Volume 5 Number 4 -- August 2002 IEEE Communications Society News, The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Communications Society This is the abbreviated version - for faster download and more rapid scanning. The full text can be viewed at www.comsoc.org/e-news/ 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 August 2002 issue of IEEE ComSoc e-News. 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 mailto:enews-ed@comsoc.org Tim Moors, IEEE ComSoc e-News Editor University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2. ANNOUNCEMENTS New -- IEEE Optical Communications, a quarterly supplement in Communications Magazine, founding co-chairs Stamatios Kartalopoulos and Chunming Qiao. See: http://comsoc.org/optical . 3. RECENT EVENTS 3.1 AWARDS Career and Service awards nominations due 1 Sept. http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/candidates.html 3.2 SOCIETY NEWS IEEE election info out 1 Sept. To review candidates: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/corporate/diviii.html Agreements renewed with Chinese Institute of Communications (CIC) and the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) See: http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/CIE_and_CIC_mtg.pdf. 3.3 CHAPTER NEWS Chapter achievement award applications due by 1 Sept. See http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/memprog/chptraward/index.html North Jersey Chapter has posted the archive of sponsored talks since 1995: http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html. 3.4 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWS ComSoc technical committees chairs needing the recertification questionnaire should contact Bill Tranter mailto:btranter@vt.edu 3.5 STANDARDS NEWS StandardsAsia [http://www.standardsasia.net] now available to provide a focal point for the Asian standards community. For the new 10Gb/s Ethernet standard: IEEE 802.3ae, see http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/8023aeapp.html. For first full draft of IEEE P802.17 (Resilient Packet Rings) see http://standards.ieee.org/802news/802july2002.html 3.6 PUBLICATIONS NEWS Beginning in 2003, there will be two IEEE ComSoc member EPP [Electronic Periodicals Package] online access packages. For FREE sample of EPP+ see http://dl.comsoc.org/DL/ To subscribe, use your 2003 IEEE membership renewal. 3.6.1 NEW BOOKS http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#NEW%20BOOKS Published recently by the IEEE Press & Comsoc members: 1. T. Itoh, G. Haddad and J. Harvey: "RF Technologies for Low-Power Wireless Communications", 2001 2. L. Hanzo, P. Cherriman and J. Streit: "Software Radio Technologies: Selected Readings", 2001 3. F. Hargrave: "Hargrave's Communications Dictionary", 2001 4. Proceedings of 4th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2002), 2002 5. The Proceedings of 2002 International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications, 2002 6. D. Agrawal and Q. Zeng: "Introduction to wireless and mobile systems", Brooks/ Cole (Thomson Learning) 7. R. Morelos-Zaragoza: "The Art of Error Correcting Coding" John Wiley and Sons, 2002 3.6.2 PERIODICALS For Journal Issue: http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#NEW%20PERIODICALS 3.6.3 EDITORIAL NEWS http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#EDITORIAL%20NEWS IEEE Transactions on Communications http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/TC_editorial_news.pdf 4. IMMINENT EVENTS 4.1 IMMINENT CONFERENCES -- for URLs see: http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#IMMINENT%20CONFERENCES 1. Aug. 11-13 IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks Stockholm, Sweden 2. Aug. 18-20 HOT Chips 14: A Symposium on High-Performance Chips Palo Alto, California, USA 3. Aug. 26-29 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2002 Lausanne, Switzerland 4. Sep. 9-11 Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks Stockholm, Sweden 5. Sep. 15-18 Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication Lisbon, Portugal 7. Sep. 9-13 12th Int'l Crimean Conf. on Microwave and Telecommunication Tech. Sevastopol, Ukraine 8. Sep. 17-20 6th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing, Lausanne, Switzerland 9. Sep. 22-27 World Telecommunications Congress Paris, France 10. Sep. 25-26 European Mobile/Personal Satcoms Conf., Baveno / Stresa - Lake Maggiore, Italy 11. Sep. 29 - Oct. 3 Int'l Telecommunications Energy Conference, Montreal, Canada 12. Oct. 6-9 IFIP/IEEE Int'l Conf. on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, Santa Barbara, CA 13. Oct. 7-10 IEEE/AFCEA Military Communications Conference, Anaheim, CA. 14. Oct. 9-7 IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop Beijing, China 15. Oct. 9-12 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Software, Telecom & Computer networks, Dubrovnik (Croatia), Ancona, Bari (Italy) 16. Oct. 13-16 18th Nat'l Fiber Optic Engineer's Conf. Dallas, TX, USA 17. Oct. 13-16 17th IEEE Annual Computer Communications Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 18. Oct. 14-16 Int'l Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks, Miami, Florida, USA 19. Oct. 21-23 Distributed Systems: Operations & Mgt (IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on), Montreal, CA 20. Oct. 27-30 Wireless Personal Multimedia Comm. (International Symposium on), Honolulu, Hawaii 21. Oct. 29-31 IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management Dallas, Texas USA 22. Oct. 30 - Nov. 4 8th Biennial Vietnam Nat'l Conf. on Radio & Electronics, Hanoi, Vietnam 23. Nov. 17-21 IEEE Global Communications Conf. Taipei, Taiwan Additional: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html. 4.2 IMMINENT SPECIAL ISSUES http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#IMMINENT%20SPECIAL%20ISSUES IEEE Pervasive Computing (http://computer.org/pervasive) IEEE Wireless Comm. (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm) are working together on a joint special issue focusing on Context-Aware Pervasive Computing. 4.3 IMMINENT CALLS FOR PAPERS 4.3.1 CONFERENCE CFPS -- for URLs see http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#CONFERENCE%20CFPS 1. OPENSIG 2002 Lexington, Kentucky, USA Oct. 17-18, Deadline Aug. 12 2. WCNC Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. 2003 New Orleans, LA, Mar. 17-19, Deadline Aug. 15 3. IWNA International Workshop on Networked Appliances 2002 Gaithersburg, MD, USA Jan. 15-16, Deadline Aug. 15 4. PCCC Int'l Performance, Computing, and Comm. Conf. 2003 Phoenix, AZ, Apr. 9-11, Deadline Sep. 20 5. ICT IEEE Int'l Conf. on Telecommunications 2003 Tahiti, Papeete - Feb. 24-28, Deadline Sep. 10 6. VTC ("Spring") Vehicular Technology Conf. "Spring" 2003 Jeju, Korea Apr. 21-24, Deadline Sep. 15 7. OFC Optical Fiber Comm. Conf. 2003 Atlanta, GA Mar. 23-28, Deadline Sep. 25 8. PerCom IEEE Int'l Conf. on Pervasive Computing & Comm. 2003 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, Mar. 23-26, Deadline Oct. 1 9. CAMAD Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE International Workshop On) 2002 New York, NY, May 2, Deadline Oct. 31 Additional forthcoming ComSoc conference CFPs: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2002/confscfp.html. 4.3.2 JOURNAL CFPS -- for URLs see http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#JOURNAL%20CFPS 1. IEEE Trans on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Software Eng. for the Wireless Internet, due 31 Dec 02 2. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Special Issue on Technologies that promote computational intelligence, openness and programmability in networks and Internet services, due 31Aug. 02 3. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Comm: A new "Optical Communications and Networking Series" in J-SAC starting 2003. Call For Papers for the inaugural issue due 2 Jan 03. 4.3.3 MAGAZINE CFPs -- for full details and URLs: http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#JOURNAL%20CFPS The new IEEE Optical Communications quarterly supplement in Communications Magazine will release its first issue in February 2003. The deadline for the Call For Papers for the first issue is 31 September 2002. Submissions received after that date will be considered for future issues. IEEE Network Magazine column with short descriptions of freely available software tools. To contribute please see http://www.comsoc.org/ni/Public/2001/Sep/newfeaturecfp.html Magazine Deadline Topic 1. IEEE Communications Magazine Due Oct. 15, Powerline Local Area Networking Due Oct. 15 Scalability in IP-Oriented Networks Due Oct. 31 Broadband Access Series Regular Series on In-Home Networking 2. IEEE Network Magazine Due Oct. 1 Network Management of Multi-service, Multimedia, IP-based Networks 3. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Due Oct. 14 Optical Wireless Communications Due Nov. 15 Reconfigurable Mobile Networks, Systems, and Services Due Dec. 15 QoS in Next-Generation Wireless Multimedia Communications Systems Due Dec. 15 (R)Evolution towards 4G Mobile Communication Systems 5. ANNIVERSARIES Please see: http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/2002/aug/index.html#ANNIVERSARIES 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. 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