IEEE Communications Society T ECHNICAL C OMMITTEE ON Communications Quality & Reliability

1. IEEE Communications SocietyTECHNICAL COMMITTEE ONCommunications Quality & Reliability http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/index.html Committee Meeting CQR Chair: Kenichi Mase (presented by Chair Elect: Chi-Ming Chen) Nov. 28 GLOBECOM2007 Washington DC, USA

2. Agenda • Welcome • CQR Background and Activities • CQR Charter • Officers and 2007 Election • Report from Hot Topic Workshops • ICCs and GLOBECOMs • CQR2008 • Member Services • 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: ICC2007, June 27, Glasgow, UK • Today: GLOBECOM2007, Nov. 28, Washington, D.C. • Next one: CQR2008 Workshop, April 29 – May 1, 2008, Carefree, Arizona Meeting presentations and minutes are posted on the CQR web http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/TC-Meetings.html • Holds elections every two years (2007 is an election year) • CQR Chairman’s Awards since 2004 Criteria upon which recipients were selected include:  • sustained contributions in the field of Quality, Reliability & Security of communications services, networks or systems;  • a demonstration of the core value of a professional society- adding value to others; and  • integrity consistent with that of a role model. 

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 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 next week • List of Members is being updated for correct email addresses • Election results will be announced by email

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. Report from Hot Topic Workshops 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. Technical Programs – Current and Planning • ICC2007, June 24-28, Glasgow, Scotland, UK H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair (with CSIM-TC* and SSC-TC**) 255 papers submitted, 102 papers accepted (40%) • GLOBECOM2007, Nov. 26-30, Washington D.C., USA Karl Rauscher, General Vice Chair • ICC2008, May 19-23, Beijing, China H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair (with CSIM-TC* and SSC-TC**)221 papers submitted, 74 accepted (33.5%) • GLOBECOM2008, Nov. 30 - Dec. 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 H. Nakamura, Symposium Co-Chair(to be proposed) • ICC2010, May, Capetown, South Africa T. Tsuboi, Symposium Co-Chair (to be proposed) * Communications Systems Integration & Modeling TC ** Satellite & Space Communications TC

11. 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

12. 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. CQR2008 TPC members • Yoshihiro AshiHitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd., Japan • 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 • Rocky K. C. Chang The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK • Chi-Ming Chen AT&T Labs, USA • Mike Devetsikiotis New York City State University, USA • Yacine Ghamri Doudane Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise • Nelson Fonseca State University of Campinas, Brasil • Stefano Giordano University of Pisa, Italy • Go HasegawaOsaka University, Japan • Toru HasegawaKDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan • Takumi Miyoshi Shibaura 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 Yamaoka Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan • Tokumi YokohiraOkayama University, Japan • Tetsuya YokotaniMitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan • Weider Yu San Jose State University, USA

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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/

19. Strategic Program • Three themes (one for each day): • Global Operations • Next Generation Networks • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity • Keynote Speakers: • Adam Drobot, CTO of Telcordia • Bob Nowill, Director of Information and Network Security of BT • One more being invited • Executive Panel • Distinguished Experts Panel (DEP)

20. Important Dates • December 1, 2007 (extended to December 15) • 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

21. Registration • What does your registration fee cover? • 3 days of dialog with experts from around the world • Reception dinner (Monday evening) • Social event (Tuesday evening) • Banquet (Wednesday evening) • Hotel room (3 nights) ---- with high speed internet! • Early registration (by or on 2/29/2008) • IEEE Members: $995; ComSoc Members: $945 • Non Members: $1095 • Registration after 2/29/2008 • IEEE Members: $1095; ComSoc Members: $1045 • Non Members: $1195 • For more information, please visit:http://www.ieee-cqr.org/

22. Member Services / Communications • Free CQR membership! • Promotion of member grade elevation • From member to Senior Member • From Senior Member to Fellow (congratulations to Hiromi Ueda) • To set an example, will ask all officers to apply for SM or above • For more info, please see CQR Home Page • Distinguished Lecturer Nomination • Submit your candidate to Kenichi Mase by 11/30/07 • Publication Opportunities • Proposal on Feature Topics, Communications Magazine • Timely links on CQR Home Page to Journals, Magazines, Conferences

23. Reminders before Adjourn • Mark CQR2008 on your calendar Tuesday, April 29 – Thursday, May 1, 2008, Carefree, Arizona • Upgrade your IEEE membership to Senior Member or Fellow http://www.comsoc.org/join/index.html • Cast your vote for the Officers Election • Questions? Thank you!