1. WELCOME

Welcome to the June 2007 issue of IEEE ComSoc e-News.

This issue: a special offer for online tutorials, free Webinar, Industry events and the latest in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events.

2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Get involved with WCET…..The IEEE Communications Society’s Wireless Communications Engineering Technology (WCET) Certification project continues to make progress. Read the monthly columns in IEEE Communications Magazine. Visit the www site. Recently the PATF revised the delineation.  And those revisions will be subject to one last review by the PATF before the delineation is distributed for a broad-based review via a large scale survey. If you want to participate in a pilot of this survey, you can sign up at the www site or click here.

News from the Communications Industry….focus on IPTV
Nokia Siemens Embraces IMS for IPTV
Shanghai Telecom to Launch AVS-based IPTV Trial
Narrowstep Supplies Telvos IPTV System to Telefonica
IPTV's Integrated Experience
IPTV Market Could Drive Telecom Industry Consolidation
More…

Master current design techniques for wireless communication systems…. The June 2007 ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month is Freeman’s Third Edition of Radio System Design for Telecommunications Optical Switching.  Readers get all the tools and guidance they need to master an essential set of current design techniques for radio systems that operate at frequencies of 3 MHz to 100 GHz. Check the ComSoc www site each month for new special offers.

2007 ComSoc Elections now underway! The 2007 ComSoc Board of Governor’s election has begun and will run through August 10. This year 4 new VPs and 4 new Members-at-Large will be elected to the Board.  A new format will be tested this year and next year called  e-first voting.  Ballots will be sent electronically to all voting members who will be asked to vote at a secure Web site.  Members wishing to vote with a paper ballot have the option of requesting one be mailed to them.

As before, the biography and position statement of each candidate is available to voters via a link to the ComSoc Web site.  Since IEEE policy does not permit the use of IEEE e-mail lists for electioneering, the Nominations and Elections Committee is promoting an organized electioneering process for the VP candidates using a Question and Answer format.  The Q and A will appear in future e-News issues, on the ComSoc Web site, and in the Communications Magazine.

ComSoc is making a concerted effort this year to inform members of the ongoing election, and urge them to “get out and vote!”

CEO Forum at ICC….Don’t miss the innovative CEO Forum at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 24-28 June, Glasgow, Scotland. Mr Arun Sarin, Chief Executive of the Vodafone Group and conference General Chair, introduces some of the world’s leading industrialists to share their visions of the future. Speakers include Pat Russo: (CEO Alcatel Bell Labs), Ben Verwaayen: (Chief Executive BT), Niklas Zennstrom: (CEO Skype), Sanjiv Ahuja: (CEO Orange), Steve Ballmer: (CEO Microsoft) - video presentation. Online registration is open.

New online tutorial posted ….  MIMO Systems for Wireless Communications (2 hours and 55 minutes, 127 slides) presented by Constantinos Papadias and Angel Lozano has recently become available. A free five minute preview is available. View all online tutorials at the ComSoc Tutorials Now program web page.

IEEE WCNC 2008 Call for Papers .... Submissions welcomed for papers, panels, and tutorials in all areas of wireless communications.  For a list of potential topics, submission instructions, and general conference information, visit http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008.

April 2007 list of Top Ten articles available now…The monthly ComSoc Top Ten list of those papers receiving the most requests for PDF views through IEEE Xplore is now posted on the ComSoc www site. See the ComSoc www site headlines at www.comsoc.org

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3. RECENT EVENTS

3.1 AWARDSFor information about ComSoc awards, visit http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/awards/index.html

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 to apply for membership visit: http://www.comsoc.org/join/index.html

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

3.4 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWSFor information about ComSoc technical committees, see http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/committees.html

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

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3.6 PUBLICATIONS NEWS

3.6.1 CURRENT ISSUES MAGAZINES

MAGAZINES
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Network
IEEE Wireless Communications

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3.6.2 PERIODICALS Recent special reports in IEEE Spectrum:

• How to Keep 18 Million People Moving São Paulo operates the world's most complex bus system.
• How to Build a Green City Shanghai hopes to build the world's first truly sustainable city.
• How to Measure a City's Metabolism Taking stock of London's appetites

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3.6.3 NEW BOOKS For information about books published by the Wiley-IEEE Press, see http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/press/

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3.7 SISTER SOCIETIES For information about ComSoc Sister Societies, see http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/socrel/societies.html.

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4. IMMINENT EVENTS

4.1 CONFERENCES

  IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
18-21 June 2007 / San Diego, CA US / http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/

  IEEE International Conference on Communications
24-28 June 2007 / Glasgow, Scotland / http://www.ieee-icc.org/2007/

     IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
2-5 July 2007 / Beijing, P.R. China / http://www.comsoc.org/confs/icme/index.html

  IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
3-7 September 2007 / Athens, Greece / http://www.pimrc2007.org/

  International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing
21-23 September 2007 / Shanghai, P.R. China / http://www.arcst.whu.edu.cn/wicom2007/index.aspx

  Military Communications Conference
29-31 Oct 2007 / Orlando, FL US / http://www.milcom.org/2007/

  IEEE Global Communications Conference
26-30 Nov 2007 / Washington, DC US http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2007/index.html

  International Conference on Enterprise Networking & Services
29-30 Nov 2007 / Washington, DC US  http://www.ieee-entnet.org/2007/

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

4.2 CONFERENCE CFPS

Conference Full name Year Location Date of conference CFP deadline

ICI 2007
3rd International Conference In Central Asia on Internet
Tashkent UZ
Sep 26-28
CFP deadline Jun 15

HONET 2007
High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies
Dubai UAE
Nov 3-5
CFP deadline Jun 15

EntNet @ IEEE GLOBECOM 2007
7th International Conference on Enterprise Networking & Services
Washington DC US
Nov 29-30
CFP deadline Jun 24

EuroSSC 2007
2nd European IEEE Conference on Smart Sensing and Context
Windermere UK
Oct 23-25
CFP deadline Jun 25

IIT 2008
Innovations in Information Technologies
Dubai UAE
Nov 18-20
CFP deadline Aug 4

BIONETICS 2007
International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems
Budapest HU
Dec 10-12
CFP deadline Aug 5

FinanceCom 2007
3rd International Workshop on Enterprise, Applications and Services in Finance Industry
Montreal CA
Dec 8
CFP deadline Aug 15

Additional upcoming ComSoc conference Calls For Papers are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2007/confscfp.html.

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5. SPECIAL ISSUES OF PUBLICATIONS

5.1 MAGAZINES

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5.2 JOURNALS

5.3 CALLS FOR PAPERS

5.3.1 JOURNAL CFPS

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5.3.2 MAGAZINE CFPS

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