IEEE Communications Society
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON
COMMUNICATIONS QUALITY & RELIABILITY
http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/index.html
Committee Meeting
CQR Chair: Kenichi Mase
November 30
Globecom 2006
San Francisco, USA
Officer TeamOfficer Team
Officer Team
Chair: Kenichi Mase
Chair Elect: Chi-Ming Chen
Vice-Chair-Operations: Hiromi Ueda
Vice-Chair-Publications: Anil Macwan
Vice-Chair-Programs: Mike Todd
Secretary & Treasurer: Kevin Krantz & Shigeo Shioda
Advisory Board:
Karl Rauscher (Advisory Board Chair)
Koichi Asatani (Advisory Board Chair Emeritus)
Kelly Krick
Raymond Bonelli
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Agenda
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WELCOM
Recertification
Policy and Procedures Update
Technical Programs
Strategic Programs
COMSOC TAC
2007 Chairman’s award
Others
ADJOURN
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Recertification
• Every three years.
• Submitted on August 30.
• Policy and procedures including charters
have been updated.
• Thanks, Chi-Ming.
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CQR Charter
• Revised August 2006
• The Technical Committee on
Communications Quality & Reliability
(CQR) focuses on and advocates
worldwide communications and reliability
on behalf of, and within, the
Communications Society.
• CQR 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.
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Charter (Cont.)
CQR technical subject matter includes:
I. Service Quality and Reliability
• Quality of Service
• Service reliability
• Quality aspects of emerging technologies and
services
• Quality issues of information infrastructure
• Customer satisfaction
• Quality assessment
• Quality management tools and systems
• Timeliness of repair services
• Definitions, metrics, best practices, and best-inclass performance
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Charter (Cont.)
II. Network Quality and Reliability
• Network reliability
• Network performance
• Network architecture
• Network interoperability
• Network robustness
• Network security
• Emergency preparedness & disaster recovery
• Ad-hoc networks
• Priority communications
• Quality and reliability implications of network evolution
• Definitions, metrics, best practices, and best-in-class
performance
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Charter (Cont.)
III. Product and System Quality and Reliability
• Software
• Hardware
• Procedures
• Process
• Testing and tools
• Product and process quality evolution
• Products, processes and procedures for
emergency recovery
• Best practices
• Environment
• Life cycle costs
• Definitions, metrics, best practices, and best-inclass performance
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Charter (Cont.)
• The direct beneficiaries of the work of CQR include
academia, service providers, equipment suppliers,
emerging global commercial markets,
governments and end users.
• The CQR sponsors an annual workshop, and
technical and application sessions and tutorials at
major Communications Society conferences.
• A major goal of CQR is to engage our growing,
diverse membership to promote an understanding
of major communications quality and reliability
issues in the world.
• The CQR accomplishes this goal through
participation in conferences and workshop and
contributions in forums and technical publications.
The Technical Committee supports the industry
provision of international consensus definitions,
measurements, best practices, and best-in-class
performance reference material.
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Some questionnaire items in
Recertification
MENTION WHAT YOU CONSIDER THE MAJOR
ACHIEVEMENT OF YOUR TC IN THE LAST 2
YEARS:
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Foundation of CQR Chairman’s Award.
Success of annual CQR workshop.
Success of organizing symposia at ICCs and
Globecoms.
Two IEEE Fellows from CQR.
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Some questionnaire items in
Recertification
27. WHAT COULD COMSOC DO TO HELP YOUR TC IN
ITS OPERATIONS?
• Would be nice to get more support on web pages, for
example,
• software for contact information updates by members,
and
• higher disk space quota (current limit is 100MB). CQR
uses the website to communicate with members heavily
by posting draft/formal presentations. Many times, a
single presentation takes up to 20MB already.
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Some questionnaire items in
Recertification
28. WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS TO INCREASE YOUR
GLOBAL MEMBERSHIP (AND, IN PARTICULAR,
YOUR INDUSTRY MEMBERSHIP)?
• CQR has always focused on promoting the dialog
and interactions of industry members and academia
members. In particular, the annual CQR workshop
has a strong participation from industry. CQR will
continue to promote good combination of strategic
program (industry focused) and technical program
(academia focused) at CQR workshops and
ICC/Globecom conferences.
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CQR TC Policies and Procedures
(Revised August 23, 2006)
• Duties of each officer are specified.
• Nomination and selection procedure for CQR
Chairman’s award is included.
• Budget and Expenses section is included.
• Thanks , Chi-Ming, Kelly and Karl.
• http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/TC-Meetings.html
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CQR Chairman’s Award
NOMINATION AND SELECTION
• Nominations may be received from a CQR Committee Officer or
a member of the CQR Board of Advisors.
• Criteria upon which candidates are evaluated 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.
• Evaluations should be made by the Chair and Board of
Advisors; with final selection being left to the Chair.
• Contact the selected candidates to inform of awarding together
with the requirement of attendance to CQR workshop.
• If some of the selected candidates are not interested in
workshop attendance, they are excluded from the selected
candidates. If some of them cannot attend the target workshop,
their award is canceled, but they may be considered again in
future workshop.
• Each recipient will be cited for specific contributions, service or
elements of character.
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Technical and Strategic Programs
• Technical
– ICC
– GLOBECOM
– Symposia
Technical Strategic
Programs Programs
• Strategic
– Annual International Workshops
– Special Hot Topic Workshops
• Combined:
– JSAC
– ICC and GLOBECOM Business
Application Sessions
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Technical Programs - Planning
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2006 ICC Istanbul, June 11-15
H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair with N. Fonseca of CSIM-TC*
220 papers submitted, 89 accepted
2006 GLOBECOM San Francisco, November 27-30
H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair with M. Devetsikiotis of CSIM-TC
140 papers submitted, 39 % accepted
2007 ICC Glasgow, June 24-28
H. Ueda, Symposium Co-Chair with N. Fonseca of CSIM-TC and
A. Jamalipour of SSC-TC**
TPC established.
2007 GLOBECOM Washington, D.C.
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2008 ICC Beijing China, May 19-23
H. Ueda
Plan to have our symposium.
• 2008 GLOBECOM New Orleans, November
• 2009 ICC Dresden Germany, June 14-18
T. Tsuboi
• 2010 ICC
T. Tsuboi
* Communications Systems Integration & Modeling TC
** Satellite & Space Communications TC
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Recent Hot Topic Workhops
Workshops on
Availability and Robustness of Europe's Future Communications Networks
Workshop 1
Power & Environment
Rome, Italy
October 3, 2006
Workshop 2
Network & Payload
London, U.K.
October 6, 2006
Workshop 3
Hardware & Software
Berlin, Germany
October 11, 2006
Workshop 4
Policy & Human
Brussels, Belgium
November 15, 2006
Proceedings on
http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/EU-Proceedings-2006.html
Workshop on The Trust Paradigm: Implementing Trusted Methods in
Information Technology Management and Security, October 17, 2006,
Washington D.C.
http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/TrustParadigm-2006.html
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Small workshops
• A series of 4 workshops across Europe in Rome, London, Berlin,
Brussels on the subject of the reliability and security Europe's
future networks; CQR attendees include Rick, Karl, Ray
hopefully Mike and/or Peter Hoath, . . .
• Trusted Computing workshop in Washington DC, October 17 many high level government (NIST, FRB) and industry folks
(very high levels from Microsoft, HP, Verizon/maybe Dick Lynch,
etc.) attending. CQR attendees include Chi-Ming, PJ, , Stephen
Malphrus, Karl . . .
• These small workshops (less than 40; less than 1 day) are easy
to execute because they all have no fee. Local host companies
(Telecom Italia, BT, etc. provide the facility; people pick their
own hotel). We have CQR positioned as a technical co-sponsor
for these. What is great is that CQR will get to publish the
proceedings. These events should build momentum on our
London '06 workshop for CQR visibility in Europe, and the event
in DC will help get us set for Globecom'07, where we should
plan for strong business application type session.
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CQR 2007 International Workshop
When: May 15-17, 2007
Where: Sanibel Harbor Resort
17260 Sanibel Harbour Pointe Drive
Fort Myers, Florida
http://www.sanibel-resort.com/index2.asp
Technical Program Chairs
Richard Krock, Lucent Technologies
Peter Hoath, BT
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CQR 2007 International Workshop
Program at a Glance
Five Segments/Themes
Segment
Segment Chair
No. of
Sessions
Telecommunications is a Social
Service too
Francois Cosquer, Alcatel
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e-Commerce; still a tricky
business?
William Hitchcock, Sprint
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Communications Now!
Martin.Guldberg, Verizon Wireless
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Services Network, and Systems
David Harcourt, BT
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Topical Technology
Weider Yu, San Jose State Univ.
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Updates are posted on
http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/events.html
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Program Organization of 2008
CQR Workshop
• Previous workshops
Program Chair
Mainly strategic program (invited presentation based)
No TPC, no call-for-paper and no review
• 2008 workshop
General Chair
Mainly strategic program (invited presentation based)
follows a traditional way.
TPC Chair:
Technical program (selected paper based)
TPC, call-for-paper and review (CD-based Proceedings)
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2008 CQR Workshop
General Chair:
Karl Rauscher, Lucent Technologies
TPC Chair:
Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ.
Location and dates:
To be selected before CQR2007
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ComSoc TAC Reports
The meeting minutes and the presnetations
of the Nov. 28, 2006 TAC meeting are
available on
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/meetings/sanfran2.html
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2007 CQR Chairman’s Award
nomination and selection schedule
• Send me your proposals by the end of February,
2007. (Short bio, reasons and possible citation)
• Voting by advisory board members due March
15.
• Selection completed due March 31.
• Attendance confirmed due April 15.
• A plaque and a $US100 honorarium prepared.
• Recipients announced and awarded on 2007
Workshop.
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CQR Logo
CQR
• Official Name: Technical Committee on Communications
Quality & Reliability
– note use of “&” sign (instead of and)
• Abbreviation as: CQR
• Logo
– one space between each letter
– font = Garamond
– font effects setting = Shadow
– yellow (brightest yellow in Microsoft Office: Red =
255, Green = 255, Blue = 0)
– preferred background = Blue (various shades)
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