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CCL News & Updates (Archives)

  • May 25, 2026: New paper: Urgency-Aware QoE-Driven UAV Trajectory Planning for Multi-Priority Post-Disaster Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning, first authored by Zalita, has been accepted for presentation at IEEE ICCE 2026. Congratulations.

  • Apr 24: Welcome party to all news members:

  • Apr 2026: Group photo in Spring 2026

From left to right, front row: Cuong, Pham, Zalita, Hoang, Sota; middle: Khanh, Yuma, Luan, Koki, Sora, Sota, Soumik; and back row: Sojib, Yugo, Ryunosuke, Hikaru, Ittetsu, Hung, Toshiya.

  • Apr 2026: New international students arrive CCL: Sojib and Soumik, both from Bangladesh

AY2025 (Apr. 2025 ~ Mar. 2026)

  • Mar. 19: Hoa and Yudai graduate with MS degree. Congratulations to both!

  • Feb. 12-13, 2026: CCL Winter Camp in AY2025 at Mercure Urabandai Resort & Spa

  • Nov. 26-28: Prof. Hoang Le, Zalita, Luan and Hung attend IEEE APCC and ICETC in Osaka.

 

  • Oct. 16: We won the “Best Paper Award” at the ATC conference 2025 held in Hanoi.

  • Oct. 02: New paper, "Jolt-FL: Hierarchical Verifiable Federated Learning with Recursive Proofs," first authored by Hoa Nguyen (M2), has been accepted for presetation at the IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, USA, in Jan. 2026. Congratuations Hoa Nguyen!

  • Sep 25: New journal article, joint work with Prof. Anshul Jaiswal's group at IIT Roorkee, entitled Dual-Protection for Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution: Enhancing Security Against Eve via Channel Randomness, has been accepted by IEEE Trans. on Communications

  • Sep 18: Thang's graduation (master's degree) with the President Award, congratulations!

  • Sep 8-26: Prof. Hoang Le and Prof. Anh Pham visit and have a course at PTIT, Vietnam.

  • Sep 11: Our new paper, first authored by Hung Le (M1), "Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV Placement in Optical IRS-Aided Aerial Networks", has been accepted by IEEE APCC 2025, Hung, enjoy your trip to Kyoto this Fall.

  • Sep. 10: New letter, joint work with Nothumbria University and other European partners, Dual-Layer Security: Integration of Simulated QKD and Experimental PLS for VLC, has been accepted by IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

  • Aug. 25: New paper, first authored by Yudai, entitled: "Qiskit-Enabled Simulation of Quantum Key Distribution over Starlink Satellite Networks", has been accepted by ATC 2025. Yudai, enjoy the trip to Hanoi in October!

  • Aug. 25: CCL's Summer Camp 2025. We enjoy the hiking, the table tennis tourmanent, besides the camp's seminar program.

  • Aug. 22: Luan and Prof. Anh Pham attend APWCS in Tokyo. This is Luan's first ever international conference.

  • Aug. 15: We have two papers accepted in IEEE ICSOS 2025 in Kyoto; first authored by

    • Cuong Nguyen: "Investigation of Fade Mitigation Methods on Experimental FSO LEO-to-Ground Links", and

    • Dr. Huyen Tran (Tohoku University, former postdoc at CCL): "SkySeg: Temporally Enhanced Whole-Sky Image Segmentation with MLP-Mixer For Cloud Recognition". Dr. Huyen's paper is a joint work between CCL and NICT/Space Communication System Lab.

  • Aug. 7: New journal article, joint work with Prof. Chuyen's group at HUST, entitled: Reliable Downlink Transmission for Underwater Optical Wireless Systems with Energy Harvesting and HARQ, has been accepted by Optica's Applied Optics.

  • July 31: Our new paper: "Jolt-FL: A General-Purpose Verifiable Federated Learning Framework Powered by zkVM", first authored by Hoa Nguyen, has been accepted by IEEE Globecom 2025. Hoa, enjoy your trip to Taipei in December.

  • July 1: Our new paper, titled "Design and Analysis of HARQ-Based Network Coding for Secure Optical Satellite Systems", has been accepted for presentation at the 21st IEEE Asia-Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium (APWCS 2025), which will be held at Kogakuin University in Tokyo. Congratulations to Luan (M1), the first author of the paper!

  • June 17-20: Khanh and Prof. Pham attend VTC-Spring in Oslo. Khanh wins the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter Young Researcher's Encouragement Award. Congratulations to Khanh for the award!

Khanh presents his paper at VTC-Spring

Online award ceremony

  • May 3: Urabandai hiking and Sakura in Inawashiro.


Hiking in Urabandai

 

Sakura in Inawashiro

  • Apr. 25: Welcome run and welcome party for the new lab members

Welcome run (left to right): Prof. Pham, Prof. Le, Zalita, Luan, Koki, Sota, Khanh, Cuong, Hoa, Hung and Sora

Welcom party!

  • Apr. 20: New group photo with all lab members in Spring 2025. From left to righ, standing: Hoa, Sota, Prof. Le, Hung, Luan, Koki, Prof. Pham, Thang, Toshiya, Khanh and Jinghui; seating: Yudai, Yuma, Cuong, Zalita, and Sora.

  • Apr. 2: We welcome two 2 graduate students from Vietnam: Hưng and Luân.

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