1. WELCOME

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

This issue: News from the Communications Industry, a complimentary online tutorial, IEEE TV and the latest in Standards, Periodicals, and Conferences.

2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

News from the Communications Industry....focus on mesh networks

Mesh Networking and WiMAX Will Open Market for Mobile Devices
Xacta Introduces Mesh Communication Tools for Military
Azalea to Build Largest Industrial Broadband Wireless Network in China
Chicago: The Meshy City
Municipal Mesh Network Demands Expected to Rise to 100 Mbps
More…

Complimentary Online Tutorial available…IEEE Communications Society is pleased to offer a free two-hour online tutorial presentation on "Software Radio Implementation for MIMO/OFDM High Speed Wireless LAN/MAN" from IEEE Communications Society's popular Tutorials Now! program. Originally presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, the tutorial covers cutting-edge wireless parallel transmission technologies in OFDM and MIMO.   Free for a limited time only.

50th ANNUAL IEEE GLOBECOM….Don't miss the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with industry pioneers headlining the various educational programs including ACCESS ’07 (12 sessions), D&D sessions (12 sessions), 20 Tutorials & 9 Workshops, and General Symposium (17 sessions) & 9 Technical Symposia (164 sessions).  Register by 31 October to receive the discounted rate.

IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications (ICCSC 2008) Shanghai, China, 26 - 28 May 2008 (the week after ICC 2008): Call for Papers Deadline Approaching...Paper submissions due 1 November. The theme of this event is Circuits and Systems for Multimedia Wireless Communications. For a full list of topics, submission instructions, and general conference information: visit www.ieee-iccsc.org/2008/

 

Survey reminder…Check you e-mail messages. If you received an e-mail message from IEEE Communications Society asking you to complete a survey on the practice analysis for the wireless communication engineering technologies (WCET) certification program, please take a few minutes to take the survey. We need and want your expert input.

 

IEEE CCNC 2008.…Register today and receive any two featured tutorials complimentary – (1) Mobile Online Game Development, (2) IPTV Technologies, (3) Sensor Networks, (4) Peer-to-Peer Technologies, (5) Fixed Mobile Networks.  For complete conference information: visit www.ieee-ccnc.org/2008

August 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

 

New online tutorial posted… Wireless Cooperative Communication Networks (2 hours and 36 minutes, 176 slides) presented by Mischa Dohler and Hamid Aghvami has recently been added to the ComSoc catalog of 50+ online tutorials. A free five minute preview is available. View all online tutorials at the ComSoc Tutorials Now program web page.

Recently featured on AT&T Labs Research Home page...The Best of the Best contains 55 of the most significant journal papers published by the IEEE Communications Society!  Order your copy of The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research edited by Tranter, Taylor, Ziemer, Maxemchuk, and Mark. More information… Order your copy at the ComSoc member price of $59. Browse the Books and eBooks area of the IEEE Shop site to place your order.

 

The August 2007 ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month -- Bayesian Bounds for Parameter Estimation and Nonlinear Filtering/Tracking -- edited by Harry L. Van Trees and Kristine L. Bell, offers a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in Bayesian Bounds and addresses two related problems: the estimation of multiple parameters based on noisy measurements and the estimation of random processes, either continuous-time or discrete-time, based on noisy measurements. Check the ComSoc www site each month for new special offers.

 

The Consumer Communications and Networking Conference solicits Research Prototype Demonstration as well as Business Applications and Technology Panel proposals. CCNC 2008 Las Vegas: January 10-12, 2008. In conjunction with Consumer Electronics Show - CES. http://www.ieee-ccnc.org

IEEE launches IEEE.tv… It’s an Internet-based television network that features targeted programming on technology and engineering produced by IEEE members. Featuring a variety of programming options including hot topics in technology, conference highlights and interviews with industry experts, IEEE.tv can be viewed at www.ieee.org/ieeetv.  Or read the press release.

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3. RECENT EVENTS

3.1 AWARDS

For 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 NEWS

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

3.4 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWS

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
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

JOURNALS
IEEE Transaction on Communications
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications

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3.6.2 PERIODICALS

Recent special reports in IEEE Spectrum:

• Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small dc current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them
• The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s
• The Codemaker Eric Hahn has been an executive, an entrepreneur, and an investigator. But he's happiest of all to call himself a programmer.
  
  

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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. CONFERENCES

4.1 EVENTS

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

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

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

3rd International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware
6 - 10 January 2008 / Bangalore, India / http://www.comsware.org/

IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
10 - 12 January / Las Vegas, NV, US / http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2008/

OFC & NFOEC
Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
24-28 February 2008 / San Diego, CA, US / http://www.ofcnfoec.org/

IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
30 March - 3 April / Las Vegas, NV, US / http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2008/

 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
 13-19 April / Phoenix, AZ, US / http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2008/

WTS Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2008
24-26 April / Pomona, CA, US / http://www.csupomona.edu/wtsi


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

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4.2 CONFERENCE CFPS

WONS 2008
Fifth Annual Conference on Wireless on Demand Network Systems and Services
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Jan 24-25
CFP deadline Oct 15

K-INGN 2008
Innovations in NGN – Future Network and Services, an ITU-T Kaleidoscope Conference
Geneva, Switzerland
12 - 13 May
CFP deadline Oct 15

IEEE ICCSC 2008
IEEE International Conference on Circuits & Systems for Communications
Shanghai, China
26 - 28 May
CFP deadline Nov 1

ISWPC 2008
International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2008
Santorini, Greece
May 7-9
CFP deadline Nov 2

WSA 2008 
Workshop on Smart Antennas 
Darmstadt , Germany
Feb 26-27
CFP deadline Nov 16

RFID 2008
IEEE International Conference on RFID 2008
Las Vegas, NV, US
Mar  17-19
CFP deadline Nov 21

ICTTA 2008
3rd International Conference in Information & Communication Technologies: from Theory to Application
Damascus, Syria
Apr 7-11
CFP deadline Nov 25

NGI 2008
The 2008 Next Generation Internet Networks
Krakow, Poland  
Apr. 28-30
CFP deadline Nov 30

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

5.2 JOURNALS

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5.3 CALLS FOR PAPERS

5.3.1 MAGAZINE CFPS

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