Call for Special Session Papers

SS1. Ambient Intelligence for Smart City

Aim and scope

The global population, particularly the urban population has been increasing, which causes a lot of issues for cities, such as congestion and increased demand for resources, including energy, water, sanitation, education, and healthcare services. A smart city has been expected a lot to solve those issues. The concept of a smart city is not new. Due to the progress of artificial intelligence (AI) and information and communication technology (ICT), including the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data (BD), the concept of a smart city has been being realized in various aspects. This special session aims to present recent advances in smart city, including various fundamental technologies helping to realize smart city and its applications.

Organizer

Organizer: Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan

Tomoaki Otsuki (Ohtsuki) received the B.E., M.E., and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan in 1990, 1992, and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1995, he was a post-doctoral fellow and a Visiting Researcher in Electrical Engineering at Keio University. From 1993 to 1995, he was a Special Researcher at the Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Japanese Junior Scientists. From 1995 to 2005, he was with the Science University of Tokyo. In 2005, he joined Keio University. He is now a Professor at Keio University. From 1998 to 1999, he was with the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, University of California, Berkeley. He is engaged in research on wireless communications, optical communications, signal processing, and information theory. Dr. Ohtsuki is a recipient of the 1997 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientist, the 1997 Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young Engineering Award, Ericsson Young Scientist Award 2000, 2002 Funai Information and Science Award for Young Scientist, IEEE the 1st Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2001, the 5th International Communication Foundation (ICF) Research Award, 2011 IEEE SPCE Outstanding Service Award, the 27th TELECOM System Technology Award, ETRI Journal’s 2012 Best Reviewer Award, 9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China 2014 (CHINACOM ’14) Best Paper Award, 2020 Yagami Award, The 26th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC2021) Best Paper Award, International Conference on Internet of Things, Communication and Intelligent Technology (IoTCIT) 2024 Best Paper Award, and the 2024 6th International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Control and Artificial Intelligence (RICAI2024) Best Paper Award. He has published more than 294 journal papers and 533 international conference papers. He served as a Chair of IEEE Communications Society, Signal Processing for Communications and Electronics Technical Committee. He served as a technical editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and an editor of Elsevier Physical Communications. He is now serving as an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and an editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is also serving as the IEEE Communications Society, Asia Pacific Board Director. He has served as general-co chair, symposium co-chair, and TPC co-chair of many conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, SPC, IEEE ICC 2011, CTS, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, SPC, IEEE ICC 2020, SPC, IEEE APWCS, IEEE SPAWC, and IEEE VTC. He gave tutorials and keynote speeches at many international conferences including IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, and so on. He was Vice President and President of the Communications Society of the IEICE, also he was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE. He is a fellow of the IEICE, a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan.

SS2. Alternative Radio Efficiency: Semantic communications and ML-based semantic video transfer

Aim and scope

The amount of information that needs to be transmitted is increasing, and there is a growing demand for more efficient utilization of radio resources. In order to convey information accurately while also increasing the volume of transmitted data, new technologies are expected to replace traditional information theory-based data compression techniques. Semantic communication, as the name suggests, aims to transmit only the essential content of the information, while omitting peripheral details, thereby contributing to more efficient use of radio waves. This approach to communication has been gaining significant attention in recent years. This session will feature both an invited lecture and general presentations. The invited lecture will provide a tutorial-like explanation of semantic communication, offering practical examples, while the general presentations will discuss cutting-edge research results in the field of semantic communication.

Organizers

Session Chair and Organizer: Celimuge Wu, UEC
Vice Session Chairs: Tutomu Murase, Nagoya University/Technical Committee on Information Networks IEICE and
Takahiro Hamada, NTT/Technical Committee on Information Networks IEICE
Secretary: Kosuke Sanada, Mie University/Technical Committee on Information Networks IEICE

CELIMUGE WU (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.E. degree from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Electro-Communications, Japan, in 2010. He is currently a Professor with the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications. His current research interests include vehicular ad hoc networks, sensor networks, intelligent transport systems, the IoT, and mobile cloud computing.

TUTOMU MURASE (Member, IEEE) was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1961. He received the M.E. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, in 2004. He was with NEC Corporation, from 1986 to 2014. He was a Visiting Professor with Tokyo Institute of Technology, from 2012 to 2014. He is currently a Professor with Nagoya University. He has many journal articles and conference papers in addition to more than 90 registered patents, including some international patents than domestic. He has been engaged in research on QoS control and traffic management for high-quality and high-speed Internet. His current interests include wireless network QoS control, MAC, transport and session layer traffic control, and network security. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan. He was the Secretary of the IEEE Communications Society Japan Chapter.

TAKAHIRO HAMADA (Member,IEEE) received an M.E. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2003, and joined NTT the same year. He transferred to NTT Communications in 2016 and returned to NTT in 2019. His current work focuses on research and development in cybersecurity, particularly on security-transparency assurance technologies for analyzing and visualizing software components.

Important Dates

Special Session Proposal Submission:	Apr. 1st, 2025
	May. 7th, 2025 (Extended)
Manuscript Submission:	Jun. 5th, 2025
	Jul. 15th, 2025 (Extended)
	Jul. 31st, 2025 (FIRM)
Tutorial Proposal Submission:	Jul. 31st, 2025
Notification of Acceptance:	Sep. 10th, 2025
Camera-ready Submission:	Oct. 15th, 2025
Conference Date:	Nov. 26th-28th, 2025

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