IEEE Communications Society

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IEEE Communications Society TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
ON COMMUNICATIONS QUALITY RELIABILITY
http//www.comsoc.org/cqr/index.html
Committee Meeting CQR Chair Kenichi
Mase November 30 Globecom 2006 San Francisco,
USA
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Officer Team
Officer Team
Officer Team Chair Kenichi Mase Chair Elect
Chi-Ming Chen Vice-Chair-Operations Hiromi
Ueda Vice-Chair-Publications Anil
Macwan Vice-Chair-Programs Mike Todd Secretary
Treasurer Kevin Krantz Shigeo Shioda Advisory
Board Karl Rauscher (Advisory Board
Chair) Koichi Asatani (Advisory Board Chair
Emeritus) Kelly Krick Raymond Bonelli
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Agenda

• WELCOM
• Recertification
• Policy and Procedures Update
• Technical Programs
• Strategic Programs
• COMSOC TAC
• 2007 Chairmans award
• Others
• ADJOURN

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Recertification

• Every three years.
• Submitted on August 30.
• Policy and procedures including charters have
  been updated.
• Thanks, Chi-Ming.

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CQR Charter

• Revised August 2006
• The Technical Committee on Communications Quality
  Reliability (CQR) focuses on and advocates
  worldwide communications and reliability on
  behalf of, and within, the Communications
  Society. 
• CQR serves as the catalyst for global awareness
  and the exchange of information relative to
  technical and management-related aspects of
  communications quality and reliability. This also
  extends to security of the telecommunications
  network.

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Charter (Cont.)

• CQR technical subject matter includes
• I. Service Quality and Reliability
• Quality of Service
• Service reliability
• Quality aspects of emerging technologies and
  services
• Quality issues of information infrastructure
• Customer satisfaction
• Quality assessment
• Quality management tools and systems
• Timeliness of repair services
• Definitions, metrics, best practices, and
  best-in-class performance

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Charter (Cont.)

• II. Network Quality and Reliability
• Network reliability
• Network performance
• Network architecture
• Network interoperability
• Network robustness
• Network security
• Emergency preparedness disaster recovery
• Ad-hoc networks
• Priority communications
• Quality and reliability implications of network
  evolution
• Definitions, metrics, best practices, and
  best-in-class performance

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Charter (Cont.)

• III. Product and System Quality and Reliability
• Software
• Hardware
• Procedures
• Process
• Testing and tools
• Product and process quality evolution
• Products, processes and procedures for emergency
  recovery
• Best practices
• Environment
• Life cycle costs
• Definitions, metrics, best practices, and
  best-in-class performance

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Charter (Cont.)

• The direct beneficiaries of the work of CQR
  include academia, service providers, equipment
  suppliers, emerging global commercial markets,
  governments and end users. 
• The CQR sponsors an annual workshop, and
  technical and application sessions and tutorials
  at major Communications Society conferences.
• A major goal of CQR is to engage our growing,
  diverse membership to promote an understanding of
  major communications quality and reliability
  issues in the world.
• The CQR accomplishes this goal through
  participation in conferences and workshop and
  contributions in forums and technical
  publications. The Technical Committee supports
  the industry provision of international consensus
  definitions, measurements, best practices, and
  best-in-class performance reference material.

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Some questionnaire items in Recertification

• MENTION WHAT YOU CONSIDER THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT
  OF YOUR TC IN THE LAST 2 YEARS
• Foundation of CQR Chairmans Award.
• Success of annual CQR workshop.
• Success of organizing symposia at ICCs and
  Globecoms.
• Two IEEE Fellows from CQR.

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Some questionnaire items in Recertification

• 27. WHAT COULD COMSOC DO TO HELP YOUR TC IN ITS
  OPERATIONS?
• Would be nice to get more support on web pages,
  for example,
• software for contact information updates by
  members, and
• higher disk space quota (current limit is 100MB).
  CQR uses the website to communicate with members
  heavily by posting draft/formal presentations.
  Many times, a single presentation takes up to
  20MB already.

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Some questionnaire items in Recertification

• 28. WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS TO INCREASE YOUR GLOBAL
  MEMBERSHIP (AND, IN PARTICULAR, YOUR INDUSTRY
  MEMBERSHIP)?
• CQR has always focused on promoting the dialog
  and interactions of industry members and academia
  members. In particular, the annual CQR workshop
  has a strong participation from industry. CQR
  will continue to promote good combination of
  strategic program (industry focused) and
  technical program (academia focused) at CQR
  workshops and ICC/Globecom conferences.

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• CQR TC Policies and Procedures
• (Revised August 23, 2006)
• Duties of each officer are specified.
• Nomination and selection procedure for CQR
  Chairmans award is included.
• Budget and Expenses section is included.
• Thanks , Chi-Ming, Kelly and Karl.
• http//www.comsoc.org/cqr/TC-Meetings.html

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CQR Chairmans Award NOMINATION AND SELECTION

• Nominations may be received from a CQR Committee
  Officer or a member of the CQR Board of Advisors.
• Criteria upon which candidates are evaluated
  include
• sustained contributions in the field of Quality,
  Reliability Security of communications
  services, networks or systems
• a demonstration of the core value of a
  professional society- adding value to others and
• integrity consistent with that of a role model.
• Evaluations should be made by the Chair and Board
  of Advisors with final selection being left to
  the Chair.
• Contact the selected candidates to inform of
  awarding together with the requirement of
  attendance to CQR workshop.
• If some of the selected candidates are not
  interested in workshop attendance, they are
  excluded from the selected candidates. If some of
  them cannot attend the target workshop, their
  award is canceled, but they may be considered
  again in future workshop.
• Each recipient will be cited for specific
  contributions, service or elements of character.

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Technical and Strategic Programs

• Technical
• ICC
• GLOBECOM
• Symposia
• Strategic
• Annual International Workshops
• Special Hot Topic Workshops
• Combined
• JSAC
• ICC and GLOBECOM Business Application Sessions

Strategic Programs
Technical Programs
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Technical Programs - Planning

• 2006 ICC Istanbul, June 11-15
• H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair with N.
  Fonseca of CSIM-TC
• 220 papers submitted, 89 accepted
• 2006 GLOBECOM San Francisco, November 27-30
• H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair with M.
  Devetsikiotis of CSIM-TC
• 140 papers submitted, 39 accepted
• 2007 ICC Glasgow, June 24-28
• H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair with N. Fonseca
  of CSIM-TC and A. Jamalipour of SSC-TC
• TPC established.
• 2007 GLOBECOM Washington, D.C.
• 2008 ICC Beijing China, May 19-23
• H. Ueda
• Plan to have our symposium.
• 2008 GLOBECOM New Orleans, November
• 2009 ICC Dresden Germany, June 14-18
• T. Tsuboi
• 2010 ICC

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Recent Hot Topic Workhops
Workshops on Availability and Robustness of
Europe's Future Communications Networks
Proceedings on http//www.comsoc.org/cqr/EU-Proce
edings-2006.html Workshop on The Trust
Paradigm Implementing Trusted Methods in
Information Technology Management and Security,
October 17, 2006, Washington D.C.
http//www.comsoc.org/cqr/TrustParadigm-2006.htm
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Small workshops

• A series of 4 workshops across Europe in Rome,
  London, Berlin, Brussels on the subject of the
  reliability and security Europe's future
  networks  CQR attendees include Rick, Karl, Ray
  hopefully Mike and/or Peter Hoath,  . . .
• Trusted Computing workshop in Washington DC,
  October 17 - many high level government (NIST,
  FRB) and industry folks (very high levels from
  Microsoft, HP, Verizon/maybe Dick Lynch, etc.)
  attending.  CQR attendees include Chi-Ming, PJ, ,
  Stephen Malphrus, Karl . . .
• These small workshops (less than 40 less than 1
  day) are easy to execute because they all have no
  fee.  Local host companies (Telecom Italia, BT,
  etc. provide the facility people pick their own
  hotel).  We have CQR positioned as a technical
  co-sponsor for these.  What is great is that CQR
  will get to publish the proceedings. These events
  should build momentum on our London '06 workshop
  for CQR visibility in Europe, and the event in DC
  will help get us set for Globecom'07, where we
  should plan for strong business application type
  session.

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CQR 2007 International Workshop

• When May 15-17, 2007
• Where Sanibel Harbor Resort
• 17260 Sanibel Harbour Pointe Drive
• Fort Myers, Florida
• http//www.sanibel-resort.com/i
  ndex2.asp
• Technical Program Chairs
• Richard Krock, Lucent Technologies
• Peter Hoath, BT

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CQR 2007 International Workshop Program at a
Glance
Five Segments/Themes
Updates are posted on http//www.comsoc.org/cqr/e
vents.html
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Program Organization of 2008 CQR Workshop

• Previous workshops
• Program Chair
• Mainly strategic program (invited presentation
  based)
• No TPC, no call-for-paper and no review
• 2008 workshop
• General Chair
• Mainly strategic program (invited presentation
  based)
• follows a traditional way.
• TPC Chair
• Technical program (selected paper based)
• TPC, call-for-paper and review (CD-based
  Proceedings)

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• 2008 CQR Workshop
• General Chair
• Karl Rauscher, Lucent Technologies
• TPC Chair
• Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ.
• Location and dates
• To be selected before CQR2007

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ComSoc TAC Reports

• The meeting minutes and the presnetations of the
  Nov. 28, 2006 TAC meeting are available on
• http//www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom
  /meetings/sanfran2.html

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2007 CQR Chairmans Award nomination and
selection schedule

• Send me your proposals by the end of February,
  2007. (Short bio, reasons and possible citation)
• Voting by advisory board members due March 15.
• Selection completed due March 31.
• Attendance confirmed due April 15.
• A plaque and a US100 honorarium prepared.
• Recipients announced and awarded on 2007 Workshop.

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C Q R
CQR Logo

• Official Name Technical Committee on
  Communications Quality Reliability
• note use of sign (instead of and)
• Abbreviation as CQR
• Logo
• one space between each letter
• font Garamond
• font effects setting Shadow
• yellow (brightest yellow in Microsoft Office
  Red 255, Green 255, Blue 0)
• preferred background Blue (various shades)