IEEE Communications Society T ECHNICAL C OMMITTEE

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C OMMUNICATIONS Q UALITY & R ELIABILITY

http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/index.html

Committee Meeting CQR Chair: Kenichi Mase June 27 ICC 2007 Glasgow, UK

Agenda

• WELCOME • CQR Background and Activities • CQR Charter • Officers and 2007 Election • Hot Topic Workshops • CQR2007 • ICCs and GLOBECOMs • CQR2008 • ADJOURN 2

CQR Background and Activities (I)

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CQR: Technical Committee on Quality & Reliability Established in 1986 as QAMC (Quality Assurance Management Committee) One of the 23 Technical Committees of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Recertified by ComSoc in 2006 (every 3 years)* Holds annual international workshop, except 1996 and 2003

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18 TCs passed the 2006 recertification; 5 TCs were placed on probation

http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/committees.html

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CQR Charter

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Revised August 2006 Focuses on and advocates worldwide communications and reliability on behalf of, and within, the Communications Society.

Serves as the catalyst for global awareness and the exchange of information relative to technical and management-related aspects of communications quality and reliability. This also extends to security of the telecommunications network.

CQR technical subject matter includes: I. Service Quality and Reliability II. Network Quality and Reliability III. Product and System Quality and Reliability

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CQR: Background and Activities (II)

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Three Committee Meetings each year:

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Last one: CQR2007 Workshop, May 16, Fort Myers, Florida

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Today: ICC2007, June 27, Glasgow, UK Next one: GLOBECOM2007, Nov. 26-30, Washington, D.C.

Meeting presentations and minutes are posted on the CQR web Holds elections every two years (2007 is an election year)

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Officer Team (2006 – 2007)

Chair

: Kenichi Mase *

Chair Elect

: Chi-Ming Chen

Vice-Chair-Operations

: Hiromi Ueda

Vice-Chair-Programs

: Mike Todd

Vice-Chair-Publications

: Anil Macwan

Secretary & Treasurer

: Kevin Krantz & Shigeo Shioda Advisory Board Karl Rauscher (Advisory Board Chair) Koichi Asatani (Advisory Board Chair Emeritus) Kelly Krick Raymond Bonelli

Kenichi Mase

has been elected to President-Elect, IEICE Communications Society , May 2007-2008 President, IEICE Communications Society, May 2008-2009 6

2007 Election

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Positions for election (2008-2009 Term)

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(Current Chair Elect becomes Chair) Chair Elect Vice-Chair-Operations Vice-Chair-Programs Vice-Chair-Publications Secretary Treasurer Ballots to be sent by email in October List of Members is being updated for correct email addresses Election results will be announced by email and announced in GLOBECOM 2007

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Strategic and Technical Programs

• Strategic – Annual International Workshops – Special Hot Topic Workshops Technical Strategic Programs Programs • Technical – ICC – GLOBECOM – Symposia • Combined: – Publications – ICC and GLOBECOM Business Application Sessions 8

Recent Hot Topic Workhops

Workshops on Availability and Robustness of Europe's Future Communications Networks Workshop 1 Power & Environment Workshop 2 Network & Payload Workshop 3 Hardware & Software Workshop 4 Policy & Human Rome, Italy London, U.K.

Berlin, Germany Brussels, Belgium October 3, 2006 October 6, 2006 October 11, 2006 November 15, 2006 Proceedings posted on

http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/EU-Proceedings-2006.html

Final ARECI Report (Availability and Robustness of Electronic Communications Infrastructure) is posted on the European Commission website

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=3334

In the report, “Special appreciation” is expressed to CQR for the support (page 127)

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Recent Hot Topic Workhops

Supported the Workshop on The Trust Paradigm

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Organized by Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and SignaCert

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Implementing Trusted Methods in Information Technology Management and Security, October 17, 2006, Washington D.C.

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Proceedings posted on http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/TrustParadigm-2006.html

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CQR 2007

• 3 Keynotes – G. Keith Cambron, President and CEO, AT&T Labs – S. Malphrus, Federal Reserve Board – D. Lynch, CTO, Verizon Wireless • Theme Topics – Social services – E-Commerce – Communications now • 37 presentations • 1 executive panel discussion • CQR committee meeting • CQR Chairman’s award • Number of attendees: 67 11

CQR 2007 CHAIRMAN’S AWARD

Keith Cambron, President and CEO, AT&T Labs

for sustained contributions in the field of network reliability, technology introduction, and leadership in the research and development of telecommunications systems

Dick Lynch , CTO, Verizon Wireless

for leadership in implementing wireless technology and bridging the IEEE and industry to address the challenges of reliable wireless voice and data performance

George Rittenhouse , VP, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

for pioneering research in optimizing the quality of mobile networks, for augmenting wireless communications network resilience in life saving search and rescue efforts during catastrophes, and for leading industry colleagues with a technical excellence, a spirit of service and unyielding integrity

Michael Tortorella , Professor, Rutgers University

for pioneering work in service reliability theory and engineering, for sustained contributions to reliable services, networks, and products in the telecommunications industry, and for continued service to the CQR since 1986

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Technical Programs – Current and Planning

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ICC2007

, June 24-28, Glasgow, Scotland, UK H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair with N. Fonseca of CSIM-TC* and A. Jamalipour of SSC-TC** 255 papers submitted, 102 papers were accepted (84 presentations + 18 for poster sessions).

GLOBECOM2007

, Nov. 26-30, Washington D.C., USA

Karl Rauscher, General Vice Chair ICC2008

, May 19-23, Beijing, China H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair

GLOBECOM2008

, Dec. 1-4, New Orleans, USA T. Tsuboi, Symposium Co-Chair

ICC2009

, June 14-18, Dresden, Germany H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair

GLOBECOM2009,

Nov. 30 – Dec 4, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Chi-Ming Chen, Business Forums Chair Hiromi Ueda, Asian-Pacific Publicity Chair ICC2010

, May, Capetown, South Africa T. Tsuboi, Symposium Co-Chair (to be proposed) * Communications Systems Integration & Modeling TC ** Satellite & Space Communications TC 13

Program Organization of 2008 CQR Workshop

• Previous workshops

Program Chair: Mainly strategic program (invited presentation based) No TPC, no call-for-paper and no peer review

• 2008 workshop

General Program Chair Mainly strategic program (invited presentation based) Follows a traditional CQR way.

Technical Program Chair Technical program (selected paper based) TPC, call-for-paper and review (typically requires 3 reviewers) CD-based Proceedings 14

Program Organization of 2008 CQR Workshop

General Program Co-Chairs: Richard Krock, Alcatel-Lucent Peter Hoath, BT Technical Program Chair: Professor Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ. Japan Place: Carefree Resort & Villas (on Google Map ) 37220 Mule Train Road Carefree, Arizona 85377 (480) 488-5300 | (888) 488-9034 http://www.carefree-resort.com/ Dates: Tuesday, April 29 – Thursday, May 1, 2008 http://www.ieee-cqr.org/ 15

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Current lint of TPC members (Invitation is in progress)

Albert Banchs Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Hans van den Berg University of Twente, The Netherlands Torsten Braun University of Berne, Germany Chi-Ming ChenAT&T Labs, USA Nelson Fonseca State University of Campinas, Brasil Stefano GiordanoUniversity of Pisa, Italy Go Hasegawa Osaka University, Japan Takumi MiyoshiShibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Michael Menth University of Wurzburg, Germany Hiroyuki Morikawa University of Tokyo, Japan Tutomu Murase NEC Corp., JAPAN Hidenori Nakazato Waseda University, Japan Kawahara Ryoichi NTT, Japan Toshio Soumiya Fujitsu, Japan Dan Keun Sung KAIST, Korea Katsushiki YamaokaTokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tokumi Yokohira Okayama University, Japan Tetsuya Yokotani Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan 16

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Scope

Various aspects of QoS and Reliability for the following networks/services: – Grid and Distributed Computing – Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks – Overlay Networks – Multimedia Networks and VoIP Services – VPN, MPLS and Multicast Services – Web Services – Broadband Audio Visual Services – Current and Next-generation Internet – Emerging Technologies and Services 20

Scope

The detailed technical areas includes • Measurements Techniques • Network Architecture and Design • Network Security • Operations, Administration and Maintenance • QoS Metrics and Measurement • QoS Policy and Assessment • Traffic Control • Traffic Modeling and Characterization 21

Submission

• Papers should describe original work, and be four two column and single-spaced pages in IEEE conference style. • The cover page should clearly indicate the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the phone and fax numbers of the contact author. • Paper submissions must be made electronically via e mail attachment in PDF format to [email protected]

. • Hardcopy submissions will not be accepted. • For more information, please visit: http://www.ieee-cqr.org/ 22

Important Dates • December 1, 2007

– Paper submission deadline

• February 1, 2008

– Notification of acceptance mailed to authors

• March 10, 2008

– Camera-ready paper submission deadline

• April 29 - May 1, 2008

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Reminders before Adjourn

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Next Committee Meeting: Globecom2007, November 26-30, Washington DC, USA Mark CQR2008 on your calendar

Tuesday, April 29 – Thursday, May 1, 2008, Carefree, Arizona

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Thank you!

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