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CCL News & Updates (Archives)

• 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.

• Mar. 8: New article, entitled Adaptive 3D Placement of Multiple UAV-Mounted Base Stations in 6G Airborne Small Cells with Deep Reinforcement Learning, first authoed by Linh Hoang, has been accepted for publication by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Congratulations!

• Feb. 26-27: CCL Annual Winter camp 2025 at Mercure Urabandai Resort & Spa, Urabandai! We enjoy the 2-day camp with the academic seminar, a table-tennis tourmanent, party and finally snowboarding and skiiing at Hoshino resorts (Nekoma Mt.)!

• Feb. 14: Tinh's MS thesis final review. Congratulations!

• Feb. 12: Our new article, entitled Multi-User Visible Light Communications with Probabilistic Constellation Shaping and Precoding, first authored by Thang Nguyen, has been accepted for publication by IEEE TCOM. Congratulations!

• Feb. 11, 2025: Thang Nguyen wins the 2024's IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter Student Excellent Research Award. Congratulations!

• Dec. 28: CCL Alumni year-end party in Tokyo.

• Dec. 20: Pizza party at the final lab weekly meeting in 2024.

• Dec. 15: CCL Year-end party to close the 2024.

All lab members, including incoming B3 students in AY2025.

Our achievement 2005--2024.

• Dec. 12: Thang and Prof. A. Pham attend IEEE Globecom in Cape Town.

• Oct. 25: UoA Postgraduate Forum

Opening speech by Prof. Paik, Dean of the GS

Participants of the Forum

• Oct. 10: HUST/SoICT delegation visits the UoA

• Oct. 4: All members of CCL in Fall AY2024!

• Oct. 1: We welcome two new grad students (both sponsored by MEXT scholarship) to CCL, including the first ever student from Laos; Zalita and Khánh, enjoy your time in Aizu!

• Sep. 19: Dr. Linh's graduation ceremony. Linh is the 12th PhD graduated from CCL since 2005; and his first job would be with the Rakuten Group. Congratulations, good luck, and thank you for the 5-year stay at the CCL!

• Aug. 8: Linh's public PhD presentation. This is the final presentation before he will be confered a PhD degree from the University of Aizu.

• Aug. 1, 5: Profs. Anh Pham and Hoang Le visit the University of Danang and PTIT to discuss/strengthen the possible research and education collaborations during their attendance of IEEE ICCE in Vietnam.

• July 20: Our new article, entitled Toward Practical HARQ-Based RC-LDPC Design for Optical Satellite-Assisted Vehicular Networks, first authored by Cuong Nguyen, has been accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

• July 19: We won the Best Paper Award at CSNDSP 2024! First author is Cuong Nguyen. He also won the travel grant by the organizer. Congratulations to Cuong and everyone!

Award ceremony in Rome, Italy.

• July 3: Our new paper, entitled "Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV Placement over Mixed FSO/RF-Based Non-terrestrial Networks", has been accepted for presentation at IEEE APWCS 2024. First author is Tinh (M2); Congratulations and enjoy your trip to Singapore in the Summer.

• July 1: We welcome back our OB, Dr. Nguyen Van Thang! Thang will spend his summer with us as a Research Fellow (JASSO Fellow)!

• June 28: Party and award ceremony to congratulate Yudai-kun, first CCL student with sub-2 half marathon! He achieves this when he is a Bachelor student (B4). Yudai will officially enter the graduate school from April 2025!



• June 28: Our research is featured on IEICE's X (Twitter) as the Top downloaded letter from IEICE ComEx! The first author is Khanh Dang, who will be officially a CCL member this Autumn!

• June 7: Linh's PhD Final Review. Congratulations!

• May 20: New article, entitled Multi-agent reinforcement learning for cooperative trajectory design of UAV-BS fleets in terrestrial/non-terrestrial integrated networks, first authored by Linh Hoang, has been accepted for publication by IEICE Communications Express. Congratulations, Linh!

• May 17: Our new paper, entitled Adaptive Rate/Power Control with ML-based Channel Prediction for Optical Satellite Systems, has been accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. First author is Tinh Nguyen (M1). Congratulations, Tinh!

• April 3, 2024: We welcome new members to the CCL, including: Cuong (from MS to PhD prigram), Jinghui and Hoa (MS program), and Yuma (B3).

• April 3: Linh's PhD Preliminary Review! Committee members: Prof. Qiangfu Zhao, Pro. Peng Li, Prof. Kien Nguyen (Chiba-U), Prof. Hoang Le and Prof. Anh Pham.

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AY2023 (Apr. 2023 ~ Mar. 2024)

• Mar. 19: Cuong Nguyen's MS graduation ceremony. Congratulations!!!

• Mar. 5: We attend IEICE GC at Hiroshima University. Photo of CCL members, Linh, Thang, Prof. Hoang Le and Yudai, and our OB, Prof. Thanh Pham.

• Feb. 27-28: CCL Annual Winter camp in Urabandai Lake Resort! We enjoyed the snow walk in Goshikinuma ponds area.

• Feb. 29: Joint paper with HUST, Enhanced M-ary Detecting Tree: A Novel Time-Efficient Protocol for Tag Identification in Active RFID Systems, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.

• Feb. 28: Joint paper with Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, entitled Multiple HAPS-based Space-Air-Ground Network with FSO communication: A performance Analysis, has been accepted for publication in Applied Optics.

• Jan. 20: Linh wins the 2023's IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter Student Excellent Research Award. Congratulations!

• Jan 12, 2024: Our first lunch party in 2024 at the best Pizza restaurant in town to congratulate Linh Hoang for securing his job well before his expected graduation in Sep. 2024. Wishing everyone a happy, successful, and exciting 2024!!!

• Jan. 12: Our joint paper with Dr. Thanh Pham, Shizuoka University, entitled Design of Energy-Efficient Artificial Noise for Physical Layer Security in Visible Light Communications, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

• Jan. 9: We contribute 4 technical reports to the IEICE General Conference in Hiroshima

• Dec. 24: New paper, first authored by Thang K. Nguyen, entitled "On the Energy Efficiency of RSMA-based VLC Systems with Confidential Private Messages," has been accepted for presentation at 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), in Dubai, UAE. Congratulations, Thang, and enjoy your trip to Dubai in the Spring!

• Dec. 21, 2023: CCL's Year-end party. Thank you everyone for your diligence and hard work; and we look forward to the more exciting 2024!

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