic research on “Next Generation Networks and Network Security” and fostering of young researchers by the cooperation between many research institutions in Japan, China and Korea.

Kazuma Kaneko was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 annual workshop held from 4th to 7th February, 2015 in Busan in Korea.

In Vancouver, Canada, Keisuke Miyanabe (M1) made a presentation about “Synchronized Power Saving Mechanisms for Battery-Powered Mobile Terminals in Smart FiWi Networks” and he received the VTS Japan 2014 Student Paper Award at IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Fall) held from Sep. 14 to 17, 2014.
You can see the following video of the award ceremony.

The video of award ceremony

In Istanbul, Turkey, Yuichi Kawamoto (D2, JSPS Fellow) made a presentation at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014) that was held from April 6 to 9, 2014. His paper’s title was “An Efficient Traffic Detouring Method by Using Device-to-Device Communication Technologies in Heterogeneous Network.” At this conference, Kawamoto received the Best Paper Award.
You can see the following video of the award ceremony.

In Seoul, Korea, Avakul Panu (M1) made a presentation of “A Performance Evaluation of Multiple MDRUs Based Wireless Mesh Networks”, and he received the IEEE VTS Japan 2014 Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award at IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Spring) held from May. 18 to 21, 2014.
You can see the following video of the award ceremony.

The video of award ceremony

Yuichi Kawamoto (D1, JSPS Fellow) and Katsuya Suto (D1) won appraisal for their research results about “衛星センサネットワークにおけるリアルタイムデータ収集のための回線割当方式” (Yuichi Kawamoto) and “広域分散ストレージシステムにおける効率的データ転送方式” (Katsuya Suto) presented in the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Society Conference 2013. Moreover, because of this, they received the IEICE Society Conference 2013 Academic Encouragement Award (Mar. 19th, 2014).
You can see the video of the award ceremony by clicking on the link below.

The video of the award ceremony

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当研究室で研究開発を行っている「スマホdeリレー^®」に関する研究成果が、ＦＮＮ仙台放送スーパーニュースで3月3日に放送されました。小型無人飛行機（自律飛行可能なマルチコプター）との連携システムが、孤立地域との情報伝達手段の新たな方法として期待が高まっています。

本実験の詳細に関しては下記ページからご覧いただけます。

・東北大学ホームページ（外部リンク）

また、「スマホdeリレー^®」の詳細に関しては下記ページをご覧ください。

・［特設ホームページ］「スマホdeリレー^®」の紹介
・［YouTubeビデオ］”スマホdeリレー^®” 圏外でもメール送信可能で災害時に期待

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当研究室で研究開発している「スマホdeリレー^®」と、NTTと東北大学などが開発した「ICTカー」の接続実験が成功しました。被災地を想定した広範囲におけるメールリレーに成功したことは日経産業新聞（２月６日）に掲載されました。また、「スマホdeリレー^®」の技術内容について電気新聞に掲載（１月２１日）されました。

本実験の詳細に関しては下記ページからご覧いただけます。

・東北大学ホームページ（外部リンク）

また、「スマホdeリレー^®」の詳細に関しては下記ページをご覧ください。

・［特設ホームページ］「スマホdeリレー^®」の紹介
・［YouTubeビデオ］”スマホdeリレー^®” 圏外でもメール送信可能で災害時に期待

On Feb. 5, Prof. Kato delivered an keynote speach entitled “Disaster Resilient Network Technologies: MDRU and Relay-by-Smartphone^®” at IEEE 2014 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications(ICNC) 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

The video of the speach

Associate Professor Hiroki Nishiyama, Yuichi Kawamoto (D1, JSPS Fellow), Masaya Ito (M1), Kei Saito (M1) made presentations at 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013) , that was held in Atlanta, USA from Dec. 9th to 13th, 2013. The title of Hiroki Nishiyama’s presentation was “Modeling Ad Hoc Mobile Networks: the General k-Hop Relay Routing”, Yuichi Kawamoto’s presentation was “A Centralized Multiple Access Scheme for Data Gathering in Satellite-Routed Sensor System (SRSS)”, Masaya Ito’s presentation was “A Novel Routing Method for Improving Message Delivery Delay in Hybrid DTN-MANET Networks” and Kei Saito’s presentation was “Improving the Performance of FiWi Networks Through Collaboration Between ONU and APs”. In this conference, Yuichi Kawamoto received the Best Paper Award.

The video of the ceremony

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西山准教授に電子情報通信学会通信ソサイエティより活動功労賞が授与されました。

The article entitled “On the Delivery Probability of Two-Hop Relay MANETs with Erasure Coding” by JSPS Fellow Jiajia Liu, which appeared in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.61, no.4, pp.1314-1326, April 2013 was amongst the top 25 downloaded articles in IEEE TCOM in July 2013(reference).

Daisuke Takaishi (M1) made a presentation at IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2013-Fall) that was held in Las Vegas, USA from 2nd to 5th September, 2013 and was honored with the Student Paper Award. The title of presentation was “On the Effect of Data Request Message Flooding in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks with a Mobile Sink”.

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当研究室で研究開発している「スマホdeリレー^®」（左図）を「小型無人飛行機中継システム（情報通信研究機構所有）」（右図）と接続する実験に成功したことが、以下の新聞に掲載されました。
・日経産業新聞（8月29日）
・電波タイムズ1面トップ（9月4日）
・東京新聞夕刊（9月5日）
・山陽新聞（9月6日）
・中国新聞（9月6日）
・宮崎日日新聞（9月6日）
・茨城新聞（9月13日）

本実験の詳細に関しては下記ページからご覧いただけます。

・東北大学ホームページ（外部リンク）
・NICTホームページ（外部リンク）

また、「スマホdeリレー^®」の詳細に関しては特設ページをご覧ください。

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東北大学大学院情報科学研究科の加藤寧教授、西山大樹准教授らの研究グループが研究開発している「スマホdeリレー^®」と情報通信研究機構が所有する「小型無人飛行機中継システム」を用いて実施された今年7月の通信実験について、災害による孤立地域からの情報発信を想定したメールリレーに見事成功したことが、日経産業新聞に掲載（8月29日）されました。
詳細（プレスリリース本文）
東北大学ホームページ（外部リンク）
NICTホームページ（外部リンク）

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平成25年7月30日と31日に開催される東北大学工学部情報知能システム総合学科（追記：2015年4月、電気情報物理工学科に名称変更）のオープンキャンパスにおいて、スマートフォンだけでつくるネットワーク（スマホdeリレー^®）を使ったデモンストレーションを実施します。また、無線通信機を搭載した無人飛行機や超高速インターネット衛星との接続実験も公開します。スマホのみでネットワークを自由自在に形成（携帯電話回線ではなくWiFiのみを使用）してメール送受信を可能にするスマホdeリレー^®は、衛星や無人飛行機との接続によってメールリレーの範囲を大幅に拡大できるため、特に災害時などに被災地域内のみならず遠隔地をも含めた情報共有を可能にする最先端ICTツールとして期待されています。

詳細（プレスリリース本文）
インターネットウォッチニュース（外部リンク）

In the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2013), that was held in Budapest, Hungary, from June 9-13, 2013, the IEEE Fellowship Award Ceremony was held for Prof. Kato. He was awarded the IEEE Fellowship and received a memorial plaque from the president of IEEE Communications Society.
ICC Awards Ceremony Program（external links）
Details of awarding the IEEE Fellowship（external links）

The global newsletter of Kato-Nishiyama laboratory is published on IEICE GNL Vol.36 No.4 from page 16 to 21.

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JSPS Fellow, Dr. Jiajia Liu was awarded 2012 Tohoku University Professor Genkuro Fujino Award. Professor Genkuro Fujino Award is given to the talented graduate students from China who are expected to achieve major results in the future. This prize was established to commemorate Professor Genkuro Fujino, the teacher of Lu Xun sensei. The presentation ceremony was held at Lu Xun lecture hall with attendance of Satomi Soucho, and Takeshi Ebata, Chairman of Miyagi Japan-China Friendship Association as shown in the picture.

In Sendai, Japan, International Workshop on Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies and Robust Networks is going to be held on December 21st. Following URL is the detail page about the Workshop.

http://www.it.is.tohoku.ac.jp/ws/ws2012/index.html

The article entitled “Toward Intelligent Machine-to-Machine Communications in Smart Grid”, which appeared in IEEE Communications Magazine, volume 49, issue 4, April 2011, was amongst the top ten downloaded articles in IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) in April(reference) and May(reference), 2011. Also, the article was listed in the top 100 downloaded articles in IEEE Xplore for several months up to August 2011.(reference) Within a short time, it has been cited 34 times as reported by Google Scholar. This paper was co-authored with NTT Energy and Environment System Laboratories under a Smart Grid joint project.

In Paris, France, Jiajia Liu (D3) and Yuichi Kawamoto (M2) made a presentation at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) that was held from April 1 to 4 2012. Liu’s title was “Performance Modeling for Two-hop Relay with Erasure Coding in MANETs” and Kawamoto’s title was “Assessing Packet Delivery Delay in Multi-Layered Satellite Networks.” Professor Nei Kato, Assistant Professor Hiroki Nishiyama, and Jiajia Liu received the Best Paper Award, Kawamoto received the Student Travel Grant at this conference.

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東北大学電気・通信・電子・情報同窓会便りno.42（平成24年1月）にて第47回電気・情報系・通研駅伝大会（第6回伊藤杯）報告が掲載されました（参照）。

The invited paper entitled “Experiment of Satellite Communication Systems: Present State and Future Prospects” has been ranked No.1 in access ranking. The paper was published on IEICE Trans. on Communications(Japanese) in Mar. 2011.

In Florida, USA, Ahmed Abdulla (M1) , Hans Livingstone (M1) , and Duarte Pedro (M2) made a presentation at IEEE Global Communications Conference Exhibition & Industry Forum (GLOBECOM 2010) that was held from December 6 to 10 2010. Abdulla’s title was “HYMN to Improve the Longevity of Wireless Sensor Networks,” Livingstone’s title was “Gateway Selection in Multi-hop Wireless Networks using Route and Link Optimization,” and Pedro’s title was “Partially Overlapped Channel Assignment on Wireless Mesh Network Backbone.” Professor Nei Kato, Assistant Professor Hiroki Nishiyama, Abdulla and Livingstone received the Best Paper Award, Pedro received the Student Travel Grant at this conference.

In Sendai Mediatheque, the 65th Tohoku University Science Cafe was taken place on November 26 2010. At this seminar, Professor Nei Kato gave a speech, and Kato laboratory members interacted with participants.

Tohoku University Science Cafe’s page
http://cafe.tohoku.ac.jp/event/no65/index.html
Kahoku News page
http://www.kahoku.co.jp/spe/sciencecafe/

In Beijing, China, Chen Qing made a presentation of “Group-based Distributed Public Key Management for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,” at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications – Tohoku University Joint Workshop on Advanced ICT on Oct. 24, 2008.

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In Roma, Italy, the IEEE WRECOM (Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications Conference) was taken place from October 1 to 2 and Hiroki Nishiyama, a doctor course student belonging to Kato lab, made a presentation in the invited session on October 2. The title was “On the Performance of Congestion Control Protocols in Lossy Wireless Networks,” and he presented about the preformance of TCP over wireless networks at high bit error rates.

Yuji Ikeda and Zubair Md. Fadlullah, both are second year Master’s course students belonging to Kato lab, presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications 2007. Both students made presentations on June 26. Zubair proposed a new scheme to detect attacks against cryptographic protocols and Ikeda presented about a new mobility management method for hierarchical Mobile IPv6 networks.

In Tokyo, the meeting for announcing the results of Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE) was held on June 14. At the meeting, Professor Kato presented the results of research related to SCOPE. SCOPE project was started by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to innovate information technologies for realizing advanced ubiquitous society. The objective of this meeting was sparking up debate to the further works by presenting 48 results of SCOPE-project research. In the meeting, poster session was also taken place.

2007 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium was taken place in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. from April 30 to May 2 and Professor Kato presented as invited speaker about statistics-information-based security measure over wireless sensor networks.

A third year undergraduate student, Miyao entered Kato laboratory by early graduation system of Tohoku university. He entered our laboratory one year early because he got certified by university as student with outstanding academic results. By using this system, students in Tohoku university can graduate from the university in three years, while general students take four years.

Professor Kato, Professor Yoshiaki Nemoto (Nemoto Laboratory, Research Leader), and Assistant Professor Tarik Taleb (Hashimoto Laboratory) received the Funai Award for Advancement of Information Sciences (船井情報科学振興賞) from Funai Information Science Foundation (財団法人船井情報科学振興財団), since the pioneering research activities on next-generation network protocol for realizing fusion between satellite networks and terrestrial network was highly appreciated by the community.

Tetsuya Takahashi, second year Master’s course student, presented at 25th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2007) in Seoul, Korea on April 13. The title of presentation was “Improving ELB in Multi-Hop Satellite Constellations with Short ISL Delays,” and proposed a new scheme for load balancing over next generation satellite networks.

Kenichi Kashibuchi received award from Tohoku university president and Hiroki Nishiyama received Electrical engineering, Communication engineering, Electronic engineering, and Information engineering (ECEI) Award. Kashibuchi attended the awarding ceremony in graduation ceremony 2007.

English edition of Kato laboratory’s website was relaunched with a new design on July 23 2007.