IEEE Communications Society T ECHNICAL C OMMITTEE ON C OMMUNICATIONS Q UALITY & R ELIABILITY

1. IEEE Communications Society TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS QUALITY & RELIABILITY http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/index.html Committee Meeting CQR Chair: Kenichi Mase June 27 ICC 2007 Glasgow, UK

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

3. CQR Background and Activities (I) • 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 *18 TCs passed the 2006 recertification; 5 TCs were placed on probation http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/committees.html

4. CQR Charter • 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

5. CQR: Background and Activities (II) • Three Committee Meetings each year: • Last one: CQR2007 Workshop, May 16, Fort Myers, Florida • 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)

6. 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 Officer Team Officer Team

7. 2007 Election • Positions for election (2008-2009 Term) • (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

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

9. Recent Hot Topic Workhops Workshops on Availability and Robustness of Europe's Future Communications Networks 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 websitehttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=3334 In the report, “Special appreciation” is expressed toCQR for the support (page 127)

10. Recent Hot Topic Workhops • Supported the Workshop on The Trust Paradigm • Organized by Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and SignaCert • Implementing Trusted Methods in Information Technology Management and Security, October 17, 2006, Washington D.C. • Proceedings posted on http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/TrustParadigm-2006.html

11. 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

12. 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

13. Technical Programs – Current and Planning • 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

14. 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

15. 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/

16. Current lint of TPC members(Invitation is in progress) • Albert BanchsUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain • Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy • Hans van den BergUniversity of Twente, The Netherlands • Torsten BraunUniversity of Berne, Germany • Chi-Ming ChenAT&T Labs, USA • Nelson Fonseca State University of Campinas, Brasil • Stefano GiordanoUniversity of Pisa, Italy • Go HasegawaOsaka University, Japan • Takumi MiyoshiShibaura Institute of Technology, Japan • Michael MenthUniversity of Wurzburg, Germany • Hiroyuki MorikawaUniversity of Tokyo, Japan • Tutomu MuraseNEC Corp., JAPAN • Hidenori NakazatoWaseda University, Japan • Kawahara RyoichiNTT, Japan • Toshio SoumiyaFujitsu, Japan • Dan Keun SungKAIST, Korea • Katsushiki YamaokaTokyo Institute of Technology, Japan • Tokumi YokohiraOkayama University, Japan • Tetsuya YokotaniMitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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 cqr2008-submission@ieee-cqr.org . • Hardcopy submissions will not be accepted. • For more information, please visit:http://www.ieee-cqr.org/

23. 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 • CQR 2008 Workshop

24. Reminders before Adjourn • Next Committee Meeting: Globecom2007, November 26-30, Washington DC, USA • Mark CQR2008 on your calendar Tuesday, April 29 – Thursday, May 1, 2008, Carefree, Arizona • Upgrade your IEEE membership to Senior member http://www.comsoc.org/join/index.html • Cast your vote for the Officers Election • Questions? Thank you!