IEEE Communications SocietyTECHNICAL COMMITTEE

ONCommunications Quality & Reliability

http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/index.htmlCommittee Meeting

CQR Ch i Chi Mi ChCQR Chair: Chi-Ming Chen

May 13, 2009CQR2009, Naples, Florida, USAQ , p , ,

AgendaAgenda• CQR Background and Activities• Charter• 2009 TC Events

– Election (every 2 years)– Chairman’s Awards (every year)– TC Recertification (every 3 years)

• Strategic and Technical ProgramsStrategic and Technical Programs– ICCs and GLOBECOMs– Planning of CQR2010

• Group Discussions

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CQR Background and Activities (I)CQR Background and Activities (I)

• CQR: Technical Committee on Communications Quality & Reliability y y

• Established in 1986 as QAMC (Quality Assurance Management Committee)

• One of the 25 Technical Committees of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)

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

• IEEE is celebrating its 125th Anniversary today(May 13, 1884)

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

(May 13, 1884)

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ComSoc Technical CommitteesComSoc Technical CommitteesTC Cluster Technical Committee (TC)( )

COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE & SERVICES (CS&S)

Communications & Information Security (CIS-TC)Communications Software (CommSoft)Information Infrastructure (TCII)Multimedia Communications (MMC)( )Network Operations and Management (CNOM)

COMMUNICATIONS/SIGNAL PROCESSING (C/SP)

Communication Theory (CTTC)Data Storage (TCDS)Power Line Communications (BOPL) Broadband Over Power Lines( )Radio Communications (RCC)Satellite and Space Communications (SSC)Signal Processing and Communications Electronics (SPCE)Transmission, Access and Optical Systems (TAOS)

NETWORKING (NET) Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks (AHSNTC)Cognitive Networks (TCCN)Communications Switching & Routing (TC CSR)Computer Communications (TCCC)High Speed Networking (TCHSN) formerly Gigabit NetworkingHigh-Speed Networking (TCHSN) - formerly Gigabit NetworkingInternetOptical Networking (ONTC)

VERTICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR)Communications Systems Integration & Modeling (CSIM)

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COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (VICS)

Communications Systems Integration & Modeling (CSIM)Enterprise Networking (EntNet)Tactical Communications and OperationsWireless Communications

CQR: Background and Activities (II)CQR: Background and Activities (II)• First workshop in 1986, Hotel LaSapinière, Val David,

Quebec, Canada H ld l i t ti l k h t 1996• Holds annual international workshops, except 1996and 2003

• Hosting the annual workshop is becoming veryHosting the annual workshop is becoming very challenging (how to keep the cost down and still covers everything: Workshop, Hotel, Events, Meals)

• Three Committee Meetings each year: – Last one: GC’08, Dec. 2, New Orleans, USA– Today: CQR2009 Workshop, May 13, Naples, FLToday: CQR2009 Workshop, May 13, Naples, FL– Next one: ICC2009, Tuesday, June 16, Dresden, Germany,

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CQR CharterCQR Charter

• Revised August 2006• Focuses on and advocates worldwide

i ti lit d li bilit b h lfcommunications quality and reliability on behalf of, and within, the Communications Society.

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

• CQR technical subject matter includes:CQR technical subject matter includes:I. Service Quality and ReliabilityII. Network Quality and ReliabilityIII Product and System Quality and Reliability

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III. Product and System Quality and Reliability

Officer Team (2008 – 2009)Chair: Chi-Ming Chen 陳啟明

Officer TeamOfficer Team

Chair: Chi Ming ChenChair Elect: Hiromi UedaVice-Chair-Operations: Hideaki Yoshino

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吉野秀明

上田 裕巳

Vice-Chair-Programs: Peter HoathVice-Chair-Publications: Anil MacwanSecretary: Go Hasegawa 長谷川 剛Secretary: Go HasegawaTreasurer: Kevin Krantz

Advisory Board

長谷川 剛

Advisory BoardKenichi Mase (Advisory Board Chair)Karl Rauscher (Advisory Board Chair Emeritus)

間瀬憲一

Koichi AsataniKelly KrickRaymond Bonelli

淺谷耕一

柯力克

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Raymond Bonelli

2009 Election2009 Election• Positions for election (2010-2011 Term)

– (Current Chair Elect becomes Chair)Chair Elect– Chair Elect

– Vice-Chair-Operations– Vice-Chair-Programs– Vice-Chair-Publications– Secretary– Treasurereasu e

• Chair of the Advisory Board to conduct the election• Ballots to be sent by email • List of Members is being updated for correct email

addressesElection results will be announced in GC09 TC

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• Election results will be announced in GC09 TC meeting

CQR Chairman’s AwardsCQR Chairman’s Awards• Established in 2004• Criteria upon which recipients were selected

include:– sustained contributions in the field of Quality,

R li bilit & S it f i ti iReliability & Security of communications services, networks or systems;

– a demonstration of the core value of a professionala demonstration of the core value of a professional society- adding value to others; and

– integrity consistent with that of a role model• Nominated by CQR Officers and Members of

the Advisory Board with nomination material

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• Number of recipients 2004-2009: 5, 5, 3, 4, 2, 3

TC RecertificationTC Recertification

• All Communications Society (ComSoc) TCs are subject to recertification every 3 yearsj y y

• Last time was in 2006; Will be recertified this year• Long list of 31 questions to be answered• Result can be pass (with suggestions to improve) or

on probation• CQR TC is very active in ComSoc Passing the• CQR TC is very active in ComSoc. Passing the

recertification is expected

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Strategic and Technical ProgramsStrategic and Technical ProgramsStrategic and Technical ProgramsStrategic and Technical Programs• Strategic (Industry Focused)

– Annual International WorkshopsFrom

p– Special Hot Topic Workshops

• Technical (Academia Focused)

Strategic

Programs

Technical

ProgramsTechnical (Academia Focused)– ICC– GLOBECOM To

• Combined– Technical track in the annual

workshop (Best Paper Award;Strategic

Technicalworkshop (Best Paper Award; Accepted papers will be on IEEE Xplore)

– Publications (e.g., ComMag)

ProgramsPrograms

Technical

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Publications (e.g., ComMag)

An Example of Hot Topic WorkshopPriority Communications

Wh & Wh B ti l Sl ki S t b 23• Where & When: Bratislava, Slovakia, September 23, 2008

• Purpose: to advance the technical and policy p p yunderstanding associated with the implementation of a priority communications capability over public communications networks

• Such a capability was presented in 2007 as a recommendation of the European Commission-sponsored Study on the Availability and Robustness of p y yElectronic Communications Infrastructures (ARECI) and has since been well received by government and industry stakeholders in Europe and elsewhere

• The workshop ended with two focus groups examining issues related to: 1)Reliability and Security of Priority Communications and 2) Future Priority Communications

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) y• The Workshop material is available on

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

QoS, Reliability, Perf Modeling Symposia QoS, Reliability, Perf Modeling Symposia f ICC d GCf ICC d GCof ICCs and GCsof ICCs and GCs

Year ICC GLOBECOM

2008 5/19-23, Beijing, ChinaHiromi Ueda

11/30 – 12/4, New OrleansToshinori Tsuboi 坪井利憲

2009 6/14-18 Dresden Germany 11/30 – 12/4 Honolulu2009 6/14 18, Dresden, GermanyHiromi Ueda

11/30 12/4, HonoluluHajime Nakamura 中村 元

2010 5/23-27, Cape Town South Africa

12/6-10, Miami Hideaki YoshinoCape Town, South Africa

Toshinori TsuboiHideaki Yoshino

2011 6/5-9, Kyoto, JapanToshinori TsuboiToshinori Tsuboi

• With Communications Systems Integration & Modeling (CSIM) TC

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• Additionally for GC’09, Chi-Ming Chen is serving as the Business Forums Chair, and Hiromi Ueda is the Asia Pacific Publicity Chair

GLOBECOM 2009 BIT Forums Organizational Structure

General ChairDoug Zuckermang

EXPO ChairNim Cheung (Acting)

Business, Industry and Technology (BIT) ForumsChi-Ming Chen

Keynote Forums

Des & DevForum

Dilip Krishnaswamy

EntNet Business Forum

D Mi li

Access ExecutiveForum

IPv6Forum

Mahmoud Daneshmand Dilip KrishnaswamyJeff Friedhoffer

Dan MinoliGabe Jakobson

Dave Waring

10:30 AM – 6:00 PMTuesday Dec. 1

10:30 AM – 6:00 PM Wed.-Thurs.

Dec. 2-3

10:30 AM – 6:00 PM Tues.-Thurs.

Dec. 1-3

Latif Ladid

10:30 AM – 6:00 PMMonday Nov. 30

CEO Forum

Matt Bross

Industry Leader Forum

Adam Drobot

Technology Leader Forum

Mahmoud Daneshmand

8:15 – 10:00 AMTuesdayDec. 1

8:15 – 10:00 AM Wednesday

Dec. 2

8:15 – 10:00 AMThursday

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GLOBECOM 2009 Organizational Structure (as of March 2009)

General Chair*Doug Zuckerman

*Executive Committee andOrganizing Committee member**Organizing Committee member

Project Managers*June Leach-Barnaby

Gayle Weisman

SecretaryGiorgie Millamena

GIMS Advisor*Mark Karol

GITC Advisor*Mehmet Ulema

ViceGeneral Chair*

Ross Anderson

EXPO Chair*Nim Cheung (Acting)

Conference OperationsChair*

James Hong

Technical Program (TP) Chair*Mehmet Ulema

ProfessionalDevelopment Chair*

Robert Walp

BIT Forums Chair**

Chi-Ming Chen

Local AdvisoryChair**Al Toda

Finance Chair**Raouf Boutaba

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Patronage Chair**Shri GoyalTim Weil

EXPOProject Manager**

June Leach-Barnaby

GOLD Women inEngineering Digital Divide

TP Vice ChairTutorials**

Nelson Fonseca

TP Vice ChairWorkshops**

Rolf Stadler

Symposium 1Co-chairs

Symposium 2Co-chairs Tutorial 1

(TBD)Workshop 1

(TBD)

Exhibits Chair**Jerry Gibbon Treasurer**

Bruce Worthman

Keynotes ForumsChair**

Mahmoud Daneshmand

ExhibitsSales & Operations

Manager**Susan Blevins

Marketing**Heather Sweeney

Des &DevForum

Dilip KrishnaswamyJeff Friedhoffer

Tutorial 2(TBD)

CEO ForumMatt Bross

Comm. HistoryJacob Baal-Shem

Symposium 11Co-chairs

Tutorial x(TBD)

Workshop 2(TBD)

Workshop x(TBD)

Jeff Friedhoffer

ACCESSExecutive Forum

Dave Waring

EntNetBusiness Forum

Dan Minoli

TP Vice ChairPublications**

Barcin Kozbe

Asia Pacific

North AmericaJohn Strassner

Publicity Chair**Roberto Saracco

Industry Leader ForumAdam Drobot

Technology Leader ForumMahmoud Daneshmand

TP Vice ChairSTG**

Guenter Schaeffer

Past Symp. Chair**Stefano Bregni

Dan MinoliGabe Jakobson

Europe, Africa, MideastTariq Durrani

Asia PacificHiromi Ueda

Latin AmericaCarlos WestphallIPv6

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Statistics of PapersStatistics of PapersConf. Submitted Accepted A/S

RatioOrganization(presentation sessions andsessions and

poster sessions)ICC2008 221 74 33.5% (10, 3)

GC2008 198 71 35.8% (10,2)ICC2009 178 63 35.4% (9,1)GC2009 213 *GC2009 213 *

• Review is underway* y• Acceptance to be discussed in ICC2009, Dresden,

June 14-18, 2009A ifi i d J l 1 2009

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• Acceptance notification date: July 1, 2009

Planning of CQR2010 WorkshopPlanning of CQR2010 WorkshopDates: June 8 – 10, 2010Place: The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver (proposed)

1601 Bayshore Drive1601 Bayshore Drive Vancouver, British Columbia V6G 2V4 · Canadahttp://www.westin.com/bayshore

General Program Co-Chairs:James Runyon, Alcatel-LucentM ti G ldb V i Wi lMartin Guldberg, Verizon Wireless

Technical Program Chair and Secretary :Prof. Y. Ishibashi 石橋 豊, Nagoya Institute of Tech.Prof. Y. Ishibashi 石橋 豊, Nagoya Institute of Tech.Prof. S. Sugawara 菅原真司, Nagoya Institute of Tech.

Workshop URL http://www.ieee-cqr.org/ (to be

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constructed after CQR2009)

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CQR2010 Technical Program Status

• Invitations to TPC members have been sent

• Call For Paper (CFP) is being drafted p ( ) g

• Plan to distribute the CFP in ICC2009, Dresden, June 14-18June 14 18

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Workshops beyond 2010

• China

• Japan (1994, 2002, when and where)p ( , , )

• Hawaii

• Other US locations

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