IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) at INFOCOM

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IEEE Technical Committee on Computer
Communications(TCCC) at INFOCOM09

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

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Announcements
• TCCC Outstanding Service Award 2008
• CCW 2009
• Updating technical co-sponsorship procedures
• Distinguished Lecturer Program
• Support for member grade promotion
• 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 Management

• Officers
• Current officers Joe Touch (chair), Sonia Fahmy
  (vice chair), Xiaoming Fu (secretary)
• Past officers Bulent Yener (chair), Ken Calvert
  (vice chair), Song Chong (secretary)
• Conference coordinator Joerg Ott
• Representatives to tech co-sponsored meetings

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TCCC Member Portal

• http//www.comsoc.org/tccc
• Information on
• CCW
• In-cooperation conferences
• Meeting minutes
• Mailing list
• Procedures and policies
• Officers contacts

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TCCC Mailing list

• Goal to support the TCCC membership
• Promote technical discussions of computer
  communications issues
• Provide information on relevant IEEE issues
• Provide a venue for community discussion
• Currently supports the wider network community as
  an open bulletin board for meetings, journals,
  job posts
• Recent effort to keep posts broadly on-topic

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TCCC Outstanding Service Award

• Awarded to Roch Guerin
• Awarded for outstanding service to the TCCC and
  its community, through its meetings,
  publications, and organization
• To be celebrated at CCW09
• 2008 committee Sonia Fahmy, Bulent Yenner,
  Tatsuya Suda (past awardee)

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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, chair Bulent
  Yener

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Technical Co-Sponsorship

• current process is vague
• TAC suggests the general guidelines procedure
• Considering adopting process from ITC, TCHSN
• Proposed requirements
• In-scope
• Largely peer review (3 reviews)
• Appropriate TPC
• Appropriate accept rate history
• Prior to submission deadline
• Visible, nonprofit budget

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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
• Deadline and process to be announced

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Supporting Member Grade Promotion

• IEEE has various member grades
• Student, Member, Senior Member, Fellow
• Promotion requirements (TBV)
• Senior Member 10 years visible
  contributions
• 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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Upcoming Activities

• Meetings at ComSoc major conferences
• ICC09, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18
• CCW09, Lenox, MA, Oct 18-21
• Globecom09, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov 30-Dec 4
• INFOCOM10, San Francisco, CA, Mar 15-19

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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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Conference/WorkshopNo-Show Policy

• Requires a non-student registration
• IEEE Comsoc discounts do apply
• Student discounts do NOT apply
• See IEEE Comsoc website for papers/registration
• No-Show
• Previously had no effect on Xplore
• Now at the meeting chairs discretion
• May remove paper from Xplore
• AUTHORS MUST BE NOTIFIED BY CFP

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Candidate Issues

• New
• Meeting costs
• Ethics issues
• Previous
• Laddering (successive publication)
• Review quality / load / delay time /
  experiments