Volume 5 Number 3 -- June 2002 IEEE Communications Society News, The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Communications Society This is the plaintext version - for faster download and more rapid scanning. The full text, including HTML tables and clickable links, can be viewed at http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/jun/ Questions, comments, and newsworthy contributions are encouraged; please address to the Editor, Tim Moors, mailto:enews-ed@comsoc.org CONTENTS 1. Welcome 2. Announcements 3. Recent events 3.1 Awards 3.2 Society News 3.3 Chapter News 3.4 Technical Committee News 3.5 Standards News 3.6 Publications News 3.6.1 Books 3.6.2 Periodicals 3.6.3 Editorial 4. Imminent Events 4.1 Conferences 4.2 Special Issues of Publications 4.3 Calls For Papers 4.3.1 Conferences 4.3.2 Journals 4.3.3 Magazines 5. Anniversaries 6. Communicate with e-News 1. WELCOME: Welcome to the June 2002 issue of IEEE ComSoc e-News. We are now mid-way through ComSoc's 50th anniversary, and ComSoc has released a "best of the best" [http://dl.comsoc.org/cocoon/comsoc/html/50th.htm] , 57 foundational research papers from our first 50 years. See also [http://dl.comsoc.org/dl/] & [http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/dvd.html] to purchase as a 2 DVD set. As always, I am keen to hear your thoughts about the structure of e-News, what content you think e-News should provide, and (of course :-) your newsworthy contributions! Please send me email at enews-ed@comsoc.org [mailto:enews-ed@comsoc.org]. Tim Moors, IEEE ComSoc e-News Editor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. 2. ANNOUNCEMENTS: The 2002 Optical Fiber (OFC) Conference Commercial Technology Program is now available online [http://www.ofcconference.com/presentations2002.cfm]. Your company can submit New Product Announcements for the New Products Section of IEEE Communications Magazine (a free section). You can also inquire about paid advertisements to reach 60,000 communications engineering managers and engineers Contact Eric Levine at 1-212-705-8920 or [mailto:e.levine@comsoc.org] 3. RECENT EVENTS: IEEE ICC2002 was held 28 April - 2 May 2002. Please visit http://www.icc2002.com to see slides from some Keynote Sessions and Panel Sessions. Video of Bob Lucky 50th anniversary panel session: http://www.comsoc.org/video/icc/02/index.html 3.1 AWARDS: September 1 is the deadline for nominations for IEEE ComSoc Career and Service awards. See http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/candidates.html 3.2 SOCIETY NEWS: If you are a member of IEEE, but not a member of ComSoc see [http://www.comsoc.org/freeoffer/] 3.3 CHAPTER NEWS: The European and Middle East (EAME) Board will meet during INFOCOM, 27 June, 4 to 5pm. 3.4 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWS http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/committees.html . 3.5 STANDARDS NEWS NEW - IEEE 802 Radio Regulatory Advisory Group [http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/80218app.html] NEW - IEEE Standard 1394b, "High-Performance Serial Bus," which "upgrades the prior standards by allowing for gigabit signaling and by extending signaling distance to 100 meters (vs. 4.5 meters in IEEE 1394-1995)". http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/1394bapp.html For IEEE-SA-SB details see the press release http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/p802a.html The next IEEE 802 plenary meeting http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/meeting/meeting_files/802-702-MI-09.pdf will be held from July 8-12 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Registration using the online form [http://www.ieee802.org/meeting/Pregform.html] The IEEE continues its pilot program "Get IEEE 802 http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/" making LAN and MAN standards free, 6 months after initial publication. 3.6 PUBLICATIONS NEWS ComSoc has launched its Digital Library http://dl.comsoc.org/dl/ Click on the link in the bottom right corner for a tour. The library is available for purchase as a 2 DVD Set: http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/dvd.html 3.6.1 NEW BOOKS IEEE Press http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/press/ new title: L. Hanzo, P. Cherriman, and J. Streit: "Software Radio Technologies: Selected Readings", 2001 [http://shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=PC5880] 3.6.2 PERIODICALS: This section of e-News provides links to the contents of current issues of ComSoc journals and magazines. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/net/public/2002/apr/index.html IEEE Communications Letters [http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/comml/public/2002/apr/index.html] [http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/comml/public/2002/may/index.html] IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications [http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/sac/public/2002/apr/index.html] Channel and Propagation Models for Wireless System Design http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/sac/public/2002/may/index.html] Recent Advances in Fundamentals of Network Management IEEE Transactions on Communications http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/comm/public/2002/apr/index.html http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/comm/public/2002/may/index.html IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/twc/public/2002/apr/index.html IEEE Communications Magazine http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/Public/2002/may/index.html] Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and Data over SONET/SDH and OTN | Topics in Circuits for Communication | Architectures and Protocols for Wireless Mobile Internet | Scalability and Policy for the Services-Enabled Internet [http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/Public/2002/jun/index.html] Quality of Service Routing | Topics in Broadband IEEE Network [http://www.comsoc.org/ni/Public/2002/May/index.html] Applicability of Mobile Agents to Telecommunications IEEE Wireless Communications [http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/public/2002/apr/index.html] Technologies on Fourth-Generation Mobile Communications 3.6.3 EDITORIAL NEWS The ComSoc Publications Board met at ICC April 28th and discussed, amongst other things, the causes of sluggish reviews and penalties for plagiarism. 4. IMMINENT EVENTS 4.1 IMMINENT CONFERENCES 3-5 Jun: Multiaccess, Mobility and Teletraffic for Wireless Communications, Rennes, France [http://www.rennes.enst-bretagne.fr/~xlagrang/Mmt02/] 3-5 Jun: 2nd Enterprise Networking and Services Conf. (EntNet) @ SUPERCOMM [http://www.comsoc.org/entnet/] Atlanta, GA, USA 3-6 Jun 5th Intl Baltic Conf. on Databases and Info.Systems [http://www.cs.ioc.ee/%7Ebalt2002/] Tallinn, Estonia 5-7 Jun: Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks [http://www.policy-workshop.org/2002/, Monterey, CA, USA 6-7 Jun: 4th Intl Workshop of Enterprise Networking and Computing [mailto:healthcom2002x@comsoc.org] Nancy, FR 17Jun: IEEE-USA Workshop on U.S. National Policy for Accelerating Broadband Deployment [http://www.ieeeusa.org/conferences/broadband/] Washington, DC, USA 23-27 Jun: Infocom: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications [http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2002/] New York, NY, USA 23 Jun: Workshop on High-Speed Networking (in conjunction w/ Infocom [http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/tcgn/conference/hsn2002/cfp.html] Formerly known as the Gigabit Networking Workshop, New York, NY, USA 23-26 Jun: IEEE Intl Conference on Telecommunications http://www2.elec.qmul.ac.uk/~wee/ , Beijing, China 24Jun: DIREN: 1st IEEE Workshop on Disaster Recovery Networks [http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2002/, New York NY USA 26-28 Jun: ICCCAS 2002 The Intl Conf on Communication Circuits and Systems & West Sino-Expo [http://icccas02.uestc.edu.cn/] Chengdu City, China 26-28 Jun: 1st Intl Conf on Circuits and Systems for Communications [http://iccsc.spbstu.ru/authors.html] St. Petersburg, Russia 28-29 Jun: OPENARCH: IEEE Conf. on Open Architectures and Network Programming http://comet.ctr.columbia.edu/openarch/, New York, NY, USA 1-4 Jul: IEEE Symposium on Computers and Comm. http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2002/index.htm, Taormina, IT 3-5 Jul: Intl Conf on High-Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications [http://iutsun1.colmar.uha.fr/HSNMC02.html] Jeju Island, Korea 8-12 Jul: 7th Opto-Electronics and Comm. Conf. [http://bcasj.or.jp/oecc2002] Yokohama, Japan 15-17 Jul: Comm. Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing http://www.shu.ac.uk/ocr/csndsp/, Staffordshire, UK 21-25 Jul: Intl Conf on Optical Internet (COIN) / Topical Meeting on Photonics in Switching (PS) http://www.coin-ps2002.org/ Cheju Island, Korea 11-13 Aug: IEEE Workshop on Local and Metro Area Networks http://www.lanman2002.org, Stockholm, Sweden 26-29 Aug: IEEE Intl Conf on Multimedia and Expo 2002 [http://www.icme2002.org/, Lausanne, Switzerland 9-11 Sep: Conf on Mobile and Wireless Comm. Networks [http://www.cwc.nus.edu.sg/mwcn2002/, Stockholm, Sweden 9-13 Sep:12th Intl Crimean Conf on Microwave and Telecommunication Technology http://ieee.orbita.ru/aps/crim02e.htm, Sevastopol, Ukraine 15-18 Sep: Sym. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Comm. http://www.lx.it.pt/pimrc2002/, Lisbon, Portugal 17-20 Sep: 6th IEEE Intl Conf on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing [http://edoc.dstc.edu.au/] Lausanne, Switzerland Additional forthcoming conferences are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html. 4.2 IMMINENT SPECIAL ISSUES IEEE Communications Magazine Jul: The Future of the Internet | Software & DSP in Wireless Systems; Topics in Circuits for Communications For retrospective article by Paul Baran on "The Beginnings Of Packet Switching: Some Underlying Concepts", available now http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/DLPREVIEW/BARAN.PDF IEEE Network Magazine http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/special/amat.html Applicability of Mobile Agents to Telecommunications IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2nd quarter: Twisted Pair Transmission -- Ever Increasing Performances on Ancient Telephone Wires: Internet Proxy Services 4.3 IMMINENT CALLS FOR PAPERS 4.3.1 CONFERENCES DSOM - Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (IFIP/IEEE International Workshop) 21-23 Oct. 2002 [http://www.dsom2002.org/] Montreal, CA, Papers due 2 Jun 02 ICCS - IEEE Intl Conf on Comm Systems 21-23 Oct. 2002 [http://www.cwc.nus.edu.sg/iccs2002/], Singapore Papers due 1 Jul 02 Infocom - IEEE Conference on Computer Comm. 30 Mar - 3 Apr 2003 [http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2003/], San Francisco, CA, USA Papers due 10 Jul 2002 IWNA - Intl Workshop on Networked Appliances 15 -16 Jan 2003 [http://www.cmr.nist.gov/iwna4/] Gaithersburg, MD, USA Papers due 15 Ag 2002 IM - IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, 24-28 Mar 2003 http://www.comsoc.org/confs/im/2003/, Colorado Springs, CO, USA Papers due 1 Aug 2002 Additional forthcoming ComSoc conference Calls For Papers are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2002/confscfp.html. 4.3.2 JOURNAL CFPS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications [http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/sac/index.html] calls for papers for forthcoming special issues: Format: Deadline/ Topic 1 Aug 02: High-Performance Optical/Electronic Switches/Routers for High-Speed Internet [http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/optical.html] 18 Aug 02: Internet and WWW Measurement, Mapping, and Modeling [http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/internet.html] 1 Sep 02: Recent Advances In Service Overlay Networks [http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/overlay_networks.html] 1 Oct 02: Recent Advances In Wireless Multimedia [http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/wireless_multimedia.htm l] 4.3.3 MAGAZINE CFPS IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials For a new set of author guidelines and a general Call For Papers [http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/cfpSurveys.html]. Format: Magazine, Deadline, Topic IEEE Communications Magazine 1 Jul 02: IP-Oriented Quality of Service (QoS) [http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfp1202.html] 15 Oct 02, Powerline Local Area Networking [http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfp403.html] Regular Series on In-Home Networking [http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpihnseries.html] IEEE Network Magazine 1 Jul 02 Multicasting: An Enabling Technology [http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/special/cfpjan2003.pdf] 1 Aug 02: Special Issue on Traffic Engineering in Optical Networks [http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/special/cfp303.html] IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine 14 Oct )2: Optical Wireless Communications [http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/cfp403.html] 15 Nov 02: Reconfigurable Mobile Networks, Systems, and Services [http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/cfp603.html] 5. ANNIVERSARIES This section of e-News summarizes anniversaries of significant events in the history of communications. It is made possible by the IEEE History Center [http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/]. More historical information is available at [http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/history/index.html]. 6. COMMUNICATE WITH E-NEWS You are receiving e-News as a free bi-monthly service provided by the IEEE Communications Society. Redistribution: The newsletter may be distributed freely to any non-subscriber to whom the material may be relevant and who may wish to receive the publication. Archives: The full text of this issue and archived back issues can be found on the e-News web site [http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/] Advertising: To advertise in e-News, please contact Eric Levine [mailto:elevine@comsoc.org] Jobs: If you are looking for, or advertising, a communications engineering job, then please visit the ComSoc Career Center [http://www.comsoc.org/adv/career.html]. 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