1. WELCOME

This issue brings the latest on the ComSoc Membership Drive, the ComSoc Top Articles for October 2005, a new member survey, the latest ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month and the Candidates for Office on the Ballot for the 2006 ComSoc Election.

Also included is the latest information in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events.

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2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Renew your Communications Society membership before the end of December! Become eligible for an i-Pod Shuffle drawing. Communications Society members are reminded to renew their membership. The easiest way to renew is through your IEEE Web Account. Renewing ComSoc members will be eligible for special offers on selected online tutorials. One hundred random renewing members will be selected to receive an i-Pod Shuffle. Watch for announcements and other special offers exclusively for renewing members.

Watch for a member survey on the potential value of certification! In January 2006, IEEE will conduct a survey asking selected members questions on various aspects of the possibility of initiating a communications engineering certification program. For more information, contact John Keaton, Senior Manager, Strategic Research and Planning, j.c.keaton@ieee.org

Register now for the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference -- "Eliminating Boundaries.” The program is set. The keynote speakers are ready. You can be there. Register now for the IEEE CCNC conference, Harrah’s Las Vegas, January 8-10, 2006.

Extra discount on ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month … Understanding Information Transmission ….The December 2005 ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month is Anderson and Johannesson’s Understanding Information Transmission. Special price for ComSoc web users. Check the ComSoc www site each month for new special offers

Again in October a broadband wireless access paper continued to top list of ComSoc papers most requested through Xplore! Check out the ComSoc www site headline at www.comsoc.org. See the monthly ComSoc Top Ten list of those papers receiving the most requests for PDF views through IEEE Xplore

Reminder – only limited copies remain available…. Order Your Personal Copy of the ComSoc DVD set before prices increase…..Communications Engineering Technology: A Comprehensive Collection of Papers 1953-2004 (3 DVD set) 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. Prices are scheduled to increase in January.
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.

CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE ON THE BALLOT FOR COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY ELECTION 2006

PRESIDENT-ELECT
The candidates selected by the N&E Committee to run for President-Elect in
ComSoc’s 2006 election are:

Alex Gelman
Harvey Freeman

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Here are the candidates selected by the N&E Committee to run for Member-at-Large of
the Board of Governors in the election to be held in 2006.

Gordon Stuber, Ted Rappaport, Stam Kartaloupolos, Shri Goyal, Tom LaPorta, Mehmet Ulema
Catherine Rosenberg, Hikmet Sari, Michele Zorzi, Nelson Fonseca, Abbas Jamalipour, Bo Li

Electronic Petitions are now available at the ComSoc web page a facility to make petitions for candidates for IEEE and ComSoc elections.

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3. RECENT EVENTS

3.1 AWARDS

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3.2 SOCIETY NEWS

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

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3.3 CHAPTER NEWS

Chapter Achievement Awards 2005

Comsoc gives different awards for ComSoc chapters to recognize their outstanding activities. The citation for the awards is “For achieving excellence in Chapter activities and for contributions made in furthering the objectives of the Society.” The 2005 winners are:

ComSoc Chapter-of-the-Year
Argentina

Superior Regional Chapters
Delhi (Asia/Pacific)
Ecuador (Latin America)`
Vancouver (North America)
UK & Republic of Ireland (UK) -EAME

Outstanding Regional Chapters
Calcutta (Asia/Pacific)
Guadalajara (Latin America)
Northern Virginia (North America)
Slovenia (EAME)

Excellent Regional Chapters
Hong Kong (Asia/Pacific)
Costa Rica (Latin America)
Denver (North America)
Russia Northwest (St. Petersburg) – EAME

IEEE North Jersey Section COMSOC chapter sponsores several seminars http://www-ec.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html. Among the recently delivered seminars are:
Video Compression and Delivery - A Discussion by Sankar Subramanian
GENI: The NSF Initiative to Re-build the Internet by Sirin Tekinay
Visit the North Jersey Section COMSOC chapter web site for future events and slides of past talks.

Poznan ComSoc Chapter

Chapter Communications Poznan will be involved in organizing the 2006
Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), which will be
held in Poznan, Poland, on 7-9 June 2006.

IEEE St.Petersburg BT/CE/COM Chapter

The NEW2AN conference will be held in St.Petersburg (Russia) on May 29 -June 2, 2006.

For more information about ComSoc chapters, see http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/chapters/index.html

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3.4 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWS

The Signal Processing for Storage Technical Committee awarded the Best student paper for 2004 in the area of Signal Processing for Data Storage to Zheng Zhang, Arizona State University for the paper

"Achievable Information Rates and Coding for MIMO Systems Over ISI Channels and Frequency-Selective Fading Channels", by Z.Zhang, T.M.Duman,
E.M.Kurtas, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, p. 1698, October 2004

The Internet TC flagship workshop - Global Internet - will continue to be held in conjunction with IEEE Infocom in 2006. It will be held in April 2006 immediately after the IEEE Infocom conference in Barcelona, Spain. It will be co-chaired by Georg Carle and Pablo Rodriguez. The CfP has been distributed and the TPC has been assembled.

As part of Satellite and Space Communications TC’s commitment to promote research and development activities in the area of satellite communications within the industry and academia research community, we have established the “Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications Award” in 2001. This annual award is usually presented during Globecom conference. For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply for this award, please visit the SSC TC web. The deadline for this year nomination/application is 15 July. For 2005, Professors Yoshiaki Nemoto and Nei Kato from Tohoku University, Japan have received the SSC TC award at the IEEE Globecom2005, held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, for their long-term and active contributions to the satellite research and developments. Congratulation to Yoshiaki and Nei! We look forward to future contributions from them to the satellite community and nominations for the 2006 award!

For more information about ComSoc technical committees, see http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/committees.html

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3.5 STANDARDS NEWS

New CD-ROM Consolidates WAN Standards
A new CD-ROM from the IEEE Standards Association offers access to nearly 50 active standards for local, metropolitan, and wireless area networks. In addition, users can search 1,750 keywords, abbreviations, acronyms and definitions through the product's glossary of terms. To purchase, http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/product.aspx?product_no=SE138

For more news regarding IEEE Standards development work go to http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/index.html.

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3.6.2 PERIODICALS

Recent special reports in IEEE Spectrum:

• Getting a Grip on the Grid Widespread electric outages are not merely a fluke but a symptom-of poor policy and management
• Earthquake Alarm Impending earthquakes have been sending us warning signals—and people are starting to listen
• Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier
  
  

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3.6.3 NEW BOOKS

IEEE Press Calls For Book Proposals
IEEE Press is now actively seeking proposals for new books to fulfill its recently approved three-year strategic plan. Especially sought are books that offer a comprehensive introduction to technologies entering the commercial marketplace, as well as practical, "how-to" books that aid technologists in performing their jobs. IEEE Press books are published under a joint imprint with John Wiley & Sons. For more information on IEEE Press, visit: <http://www.ieee.org/press>.

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3.7 SISTER SOCIETIES

Recent IEICE-CS publications

http://www.ieice.org/cs/email_news/2005/20050823.txt (August issue)
http://www.ieice.org/cs/email_news/2005/20050926.txt (September issue)
http://www.ieice.org/cs/email_news/2005/20050926_2.txt (October issue)

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4. IMMINENT EVENTS

HONET 2005
Conference on High-capacity Optical Networks & Enabling Technologies
Islamabad PK December 19-21

CCNC 2006
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Las Vegas NV USA January 8-10

RWS 2006
IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium
San Diego CA USA January 17-19

ICACT 2006
8th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology
Phoenix Park KR February 20-22

Additional forthcoming conferences are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html.

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4.3 IMMINENT CALLS FOR PAPERS

4.3.1 CONFERENCE CFPS

Additional forthcoming ComSoc conference Calls For Papers are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2005/confscfp.html.

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4.3.2 JOURNAL CFPS

Deadline	Topic
Feb. 1, 2006	Adaptive, Spectrum Agile and Cognitive Wireless Networks
Feb. 1, 2006	Cooperative Communications and Networking
Jun. 1, 2006	Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking Manuscript submission

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4.3.3 MAGAZINE CFPS

Magazine	Deadline	Topic
IEEE Communications Magazine	Recurring	IEEE Optical Communications Supplement
	Recurring	IEEE Radio Communications Supplement
	Dec. 31, 2005	Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems

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4.4 INDUSTRY EVENTS

5. ANNIVERSARIES

Birthdays and Anniversaries:

2 December, 1881
Heinrich Georg Barkhausen was born in Bremen, Germany. He was the head of an institute for communications engineering and a Fellow of the IRE. He was a contributor to the study of electron tubes, acoustics, and magnetism. Among other inventions, he discovered the eponymous Barkhausen effect (that a steadily increasing magnetic field causes the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material to increase in small jumps, rather than continuously). He died on 20 February 1956 in Dresden, Germany.

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