The Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) provides a forum for greater regional interaction and dissemination of information on the latest developments in the rapidly expanding field of communications. The major objective of APCC is to provide researchers and engineers in the Asia-Pacific region with an opportunity to discuss topics related to advanced telecommunication technologies and services, while at the same time, opening the door to the world. It will focus on the major advances in telecommunications, both happening now and to come in the foreseeable future.

APCC2001 will be held in Tokyo, Japan from 17-20 Sep. 2001 at the site of the University of Electro-Communications and is scheduled in conjunction with IEICE Society Conference which will be held at the same site from 18-21 Sep. APCC2001 will also offer technical visits including to the Yokosuka Research Park which is dedicated to mobile communications.

You are invited to submit papers for presentation at the conference. Papers describing original works in all aspects of communications are invited. The abstract of each paper will be published as the proceedings category in IEICE Transactions on Communications.