IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications TCCC at ICC09

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IEEE Technical Committee on Computer
Communications(TCCC) at ICC09

• Joe Touch (USC/ISI)
• Sonia Fahmy (Purdue Univ)
• Xiaoming Fu (Univ Goettingen)

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Participants introduction
• Recent progress/activities
• TAC report
• Draft technical co-sponsorship procedures
• Next activities
• Support for DL, SM
• CCW09
• Open discussions

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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 Joes 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• Submitted papers must be unpublished, original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

April 21, 2009
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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.h
  tml

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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
  (ltX)
• 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 News

• Paper Awards

• Career / Service Awards
• (Nomination due Sept 1)

• 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

• 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

• Standardization

• 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_at_comsoc.org

• 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_at_ieee.org

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Upcoming Activities

• Meetings at ComSoc major conferences
• CCW09, Lenox, MA, Oct 18-21
• Globecom09, Honolulu, HI, Nov 30-Dec 4
• INFOCOM10, 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_at_ISI.EDU
• Vice Chair Sonia Fahmy  (Purdue U.)
  fahmy_at_cs.purdue.edu
• Secretary Xiaoming Fu (U. Goettingen)
  fu_at_cs.uni-goettingen.de
• All officers tccc_officers_at_comsoc.org
• Conference Coordinator
• Joerg Ott (Tech U. Helsinki/TKK)
  jo_at_netlab.tkk.fi