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Welcome to the June 2005 issue of
IEEE ComSoc e-News.
This issue contains recent additions to Tutorials
Now, the Communications Engineering Technology DVD set,
Distinguished
Lectures Online, the ComSoc Top Articles for April 2005, the
latest IEEE Communications "Tech Focus" and 2005 ComSoc Election information.
Also included is the
latest information in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events.
DVD set - Order Your Personal Copy today.....Communications Engineering Technology: A Comprehensive Collection of
Papers 1953-2004 (3 DVD set) is available for shipping. This new edition includes more than 20% more content than the 2002 edition, provides convenient hands-on access to a complete
set of ComSoc's technical foundations, and is enhanced with added research functionality, such as author profiles and linked
references and citations, including US patent citations. DVD set for individual computer use only, not for networking. The price is $179 for members and $1,399 for nonmember, plus shipping and handling.
For more details, see ComSoc DVD set www page.
To review the demo page of the 2002 edition, see Demo.
For a
printable order form, see DVD set pdf order
form.
To order online, see ShopIEEE.
Top
Articles...Check out the ComSoc www site headlines for April 2005 top
articles. See the monthly ComSoc Top Ten list of those
papers receiving
the most requests for PDF views through IEEE Xplore, posted at the ComSoc web
site -- www.comsoc.org
Tutorials Now....Review all the new outstanding tutorials that were added to the ComSoc Tutorials Now program including this year.
Each high-level communications technology tutorial is available now with more coming soon. Each tutorial originated from half-day or
full-day tutorials given at recent IEEE Communications Society conferences. These tutorials are so good it is like being at the
conference. View a free five-minute preview of each recently released tutorial:
Ultra Wide Band in Distributed Wireless Networks Traffic Measurement in IP Networks
Wireless Communication Systems - A Journey from 1st Generation to 3rd Generation and Beyond
Mobility Management in Next Generation Networks Heterogeneous Wireless IP Networks - Architectures and Requirements UWB signals and systems in Communication Engineering
Engineering Value Added Services In Next Generation Networks
3G Wireless System Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Technology, and Management Wireless Sensor Networks Architectures of Intelligent Optical Networks Autonomic Networking - Theory and Practice
Turbo Codes: Performance Analysis, Design, Iterative Decoding and Applications Wireless LANs: Business Models, Technologies, Deployment, and Challenges Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Routing, MAC and Transport Issues
Home Networking: Market Drivers, Technologies, and Business Models
Essentials of Enterprise Continuity Internet Infrastructure Security
Implementing service quality for IP-based services in wireless environment
Security and Information Assurance Introduction to UPnP
Smart Antennas for Wireless Systems Broadband Wireless IP Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks Announcing the first ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month - Huurdeman's The Worldwide History of Telecommunications. Special
price for ComSoc web users. Check the ComSoc www site each month for new special offers.
Free on line access to IEEE Communications magazine, journal and conference papers on VoIP. Visit IEEE Communications new "Tech Focus" site at: http://www.comsoc.org/tech_focus/index.html
Call-for-Papers....The 2006 submission site for OFC/NFOEC is now open... click here.
MILCOM 2005
to be held in Atlantic City, NJ USA October 17-20, 2005
features a new range
of topics including Homeland Security Information Management &
Dissemination
For conference information and Call For Papers, please click MILCOM 2005.
Reminder....The first
free online distinguished lecture Looking
Ahead: Technology Evolution and the Biz of Telecommunications
by
Roberto Saracco is now available for viewing. Over 6
hours. See it
now.
2005 ComSoc Election
ballots are in the mail to elegible voters...Ballots were mailed (postal mail)
on Tuesday 31 May 2005 to all
Higher Grade IEEE Communications Society
members and Affiliates (excluding Students) whose membership was effective prior
to 2
May 2005 for the 2005 Election. Note: you
must have a paper ballot that arrives by mail before you can vote
electronically. The mail ballot contains your
" member number" and your
individual " control ballot number" - both numbers are needed to vote.
If you
do not receive a mail ballot by 30 June, but you feel your membership was valid
before 2 May 2005, you may
e-mail Intelliscan who will check your
member status. Please provide Intelliscan with your member number, full name,
and address.
Please note the IEEE Policy (Section 14.1) that IEEE mailing
lists should not be used for electioneering in connection with any office
within the IEEE. Watch for the mail.... then, please vote! Voting for
this election closes 9 August 2005 at 12:00 noon EDT!
IEEE Now Offers
Full-text Search of All Online Content for Members and
Subscribers
All 1.1 million IEEE online technology documents are now
full-text searchable, a move enabl
ed by last month's launch of
the IEEE Xplore
2.0 online delivery system. IEEE Xplore powers IEEE online
subscriptions for organizations and individuals, including collections like the
IEEE/IEEElectronic Library. It contains documents from IEEE journals,
magazines, transactions, and conferences, all active IEEE
standards, and
journals and conference proceedings from Europe's Institution for Electrical
Engineers (IEE). Also with the launch of IEEE
Xplore 2.0, all non-subscribing
guest researchers may now, for the first time, conduct free keyword searches of
IEEE abstracts directly
from the IEEE Xplore home page. For more on thisand
other new few features of IEEE Xplore 2.0, or to start researching, visit:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.
During the 2005 IEEE
International Conference on Communications in Seoul the winners of ComSoc Best
Paper Awards
were announced. They are:
The
Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award
Yang Chen , Chunming Qiao ,
Xiang Yu , "Optical Burst Switching: A New Area in Optical Networking Research "
,
IEEE Network, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 16-23, May/June 2004
The Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems
Parvathinathan
Venkitasubramaniam, Srihari Adireddy, Lang Tong , "Sensor Networks With Mobile
Access: Optimal Random
Access and Coding " , IEEE Journal on Selected Areas
in Communications, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1058-1068, August 2004
The Communications
Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications
Theory
Stephan ten Brink, Gerhard Kramer, Alexei Ashikhmin , " Design of
Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Modulation and Detection " ,
IEEE
Transactions on Communications, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 670-678, April
2004
The Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Circuits and Techniques
Neil Spring, Ratul Mahajan,
David Wetherall, Thomas Anderson , "Measuring ISP Topologies With Rocketfuel " ,
IEEE/ACM Transactions
on Networking, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 2-16, February
2004
Fred W. Ellersick Prize (formerly the Communications Society Magazine Prize Paper Award
Simon Haykin, Mathini
Sellathurai, Yvo de Jong, Tricia Willink , "Turbo-MIMO for Wireless
Communications " , IEEE Communications
Magazine, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp.48-53,
October 2004
2006 IEEE Medal and Award Nominations Due
Do you know
someone whose work qualifies him or her for an IEEE medal, honorary membership,
service award, or prize for a paper?
If so,you have until 1 July to make
your nominations for an award. For nomination forms, visit the IEEE Awards Web site or
contact the
IEEE Awards
Activities.
For information about ComSoc
awards, visit
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/awards/index.html
If you are not already a
member, you can join ComSoc online. Find out more about the benefits of becoming
a ComSoc member and
apply for membership at: http://www.comsoc.org/join/index.html
For more information about ComSoc chapters, see http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/chapters/index.html
ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee , ONTC) activities during IEEE ICC 2005, Seoul
1. Best Paper Award.
For the first time ever,
starting with ICC-05, we have begun to recognize a paper with the Best Paper
Award or an Optical
Networking (ON) Symposium at ICCs/Globecoms where NTC
sponsors a symposium.
The Best Paper Award for the ON Symposium at ICC 2005
goes to the following paper:
"Blocking Probability Modeling of Distensible
Optical Banyan Networks", by
Chen Yu, Jiang Xiaohong, Pin-Han Ho, Susumu
Horiguchi, and Hussein Mouftah.
2. Standards Presentation.
Richard Rabbat of Fujitsu
Labs of America gave an excellent invited resentation on IETF
standards
activities related to optical networking. Interested people can
contact Dr.
Rabbat directly at: richard.rabbat@us.fujitsu.com.
For more information about
ComSoc technical committees, see
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/committees.html
IEEE-SA Standards Board Actions taken on 12 May 2005 has just been added to the IEEE Standards Bearer Online.
16 May IEEE to Revise 'Red Book' Standard for Electrical Distribution in Industrial Plants
For more news regarding IEEE Standards development work go to http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/index.html.
MAGAZINES
IEEE Communications
Magazine
IEEE Network
IEEE Wireless
Communications
JOURNALS
IEEE
Transaction on Communications
IEEE
Communications Letters
IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transaction on
Wireless Communications
Recent special reports in IEEE Spectrum:
NORAD
Gets a Makeover
(The famous underground command center is updated for
post-9/11 missions.) 1 June 2005
Tweaks
For Geeks
(Buffed up with US $100 in replacement parts, a $150 disc
player can challenge players that cost ten times as much. But forget
about
your warranty.) 1 June 2005
Move
Over, Quartz, For the Atomic Wristwatch
(The atomic clock gets smaller
and cheaper.) 24 May 2005
New Book Provides Insight Into Information
Transmission
Information transmission has emerged as one of the
hottest topics in arenas ranging from mass media to research and
development.
"Understanding Information Transmission," a new book from IEEE
Press and John Wiley & Sons, offers an introduction to the field of
information engineering. Targeted at Information Technology students, the
book spans the nature, storage, transmission, networking,
and protection of
information. For more
information, visit Wiley.
Second Edition of
IEEE 802.11 Handbook Published
IEEE 802.11(TM) equipment is now
moving into its second stage, where the wireless LAN is being treated as a large
wireless
communication system.This has led to the release of the second
edition of the "IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion."
For more on
this handbook, visit
ShopIEEE.
For information about books published by the Wiley-IEEE Press, see http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/press/
OIDA Optical Communications
Workshop - June 29-30, 2005
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport (Burlingame,
CA)
http://www.oida.org
For information about ComSoc
Sister Societies, see
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/socrel/societies.html.
EntNet @ SUPERCOMM 2005
The 5th
International Enterprise Networking & Services Conference
Chicago IL USA
June 6-8
ConTEL 2005
8th International
Conference on Telecommunications
Zagreb HR June 15-17
IST Summit 2005
14th IST Mobile
& Wireless Communications Summit
Dresden DE June 19-23
OECC 2005
10th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference
Seoul KR July
4-8
MAPE 2005
IEEE 2005
International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation
and EMC
Technologies for Wireless Communications
Beijing CN August 8-12
Additional forthcoming conferences are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html.
| Publication | Issue | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| IEEE Communications Magazine |
Jul |
GMPLS: The Promise of the Next Generation Optical Control Plane |
|
IEEE Network Magazine |
Jul-Aug |
Wireless
Local Area Networking: |
| Conference | Full name | Year | Location | Date of conference | CFP deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOFTCOM
2005 |
International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks | 2005 | Split HR | Sep. 15-17 | Jun. 11 |
| ISWPC
2006 |
International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing | 2006 | Phuket TH | Jan. 16-18 | Aug. 1 |
| RWS
2006 |
IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium | 2006 | San Diego CA USA | Jan. 17-19 | Sep. 7 |
| ICC
2006 |
IEEE International Conference on Communications | 2006 | Istanbul TR | Jun. 11-15 | Sep. 15 |
| TURBO CODES
2006 |
CODES 2006 4th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Related Topics | 2006 | Munich DE | Apr. 3-7 | Oct. 17 |
Additional forthcoming
ComSoc conference Calls For Papers are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2005/confscfp.html.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications calls for papers for forthcoming special issues:
Deadline Topic Sep. 1, 2005 Nonlinear Optimization of Communication Systems Oct. 1, 2005 Sampling the Internet: Techniques and Applications Dec. 15, 2005 Peer-to-Peer Communications and Applications
| Magazine | Deadline | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| IEEE Communications Magazine | ||
| Recurring | IEEE Optical Communications Supplement | |
| Recurring | IEEE Radio Communications Supplement | |
| Jun. 1, 2005 | Cross-Layer Protocol Engineering For Wireless Mobile Networks | |
| IEEE Network Magazine | Jun. 10, 2005 | Special Issue on: Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks |
| IEEE Wireless Communications | ||
| Aug. 1, 2005 | Special
Issue Announcement - Voice over Wireless Local Area
Network | |
SUPERCOMM
2005
June 5-9, Chicago
http://www.supercomm2005.com/
International
Microwave Symposium
June 12-17,
2005
http://www.ims2005.org/
Design
Automation Conference (DAC)
June 13-17, Long Beach,
CA
http://www.dac.com/42nd/index.html
Embedded Systems
Conference
March 6-10, San
Francisco
http://www.esconline.com/sf/
Networld +
Interop
May 1-6, Las Vegas
http://www.interop.com/
OPNETWORK
2005
August 22-26, Washington DC
www.opnet.com
VON Fall
2005
September 19-22, Boston, MA
www.von.com
ECOC-European
Conference on Optical Communications
September 25-29, Glasgow,
Scotland
http://www.ecocexhibition.com/modules/serve.cgi
European
Microwave Week 2005
October 3-7 Paris,
France
http://www.iee.org/objectInvoke.cfm?Objectid=8F991903-902A-B526-F5F440899E550DA1&CFID=3756184&CFTOKEN=81554720
Birthdays:
6 June 1850 Ferdinand Braun was born on this day in Furda, Germany. He invented what is now called the Braun's electrometer, and also a
cathode-ray oscillograph. He shared with Guglielmo Marconi the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics " in recognition of their contributions to
the development of wireless telegraphy." 7 June 1900 Frederick Emmons Terman was born on this day in English, Indiana. He was an electrical engineer known for his contributions to
electronics research and antiradar technology. In addition to research, he taught at Stanford University. He won the 1950 IRE Medal of
Honor.
8 June 1832 Sir Charles Tilston was born in Wanstead, Essex, England. He was the telegraph engineer in charge of laying the first transatlantic cable. 13 June 1934 IEEE Fellow Leonard Kleinrock was born on this day in New York City. He made enormous contributions to the birth of the Internet. 21 June 1781 This is the birthday of Siméon Denis Poisson. Famous in many fields of mathematics, he also originated one of the first mathematical theories of electrostatics and magnetism. 28 June 1910 IEEE Fellow John Daniel Kraus was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was a professor of electrical engineering and radio astronomy at Ohio State University where he received the Sulllivan Medal "for outstanding contributions to radio astronomy and electrical engineering."
29 June 1903 Alan Dower Blumlein was born in London, England. An amazingly prolific inventor who contributed to many fields, including telephony,
stereo recording, and radar.
More historical information is available at http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/history/index.html.
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