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The 4th Forum (October 28-30, 2009)

ICT Triangle Forum has been held annually since 2006 by UEC, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (BUPT) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)*. This on-going trilateral event is to enhance existing cooperative relations and to increase collaborative interaction for research and education within the Triangle, the three institutes of information and communication technology in Japan, China, and Korea. UEC took a turn for 2009 and hosted the 4th Forum at its campus on October 28 through 30.

A total of 243 participants gathered: 32 from BUPT (including 12 faculty members, 19 students, and a staff member), 34 from KAIST (10 faculty members, 23 students, and a staff member), 154 from UEC (34 faculty members, 119 students, and a staff member), and additional 23 from the public. Along with various events, ICT Int’l PBL, a new international education program was introduced to the 4th Forum.

*Information and Communications University (ICU) who had been participating since the 1^st Forum (at UEC on August 7 -9, 2006) was absorbed to KAIST on March 1, 2009.

ICT Triangle Forum 2009 Programs and Events:

• Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT (TriSAI) 2009
• Triangle Students Program
• Int’l PBL (Project Based Learning)
• Campus Tour
• Technical Tour
• Forum Banquet
• Best Paper Awards

 

Triangle Symposium on Advanced ICT (TriSAI) 2009

TriSAI 2009 was the core event of the 4th Forum.  In the opening session on Oct 28^th midmorning, welcome address by President KAJITANI, UEC President was delivered, followed by a congratulatory address and news from the Triangle. In the following Regular Session as well as Student Session,paper presentations were made at three different halls simultaneously by several universities and business corps in Japan in addition to the Triangle. Six out of 70 presentations received Best Paper Awards.

Date: Wed, October 28 and Thr, October 29
Venue: Room 301, 306, 601, UEC Communication Park

Opening Session

• Welcome address: Prof. Makoto KAJITANI, President, UEC
• Congratulatory address: Prof. Wenjie MU, Vice President, BUPT
• KAIST Globalization at a Glance: Prof. Yong Hoon LEE, Dean, KAIST
• UEC Vision and International Strategy: Prof. Tetsuya MIKI, Board Member, UEC

Regular Session

1. Wireless System
2. Information Processing and Security
3. Radio Science
4. MIMO
5. Antenna and RF Device
6. Circuit and Control
7. Broadband/Optical Communication and Internet

Keynote Session

1. Reserch on Universal Service Terminal (UST), Prof. Tian Hui, BUPT
2. A New Paradigm of ICT toward 2020s. Prof. Tomonori AOYAMA, Keio University and NICT

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Triangle Student Program

Following the ICT Triangle Forum 2008 held at Information and Communications University in Korea, in the Forum this year TriSAI2009 Student Session and Triangle Forum Student Event were organized for the Triangle graduate students to exhibit their research outcomes and to be immersed in cultural exchange.  Session framework, program creation, management, as well as in-session chairpersonship were all handled by the student committee made of the Triangle students, and it created such an opportunity for them to gain their experience on international collaborative activities.

TriSAI2009 Student Session

All sessions were done in oral presentations consisting of a 12-minute speech and a 3-minute discussion. The UEC committee members co-chaired the entire 9 sessions with the BUPT and KAIST committee members. In two days there were a total of 42 presentations, 13 from UEC, 13 from BUPT, 13 from KAIST, and 4 from other universities, which generated active exchanges of opinions. 

In a Student Session

Volleyball Match

The famous volleyball match set the Forum participants alight again. As they did so in the previous year, the Triangle students formed three teams on behalf of their own institutes and played against each other in a round-robin. This year, the Int’l PBL participants were featured in teams. Stiff at first, players soon loosened up and increasingly demonstrated good teamwork as their practice and games went on. Voluntary students in mixed teams also played an exhibition match to close the games. This sports exchange on the final day created new networks among the participants and gave them another opportunity for exercising their abilities to think and act as a team in international settings.

Bingo Game

Students and faculty members of the Triangle enjoyed the bingo game in the Forum banquet on the second evening. To most of Chinese and Korean participants it may not have been a popular game to play. Once they learned from UEC students how to win prizes, however, the whole room was set on fire.

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International PBL (Project Based Learning)

As a production of the Triangle collaboration, a new coursework in PBL style was introduced to the 4th Forum. The Triangle students on this PBL program were assigned to a certain project for developing an internet program that requires a use of wireless sensor and digital signal processor as well as trilateral coordination and cooperation.  To all assembled at UEC, the preparatory session was provided for their project assignment that should be completed in the next two months. Starting off with exchange, they learned basic maneuver of coordination and development tools, that would become essential for the classes later on in home institutes, and came up with practical methods and schedule through a number of discussions. With engineering at the core, the whole experience of working together in small groups of 4 or 5 embodying up to 2 students from one Angle afforded them an inspiring place to discuss and interact freely regardless to sex, age, or nationality and to feel confident in their on-going challenge.

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Campus Tour

Throughout the Forum, guided tours for the participants were conducted to visit UEC’s educational and research facilities. At UEC Communication Museum, Emeritus Prof YOSHINO and other staff provided an interpretive tour during the lunch break on the second day, Oct 29^th. Also at Advanced Wireless Communication research Center (AWCC) a number of research outcomes were introduced by demonstrating experiments and panels which activated stimulating discussions in technological expertise with BUST and KAIST participants. This tour opened a window to AWCC for the Triangle research interaction ahead.

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Technical Tour

An excursion to Japanese business corporations was conducted on the final day, Oct 30^th afternoon to visit Hitachi Central Research Lab and NTT Labs in neighboring cities to Chofu where UEC is located. A total of 74 participants, 27 from BUPT, 15 from KAIST, and 32 from UEC, joined this tour.

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Forum Banquet

After TriSAI and Triangle Student Programs on the second day, this banquet was held for all the Forum participants at “Harmonia” in University Center. Here, the Best Paper Awards presentation, a chorus performed by UEC glee club and the bingo game took place.

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Best Paper Awards

"High-Speed All-Optical Signal Processing Based on Nonlinear Effects in a Single SOA"
by Prof. Jian Wu, Minxue Wang and Bingbing Wu

"A Fast Locking Time ADPLL Using Temperature Variation Compensated Lookup Table"
by Eung Ryoung Kim and Prof. Hae Wook Choi

Reconstruction of the Global Lightning Distribution from ELF Electromagnetic Background Signals"
by Dr. Alexander V. Shvets and Prof. Masashi Hayakawa

"Adaptive Flow Control for Heterogeneous Network Access in Context-Aware Environment"
by Cong Weiwei, Hu Zheng, Prof. Tian Hui and Li Yuxiang

"Adaptive Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Double-Threshold Energy Detection for Cognitive Radio"
by Jungho Myung, Keonkook Lee and Prof. Joonhyuk Kang

"A New Scheme for a Collusion-Secure Code to Improve Its Trace Back Rate through Content Distribution" by Yoshinobu Iriguchi, Prof. Brian Kurkoski and Prof. Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

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