The APWiMob 2023 – Activities Report

The 2023 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile  (APWiMob 2023) was held at the Aston Kuta Hotel & Residence Kuta in Badung, Bali, Indonesia, from October 10th to the 12th, 2023. The APWiMob 2023 was co-sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Indonesian Chapter and the School of Electrical Engineering of Telkom University, The APWiMob 2023 was organized by the School of Electrical Engineering of the Telkom University and supported by the IEEE Student Branch (SB) of Telkom University and Udayana University.

Regarding the recovery condition in Indonesia following the COVID-19 outbreak, the conference was organized in a hybrid mode, which means that presenters had the option of presenting their papers either in the conference venue or over a video conferencing platform. Everyone who attended from any country in the world, regardless of their background, was welcome to attend the conference. This included students, faculty staff, practitioners, industry experts, and other professionals from a variety of fields. Fundamentals (such as Antenna, Information Theory, Modulation Channel Coding, and so on), Mobile and Wireless Networks (such as 5G and Future Networks, Mobile Computing, Software Defined Networking, and so on), and Emerging Services, Security, Applications, and Regulations (such as Blockchain, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and so on) are the three broad tracks that were utilized to organize the topics that were discussed during the conference meeting. Smart, secure, and sustainable technologies for supporting sustainable development goals is the issue discussed at the conference that took place this year.

During the preparation for the conference, we received and evaluated 89 full papers that were submitted. 37 of the papers were rejected, 51 of the papers were accepted, and one of the articles was withdrawn after it had been reviewed. The 51 papers that were presented were derived from three distinct tracks. There were 16 papers from the Mobile and Wireless Networks track, 10 papers from the Fundamental track, and 25 papers from the Emerging Services, Security, Applications, and Regulation track. As we looked into the authors of the papers that were presented, we discovered that they originated from thirteen different countries. These countries include Indonesia (131 authors), Malaysia (14 authors), Taiwan (7 authors), South Korea (7 authors), United Arab Emirates (6 authors), Vietnam (6 authors), Singapore (5 authors), India (3 authors), Ecuador (3 authors), Bangladesh (2 authors), Thailand (2 authors), and China (1 author). Taking into account both the papers that were accepted and the papers that were submitted, we are able to conclude that the acceptance rate for the APWiMob 2023 is 58%.

On the day of the APWiMob 2023 conference, the inaugural session was completed by having participants register for the event. After the participants had registered, we had two tutorial discusses and two keynote speeches, as seen in Figure 1. The following is a list of the speakers and the themes that they discussed.

1. Dr-Ing. Fiky Y. Suratman (PUI-PT IS-IoT Telkom University, Indonesia) as The first Tutorial Speaker with topic “Tutorial on Radar Signal Processing Radar Data Acquisition & Doppler Processing”.
2. Dr. Suman Lata Tripathi (Lovely Professional University, India) as the first Invited Speaker with the topic “Design of High Performance Multichannel FinFET as Biosensor”.
3. Dr. Asep Suhendi (PUI-PT IS-IoT Telkom University, Indonesia) as The second Tutorial Speaker with topic “IoT Device and Connectivity”
4. Dr. Khoirul Anwar (Telkom University, Indonesia) as the second Invited Speaker with the topic “Technologies Enablers for 5G-Advanced and 6G: Intelligence and Security for Life”.

The opening session of the APWiMob 2023 conference took place on the second day of the conference. This session included the registration of participants, the delivery of welcome words from the Chair of the APWiMob 2023 and the Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation, and Partnership, as well as a picture session, for which Figure 2 presents a summary.   As can be seen in Figure 3, we had two keynote speeches and one invited speech following the opening session. The following is a list of the speakers and the themes that they discussed, respectively.

1. Prof. Soo-Young Shin (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea) as the first keynote Speaker with the topic “Toward a New Era of Radio Access Technologies for Beyond 5G and 6G”.
2. Prof. Yoshiya Kasahara (Kanazawa University, Japan) as the first keynote Speaker with the topic “Signal Processing Technology in Radio Science for Solar-Terrestrial Research”.
3. Assoc. Prof. Sharifah Hafizah Ariffin (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia) as the third invited Speaker with the topic “Lightweight Network Intrusion Detection System Model for MQTT Communication”

   In the end of the second day of the APWiMob 2023, we announced one best paper on each category as listed below.

1. Integrating Named Data Networking into Webview-Based eHealth Skin Cancer Applications by Muhammad Rifqi Bhagaskaraning Iman, Hernan Lukas Martinus Huwae, Rahmad Fauzan, Yudha Nugraha Rahmat and Leanna Yovita (Telkom University, Indonesia); Yunendah Fuadah (Telkom University & Image and Computer Vision (IMV Laboratory), Indonesia); Tody Wibowo (Telkom University, Indonesia)
2. Localization with Noisy Android Raw GNSS Measurements by Xu Weng and Keck Voon Ling (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
3. Adaptive Three Layer Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 6G Wireless Communication: Tradeoffs and Performance by Rashed Hasan Ratul (Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh); Muhammad Iqbal, Tabinda Ashraf, JenYi Pan and Yi-Han Wang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Shao-Yu Lien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

As illustrated in Figure 4 below, the third day of the APWiMob 2023 consisted of a half-day city trip that included visits to the Uluwatu Temple and Garuda Wisnu Kencana. Additionally, on this day, participants enjoyed the local food of Bali, which included Nasi Ayam Kedewatan Ibu Mangku, as well as Krisna Souvenir. The tour started at eight o’clock in the Central Indonesian Time Zone and lasted until fifteen o’clock in the Central Indonesian Time Zone.