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Volume 11 Number 05
May 2008

Industry News
Spot Light
Conferences
Publications
Membership
Welcome to the May 2008 issue of IEEE ComSoc e-News.
INDUSTRY NEWS

News from the Communications Industry….focus on instrumentation and testing equipment

Spirent Releases First Platform for Certifying 3GPP TS 34.171 A-GPS RF
AT4 Wireless Launches Test Equipment for WiMAX
Fibre Channel Testing Added to EXFO Test Modules
Aeroflex Announces New Test Suites
GL Communications Updates VoIP Tool
Agilent’s top experts at IMS2008 MicroApps program
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Related Industry Groups
Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) - bridges work across SDOs with current focus on optical control plane network interoperability.

SPOT LIGHT

From the President - Doug Zuckerman- Member Relations - Touching the World - focusing on the Society's grassroots approach for adding value to Society membership around the world.

New online tutorial posted…" Web Security” (220 slides; 3 hours, 4 minutes) presented by Tom Chen 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.

News about the launch of IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technology (WCET)…

Investigate WCET program details. The 2008 WCET Candidate’s Handbook pdf is available. 64-page print copies will be available in two weeks. Request a copy now.

Dates for the first window of WCET testing have been set: 22 September – 10 October 2008. The online application will be available from 17 Jun to 1 August 2008.

At the CTIA Expo in Las Vegas, a drawing for 3 free WCET Practice Exams was held. The winners are Anatoli Levine, Radvision, Inc.; SeongHan Jin, SK Telecom; Eric S. Hipkins, NEK Advanced Securities Group, Inc.

Watch for the WCET display in the exhibit halls at ICC in Beijing, 19 – 23 May & CommunicAsia in Singapore, 17 – 20 June 2008. See you there.

Recently recorded 90-minute ComSoc Webinar on Carrier Ethernet now available…. Sponsored by Lightstorm Networks, the webinar was recorded on 24 Apr and moderated by Joseph Berthold, Ciena. No cost to audience. See it now!

Complimentary Online Tutorial availableIEEE Communications Society offers a free two-hour and ten minute online tutorial presentation on “Advances in Wireless Local Area Networks,” compliments of Analog Devices.

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CONFERENCES

IEEE ICC 2008, Beijing, China – 19-23 May 2008, features keynote addresses by the CEOs of China Mobile and China Telecom, as well as Professor H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University) and Dr. Bob Iannucci (Sr. VP & CTO, Nokia); plus 1132 technical presentations, 26 tutorials, 8 workshops, 10 panels, and a mini-conference entitled "Management of Technology Innovation in the Information Era." There’s still time to Register!

IEEE ICCSC 2008, Shanghai, China – 26-28 May 2008: Experience China's leading commercial city in this CAS/ComSoc conference on Circuits and Systems for Wireless Communications, the week following ICC in Beijing!  Keynotes by Prof. Lang Tong (Cornell University) and Dr. Botaro Hirosaki (SEVP of NEC Corp.), and a workshop, sponsored by Huawei, on Key Technologies for Future Wireless Communications.  Register Now!

FREE WEBINAR! From OPNET Technologies
– May 20, 2008 at 10:00 am EDT – Learn how your organization can accelerate network R&D with the industry’s leading modeling and simulation solution. For more information: visit http://www.opnet.com/email/tws_modeler_rl.html

IEEE SECON 2008, San Francisco Bay Area – 16-20 June 2008, features keynote speaker David Culler (UC Berkeley), 60+ technical presentations, 20 posters and demonstrations sessions, the SDR Workshop, the WiNC Workshop, and the WiMesh with keynote speakers Eric Brewer (Intel Research) and Cyrus Behroozi (Tropos Networks). Register by 1 June to receive the conference discount.


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PUBLICATIONS

Free Article of the Month:
Complimentary access to a select article from the current issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine:Mobility Using IEEE 802.21 in a Heterogeneous IEEE 802.16/802.11-Based, IMT-Advanced (4G) Network

A one-stop reference to help effectively reduce the time and costs involved in UMTS deployment and optimization ….The May 2008 ComSoc/Wiley Book of the Month is UMTS Network Planning, Optimization, and Inter-Operation with GSM by Moe Rahnema. From network design to optimization, he author gives readers detailed coverage from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Check the ComSoc www site each month for new special offers.

Choose the best technology option to develop a wireless sensor network (WSN)…. The May ComSoc/Elsevier Book of the Month, Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks by Robert Verdone, describes the different technology options and provides the means to numerically measure their performance. IEEE Communications Society members receive 30% discount

Now available … Leonard Kleinrock's 1.5 hour presentation The History of the Internet and Its Flexible Future on DVD! Preview the DVD here. The special member prepublication order price of $25 for members is available now through June 2008. Order here via the Shop at IEEE.

The May 2008 list of Top Ten articles has a few surprises…Two of the top ten are from Conference Proceedings. See the monthly ComSoc Top Ten list of those papers receiving the most requests for PDF views through IEEE Xplore. Now posted on the ComSoc www headlines site at www.comsoc.org.

Prepublication offer… ComSoc members can order the 3rd edition of the ComSoc DVD set -- Communications Engineering Technology: A Comprehensive Collection of Papers 1953-2007 for a special pre-publication price of $119 plus shipping and handling. 4 DVDs, 50% more content than the 2004 edition!  Order now or watch your e-mail for a prepublication offer. Offer valid through 30 June 2008.

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MEMBERSHIP

2008 Communications Society election starts soon… preview candidates for office.

Reminder -- Special Offer for online tutorials for renewing ComSoc members... 2008 ComSoc members who were members in 2007 (renewing members) check your e-mail messages for the “IEEE ComSoc Thank You” special offer on 14 selected Tutorials Now titles. Each $250 online tutorial is offered for $25!!! This is an e-mail only offer for renewing members. Offer expires 30 June 2008.

Congratulations to New Fellows….Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon our members by the Institute in recognition of technical, educational, and leadership achievements. See the article and pictures of new Fellows who are ComSoc members

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