IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications

(TCCC) at ICC’09Joe Touch (USC/ISI)

Sonia Fahmy (Purdue Univ)Xiaoming Fu (Univ Goettingen)

Agenda

• Introduction– Participants introduction– Recent progress/activities

• TAC report• Draft technical co-sponsorship procedures• Next activities– Support for DL, SM– CCW’09

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IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications

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Our role…

• Support the community (via our email list)• Organize CCW • Provide technical co-sponsorship to meetings• Represent your interests• Coordinate your requests

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TCCC Member Portal

• http://www.comsoc.org/~tccc• Information on:– CCW (http://www.ieee-ccw.org/ )– In-cooperation conferences– Meeting minutes– Mailing list– Procedures, policies (conference sponsorship etc)– Links to other information: updated with IEEE awards,

fellow/sm and submitting policy info– Officers’ contacts

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Computer Communications Workshop

• http://www.ieee-ccw.org/

• 2.5 day, panel-based• Held at various times, organized as:– a medium-attendance workshop, with groups of technical

presentations as panels – a small-attendance retreat, with groups of position

presentations as panels

• CCW 2009: Lenox, MA, Oct 18-21, co-chairs: Bulent Yener, Sahin Albayrak

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Technical Co-Sponsorship

• Currently approval procedure being updated – TAC suggests the general guidelines & procedure– Considering adopting process from ITC, TCHSN

• Proposed requirements (detailed in Joe’s email on 10th June, feedback solicited before 1st July):– In-scope– Largely peer review (3 reviews)– Appropriate TPC– Appropriate accept rate history– Prior to submission deadline– Visible, nonprofit budget

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When an Event Expects to Receive TCCC Co-Sponsorship…

• Must have a representative who reports to TCCC• Reminders of IEEE policy that must appear in the

meeting material:– Submitted papers must be unpublished, original material and must

not be currently under review for any other publication or conference. – Manuscripts that are not compliant with the submission requirements

may be rejected without review– IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the

conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.

• AUTHORS MUST BE NOTIFIED IN THE CFP

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Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP)

• TCCC may propose distinguished lecturer candidates every year– Serves the communty to give presentations– Costs supported by the IEEE Comm. Society (flight/travel)

and local chapter (local accommodation)

• Nomination deadline for 2010-11 DLs: Aug 31, 2009– TCCC may nominate up to 4 candidates

• Send us your preliminary nomination form by Aug. 15, 2009

– Nomination requirement and form: http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/documents/pp/pp_6_8.html

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Supporting Member Grade Promotion

• IEEE has various member grades:– Student, Member, Senior Member, Fellow– Senior = member + appr. 10 years of professional

experience (incl. graduate study period) + visible contribution

– Fellow = Senior + distinguished contributions (<X%)– Require letters of support at/above new grade

• TCCC will provide clearinghouse for support– Anyone can volunteer to be visible– Coordinate areas of contribution

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Senior Member• Requirements:

– Work on IEEE related fields– 10 years professional experience:

• 6 years for a baccalaureate degree in an IEEE-designated field; • 4 years if you hold a baccalaureate and masters degree; • 5 years if you hold a doctorate.

– 5 years of significant performance, e.g.:• Substantial job responsibilities such as team leader, task supervisor, project leader• Publication of papers, books or inventions• Faculty developing and teaching courses with research and publications

• Need to be referenced by 3 Fellows/SMs, one of which could be a section or chapter (as nominator) instead• TCCC is willing to nominate 3-6 senior members per year• More: possible as long as qualifications are satisfied and active in TCCC

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Fellow• Nomination deadline: 1st March each year

– Anyone (except the candidate him-/herself) can be the nominator, even non-IEEE members– Is a TC eligible to nominate? No – from current policy only a person can

• Requirements to become a fellow candidate:– have accomplishments that have contributed importantly to the advancement or

application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society;

– Being a senior member of good stand;– 5 years of having been a member (preceding 1st January of the year of evaluation)

• Additional references from 5-8 fellows in good standing• The first evaluation is completed by the IEEE Society/Technical Council that the

Nominator identified on the nomination form. – TCCC may help you to connect to ComSoc/TAC if requested and fit

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Other NewsPaper Awards

• Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications

• Best Tutorial Paper Award• Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field

of Communications Systems• IEEE Network, Wireless Magazine

Awards (planning)• ComSoc-IT Joint Paper Award• Award for Outstanding Paper on New

Communication Topics• Fred W. Ellersick Prize• William R. Bennett Prize in the Field

of Communications Networking

Career / Service Awards (Nomination due Sept 1)• Award for Public Service in the Field of

Telecommunications • Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service

Award• Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award • Distinguished Industry Leader Award

Industrial Innovation Award (Nomination due Feb 15 & Sep 1)

• Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications

• Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences

• ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service Award

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Other ComSoc Business

WCET• Wireless Communication

Engineering Technologies Certification program

• Mainly by providing program• Material: WEBOK (some $)• Exams: twice per year; next will be

Fall 2009• Training may be provided by IEEE

or a 3rd party (IEEE can help with content)

• Inputs for exercises welcome• Contact: cert@comsoc.org

Standardization• Example projects:

– NGSON (Next Generation Service Overlay Network): IEEE 1903

– Broadband over power line (IEEE P1775, 1901, 2330)

– DYSPAN (IEEE P1900-1906) on Cognative Radio

• Contact: Alex Gelmann adg@ieee.org

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Upcoming Activities

• Meetings at ComSoc major conferences:– CCW’09, Lenox, MA, Oct 18-21– Globecom’09, Honolulu, HI, Nov 30-Dec 4– INFOCOM’10, San Dieog, CA, Mar 15-19

• DL program– Soliciting candidates

• SM program– Soliciting candidates

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Our role…

• TCCC is here to represent you– to the ComSoc– to our publication and conference boards– to the IEEE as a whole

• What issues would you like us to address?

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Contact Us

• Officers individually:– Chair: Joe Touch (USC/ISI): touch@ISI.EDU – Vice Chair: Sonia Fahmy (Purdue U.):

fahmy@cs.purdue.edu – Secretary: Xiaoming Fu (U. Goettingen):

fu@cs.uni-goettingen.de

• All officers: tccc_officers@comsoc.org • Conference Coordinator: – Joerg Ott (Tech U. Helsinki/TKK): jo@netlab.tkk.fi