Minutes TC AHSN at GC06

IEEE Communication SocietyTechnical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks: 

IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks Minutes of November 28, 2006 Meeting San Francisco, CA

Agenda: 

Agenda Welcome/Introductions Approval of Minutes Business arising from the minutes Conferences/Symposia Secon’2006 Globecom’2006 ICC’2007 Secon’2007 Globecom’2007 ICC’2008 Workshops Standards forums liaison (IETF, ITU/T) Publications Other Business Adjourn

Report on SECON 2006: 

Report on SECON 2006 Statistics: 243 papers submitted (~20% more than last year), 236 reviewed (others withdrawn) 62 papers accepted (17 sessions) Best student paper: Anthony Rowe, Rahul Mangharam, Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University), “RT-Link: A Time-Synchronized Link Protocol for Energy Constrained Multi-Hop Wireless Networks” Selected by a sub-committee among 6 nominations Overall, the conference was a success Overall attendance: 247 (including tutorials, 1-day etc; ~18% more than last year)

Paper selection process: 

Paper selection process 236 papers reviewed Written reviews over ~5 week period At least 3 reviews per paper At least 2 reviews from TPC members Online discussion recommendations Accept: 29 Discuss: 62 Reject: 145 TPC meeting – Boston MA, June 9, 2006 62 papers selected 62 out of 243 = 26%

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WASNet) – GC 06: 

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WASNet) – GC 06 Co-Chairs Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa Hossam Hassanein, Queen‘s University Guoliang Xue, Arizona Stata University Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Sponsoring committees TC AHSN (Technical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks) And TCPC (Technical Committee on Personal Communication) TCII (Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure) TPC members – 92 Paper Status Submission: 306 Acceptance: 121 papers 19 oral and 1 poster session

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WASNet) – GC 06: 

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WASNet) – GC 06 WSN-01: Aggregation WSN-02: MAC-I WSN-03: Mobility WSN-04: Coverage WSN-05: MAC-II WSN-06: Localization WSN-07: MAC-III WSN-08: Performance Evaluation WSN-09: Security WSN-10: QoS-I WSN-11: Cross-Layer Design WSN-12: QoS-II WSN-13: Routing WSN-14: Power Control WSN-15: Resource Allocation WSN-16: Topology Control WSN-17: Resource Management WSN-18: Survivability WSN-19: Energy Efficiency WSN-P1: Topics in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (Poster)

Symposium on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks – ICC 2007 : 

Symposium on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks – ICC 2007 Co-Chairs Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Hossam Hassanein, Queen‘s University Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa Guoliang Xue, Arizona Stata University Sponsoring committees TC AHSN (Technical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks) And TCPC (Technical Committee on Personal Communication) TCII (Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure) TPC members – 110 Paper Status Submissions: 379 Acceptance (projected numbers): 150 papers 120 oral (20 sessions) and 30 poster (1 session) Notifications 2nd half of December

SECON 2007, San Diego, June 18-21, 2007: 

SECON 2007, San Diego, June 18-21, 2007 Merged with IWWAN Focus: continued expansion to cover mesh networks in addition to sensor and ad hoc networks Date change: moved to be in-line with Infocom decision date under the assumption that Infocom rejects some good papers that will be re-submitted Host: UC-San Diego Sponsors: technical (IEEE ComSoc) w/ co-sponsor by AFCEA Statistics from 2006: 243 submissions, 63 acceptances Organization: General Chair: Prof Rene Cruz (UC-San Diego) Technical Chairs: Prof Kevin Almeroth (UCSB) & Robin Kravets (UIUC) TPC: approx 80 internationally recognized researchers from industry & academia Status: web page is up and accepting submissions

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium -- GLOBECOM 2007: 

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium -- GLOBECOM 2007 Co-Chairs: Prof. Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Prof. Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Sponsoring Committees TC AHSN TCPC (Technical Committee on Personal communication) TPC members - already invited 100+ (Many have already accepted already) EDAS System is up

Symposium on Wireless Networks – ICC 200819-23 May 2008, Beijing, CHINA: 

Symposium on Wireless Networks – ICC 2008 19-23 May 2008, Beijing, CHINA Co-Chairs Romano Fantacci, University of Florence Prof. Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Andrea Giorgetti, University of Bologna Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University Sponsoring committees TCPC (Technical Committee on Personal Communication) TC AHSN (Technical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks) Radio Communications Committee (RCC)

Slide11: 

The GCITC has voted to limit the symposia for Globecom and ICC to the following ten: 1. Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications (or General Symposium) 2. Communication Theory Symposium 3. Signal Processing Symposium 4. Communications Software and Services Symposium 5. Optical Networks and Systems Symposium 6. Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability of Networks and Services 7. Wireless Communications Symposium 8. Wireless Networking Symposium 9. Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium 10. Next generation networks and Internet Symposium The titles of the symposia can vary slightly, but the number is limited to ten.