IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) at INFOCOM’09

1. IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications(TCCC) at INFOCOM’09 Joe Touch (USC/ISI) Sonia Fahmy (Purdue Univ) Xiaoming Fu (UnivGoettingen)

2. Agenda • Introduction • Announcements • TCCC Outstanding Service Award 2008 • CCW 2009 • Updating technical co-sponsorship procedures • Distinguished Lecturer Program • Support for member grade promotion • Open discussions

3. IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications

4. Our role… • Support the community (via our email list) • Organize CCW • Provide technical co-sponsorship to meetings • Represent your interests • Coordinate your requests

5. TCCC Management • 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) • Conference coordinator: Joerg Ott • Representatives to tech co-sponsored meetings

6. TCCC Member Portal • http://www.comsoc.org/~tccc • Information on: • CCW • In-cooperation conferences • Meeting minutes • Mailing list • Procedures and policies • Officers’ contacts

7. TCCC Mailing list • Goal: to support the TCCC membership • Promote technical discussions of computer communications issues • Provide information on relevant IEEE issues • Provide a venue for community discussion • Currently supports the wider network community as an open bulletin board for meetings, journals, job posts • Recent effort to keep posts broadly on-topic

8. TCCC Outstanding Service Award • Awarded to:Roch Guerin • Awarded for outstanding service to the TCCC and its community, through its meetings, publications, and organization • To be celebrated at CCW‘09 • 2008 committee: Sonia Fahmy, Bulent Yenner, Tatsuya Suda (past awardee)

9. Computer Communications Workshop • http://www.ieee-ccw.org/ • 2.5 day, panel-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 • CCW 2009: Lenox, MA, Oct 18-21, chair: Bulent Yener

10. Technical Co-Sponsorship • current process is vague • TAC suggests the general guidelines & procedure • Considering adopting process from ITC, TCHSN • Proposed requirements: • In-scope • Largely peer review (3 reviews) • Appropriate TPC • Appropriate accept rate history • Prior to submission deadline • Visible, nonprofit budget

11. Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) • TCCC may propose distinguished lecturer candidates every year • Serves the communty to give presentations • Costs supported by the IEEE Comm. Society • Deadline and process to be announced

12. Supporting Member Grade Promotion • IEEE has various member grades: • Student, Member, Senior Member, Fellow • Promotion requirements (TBV) • Senior = Member + 10 years + visible contributions • Fellow = Senior + distinguished contributions (<X%) • Require letters of support at/above new grade • TCCC will provide clearinghouse for support • Anyone can volunteer to be visible • Coordinate areas of contribution

13. Upcoming Activities Meetings at ComSoc major conferences: • ICC’09, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18 • CCW’09, Lenox, MA, Oct 18-21 • Globecom’09, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov 30-Dec 4 • INFOCOM’10, San Francisco, CA, Mar 15-19

14. Our role… • TCCC is here to represent you • to the ComSoc • to our publication and conference boards • to the IEEE as a whole • What issues would you like us to address?

15. Conference/WorkshopNo-Show Policy • Requires a non-student registration • IEEE Comsoc discounts do apply • Student discounts do NOT apply • See IEEE Comsoc website for papers/registration • No-Show • Previously had no effect on Xplore • Now at the meeting chair’s discretion • May remove paper from Xplore • AUTHORS MUST BE NOTIFIED BY CFP

16. Candidate Issues • New • Meeting costs • Ethics issues • Previous • “Laddering” (successive publication) • Review quality / load / delay time / “experiments”