Our paper entitled “spatially-coupled repeat accumulate coded cooperation” has been accepted to IEEE WCNC’15 will be held at New Orleans, LA.

The program of Track1 (PHY and Fundamentals) is available at the following website:

http://wcnc2015.ieee-wcnc.org/content/track-1-phy-and-fundamentals

The paper proposes the effective technique to simultaneously obtain the diversity and coding gain even when both the number of users and the length of information packets are limited. The proposed approach significantly improves the decoding performance compared with conventional cooperative techniques.

Professor Ishibashi gave a special guest lecture about RF energy harvesting and cooperative communications at Jacobs University Bremen in Bremen, Germany on Dec 8, 2014.

Abstract: In this talk, we provide an overview of radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting technology, which scavenges the energy from ambient radio signals. As an example of wireless-powered cooperative diversity, we introduce dynamic-harvest-and-forward (DHF) cooperation which enables to obtain diversity gain with consuming neither extra energy nor extra bandwidth by exploiting the relay’s proximity advantage over the destination. We analyze the DHF cooperation from the aspect of diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) and prove that it can achieve diversity order of two. Also, some open issues regarding cooperative diversity with RF energy harvesting are presented.

Further details can be found in the following link:

https://www.jacobs-university.de/2014/12/special-guest-lecture

Assistant Professor Koji Ishibashi was promoted to Associate Professor on Dec. 1 2014.

石橋先生が2014年12月1日付けで准教授に昇進されました。

English follows Japanese:

卒研配属について

石橋研究室に興味をもって頂き、ありがとうございます。本研究室は国内外を含めた様々な大学の研究者と共に次世代無線通信技術について研究を行っています。

本研究室では特に問題解決能力、プレゼンテーション能力の向上を中心とした教育を行い、世界で活躍できる人材の育成を目指します。また修士課程では、欧米を中心に短期研究留学に挑戦することを推進しています（今年度はドイツ・Jacobs Universityに修士学生３名が４ヶ月間の研究留学中）。

研究室への配属を希望される方は

11月21日、22日、東10号館319室で14時より開催されるAWCC説明会（石橋研は15時からの予定）

に参加の上、石橋と直接コンタクトをとるようお願いします。

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Thank you for your interest in our laboratory.

We are investigating vast area of communication technologies in order to make our world more fascinating. We are now working on several projects on RF energy harvesting, cooperative communications, rateless coding, and advanced network coding in collaboration with professors and researchers not only in Japan but also in foreign countries such as Germany, Korea, United States, and so on.

Thus, our laboratory applicants should be:

• able to work with people with different cultures;
• able to work in an engineering environment; and
• proficient at computer programming and/or mathematics

f you are interested in working with me, please join an AWCC orientation that will be held at 2:00pm at room 319 in E-10 building on Nov. 21 or 22 and get contact with me via email.

Prof. Ishibashi gave an invited talk about cooperative communications with RF energy harvesting at SmartCom 2014 in Singapore.

We are very excited to have  launched our new website.