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Volume 4 Number 5
October 2001
CONTENTS
Welcome to the Oct. issue of ComSoc e-News 2001. As usual, we have compiled a list of upcoming paper submission deadlines for conferences and special issues of magazines/journals, the earliest of which is Nov. 15. Readers interested in making submissions should check specific conference/special issue web sites for deadlines in case changes are made after publication of this e-News issue.
We should all be proud of the standing of ComSoc publications in the recent rankings announced by the annual Journal Citation Study. This issue also has a call for nominations for the prestigious IEEE award in International Communication, a call to ComSoc members to have their companies join the IEEE ComSoc 50th Anniversay Leadership Circle, a call for participation in IWNA4, which was postponed due to the tragic events of the recent past, and other news articles from our society, technical committees, IEEE chapters, publication editors, IEEE Press, etc.
Read
on!
Malathi
Veeraraghavan, Editor
- Anniversary From Jack Howell, ComSoc Executive Director:
- Nominations are needed for the prestigious IEEE Award in International Communication. Sponsored by: British Telecom. Description, past recipients & nomination form are available at: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/sums/intl.htm
- 50th Anniversary Industry Leadership Circle
- Attention ComSoc members. Have your company show support for the Communications Society by joining the "IEEE Communications Society 50th Anniversary Industry Leadership Circle." This new program allows companies to demonstrate to customers and employees their commitment to professionalism and the communications industry. Participants receive many benefits including permission to indicate that the company supports ComSoc through the "IEEE Communications Society 50th Anniversary Industry Leadership Circle," a full page ad in the 50th Anniversary Issue of IEEE Communications Magazine, and display of the company logo and web address in the Industry Leadership Circle page of every issue of IEEE Communications Magazine in 2002. Information and Brochure: Eric Levine, 1-212-705-8920 or e.levine@comsoc.org
- Looking for a job/wanting to post job ads?
- Visit the Communications Society Career center for current job postings for communications engineers.
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This section
is organized into three sub-sections: conferences,
magazines,
and journals.
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- 3Gwireless2002, 2002 Int'l Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond, San Francisco, USA
- Sumission Deadline: Nov. 15, 2001
- Web: http://WirelessCongress.com/
- ICCSC2002, 1st IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, 26-28 June, 2002, St.Petersburg, Russia
- Submission Deadline: 17 December, 2001
- Web: http://iccsc.spbstu.ru/
- ISSSTA 2002, IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, Sept. 2-5, 2002, Prague, Czech Republic
- Submission Deadline: Jan. 15, 2002
- Web: http://www.ure.cas.cz/isssta2002/
- CSNDSP, Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, July 15-17, 2002, Straffordshire University, UK
- Submission Deadline: Jan. 25, 2002
- Web: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/csndsp2002/
- SPECTS2002, 2002 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, July 14-18, 2002, San Diego
- Submission Deadline: Jan. 31, 2002
- Web: http://scs.org/confernc/spects02/spects2002cfp-gen.html
- Globecom2002, November 17-21, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Submission deadline : February 25, 2002.
- Web: http://www.globecom2002.com
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Storage Networking Solutions over IP or Internet infrastructure
- Abstracts due: Nov. 15, 2001
- Manuscripts due: Nov. 30, 2001
- http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfp402.html
- Guest editors: Tapan K. Lala, Industry Consultant
- Publication date: April 2002
- Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) for Data Transport over SONET/SDH or G.709 Optical Transport Networks
- Manuscripts due: Dec. 1, 2001
- http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/may2002.html
- Guest Editors: Steve Gorshe (PMC-Sierra), Tim Armstrong (Nortel), Nevin Jones (Agere)
- Publication date: May 2002
- Broadband Access Series 2002-2003
- Manuscripts due: Jan. 31, 2002 and May 31, 2002
- http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpseries.html
- Guest Editors: Steve Gorshe (PMC-Sierra), Zdzislaw PAPIR (AGH University of Technology)
- Publication date: June 2002 and Oct. 2002
- IEEE Network magazine
- July/August 2002: Scalability in Communication Networks
- Papers due date: November 15, 2001
- http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/ntwrk/special/scn.html
- Guest Editor: Amitabh Mishra, Virginia Tech.
- IEEE Personal Communications Magazine
- No new calls
- IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials accepts tutorials and surveys. Authors should submit contributions to the Editor, John Daigle (email: wcdaigle@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu).
- For previous issues and a call for papers: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/
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- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issues on
- Ultra Wide Band Radio in Multi-Access Wireless Communications
- Deadline: December 1, 2001
- http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/uwbradio.html
- Guest Editors: Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, M. Gabriella di Benedetto, Heinz Luediger, Mario Gerla, Moe Z. Win, and Paul Withington
- Design and Analysis Techniques for Security Assurance
- Deadline: March 1, 2002
- http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/security.html
- Guest Editors: Li Gong (SUN Microsystems), Joshua Guttman (The MITRE Corp), Peter Ryan (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), Steve Schneider (Univ. of London), Royal Holloway (Univ. of London)
- Wireless LANs and Home Networks
- Deadline: May 1, 2002
- http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/wirelesslans.html
- Guest Editors: Benny Bing (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Chris Heegard (Texas Instruments), Stefan Müller-Weinfurtner (AT&T Labs.), Kwang-Cheng Chen (Natl. Taiwan Univ.), Alexander Gelman (Panasonic)
- In general, for upcoming issues, see http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/upcoming.html
- Wireless Communications Series
- Call for papers: http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/wireless.html
- Special issues coming up in IEEE Communications Magazine:
- March 2002: Broadband Access Series 2002-2003
- Special issues coming up in IEEE Network Magazine:
- March/April 2002: Policy based Networking
- May/June 2002: Applicability of Mobile Agents to Telecommunications
- Special issues coming up in IEEE JSAC:
- 11-14 Nov., ICNP 2001, 9th International Conference on Network Protocols, Riverside, CA, USA, http://www.cis.udel.edu/icnp2001/
- 13-16 Nov., ISCOM-01, 2001 International Symposium on Communications, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, http://www.ncku.edu.tw/~ISCOM01/
- 20-23 Nov., ISPACS'2001, International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Nashville, TN, USA, http://cs.tnstate.edu/~ispacs01
- 25-29 Nov., Globecom 2001, San Antonio, TX, USA, http://www.globecom2001.com/src/start.shtml
- 25-29 Nov., Sixth Global Internet Symposium, in conjunction with Globecom 2001, San Antonio, TX, USA, http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/gi2001/
- 15-16 January 2002 (Postponed from 18-19 October 2001), The IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA-4), NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, http://www.cmr.nist.gov/iwna4
- 26-28 Feb., 2002, EW2002, European Wireless 2002, Florence, Italy, http://docenti.ing.unipi.it/ew2002/
- 17-22 March, 2002, OFC2002, Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exhibit, Anaheim, CA, USA, http://www.ofcconference.org
- 18 - 22 March, WCNC 2002, IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, http://www.wcnc.org/2002/
- 8-10 April, ECUMN2002, 2nd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks, Colmar, France, http://iutsun1.colmar.uha.fr/CfPECUMN02.html
- 15-19 April, NOMS2002, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Florence, Italy, http://www.comsoc.org/confs/noms/2002/index.html
- 28 April - 2 May, ICC 2002, IEEE International Conference on Communication, New York City, NY, USA, http://www.icc2002.com
- 4-9 May, VTC Spring 2002, Birmingham, AL, USA, http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/vtc02spring/papers.html
- 23-27 June 2002, Infocom 2002, New York, NY, USA, http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2002/
- June 30 - July 5, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland, http://isit02.epfl.ch/
- For more conferences, check out the ComSoc calendar for conferences http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html and a quarterly updated calendar of events: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar.pdf
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- A video of "The Future of Wireless Communication Roundtable" held in New York on June 12, 2001, is now available for viewing at http://www.comsoc.org/video/discover/01/index.html
- ComSoc Policies and Procedures are posted on our web site:
- From John Pape, Manager, Marketing, ComSoc
- Communications Society publications highly rated
- The annual Journal Citation Study, compiled and published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), released their compilation of year 2000 statistics recently. In the subject area of telecommunications, ComSoc publications dominated the ratings. When sorted for "Impact Factor," Communications Magazine, Personal Communications Magazine, Journal on Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC), Network Magazine, and Transaction on Communications rated 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of the 47 periodicals rated. For more information on IEEE publication ratings, see http://www.ieee.org/products/cited.html
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- From Norman C. Beaulieu, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Communications
- New Associate Editor Appointments for the IEEE Transactions on Communications
- Tony T. Lee was appointed as Editor for Switching Systems & Network Performance in the Editorial Area of Network Architecture.
- For more information on all ComSoc publications, check out:
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- From Curtis Siller, c.siller@ieee.org, Vice President, Technical Activites
- Call for participation in IWNA4
- Due to the tragedy of recent events, we have postponed IWNA4, The IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA-4), from October 18-19, 2001 to January 15-16 2002. It will be held at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA; please see http://www.cmr.nist.gov/iwna4 for details.
- Find out more about all ComSoc technical committees at
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- From Borhan M. Ali, animras@yahoo.co.uk, IEEE Malaysia Chapter Chair,
- CALLING ALL CHAPTER CHAIRS!! Attend, Participate, and Network.h
- Information about ComSoc awards can be found at:
- http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/comm/awards/index.html
- From Mostafa Hashem Sherif, mhsherif@att.com, ComSoc rep. to the IEEE Press Board
- The IEEE Press/John Wiley & Sons co-branding agreement is that the IEEE Press will work with authors to acquire titles, and Wiley will handle the logistics of production, marketing, warehousing, sales and order fulfillment. Wiley will continue its own electrical and electronic engineering programs. The IEEE will be able to review these books and decide whether to co-brand them. Wiley will pay a royalty to the IEEE from sales of co-branded books.
Are you a ComSoc Chapter Chair? Have you registered for GCCC 2001 yet?
The first ComSoc Global Chapter Chairs Congress, GCCC 2001, will meet Sunday November 24 - Wednesday November 28. The Congress, chaired and co-chaired by Ron Horn and Lin-Shan Lee respectively, will be held in San Antonio, Texas, USA, in conjunction with GLOBECOM 2001.
GCCC 2001 will include sessions covering topics affecting all regions (i.e. funding, chapter support, membership growth and retention, how to attract and keep volunteers, lecture tours, how to make money for your chapter by hosting a conference or workshop, etc). Don't miss your chance to participate in an incredible learning forum and networking environment! The Congress will end with an opportunity for you to tell the ComSoc executive, ComSoc staff, and IEEE staff what they can change and improve to help you as Chapter Chair.
For up-to-date, ever-changing information, as well as to register for this event, connect to the GCCC web site at http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/gccc/index.html
If you have any questions, contact your Regional Director
or Kathy Worthman.
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11. NEW BOOKS
- 2000 royalties paid to the Communications Society from books that they
sponsor exceeded $10,000. The following books of interest to ComSoc have
been published:
| ISBN | Author/Title | Price |
| 0471150398 | Hanzo/Voice compression and communications | $120.00 |
| 0780310144 | Hargrave/Communications dictionary | $129.95 |
- The following books are in production:
| ISBN | Author/Title | Price | Date |
| 0471150320 | Nellist/Understanding telecommunications and lightwave systems, 3 ed. | $39.95 | 10/1/01 |
| 047115041x | Shafi/Wireless communication in the 21st century- Selected reprints | $99.95 | 1/1/02 |
| 0471208159 | Ahmad/ATM IP Internetworking | $99.85 | 2/1/02 |
- ComSoc endorses communications-related books published by the IEEE Press
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- If you have a proposal for a book, please send the proposal to Cathy
Faduska at c.faduska@ieee.org
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