1. WELCOME

This issue - requests by the IEEE ComSoc WCET certification program, the January Top Ten list, the ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month for February and the latest in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events. The IEEE Communications Society is proud to introduce Bob Shapiro as the new EIC for e-News .

Hello IEEE ComSoc E-News Readers. My name is Bob Shapiro and I am the new e-News Editor in Chief. Please let us know your thoughts and ideas on how we can improve your E-Newsletter. This year we are going to focus on industry and IEEE ComSoc news as well as trends and business and regulatory opportuinities. You can reach me at enews-ed@comsoc.org.

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2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Wireless Industry Experts Wanted... IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications Engineering Technology (IEEE ComSoc WCET) certification program is looking for focus group applicants. If you are going to Hong Kong (WCNC), 14-15 March, or Orlando (CTIA), 27-28 March and wish to participate in a 2-3 hour review of the draft practice analysis, you can apply by completing the form. Focus groups at Regional IEEE meetings include Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22 March; Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 25 March, and Sophia, Bulgaria, 13 April. Click on a city name to apply.

January Top Ten list 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 web site. See the ComSoc web site headlines at www.comsoc.org.

You can achieve financial independence and retire! ...In the February ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month Golio, an electrical engineer, guides you through all the salient questions and decisions. Whether retirement is imminent or many years off, Engineering Your Retirement provides you with a straightforward, analytical approach to financial independence and answers the critical questions to achieving successful, comfortable, and meaningful retirement.. Check the ComSoc web site each month for new special offers.

Special Prepublication offer for ComSoc members....a 700 page volume with 55 of the most significant journal papers published by the IEEE Communications Society -- The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research edited by Tranter, Taylor, Ziemer, Maxemchuk, and Mark. It’s a compilation of the most outstanding papers published by ComSoc -- Cerf, Kahn, Kleinrock, Lucky, Baran, Viterbi, and many more. More… Order your copy at the prepublication price of $49. Order here. Type “PrePub” in the special instructions to receive the prepublication offer price. Valid until 31 Mar 2007. Copies are available for shipping.

Special Offer for online tutorials coming to renewing ComSoc members... 2007 ComSoc members who were members in 2006 (renewing members) should watch their e-mail for a special offer on selected Tutorials Now titles. Each $250 online tutorial will be offered for $25!!! This will be an e-mail only offer.  

Coming in April and May....Metropolitan Optical Networking and Wireless/Optical Integration, an IEEE Communications Society Webinar, in two 90 minute sessions, sponsored by NEC Labs America, similar to the Business Application Sessions at our major conferences. Part 1 (second week of April): Next Generation Access: Optical + Mobility. Moderated by Steve Weinstein, Comsoc's Chief Information Officer; Part 2, (second week of May): Implementing Optical/Wireless Integration. Moderated by Kazem Sohraby, Comsoc's Director of Online Content. No cost to audience. Watch for future messages on date, time and the URL for signup and viewing.

IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - Call for Papers Deadline Just Around Corner... CFP is March 15th for Technical Papers,
ACCESS '07 Executive Business Forum, Design & Developer's Forum, Tutorials & Workshops

The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) will meet in Washington, DC from 17 – 22 October 2007, and celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. As part of that celebration, the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum will host a one-day symposium on the history of communication technologies on 17 October. The event’s organizers are the Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of SHOT, and the National Postal Museum. The symposium will be open to the public.

Proposals for papers and panels on any topic related to the history of communication technologies are welcome. The term “communication technologies” is construed in the broadest sense to include all traditional electrical and electronic forms of communication, such as telegraphy, telephony, radio, and television, as well as postal systems, semaphores, print media, and telematics, which combines computer and communication technologies. Proposals from those new to SHOT and the Mercurians—as well as those who are not yet members of either—are welcome, regardless of discipline or academic status (graduate student, independent scholar, or professor).

The symposium will take place at the National Postal Museum, 2 Massachusetts Ave, NE, which is next to Union Station, a terminus for rail (Amtrak and Marc) and Metro lines, making it convenient for those attending the SHOT meeting and those coming from out of town. The submission of proposal guidelines will follow SHOT guidelines, which are posted at: http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annualmtg/2007SHOT_cfp.pdf.

Please email complete proposals to Allison Marsh marsha@si.edu and Andrew Butrica Mercurians@earthlink.net.
Please submit all paper and panel proposals by 1 May 2007.
Notification of accepted papers will be made in August 2007. Symposium papers will be posted on the National Postal Museum’s website and will be considered for possible publication.

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INDUSTRY EVENTS

3. RECENT EVENTS

3.1 AWARDS

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

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

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3.3 CHAPTER NEWS

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

In February 2007 TAOS elected Tarek El-Bawab (Jackson State University, USA) as new Secretary.

We congratulate with Tarek for this nomination. The last ComSoc event that Tarek organized is the Globecom 2006 "Seventh
International Workshop on Optical Networking Technologies: Examining the Case for Optical Burst Switching"
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/W1.html

Moreover, here is a short bio of Tarek (from the Globecom2005 web site):

Tarek S. El-Bawab is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Jackson State University, USA. His areas of interest include optical networks and WDM, network architectures, performance analysis, and next-generation switching/routing. He has more than 22 years of experience in communication systems and networks. Prior to Jackson State, he was with Alcatel USA where he served as the project manager of the optical networking project of the Network Strategy Group (NSG). Before this, he was in optical-networking and WDM research for eight years with a number of institutions: Alcatel-USA Research & Innovation (Corporate
Research Center), the Department of Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University (USA) and the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex (UK). Prior to this he was system design engineer with Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Cairo head office) and telecommunication lead engineer in Greater Cairo Metro project, where he was in charge of network design and implementation. Dr El-Bawab has more than 50 publications and patents in the field of optical networking. His book "Optical Switching" is the most comprehensive scientific resource in its subject. He serves as member of technical committees, and as organizer
and chair of a number of IEEE/SPIE conferences/workshops.

He is Senior IEEE member and member of the IEEE communication, computer, electron device, Lasers and Electro-Optics and engineering management societies. He has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, and a B.A. in History, from Ain Shams
University, Egypt. He holds a M.Sc. in Telecommunications and Information Systems from the University of Essex, U.K, and an M.Sc. in Solid State Science from the American University in Cairo. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.

For 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:

• RFID inside The murky ethics of implanted chips
• AT&T's Attic Locked away in a suburban New Jersey warehouse, a quirky archive preserves funky but priceless relics of the electronic age

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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

Optical Fiber Communication Conf & Exposition & the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
25-30 Mar 2007 / Anaheim CA US / http://www.ofcnfoec.org/

IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conf
11-15 Mar 2007 / Hong Kong / http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2007/

IEEE @ CTIA WIRELESS 2007 - IEEE Portable & IEEE Mobile WiMAX & IEEE ISBMSB 25-29 Mar 2007 / Orlando, Florida USA / http://www.comsoc.org/confs/ieee/index.html

IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications (ISPLC) & Its Applications
26-28 Mar 2007 / Pisa, Italy / http://www.ieee-isplc.org/2007/

IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
18-20 April 2007 / Dublin, Ireland / http://www.ieee-dyspan.org/2007/

26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
6-12 May 2007 / Anchorage, Alaska US / http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2007/

International Symposium on Integrated Network Management
21-25 May 2007 / Munich, Germany / http://www.ieee-im.org/2007

IEEE Conference on Sensor & Ad Hoc Communications & Network
18-21 Jun 2007 / San Diego CA US / http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/

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

IEEE Int'l Conf on Multimedia & Expo
2-5 Jul 2007 / Beijing CN / http://www.comsoc.org/confs/icme/index.html

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor & Mobile Radio Communications
3-6 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

IEEE Wireless Communication & Networking Conference
30 Mar - Apr 3 2008 / Las Vegas NV US / www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008

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

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4.2 CONFERENCE CFPS

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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5.1 JOURNALS

5.3 CALLS FOR PAPERS

5.3.1 JOURNAL CFPS

New ComSoc online publication elevated to IEEE Journal status. View the current issue of the Communications Society's newest online publication IEEE e-Transactions on Network and Service Management (eTNMS)

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5.3.2 MAGAZINE CFPS

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