TCCC Meeting at GLOBECOM’08

1. TCCC Meeting at GLOBECOM’08 Joe Touch (USC/ISI) Sonia Fahmy (Purdue Univ) Xiaoming Fu (UnivGoettingen)

2. Briefing… • TCCC is here to represent you to the ComSoc, its publication and conference boards, and the IEEE. • What issues would you like us to address?

3. Agenda • What is TCCC • IEEE, ComSoc, TAC and TCs • Current TC officers • Homepage • Mailing list • Conferences and workshops • Wrap up

4. What is TCCC • Structure of the IEEE, ComSoc, and TAC • Our scope as a TC • Our role in the structure • represent your interests • coordinate answers to your concerns • organize CCW • support other meetings via tech co-sponsorship • support TCCC by running its mailing list

5. IEEE, ComSoc and TAC • IEEE – Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers • ComSoc – IEEE Communications Society • one of the 38 societies of the IEEE • Others: Computer, VTS, Signal Processing… • ComSoc Technical Activities Council • for the convenience of volunteers and ComSoc staff to conduct Technical Activities • Officers: Andrzej Jajszczyk (chair), Marcus Brunner (Secretary/Information Coordinator) etc. • Members: chairs of all TCs, Emerging Technical Subcommittees, etc

6. ComSoc TCs and Clusters • Networking (NET) cluster: 7 TCs • Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks (AHSN TC) • Cognitive Networks (TCCN) • Communications Switching & Routing (TCCSR) • Computer Communications (TCCC) • High-Speed Networking (TCHSN) • Internet (ITC) • Optical Networking (ONTC) • Communications/Signal Processing (C/SP) cluster: 7 TCs • Communications Software & Services (CS&S) cluster: 5 TCs • Vertical issues in communications (VICS) cluster: 5 TCs

7. Structure of TCCC • Officers • Current officers: Joe Touch (chair), Sonia Fahmy (vice chair), Xiaoming Fu (secretary) • Past officers : Bulent Yener (chair), Ken Calvert (vice chair), Song Chong (secretary) • Representatives to tech co-sponsored meetings

8. Webpage • http://www.comsoc.org/~tccc • TCCC member portal • E.g., sponsored conferences • Meeting minutes • General info (e.g. mailing list, contact info, procedures)

9. Mailing list • http://www.comsoc.org/~tccc/list.html • Goal: to support the TCCC membership • Currently supports the wider network community as an open bulletin board for meetings, journals, job posts • Supports technical discussions • Supports policy discussions

10. IEEE INFOCOM • IEEE Conference on Computer Communications • One of major ComSoc conferences • Founded in 1982, this year: 27th • http://www.ieee-infocom.org/ • Acceptance rate: 17-20% • Submission #: 1100-1500 • Acceptance #: 220-250

11. Computer Communications Workshop • http://www.comsoc.org/~tccc/ccw/ • 2.5 day, invitation-based • Held at various times, organized as: • a medium-attendance workshop, with groups of technical presentations as panels • a small-attendance retreat, with groups of position presentations as panels • Does the community want it as a retreat or an open workshop?

12. Technical Co-Sponsorship • current process is somewhat vague • TAC suggests the general guidelines & procedure • considering adopting process from ITC, TCHSN • As a start point (process/reqts from ITC): • Scope, previous years • Review of the chair/TPC for relevant participation • Consideration of conference/workshop overlap • If local, support from a local organization, and a reason for needing society-wide endorsement • A peer review process • Publication of the proceedings in IEEE Xplore • Description of the financially responsible party or parties

13. Next Year Activities Meetings at ComSoc major conferences: • INFOCOM’09, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 19-25 • ICC’09, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18 • Globecom’09, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov 30-Dec 4 TCCC: • CCW’09: TBD

14. What can we do for you? • what concerns would you like to see addressed? • what concerns would you like us to represent up the hierarchy?

15. How to contact us • All officers: tccc_officers@comsoc.org • Individually: • Joe Touch (touch@isi.edu) • Sonia Fahmy (fahmy@cs.purdue.edu) • Xiaoming Fu (fu@cs.uni-goettingen.de)