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Standing Committees |
Emerging Technologies Committee
Emerging Technical
Subcommittees
Applications
of Nanotechnologies in Communications
| Chair |
Amr Helmy |
| Vice Chair |
Dilip Krishnaswamy |
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The subcommittee aims to support the emerging community of engineers, academics, scientists and others who are interested in, and benefit from, nanotechnology in the telecommunications discipline. Activities such as special sessions, symposia, tutorials and workshops in leading conferences will be vastly expanded to help provide the community with continuing updates about the burgeoning field of nanotechnology. This will also reinforce the necessary network between the different players in the field; from technology and device scientists, to circuit and subsystem designers as well as system integrators and service providers. Joint events, special journal issues and ultimately dedicated topical meetings will also be organized with other relevant IEEE societies.
Technologies and devices that help enhance the performance of existing infrastructure as well as others which offer new and useful functionality are all included in the scope of the subcommittee. The ultimate goal is to guide some of the developments in this rapidly developing field to cater for the communication applications’ needs. The dialogue generated amongst the community through the activities described here will ensure the fulfillment of these goals. |
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Autonomic Communications
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Raouf Boutaba |
| Vice Chair |
Marcus Brunner |
| Secretary |
Nazim Agoulmine |
| Standards Liaison |
Spyros Denazis |
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The purpose of this sub-committee is to support the research, discussions and developments technologies, principles, and applications of Autonomic Communications - a new paradigm for new networks in the fixed as well the mobile world. This sub-committee focuses on mechanisms to achieve intelligent behavior for network control and services based on self-organization, automatic configuration, and smart network and service elements. Since network users interact with numerous, often-dynamic networks or virtual networks, these structures should also be represented in the control structure of the networks. The goals are to understand how autonomic behaviors can be provided (identified, influenced, changed, and eventually learned) and how, in turn, these affect other elements, groups and the network and its services. Such self-organizing networks will be able to sense their environment to perceive these changes to understand the meaning of these changes and to react in an adaptive manner. This facilitates new ways to perform network control, management, service creation, etc. Autonomic networking naturally also applies to mission critical distributed systems, since autonomic behavior allows for immediate corrections of any problems.
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Consumer
Networking
eHealth
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Tsong-Ho Wu |
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- Health and Healthcare applications (Telemedicine, medical sensor-enabled information management, etc.)
- Healthcare management (E-health information network infrastructure, electronic patient record exchange and delivery, medical multimedia searching and retrieval, etc.)
- Healthcare Information Grid and tools for data sharing and collaboration among medical institutions, researchers, physicians and other healthcare professionals
- Consumer-centric healthcare and management (Healthcare mobile devices and ubiquitous access, personalized health information management, etc.)
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Integrated Fiber & Wireless Technologies (TCFiWi)
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Chunming Qiao |
| Vice-Chairs |
Ting Wang
Hussein Mouftah |
| Secretary |
Sudhir Dixit |
| Standards Liaison |
Steve Weinstein |
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The main focus of TC FiWi is on the integration of fiber and wireless technologies in the access and metro networks to deliver truly converged multimedia services irrespective of the users’ locations, terminal device capabilities and access media. TCFiWi will organize, sponsor and promote conferences, workshops, tutorials, publications, standardization activities and various other forms of information exchange and advancement in the multi-disciplinary field related to fixed and mobile convergence and in particular, integration of optics and wireless in the access and metro networks. |
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Nano-Scale, Molecular, & Quantum Networking
| Chair |
Stephen F Bush |
| Co-Chairs Bio |
Tatsuya Suda
Sasitharan Balasubramaniam |
| Co-Chair Quantum |
Alexander Sergienko |
| Co-Chairs Neuromorphic |
Alexandre Schmid
Wei Lu
Wei Wang |
| Vice-Chairs |
Sanjay Goel
Maggie Cheng
Alhussein Abouzeid
Tadashi Nakano
Lei Liu
Jian-Qin Liu
Danilo Gligoroski
Yu Wei |
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The scope of this subcommittee is communication on the nano-scale, including nano-scale media and wireless nano-scale media in support of nano-robotics. Example media include carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, biological structures, and harnessing the advantages of quantum and hybrid classical/quantum effects for applications such as security and coding. This includes the goal of aiding the development of smart materials, nanoscale bio-medical applications, and nano-robotics.
This subcommittee exists to support the emerging community of engineers, academics, scientists and others who are developing communications on the nano-scale. Activities such as special sessions, symposia, tutorials and workshops in leading conferences will be vastly expanded to help provide the community with continuing updates about the burgeoning field of nanotechnology and nano-scale telecommunications in particular. For an example, see www.nanonets.org.
A goal of this committee will be to provide a network for required diverse specialties, some of which are in fields typically found outside the IEEE, to come together to advance nano-scale communications. Joint events, special journal issues and dedicated topical meetings will also be organized with relevant IEEE societies. |
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Peer-to-Peer Networking
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Sherman Shen |
| VC Sister TC Relations & Membership |
Madjid Merabti |
| VC Industry Standard |
John Buford |
| VC Conferences |
Gary Chan |
| VC Publications |
Jie Li |
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Heather Yu |
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The goal of the Peer-to-peer Networking and Communications Subcommittee (http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/p2ptc) is to provide a platform for its members, and the peer-to-peer networking and communications research, development, and standardization community at
large, to interact and exchange technical ideas, to identify major R&D challenges, and to collaborate and investigate solutions in the development of P2P technologies.
The technical issues considered by the committee include all aspects of P2P networking and communications related research issues (e.g., P2P overlay networks, P2P content access and distribution, P2P media streaming, and P2P security issues), implementation technologies, industry standardization activities, and economic considerations, etc. |
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