TCCC Meeting Minutes - Globecom '96

The TCCC meeting at Globecom '96 was held on Tuesday, November 19, 1996 from 5.15 pm until about 7 pm. It was chaired by Tatsuya Suda.

Conference Reports

Since the TCCC conference representative, Roch Guerin, was not present, the following reports were read by H. Schulzrinne based on material received from Roch Guerin, unless otherwise noted.

Infocom 1996

Kazem Sohraby reported that Infocom 1996 attracted 564 papers, of which only 164 were published.

LAN/MAN Workhshop 1996

Martina Zitterbart reported that the LAN/MAN workshop 1996 in Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany was successful, with 113 attendees and 6 corporate sponsors. The poster sessions were generally well received, after initial scepticism. The session on residential access attracted particular attention. Daniel Pitt has prepared an extensive report.

Interop 97 Engineers Conference on Broadband Access

Dates:
May 7-8, 1997
Location:
Las Vegas, NV
Format:
5 tracks [there was debate whether this is really 5 parallel tracks or 5 sessions], coincides with NetWorld+Interop giant trade show
Papers due:
CFP was October 1, papers are due February 15 due to lack of response
URL:
http://www.ieee.org/EngineersConf-97.html [Invalid URL!]
TCCC conference representative:
Joe Bannister
Status:
TCCC-sponsored conference, also sponsored by TC on Cable-Based Delivery and Access Systems, TC on Enterprise Network Operations dn Management, TC on Personal Communications, TC on Transmission, Access and Optical Systems.

Since only about 30 papers have been received so far, papers still being considered.

ICC'97

Dates:
June 8-12 1997
Location:
Montreal, Canada
URL:
http://www.ieee.org/comsoc/ICC-97.html
Papers due:
September 15, 1996
Notification of acceptance:
Early January 1997
General info:
On the review front, TCCC was assigned 44 papers out of a total of 700 submitted to the conference. Three reviewers per paper were required. About 60 volunteers from TCCC helped in evaluating the papers submitted to the conference. Currently, there are no workshops/tutorials that are sponsored by the TCCC.
TCCC conference representatives:
Dr. Dinesh Verma
Philips Laboratories
345 Scarborough Road
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
tel: 914 945-6097
email: dcv@philabs.philips.com

Dr. Weiguo Wang
ISS Singapore
email: wwang@iss.nus.sg

IEEE 12th Annual Workshop on Computer Communications 1997

Dates:
October 20-22, 1997 (likely)
Location:
probably Phoenix, AZ
URL:
under construction at USC/ISI
Technical program chair and TCCC representative:
Joe Bannister
Format:
10 sessions with 5 presentations each
Status:
Session proposals and suggestions for organizers should be sent to Joe Bannister

Milcom'97

Dates:
November 2-5, 1997
Location:
Hyatt Regency Monterey, Monterey, California
URL:
http://www.milcom97.com
Abstracts due:
January 17, 1997
Draft papers due:
March 14, 1997
TCCC conference representative:
Nader Mehravari
Nader Mehravari writes:
By the time that I got involved with representing TCCC, the MILCOM people had already decided on a first draft of the technical program and the session topics. I have volunteered TCCC to organize and chair three unclassified technical sessions and one half-day tutorial. The three technical sessions are: video conferencing, mobile systems, commercial and tactical Internet. The proposed 1/2 day tutorial is on video conferencing technology. I have not yet heard back from the MILCOM program committee as to our proposed involvement. I will contact the TCCC community for volunteers once I hear from the program committee.

Globecom'97

As reported by Subrata Banerjee:
Date:
November 4-8, 1997
Location:
Phoenix, Arizona
Papers due:
March 12, 1997
Notification of acceptance:
July 1, 1997
Camera-ready manuscript due
August 11, 1997
Tutorial/Workshop proposal due:
January 31, 1997
URL:
http://globecom97.agcs.com/
Sessions and Tutorials:
These proposals will be presented during the second (and second-last) Globecom 97 TPC meeting at Globecom'96 on Nov. 20 (Wednesday).
Workshops:
There was much discussion on whether to hold a TCCC workshop (or mini conference) at Globecom'97. See ICC/Globecom discussion below.
TCCC conference representative:
Subrata Banerjee

LAN/MAN Workshop 1998

To be organized Spring 1998 by Terry Todd (McMaster University) and Malathi Veeraraghavan (Bell Labs).

ICC'98

It has been suggested to hold ICC at separate (but co-located) facilities during those years that it is held in conjunction with Supercomm, e.g., 1998. For example, the technical sessions could be held in the conference hotel rather than the exhibition facilities, making it less likely that conference attendees would get "lost" amid the masses of Supercomm trade-show visitors as well as making it easier to find meeting rooms. A straw poll yielded 6 opposed to separation, 16 suggesting a complete separation (although it was not quite clear whether this number included those satisfied with separate, co-located facilities) and 19 separate and co-located facilities.
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Date:
May 17-21, 1996
URL:
http://www.ee.gatech.edu/conferences/icc98
Paper submission deadline:
August 15, 1997
Notification of acceptance:
December 1, 1997.
Camera-ready copies due:
February 1, 1997
TCCC conference rep:
Bo Li (did not attend), substitute Lawrence Kwan Yeung did not attend TCCC;
Lawrence Kwan Yeung
Assistant Professor
Department of Electronic Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2788-7791
E-mail: kyeung@ee.cityu.edu.hk

Computer Communications Workshop

John Daigle tentatively volunteered to organize the workshop in Oxford, TN, near Memphis in September or October of 1998.

Globecom'98

Location:
Sydney, Australia
Date:
Early November
URL:
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~globecom/
General info:
The Globecom 98 program committee will not be meeting at Globecom 1996 in London. The next meetings will be held at the next ICC and the next INFOCOM.
TCCC conference reps:
Srini Tridandapani

Frequent Conference Attendee Program

Mark Karol presented a proposal currently being discussed by the Board of Governors. Under that proposal, ComSoc members would receive a discount (say, $25) on their ComSoc [and IEEE?] membership dues for each conference attended in the past year. This is motivated by the fact that currently, dues are often paid directly by members, while the benefits of reduced conference fees accrue to the members' employers. There was general agreement with the proposal, with questions about amounts and which conferences would count. If adopted, it could be tried out as soon as Infocom'97. Extensions to journal subscriptions are being discussed.

ICC and Globecom Reorganization

The Strategic Planning Committee has proposed that ICC and Globecom evolve to a "mall of mini-conferences" model, where these conferences would consist of 6-8 mini-conferences instead of the current number of parallel tracks. This is also known as the "federated model" for these conferences. Each such mini-conference would follow the current model of the Communications Theory and Global Internet mini-conferences, with their own TPCs and chairs, but with a common conference infrastructure. These proposals were presented by Mark Karol and then debated at length by the TCCC.

Concerns and issues raised:

19 attendees voted to support a federated model that closely controls the quantity (and, thus, quality) of papers presented at Globecom and ICC. There were no opposing votes and a number of silent abstentions.

Other Business

John Daigle, the new IEEE Network magazine editor-in-chief, solicited papers for the magazine.

Attendance

Ian F. Akyildiz
Ender Ayanoglu
Subrata Banerjee
H. Jonathan Chao
Kwang-Cheng Chen
John Daigle
Celia Desmond
Patrick Dowd
Kai Eng
Nelson Fonseca
Harvey Freeman
Marlo Gerla
Toshiharu Hasegawa
Apostolos Kakaes
Mark Karol
Jim Kurose
Byeong Gi Lee
Guven Mercankosk
Paolo Oberto
Yuji Oie
Guy Omidyar
Ramesh Rao
Bill Robinson
Harry Rudin
Henning Schulzrinne
Kazem Sohraby
Saragur Srinidhi
Ioannis Stavrakakis
Tatsuya Suda
Tetsuya Takine
Steve Weinstein
Martina Zitterbart

Last modified: November 22, 1996 by Henning Schulzrinne