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SSC Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 2, Dec. 2013 (Adobe Acrobat PDF) SATELLITE AND SPACE COMMUNICATIONS SSC http://committees.comsoc.org/ssc/ IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY SSC Newsletter Vol. 23, No. 2, December 2013 CONTENTS The Satellite and Space Communications (SSC) SSC Committee Meetings ........................... 1 Committee is a volunteer group actively involved in GLOBECOM2013 SSC Activities ............. 1 advancing satellite and space communication tech- How to join SSC Committee and mailing nologies within the IEEE. This committee is ap- list………………………………………….2 proved by the IEEE Communications Society and is Officers ....................................................... 2 governed by the constitution and bylaws of the Message from the Chair .............................. 2 IEEE as well as the other twenty-three Technical Scanning the World ..................................... 4 Committees in the Society. The committee belongs Forthcoming ICC and GLOBECOM to the Technical Committee Clusters of Communi- Endorsing/Related Conferences and Workshops............................................ 6 cation/Signal Processing (C/SP). Conference Calendar ................................... 7 Perspective Articles .................................... 8 SATELLITE & SPACE - JOIN US - GLOBECOM 2013 SSC Committee Activities: Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications: All conference attendees are Wednesday, 11 December 2013 • 11:30-13:00 welcome to join us in the SSC Location: Exhibit Hall, Lower Level Committee meeting. SA-SSC3 Topics in Satellite and Space Communi- Location: Room 315/3rd floor- cations (Interactive Session) Atlanta Hilton and Towers Hotel Wednesday, 11 December 2013 • 14:30-16:00 Date: Tuesday 10 December 2013 Location: Room 309/310, 3d Floor Time: 18.00-19.00 (EST) SA-SSC1 Satellite Communications and Naviga- tion Chair: Claudio Sacchi (University of Trento, Italy) Future SSC Meetings Wednesday, 11 December 2013 • 16:30-18:00 Location: Room 302/303, 3rd Floor June 2014, Sydney, Australia SA-SSC2 Satellite and Space Networking Dec. 2014, Austin, TX, USA Chair: Hiroki Nishiyama (Tohoku University, Japan) June 2015, London, UK http://committees.comsoc.org/ssc/ Vol. 23, No. 2, December 2013 SSC Newsletter HOW TO JOIN SSC COMMITTEE AND MAILING LIST If you like to join SSC Technical Committee: Please send your name and e-mail address to the SSC Secretary, optionally include your mail address, telephone and fax numbers. If you like to join SSC Mailing List: Instructions on how to subscribe/unsubscribe are available at http://lists.scnl.dist.unige.it/listinfo/ssc/. SSC COMMITTEE OFFICERS CHAIR VICE CHAIR / EDITOR SECRETARY Dr. Igor Bisio Dr. Hiromitsu Wakana Dr. Tomaso de Cola Department of National Institute of German Aerospace Center Telecommunication, Information and (DLR) Electronic, Electrical Communications Technology Munchnerstr. 20, Engineering and Naval 4-2-1 Nukui-Kita, Koganei, Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Architecture, Tokyo, 184-8795, Japan Wesling, Germany University of Genoa Tel: +81-42-327-6026 Tel: +49-8153-28-2156 Via Opera Pia 13, 16145, Fax: +81-42-327-7605 Fax: +49-8153-28-2844 Genova, Italy e-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +39 010 353 2806 Fax: +39 010 353 2154 Email: [email protected] PAST CHAIR COMMITTEE HISTORIAN COMMITTEE ADVISOR Prof. Nei Kato Mr. Louis Pollack Prof. Desmond P. Taylor Graduate School of c/o Pollack Associates Dept. of Electrical & Information Sciences 15321 Delphinium Lane Electronic Engineering Tohoku University Rockville, MD, USA 20853 University of Canterbury Aoba 09, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Tel: +1 301 929 1295 Private Bag 4800 Sendai, 980-8579, Japan. Christchurch, New Zealand Tel: +81+22-795-6161 Tel: +64 3 364 2213 Fax: +81+22-795-6162 Fax: +64 3 364 2761 e-mail: e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Prof. Igor Bisio The Satellite and Space Communications IEEE GC2012 and ICC2013, respectively. (SSC) Technical Committee (TC) members Quoting my previous message “The ideas will meet again during IEEE GC2013. and the consequence actions are aimed at In my previous messages, I've discussed reaching very important goals such as the and shared some ideas about possible publication of the SSC related research in actions, discussed with the Officers and prestigious journals and magazines, the during the last SSC meetings held in organization and endorsement of Symposia, Anaheim and Budapest, where took place conferences and workshops.”, I consider http://committees.comsoc.org/ssc/ -2- Vol. 23, No. 2, December 2013 SSC Newsletter necessary a further updating of the officer been provided by the Editor in chief of the team work and of the TC activities. Magazine, Dr. Sean Moore. The proposal In more detail, a new Charter have been for the JSAC special issue is under prepared by maintaining the previous construction but it is quite ready to be version and integrating it with more recent submitted. On behalf the TC members, I hot topics in the field of Satellite and Space want to deeply thank the two work-groups Communications and Networking. Moreover, for their hard and precious effort. a new version of the Operative Policies and Again concerning the TC activity, I want Procedures (OP&P) has been proposed. to deeply thank Prof. Hiroki Nishiyama who Even if the previous version was coherent is the TC representative of our committee with the IEEE ComSoc bylaws, the new for IEEE ICC'14. He kindly provided the version includes several aspects that ware report about the SSC Track submission not included before. statistics: the SAC Symposium received 407 Concerning Membership Management, submissions and concerning each single we can confirm that SSC TC has a good track the submissions are: Access Networks number of members but, recently, a limited ans Systems Track 18 (4%), Cloud number of researchers asked to be member Computing 67 (16%), Communications for of our Committee but, the good news is that, Smart Grid 43 (11%), Data Storage 15 (4%), they are very active and have been already E-Health 42 (11%), Green Communications involved, actively, in the SSC TC main and Computing 105 (26%), Internet of activities. This goes in the direction of Things 21 (5%), Nanoscale, Molecular, and persevering with the action of involving old Quantum Networking Track 22 (5%), and, in particular, new members in the TC Satellite and Space Communications 34 activities. (8%), Social Networking 40 (10%). The As surely all of you remember we starts result is coherent with the last years results. several initiatives to develop the SSC Nevertheless, the work-groups related to the activities more intensively. Two work- two parallel editorial initiatives are with groups were set up to work on two very Academia, Industries, Research Institutes important editorial proposals: one in IEEE and Space Agencies of several World Communications Magazine (COMMAG) regions the issue related to the Extended and one in the IEEE JSAC. Quoting again Cooperation should be further enforced: the one of my previous messages: “The work- SSC TC should favorite the cooperation groups are composed by Kul Bahsin (NASA, with Industries, Research Institutes, USA), Naoto Kadowaki (NICT, Japan), Fred Standardization Institutes (e.g., CCSDS, Vong (AsiaSat, China) e Claudio Sacchi ETSI), Space Agencies (such as NASA, (University of Trento, Italy) in the case of JAXA, ESA) and other Societies such the the COMMAG initiative and by Nei Kato IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems (Tohoku University, Japan), Sandro Scalise Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society (German Aerospace Center, Germany), and the AIAA an other similar societies. Frederik Simoens (Newtech, Belgium), As usual the SSC Newsletter has been Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of prepared. It has been edited by our Vice- Bologna, Italy) in the case of the JSAC. Prof. Chair Dr. Hiromitsu Wakana that I want to Sacchi and Prof. Vanelli-Coralli are leading deeply thank. As discussed in Anaheim, the two teams”. The proposal of the starting from the meeting in Budapest held COMMAG special issue has been submitted during ICC'13, the Newsletter is managed and a preliminarily positive feedback has electronically. It will be sent to all members http://committees.comsoc.org/ssc/ -3- Vol. 23, No. 2, December 2013 SSC Newsletter before the meeting and few printouts will be German Aerospace Center (DLR) for their distributed to the TC meeting attendants. distinguished contributions and the firm and This modality has been explicitly reported in visionary leadership in the field of Satellite the new OP&P document. Communications. Concerning the SSC Website and Mailing Finally, a really important reminder. The List, it has been agreed that the SSC web site term of the current officer team is needed a partial revision by reporting only approaching. On the basis of the new OP&P essential information. The Secretary Dr. my duty is to nominate the so called Tomaso de Cola has evaluated, proposed Nominations & Elections (N&E) Committee and implemented several modifications. I whose aim is finding suitable candidatures want to deeply thank the Secretary for this among the SSC members for the three precious contribution. officers positions. Obviously, suggestions Finally, I want to remember the SSC about nominations and/or self-nominations Award initiative. This year the Selection are welcome and will be carefully evaluated Commitee that I have nominated were by the N&E Committee. Elections, as composed by Prof. Mario Marchese, Prof. recently done, will be carried out Takaya Yamazato, Prof.
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