Chair: Erik Perrins Vice-Chair: Urbashi Mitra Secretary: Philippa Martin COMMUNICATION THEORY TECHNICAL COMMITTEE GLOBECOM 2017 DECEMBER 5, 2017 SINGAPORE
Chair: Erik Perrins
Vice-Chair: Urbashi Mitra
Secretary: Philippa Martin
COMMUNICATION THEORY
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
GLOBECOM 2017
DECEMBER 5, 2017
SINGAPORE
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
We hold meetings twice per year:
At ICC and GLOBECOM.
Become a member by joining the mailing list.
http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/mailinglist.html
You are an active member if:
Attend 2 of the past 5 meetings; or
Attend last two CTWs; or
Provide significant service to the committee.
Currently, ~600 members, ~150 of which are active.
Be sure to SIGN IN, so that we can log your attendance.
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WHAT IS CTTC?
Chair
Erik Perrins
University of Kansas, USA
Vice-Chair
Urbashi Mitra
University of Southern California, USA
Secretary
Philippa Martin
University of Canterbury, NZ
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OFFICERS
Standards Liaison George Alexandropolous
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Student Competition Program Hideki Ochiai
Yokohama National University
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OTHER POSITIONS
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC)
ICC 2017, Paris, France
22-May -2017
ATTENDANCE = 79
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. The minutes from the Globecom 2016 meeting were approved.
2. The 2016 Award plaques were given to the three recipients
3. Conference reports were given for ICC 2017, GC 2017, and ICC 2018.
4. Workshop reports were given for CTW 2017, CTW 2018, and CTW 2019.
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MINUTES
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
The Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) of theIEEE Communications Society is primarily interested infundamental problems associated with the transmission ofinformation.
Oversight of the Communication Theory Workshop
Sponsorship of GLOBECOM and ICC symposia
Primary symposium: Comm Theory
Secondary: Signal Proc. for Comm; and Wireless Comm.
Recognize member accomplishment through:
IEEE Fellow and Senior Member endorsement
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer endorsement
Nomination for other IEEE and ComSoc awards
CTTC Awards in Technical Achievement, Outstanding Service, and Early Achievement
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WHAT DOES CTTC DO?
Pascal Frossard
Alex Gelman
Aleksandar Kavcic
Jungwon Lee
Saverio Mascolo
Mehul Motani
Stefan Parkvall
Tony Q.S. Quek
Matthew Valenti
Weifeng Su
CONGRATULATIONS
NEW IEEE FELLOWS
Email list is [email protected]
Must be subscribed to send
Moderated: Must be approved by an officer
Is a “quiet” list with few postings per year
Standard acceptable uses:
CTTC-business: Meeting announcements, minutes, etc.
CFP for CTTC sponsored events: CTW and CT Symposia
Special uses:
CT-related job openings posted by CT members: Postdoc & faculty
Niche workshops targeted to the CT community
Not-acceptable:
CFP’s for conferences and workshops that are widely known
Advertising of graduate programs and announcements of fellowships
MAILING LIST INFORMATION
Best Readings is a curated collection of previously published books, articles, and papers on a featured topic
Published quarterly at http://www.comsoc.org/best-readings
Links to the source reference with short descriptions
Helpful to those who wants to acquire a background on the topic
Examples
Massive MIMO (UPDATED!)
Cognitive Radio
Multi-Tier Cellular
Green Communication
Nanoscale Communication
Device-to-Device
Internet of Things
M. Valenti is EiC
Let him know if you would like to guest edit
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Volunteer to be on the TPC for an upcoming Comm Theory
Symposium (typical TPC size is around 140 members)
GC’18: Contact Neelesh Mehta <[email protected]>
Volunteer to be a symposium chair
We have made nominations through GC’19
We have a (short) waiting list—we could use more volunteers
Contact Erik, and include your bio/CV
Standards liaison or student award rep
Get involved with the organization of a CTW
Next proposal needed: CTW’20, needed by Spring 2018
Organize a Best Readings
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WANT TO BECOME MORE INVOLVED?
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
CTTC gives out 3 distinct awards:
Technical Achievement Award
Outstanding Service Award
Early Achievement Award
Call for Nominations sent in May/June
Awarded at following GLOBECOM, ICC, or CTW.
AWARDS
2017 CTTC AWARDS COMMITTEE
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Matt Valenti
Sennur Ulukus
Reinaldo Valenzuela
Larry Milstein
Urbashi Mitra, Chair
EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Recognizes young members of the CTTC who have
achieved early career visibility in the field through
research and service and who (i) have participated in the
CTTC (e.g., attended CTTC meetings, attended CTW, served
the CTTC in a significant capacity, been a member of the
TPC for ICC/GLOBECOM) and (ii) are within 10 years of
their Ph.D.
Officially adopted in 2011 (ICC, Kyoto), but first given in
2016.
Past recipient:
2016: Marios Kountouris
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EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (1 OF 2)
Tony Q.S. Quek
Associate Professor
Singapore University of
Technology and Design
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for contributions to the modeling
and analysis of cognitive radio
and heterogeneous networks
EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (2 OF 2)
Deniz Gündüz
Reader
Imperial College London
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for contributions to fundamental results in wireless
communications theory for source and channel coding,
cooperative communications and energy harvesting
OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD
Recognizes members of the CTTC who have adistinguished record of service to the communicationtheory community, including CTTC-sponsored symposiaand workshop organization, leadership roles within thecommittee, and promoting committee activities andinterests in the broader research community.
Past recipients:
2016: Behnaam Aazhang
2015: Sergio Benedetto
2014: Ender Ayanoglu
2013: Michael Rice
2012: Costas Georghiades
2011: Len Cimini
2010: Richard Gitlin and Larry Milstein
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OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD
Robert W. Heath Jr.
Cullen Trust Endowed Professor
University of Texas at Austin
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for leadership as CTTC chair and sustained
contributions in organizing and chairing the
Communication Theory Workshop
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Recognizes members of the CTTC who have been involvedwith the committee, have done outstanding work incommunication theory, and have achieved a high degreeof visibility in the field.
Past recipients:
2016: Jack Winters
2015: John Proakis
2014: Reinaldo Valenzuela and Norm Beaulieu
2013: Andrea Goldsmith
2012: Larry Milstein
2011: Sergio Benedetto
2010: Gerald Foschini and Dariush Divsalar
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TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (1 OF 2)
Behnaam Aazhang
J.S. Abercrombie Professor
Rice University
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for consistent, fundamental
contributions to multiuser
communication theory for
wireless networks
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (2 OF 2)
Michael B. Pursley
Professor and Holcombe Chair
Clemson University
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for outstanding contributions to
spread spectrum
communications in general, and
to CDMA in particular.
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports :
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
Conference Location Date
ICC’18 Kansas City 20-24 May 2018
GC’18 Abu Dhabi 9-13 Dec 2018
ICC’19 Shanghai 20-24 May 2019
GC’19 Hawaii (Waikoloa, Big Island) 9-13 Dec 2019
ICC’20 Dublin 7-11 June 2020
GC’20 Taipei 7-11 Dec 2020
ICC’21 Montreal 2021
GC’21 Madrid 2021
UPCOMING CONFERENCE VENUES
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 - CT SYMPOSIUM
SINGAPORE
Co-Chairs
Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France)
Lifeng Lai (University of California Davis, USA)
Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Statistics
148 TPC Members
170 Submitted Papers
At least 3 review reports for each paper
66 Accepted Papers (38,82% acceptance ratio)
IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 - CT SYMPOSIUM
SINGAPORE
Sessions 10 Oral Sessions (50 papers)
2 Poster Sessions (16 papers)
Communication Theory (Chair: Angela Zhang)
Information Theory I (Chair: Tolga Duman)
Information Theory II (Chair: Samir Perlaza)
Stochastic Geometry Modeling (Chair: Justin Coon)
Coding I (Chair: Jinhong Yuan)
Coding II (Chair: Mark Flanagan)
NOMA (Chair: Zhiguo Ding)
Security and Secrecy (Chair: Linglong Dai)
MIMO – Communication and Security (Chair: Christos Masouros)
Caching (Chair: Meixia Tao)
Poster Sessions: Recent Advances in Communication Theory I & II
IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 - CT SYMPOSIUM
SINGAPORE
Best Paper Award
Paper Title: On Heterogeneous Coded Distributed Computing
Authors:
Mehrdad Kiamari, Univ. Southern California, USA
Chenwei Wang, DOCOMO Innovations, Inc., USA
Salman Avestimehr, Univ. Southern California, USA
Session: CT.2 – Information Theory I
Tuesday, 5 December 2017, 14:00 – 15:30
(first paper)
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
Co-chairs Maged Elkashlan (Queen Mary University of London) Aylin Yener (Penn State University) Yonghui Li (University of Sydney)
ICC 2018 CT Symposium
Stats # Submissions: 111 # TPC members (accepted): 138, (declined): 15 Average TPC member load: 3 (each paper has 4 TPC members)
Dates Review deadline (initial): 04 December 2017 Acceptance notification: 26 January 2018 Camera ready: 23 February 2018 Conference: 20 – 24 May 2018
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
Co-Chairs:
Neelesh Mehta
Meixia Tao
Koichi Adachi
As mentioned in opening remarks, please contact co -chairs to
volunteer for the TPC
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GLOBECOM 2018 (ABU DHABI)
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
Conference Location Date
CTW’18 Puerto Rico Sandestin Resort,
Florida
14-16 May 2018
CTW’19 Reykjavik, Iceland 2019
CTW’20 PROPOSALS NEEDED (N.
America)
UPCOMING CTW VENUES
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
Communication Theory Workshop 2018
Co-Chairs:David Love, Purdue
Erik Perrins, Kansas
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Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs: David Love (Purdue) and Erik Perrins (Kansas)
Technical Program Co-Chairs: Bert Hochwald (Notre Dame) and Petar Popovski
(Aalborg)
Poster Co-Chairs: Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue) and Bruno Clerckx (Imperial)
Publicity Co-Chairs: Taejoon Kim (CityU/Kansas) and Besma Smida (U of
Illinois-Chicago)
Finance Chair: Vasanth Raghavan (Qualcomm)
Fundraising Chair: Junil Choi (POSTECH) and Lingjia Liu (Kansas)
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Previous Plan
• Scheduled for Monday, May 14 – Wednesday, May 16, 2018
• Note: ICC 2018 May 19 – 25 in Kansas City, MO
• Under contract with El Conquistador-Waldorf Astoria Resort
• Sadly, Hurricane Maria caused significant damage to the
resort, which forced us to consider alternate locations at
this late stage
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New Plan
• Scheduled for Monday, May14 – Wednesday, May 16, 2018
• Note: ICC 2018 May 19 – 25 in Kansas City, MO
• Under contract negotiations with Hilton Sandestin Resort
in the Florida Panhandle (Boca Raton was also considered)
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Hilton Sandestin
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Hilton Sandestin
Hotel ($199)
Beach
Tram
Route
Pedestrian Area,
Restaurants,
Shopping, etc.
2.5 miles from
Hotel
Northwest Florida Beaches
International Airport (ECP) 43 miles
Ft. Walton Beach Airport (VPS)
27 miles
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Draft Technical Program
Day 1 - Monday
• Keynote 1: Non-traditional wireless player—Djordje Tujkovic (Facebook)
• Session 1: Selected journal papers in comm, and their follow-up (choose five
significant papers over last two years and as authors to talk about them)—Angel
Lozano
• Session 2: Networked control, distributed robotics, drones—(invitations pending)
• Panel Session: Comm theory when everything is already connected—Constantinos
Papadias (Athens)
Day 2 - Tuesday
• Keynote 2: Challenges in Future Space Communications—Riccardo de Gaudenzi
(ESA)
• Session 3: “Starting up” with comm theory—Sriram Vishwanath (UT—Austin)
• Session 4: 5G—Peying Zhu (Huawei)
• Panel session: Communication “off the grid” – fast network deployments such as in
emergency situations—(Open for now)
Day 3 - Wednesday
• Keynote 3: Security and policy in densely connected systems—Tibor Boros (Google)
• Session 5: Core comm theory topics—Osvaldo Simeone (KCL)
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting
(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
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AGENDA
IEEE CTW @ ICELAND
MAY 25-29, 2019Golden Circle
General Chair
Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
TPC Chairs
Urbashi Mitra (USC, USA)
Erik Larsson (Linkoping University, Sweden)
ORGANIZERS
Some flights:
San Francisco: 8h40m
New York: 5h40m
Dallas: 12h
Boston: 5h5m
Stockholm: 3h10m
Copenhagen:3h10m
Berlin:3h45
Munich: 3h55m
Barcelona: 4h30m
Rome: 8h
Paris: 3h30m
IEEE CTW 2019 IN ICELAND: FLIGHTS
4-star hotel,
http://hotelselfoss.is
Reviews
8.6 on booking.com
4/5 on tripadvisor
VENUE: SELFOSS HOTEL
Photo Tours in Iceland. Páll Jökull is an Icelandic landscape photographer
and photo tour guide with a vast knowledge of photography and years of
travel experience in Iceland. His photo tours cover lots of wellknown
photogenic locations all around Iceland and, due to his local insight, many
less known locations. All photography tours are customized to meet your
specific needs.
Address: Fossheiði 1, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 578 4800, (+354) 824 0059
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.palljokull.net
facebook.com/Landscape.Photography.Iceland
Riverside restaurant at Hótel Selfoss. Riverside Restaurant is located at
Hotel Selfoss and offers the finest Icelandic cuisine to satisfy every taste,
ensuring the freshest regional ingredients of the highest quality. At Riverside
Restaurant you will find panoramic views over the banks of Ölfusá river and
Ingólfsfjall mountain, offering the perfect background for relaxation and
something to satisfy the most casual or sophisticated of palates.
Tel +3544802500,
www.selfosshotel.is/veitingastadur/
Riverside spa at Hótel Selfoss. Riverside spa. Riverside Spa is located in
Hótel Selfoss which seeks to offer you the best possible experience in
comfort and tranquillity. Our facilities include a large hot tub, steam bath, dry
sauna, relaxation room, relaxation showers, ice bath, seating area and a bar
that has “happy hour” daily from 1619. Riverside Spa offers a great
selection of massage and beauty treatments.
Tel +3544822005,
www.riverdidespa.is
Taxi service. We assist individuals or groups reach their destination whether
it’s the golden circle, the International Airport or anywhere else. A call to us
will get you there.
Address: Kirkjuvegur 8, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 482 3800, (+354) 899 5454
Email: [email protected]
We are on Facebook
Walk and dine with locals. An exceptional experience in Selfoss that you
will never forget. We offer a unique opportunity for those who have seen
„everything“ except meeting local people in their own homes. We do short
walks in urban settings, which ends with dinner, coffee and a chat at our
home.
Address: Lambhagi 16, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 698 9933
Email: [email protected]
Website: walkanddinewithlocals.com
We are on Facebook
Photo Tours in Iceland. Páll Jökull is an Icelandic landscape photographer
and photo tour guide with a vast knowledge of photography and years of
travel experience in Iceland. His photo tours cover lots of wellknown
photogenic locations all around Iceland and, due to his local insight, many
less known locations. All photography tours are customized to meet your
specific needs.
Address: Fossheiði 1, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 578 4800, (+354) 824 0059
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.palljokull.net
facebook.com/Landscape.Photography.Iceland
Riverside restaurant at Hótel Selfoss. Riverside Restaurant is located at
Hotel Selfoss and offers the finest Icelandic cuisine to satisfy every taste,
ensuring the freshest regional ingredients of the highest quality. At Riverside
Restaurant you will find panoramic views over the banks of Ölfusá river and
Ingólfsfjall mountain, offering the perfect background for relaxation and
something to satisfy the most casual or sophisticated of palates.
Tel +3544802500,
www.selfosshotel.is/veitingastadur/
Riverside spa at Hótel Selfoss. Riverside spa. Riverside Spa is located in
Hótel Selfoss which seeks to offer you the best possible experience in
comfort and tranquillity. Our facilities include a large hot tub, steam bath, dry
sauna, relaxation room, relaxation showers, ice bath, seating area and a bar
that has “happy hour” daily from 1619. Riverside Spa offers a great
selection of massage and beauty treatments.
Tel +3544822005,
www.riverdidespa.is
Taxi service. We assist individuals or groups reach their destination whether
it’s the golden circle, the International Airport or anywhere else. A call to us
will get you there.
Address: Kirkjuvegur 8, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 482 3800, (+354) 899 5454
Email: [email protected]
We are on Facebook
Walk and dine with locals. An exceptional experience in Selfoss that you
will never forget. We offer a unique opportunity for those who have seen
„everything“ except meeting local people in their own homes. We do short
walks in urban settings, which ends with dinner, coffee and a chat at our
home.
Address: Lambhagi 16, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 698 9933
Email: [email protected]
Website: walkanddinewithlocals.com
We are on Facebook
Location
Countryside, lies on the
Golden Circle, a popular tourist route
The Golden Circle route includes:
Þingvellir National Park
30 minutes from hotel
Geysir, Gullfoss
50 minutes from the hotel,
Kerið crater
15 minutes from the hotel
The whole route includes
other places as well
and can be done in 6-7 hours.
VENUE: SELFOSS HOTEL
Golden Circle
Other activities:
Bobby Fisher center
Secret Lagoon
40 minutes drive from hotel
Glacier hiking
with www.adgardbeyond.is
(1-1,5 hour drive to their MEETING POINT)
Lava tunnel
http://thelavatunnel.is/ (30 minute drive to their MEETING POINT)
VENUE: SELFOSS HOTEL
Magic lights gallery store – handmade candles 0,525 km.
We specialize in the production of scented candles of all sizes, colours and
scents. Our candles have won a gold medal in the USA for looks, scent
quality and lengthy burntime. Opening hours: daily from 13 to 19.
Address: Fossheiði 5, 800 Selfoss
Te: (+354) 893 6804
Website: www.tofraljos.is
facebook.com/tofraljos
Motivo Icelandic handcraft store, 0,459 km. We have a wide selection of
design products, fashion clothing, jewellery and locally designed products.
We focus on beautiful design and excellent customer service.
Address: Austurvegur 9, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 482 1700, (+354) 6927 200
Email: [email protected]
Website: motivo.is
facebook.com/motivo.selfossi
Sundhöll Selfoss, 0,650 km. The swimming pool has both indoor and
outdoor pools, a children’s pool with three water slides, three hot tubs and
one cold tub, steam bath and a sauna. Opening hours: Weekdays from
06:30 to 21:30 and weekends from 09:00 to 19:00.
Address: By Bankavegur, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 480 1960
Email: [email protected]
We are on Facebook
The Bobby Fischer Center, 0,571 km. The Bobby Fischer Center houses
memorabilia of the former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. It‘s the
first chess museum in the Nordic Countries. The museum also serves as a
community centre for the Selfoss Chess Club as well as hosting chess
classes and tournaments etc. Fischer’s grave in Laugardælir cemetery is
about 2 km from the Bobby Fisher Centre.
Address: Austurvegur 21, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 894 1275
Email: [email protected]
Website: fischersetur.is
The handcraft store – Alvörubúðin, 0,244 km. Alvörubúðin sells
handcraft products as well as manufacturing all kinds of costumes and
textile packages with traditional Icelandic patterns as well as a variety of
art products that are sold in the store. Besides Icelandic handcraft there is
also a wide range of handicraft from India specially imported by
Alvörubúðin. Alvörubúðin has something for everyone with wide range of
yarns for all kinds of handcraft, embroidery products and accessories.
Address: Eyrarvegur 23, 800 Selfoss
Tel: (+354) 555 1314
Email: [email protected]
Website: hannyrdabudin.is
facebook.com/alvorubudin
Luxury hotel,
located only 15km from
Hotel Selfoss
http://grimsborgir.com
POSSIBLE BANQUET VENUE:
GRIMSBORGIR HOTEL
1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting (available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)
3. Chair Remarks
4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)
5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:
GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)
ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)
GLOBECOM 2018
6. Workshop Reports:
CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)
CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)
7. New Business
CTW Steering Committee Charter to be presented and voted for approval at ICC’18 (Kansas City)
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AGENDA
THANK YOU!
See you in Kansas City
Tentatively, our meeting will be:
Monday, May 21, at 6:30 PM.
http://icc2018.ieee-icc.org
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ADJOURNMENT