Sino-Japan Workshop on the Next Generation Mobile Communication Technology and Application-2010 was held in Xining of Qinghai Province from August 5th to 7th of 2010.

The workshop was hosted by FuTURE MOBILE COMMUNICATION FORUM, Japan-China Information and Communications Technology Forum, YRP R&D Promotion Committee, and Radio Communication Systems Technical Committee, IEICE, and organized by National Key Lab. of Communication of UESTC.

The workshop was chaired by several reputed scholars in mobile communication field of China and Japan, including Prof. You Xiaohu from Southeast University, Prof. Wang Jing and Prof. Niu Zhisheng from Tsinghua University, Prof. Li Jiandong from Xidian University, Dr. OHMORI Shingo, Vice President of YRP, Prof. YOSHIDA Susumu from Kyoto University, Prof. NAKAJIMA Nobuo from University of Electro-Communications, and Dr. SUDA Hirohito, president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo Beijing Labs.

The workshop was also greatly supported by the by the governments, academia and industrial circles of China and Japan. Mr. Ni Xiaolong, Director from Department of Science and Technology of MIIT, and Mr. ECHIGO Kazunori, Director for Land Mobile Communications Division, Radio Department, Telecommunications Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications JAPAN attended the workshop and gave speeches. Over 70 experts from Tsinghua University, Southeast University, UESTC, CATR of MIIT, Huawei, ZTE, SHRCWC, NTT DoCoMo Beijing Labs, China Academy of Science, Kyoto University, Tohoku University, Sophia University, University of Electro-Communications, and Fujitsu joined this workshop.

Mr. Ni Xiaolong, Director from Department of Science and Technology of MIIT addressed that MIIT is attaching great importance to the development of communication industry in China. Sino-Japan Workshop has brought remarkable impact on the development of mobile communication since its foundation. He hopes to acquire some valuable opinions from the workshop to promote the future official planning and development of mobile communication. Mr. ECHIGO Kazunori from MIC of Japan reviewed friendship built and the efforts paid by both Chinese and Japanese governments, academia and industrial circles to promote the development of future mobile communication technologies, and on behalf of MIC of Japan, wishes a great success to this workshop and the continuous cooperation and communication in the future between China and Japan. 

The workshop covers three major subjects: The Next Generation Mobile Communication Network Technologies and Strategic Development; Internet of Things, and Application of telecom technologies and Satellite Mobile Communication and related technologies. Some hot issues such as effective utilization of MIMO resource, relay transmission, green wireless communication structure, distributed antenna networks, and cognitive radio are included under the subject of The Next Generation Mobile Communication Network Technologies and Strategic Development. Mr. ECHIGO Kazunori introduced the latest development of mobile communication in Japan. With the proposal of the concept of “Cognitive China”, Internet of Things has become an important and newly-emerging strategic industry in information and communication field of China. The national medium-and-long-term plan for scientific and technological development 2006-2020 and the significant national project of the next generation broadband mobile wireless communication network have both involved sensor networks in their research scope. On this workshop, FuTURE FORUM specially invited the expert from SHRCWC to give an overall introduction to the relative technologies of sensor networks. As sensor networks was initiated earlier in Japan, YRP and Cognitive China Center in Wuxi conducted communication and cooperation this year, expecting to offer effective help for Chinese enterprises to find a path with Chinese characteristics for the commercialization of sensor networks. Dr. OHMORI Shingo, Vice President of YRP introduced the lasted progresses of the bilateral cooperation. The construction of the first civil-oriented satellite mobile communication system will be included in the national R&D plan for Hi-tech development, so the satellite/terrestrial integrated mobile communications system was also profoundly discussed on this workshop, in addition to some other hot issues such as telecom finance, development of UWB technologies, integration of communication and broadcasting networks.

The communication and exchange activities between China and Japan have been frequently held during the recent years, among which the Sino-Japan Workshop on the Next Generation Mobile Communication Technologies and Applications, which has been successively held for five years, has become an important platform for China-Japan communication in mobile communication field and laid a sound foundation for the in-depth R&D cooperation.

In order to further promote the actualization of the results gained in China-Japan communication, five national key labs of wireless communication reached an agreement to set up a joint fund for China-Japan R&D of wireless and mobile communication technologies to promote the academic exchanges and joint researches between China and Japan in mobile communication field. Representatives from the founder Chinese universities signed the formal agreement on the welcome banquet of this workshop.

The founder labs include Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, National Laboratory for the Next Generation Internet Access System of HUST, National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory of Southeast University, National Key Lab. of Communication of UESTC, and The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks of Xidian University. The major Japanese partners include Kyoto University, Tohoku University, University of Electro-Communications, NiCT and so on. The main subjects for the cooperation cover 4G and relative evolved technologies, MMW and T-Hz communication, and applications of sensor networks and Internet of things. The joint fund comes from the open fund of the above national labs appropriated by the relative national governmental departments. The initial amount of the fund is a total of RMB 3 million yuan, with 600 thousand from each participant paid over three years.

 

MIIT, NI Xiaolong	MIC, ECHIGO Kazunori
Kyoto University, YOSHIDA Susumu	SEU, ZHENG Fuchun
Osaka University, SANPEI Seiichi	Xidian University, LI Jiandong
Tsinghua University,NIU Zhisheng	UEC,NAKAJIMA Nobuo
SHRCWC,YANG Yang	Tsinghua University,WANG Jing
Ibaraki University,Masahiro Umehira	Xidian University, YI Kechu
CESI,GUO Nan	UESTC,YUE Guangrong
YRP,OHMORI Shingo	CAS,XING Tao
SEU,YOU Xiaohu	FuTURE-FORUM, FU Jun
Hitachi,Hideya Yoshiuchi	China Telecom,ZHAO Ping
Tohoku University,ADACHI Fumiyuki	SEU,DING Zhi
NTT DOCOMO,SUDA Hirohito	BUPT,FENG Zhiyong
Kyoto University,YAMAMOTO Kouji	HUAWEI,HUANG Hua
NEC,LEI Ming	ZTE,YANG Guang
OIT,ZHOU Hong	Potevio, HU Wei