TCCC Meeting Minutes - Globecom '97

The TCCC meeting at Globecom '97 in Phoenix, Arizona was held on Wednesday, November 5, 1997 from 5.15 pm until 7 pm at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix. The meeting was chaired by Roch Guerin.

Conference Reports

Ioannis Stavrakakis, the TCCC conference coordinator, presented reports from conference representatives for the following conferences:

Globecom '97

TCCC Conference Representative: Subrata Bannerjee

Total number of papers submitted 732.
Total number of papers accepted ~350 (51 sessions, 7 papers per session).
TCCC requested (bid) to review 188 papers.
TCCC was assigned 56 papers by Globecom TPC.
TCCC reviewers accepted 21 papers.

TCCC sponsored/co-sponsored the following 11 technical sessions.

Routing and Multicasting
Optical Networks
Optical Networks: Systems and Architectures
ATM Switch Performance
ATM Switch Architecture
ATM Traffic Management III
Wireless: Architecture & Multimedia Issues
Wireless: Channel Assignments and Access Protocols
Network Management II
Fault Management and Reliability
Networking Systems Modeling

TCCC members provided excellent reviews, including some very detailed ones, on the 56 papers assigned to TCCC. Electronic reviews (submitted via email or web) have been forwarded to the papers' authors via email. Reviews received via fax were forwarded to those authors whose fax numbers were included on the cover pages of their manuscripts. (Note that Globecom 97 TPC normally don't mail the reviews to the manuscript authors.)

2nd Global Internet Mini-Conference

Henning Schulzrinne reported that about half the papers submitted to GI '97 were accepted. 27 papers were presented over two days. Due to technical difficulties only a part of GI '97 was multicast. The GI '97 mini-conference process was integrated into the Globecom process with papers being submitted to Globecom TPC then assigned to GI '97 mini-conference. After some initial difficulty the process worked well. The technical program was organized by Steve Pink, Matts Bjoerkman and Henning Schulzrinne.

Volunteers to serve on the TPC for Global Internet '98 are solicited. If you are interested please contact Henning Schulzrinne.

Infocom '98

Dates:
            March 29 - April 2, 1998
Location:
            San Francisco, California
URL:
            http://www.comsoc.org/confs/infocom/98/

Ian Akyldiz, Technical Chair for Infocom '98, presented a summary of the paper submission and review process. Each paper was reviewed by 3 TPC members and forwarded to 3 Area TPC members. The Area TPC meeting to determine the technical program was held on Oct. 25th. The final tally was:
        Papers submitted: 792
        Papers accepted: 172
        Acceptance Rate: 22%

There will also be 7 tutorials in the following areas:

Broadband services over Satellite
Pricing for broadband networks
Multicast
Transport Protocols
Security
Quality of Service
Access Technologies

and 3 panels in the following areas:

Active Networks
Broadband Wireless
Next Generation ISP

The president of Javasoft will deliver the keynote speech.

ICC '98

Dates:
            June 7-11, 1998
Location:
            Atlanta, Georgia
URL:
            http://www.ee.gatech.edu/conferences/icc98/
TCCC conference representative:
            Bo Li

There were a total of 553 papers that were submitted to ICC '98. The conference plan is to have 50 sessions with 7 papers per session which will results in approximately 350 papers that will make the final program. Information on the number of papers reviewed by TCCC was not known.

Milcom'98

Dates:
            Oct. 18-21, 1998
Location:
            Stouffer Renaissance, Bedford, Massachusetts
URL:
            http://www.milcom98.com
Abstracts due:
            January 9, 1998
Draft papers due:
            February 20, 1998
TCCC conference representative:
            None

The chair of the unclassified program for Milcom '98. David McElroy, asked for TCCC participation in forming sessions for Milcom '98. Four sessions were proposed in areas ranging from wireless communications to network security.

Globecom'98

Date:
            November 8-12, 1998
Location:
            Sydney, Australia
Papers due:
            February 13, 1998
Notification of acceptance:
            June 19, 1998
Camera-ready manuscript due:
            August 14, 1998
Tutorial/Workshop proposal due:
            February 13, 1998
URL:
            http://www.monash.edu.au/oce/globecom98/
TCCC conference representative:
            Jeff Capone

Areas of interest for sessions and panels were solicited by the Jeff Capone. Please contact Jeff if you have suggestions.

The following is information reported after the TCCC meeting by Jeff:

There will be no bidding process for Globecom'98. To maintain control over TCCC papers, please indicate on the cover page that you would like the paper to be reviewed by the TCCC.
Sessions will be formed at ICC'98, but Terry Stevenson is accepting preliminary proposals for "Hot Topic" sessions and SAS sessions. If you have some ideas for "Hot Topics" please forward them to me, and I will see that Terry Stevenson receives them.

12^th Computer Communications Workshop

Joe Bannister e-mailed the following summary of the 12th Annual Computer Communications Workshop which was held September 8-10, 1997 in Phoenix, Arizona. There were 51 registered attendees and 31 presentations. The final budget has not yet been submitted to IEEE Communications Society.

9th LAN/MAN Workshop

Date:
            May 17-20
Location:
            Banff, Alberta, Canada
URL:
            http://boa.crl.mcmaster.ca/~lanman98

Malathi Veerarghavan, technical co-chair of the workshop, presented an updated status of the workshop. The submission deadline is November 20, 1997. The workshop will have five corporate sponsors, Bay Networks, Lucent Technologies, CITO, Newbridge and IBM.

IWQoS '98

Date:
            May 18-20
Location:
            Napa, California
URL:
            http://www-ece.rice.edu/conf/iwqos98

TCCC will be co-sponsoring this workshop for the first time. More details can be obtained at the web site above.

13^th Computer Communications Workshop

Nikhil Jain of Nortel will be the program chair of the 13th Annual Computer Communications Workshop, and John Daigle of the University of Mississippi will be the general chair. The dates for the workshop have not yet been finalized. John Daigle proposed Oxford, TN as a potential site for the workshop. Oxford is accessible by a 1 hour drive from Memphis. If you have any comments on the choice of a site for the workshop please contact John Daigle.

Other Business

NSF

Tatsuya Suda, NSF program director in Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure, gave a brief overview on NSF programs. The major focus of next years program will be the NGI initiative. Information on the focus of this initiative can be found at www.ngi.gov and www.cra.org. NSF may have upto $5 million for funding NGI projects. The scope and focus of the NSF program are still being determined.

Tatsuya also added that Congress was asking NSF to document the impact of their programs in order to justify continued funding of NSF programs. He may be asking help from some members to put together a report showing the impact of NSF funds.

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