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Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks *
The Committee will serve as ComSoc’s focal point in the area of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks technologies, stimulating and organizing leading-edge wireless ad hoc and sensor networks symposia, workshops, sessions and tutorials at ComSoc conferences. It will also serve as a proactive facilitator in the dissemination of evolving wireless ad hoc and sensor networking standards.
Chair | Hossam Hassanein
Vice Chair | Azzedine Boukerche
Secretary | Nei Kato
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Cognitive Networks***
The goal of TCCN is to provide a platform for its members in particular, and the cognitive networking research, development, policy making and standardization community in general, to interact and exchange technical ideas to identify major challenges and also derive solutions in the development of cognitive networking technologies.
Chair | R. (Mouli) Chandramouli
Vice Chair | Linda Doyle | Joseph Evans | Honggang Zhang
Industry Liaison | Carlos Cordeiro | Patricia Martigne | Sai Shankar
Secretary | Mainak Chatterjee
Web Chair | Wenjing Wang
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Communications & Information Security *
This committee will promote security of all types of communication networks and forms of information transported by them and through them, end to end. Our security interests start from the network physical layer and they end on the end user application layer. The committee will support conferences, symposia, technical sessions, publications, etc., where information is exchanged within the scope of interest of the TC.
Chair | Hsiao-Hwa Chen
Vice Chair - Conferences | Peter Mueller
Vice Chair - Publications | Abderrahim Benslimane
Secretary | Kejie Lu
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Communications Quality and Reliability *
This committee focuses on and advocates worldwide communications quality 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.
Chair | Hiromi Ueda
Chair-Elect | Anil Macwan
Vice Chair - Operations | Hideaki Yoshino
Vice Chair - Publications | Weider Yu
Vice Chair - Programs Development | Peter Hoath
Secretary | Tetsuya Yokotani
Treasurer | Kevin Krantz
Advisory Board Chair | Chi-Ming Chen
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Communications Software **
The mission of this committee is to advance the state of the art in communications software and its various aspects and applications. It serves as the major forum for discussion among communications software professionals in both of the communications and computer industries.
Chair | Pascal Lorenz
Vice Chair | Abdelhamid Mellouk
Secretary | Joel Rodrigues
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Communications Switching & Routing *
The objective of this committee is to sponsor publications, conference technical sessions, workshops and topical meetings and discussions in the theory and applications of information switching. Specific areas include, but are not limited to theory, architecture, traffic, performance, signaling protocol and networks, call and mobility control, services and features, planning, economic factors and management of switching systems.
Chair | Abbas Jamailipour
Vice Chair | Guoliang (Larry) Xue
Secretary | Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Workshop and Conferences Chair | Hussein Mouftah
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Communications Systems Integration & Modeling *
This committee is concerned with the systems disciplines and modeling tools that facilitate the integration of information-transport equipment, subsystems, and networks into communications systems. The committee particularly addresses computer-aided modeling of integrated subsystems to answer architectural and performance questions
Chair | Fabrizio Granelli
Vice Chair | Charalabos Skianis
Secretary | Stefano Giordano
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Communication Theory *
This committee sponsors conference sessions, workshops, tutorials, as well as promoting and reviewing papers in the broad area of communication theory, with emphasis on applications to practical systems. The technical content of these sessions and papers focuses on the analytical and theoretical aspects of many diverse areas that include modulation, coding, synchronization, equalization, signal processing and neural networks, transmission over all media, source and channel coding, spread spectrum and multiple access, data communications, and communication networks.
Chair | Michael Rice
Vice Chair | Robert Heath
Secretary | Lutz Lampe
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Computer Communications *
This committee (TCCC) sponsors papers, discussions, and standards on all aspects of computer-communication systems. It provides a forum for members to broaden professional contacts and for technical discussions and interactions. Its areas of interest include performance of computer network and switch architectures, interfaces and protocols, configuration control, scheduling and buffer management, routing, flow control and admission control algorithms, error control, and network security, reliability, and management.
Chair | Joe Touch
Vice Chair | Sonia Fahmy
Secretary | Xiaoming Fu
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Data Storage *
This committee (DS) promotes advances in the state of the art of coding and signal processing to enhance digital data storage systems, in order to achieve high storage densities, fast access, and low error rates. The committee is also interested in VLSI implementations of read/write channel electronics.
Chair | Yuan Xing Lee
Vice Chair (Academia) | Tiffany Jing Li
Vice Chair (Industry) | Bruce Wilson
Secretary | Haitao (Tony) Xia
Treasurer | Fatih Erden
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e-Health ****
This committee focuses on exploring ICT solution gaps and business models supporting emerging eHealth applications and services, as well as exploring project collaboration opportunities addressing global health challenges with IEEE sister societies and governments around the globe. The focused technical areas include eHealth network and system infrastructures (e.g., health grid, cloud computing, etc), net-centric health and healthcare application developments, ICT-enabled personalized healthcare and management, and ICT-enabled smart medical devices and systems. This committee provides a platform to ComSoc members not only for technical information exchange (e.g., conferences and workshops) but also for project-based collaborations with IEEE and non-IEEE organizations.
Chair | Tsong-Ho Wu
Vice Chair | Pradeep Ray
Secretary | Joel Rodriguez
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Enterprise Networking *
This Committee focuses on "end-to-end" solutions, addressing topics such as re-engineering of business processes around computers and communications, end-to-end network design and integration of subsystems, interconnection and interoperability of all components of an enterprise network, including Local/Wide/Global Area Networks, networked applications and services. It addresses the needs of vertical markets, such as healthcare, finance and telecommunications with respect to functional (e.g., VPNs and ERP) as well as non-functional (e.g., security and management) requirements.
Chair | Daniel Minoli
Vice Chair | Latif Ladid
Technical Program Co-Chair | Samir Chatterjee
Technical Program Co-Chair | Vinay Chandhok
Secretary | Fethi Rabhi
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High-Speed Networking **
This committee promotes interest within and outside the Communications Society on the emerging applications and architectural solutions for high-speed networks. A primary goal is to serve as a focal point for activities in high performance networking by participating in and sponsoring conferences and workshops; encouraging publications, fostering discussion; and providing education on the utility of high-speed networks and possible architectural alternatives required for optimum infrastructure.
Chair | Nasir Ghani
Vice Chair | Sergey Gorinsky
Secretary | Ashwin Gumaste
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Information Infrastructure *
This committee identifies and exchanges knowledge on issues related to National Information Infrastructure (NII) and Global Information Infrastructure (GII). It stimulates interdisciplinary conferences, sessions, workshops, publications, and standards activities, and offers leadership and support to the Communications Society in furthering its own use of the national and global information infrastructures.
Chair | Yacine Ghamri-Doudane
Vice Chair | Charalabos Skianis
Secretary | Sidi-Mohammed Senouci
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Internet *
This committee is a joint committee of the Internet Society and the IEEE Communications Society for stimulating interdisciplinary exchanges and applications of state of the art communications and related technologies to Internet infrastructure and services. The committee contributes to the emergence of an ubiquitous, multimedia, and high-performance Internet serving large segments of the world's population.
Chair | Deep Medhi
Vice Chair | Jorg Liebeherr
Secretary | Ehab Al-Shaer
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Multimedia Communications *
This committee examines systems, applications, services and techniques in which two or more media are used in the same session. These media include, but are not restricted to, voice, video, image, music, data, and executable code. The scope of the committee includes conversational, presentational, and transactional applications and the underlying networking systems to support them.
Chair | Qian Zhang
Vice Chair, Asia/Pacific | Zhu Li
Vice Chair, Europe, Middle East, and Africa | Madjid Merabti
Vice Chair, North America | Wenjun Zeng
Vice Chair, Latin America | Nelson Fonseca
Secretary | Bin Wei
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Network Operations & Management *
This committee (CNOM) focuses on network and service operations and management. It encourages the exchange of information on the operational and technical management aspects of public and private networks for voice, data, image, and video, and organizes and sponsors publications and discussions of these topics. Specific technical interests include automation of network operations, customer network management and control, knowledge-based technologies, real-time management of networks, network-operations architecture, service management, and end-to-end management across several jurisdictional boundaries.
Chair | Marcus Brunner
Vice Chair | George Pavlou
Technical Program Chair | Lisandro Granville
Secretary | Brendan Jennings
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Optical Networking *
The committee will serve as ComSoc’s focal point in the area of optical networking technologies and play an active role in stimulating/organizing leading-edge optical networking symposia, workshops, sessions and tutorials serving OFC and other premier M&C venues. ONTC will also serve as a proactive facilitator in the dissemination of evolving optical networking standards by working closely with standards forums such as OIF, IETF, and ITU/T1.
Chair & Online Content | Byrav Ramamurthy
Vice Chair | Suresh Subramaniam
Secretary | Admela Jukan
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Power Line Communications *
The Committee sponsors conference sessions, special issues, workshops, tutorials, and promotes the dissemination of technical information in the broad area of communications over power lines. Our primary goal is to serve as a focal point for all activities in the area of power line communications.
Chair | Stefano Galli
Vice Chair | Lutz Lampe
Secretary | Gerd Bumiller
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Radio Communications **
This committee sponsors and promotes technical papers, workshops, and tutorials on the engineering aspects of communications systems, equipment, and operation in which electromagnetic transmission through space near the earth's surface is the dominant factor. Specifically included are systems in which the transmission follows the surface or takes place within the atmosphere of the earth. Technologies are considered for point-to-point, point to multipoint, mobile radio, and personal communications radio access. Commercial band broadcasting and space communications are outside the scope of the Committee.
Chair | Andreas F. Molisch
Vice Chair | Davide Dardari
Secretary | Andrea Conti
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Satellite & Space Communications *
This committee facilitates technical exchange in the field of satellite and space communications and maintains a keen interest in the development and maintenance of standards in this area. It explores the evolution of new satellite and space-based systems and the application of new and emerging technologies.
Chair | Takaya Yamazato
Vice Chair | Tarik Taleb
Secretary | Igor Bisio
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Signal Processing & Communications Electronics *
This committee (SPCE) sponsors papers, participates in the organization of conferences, and promotes technical workshops on those aspects of communications that pertain to the innovation, development and application of algorithms and electronic and photonic devices or subsystems for generation, processing, storage, transmission, recovery, and presentation of communications signals. In so doing, the committee also has as a goal the professional development of committee members and other practitioners that work in the above areas.
Chair | Tomoaki (Otsuki) Ohtsuki
Vice Chair | Hung H. Nguyen
Secretary | Nallanathan Arumugam
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Tactical Communications & Operations
The mission of this committee is to sponsor conferences, workshops, technical sessions, publications, professional meetings, and standards on all aspects of tactical communications and operational situation management in military, homeland defense, and disaster recovery application areas. It provides a forum for members to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, and share experience among researchers and engineers. Its areas of interest include military communication infrastructures including tactical radio, landline, mobile and space communications; advanced battlespace command and control models, including, C4ISR, net-centric operations, asymmetric warfare, special operations command; surveillance, monitoring and control, including target identification, tracking and signal intelligence; homeland security management infrastructures, models, and architectures; disaster rescue, recovery and support missions; operational situation management, including situation awareness, decision support, information fusion, situation control, situation prediction, and situation management architectures and engineering solutions; semantic information processing, including semantic modeling, ontologies, knowledge representation, semantic modeling languages, tools, and platforms.
Chair | Kenneth C. Young, Jr.
Vice Chair | Gabe Jakobson
Secretary | Adam Stotz
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Transmission, Access, & Optical Systems *
This committee sponsors and organizes papers, conference sessions, workshops and standards development relating to both optical and metallic guided media transmission and access systems for the transport of speech, data, and visual information of any bandwidth. Specific areas of interest include: testing and performance of analog and digitally transmitted signals; systems and equipment for subscriber access over fiber, coaxial cable, and twisted copper pairs; analog and digital subscriber lines over wires and interfaces to wireless media; inductive coordination and electrical protection of wired media; network synchronization; and development of IEEE-oriented standards.
Chair | Stefano Bregni
Vice Chair | Tarek El-Bawab
Secretary | Ravi Subrahmanyan
Standards Liaison | Jennifer Huang
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Wireless Communications *
The mission of the committee TCPC is to sponsor publications, conferences, technical sessions, workshops, and other information exchanges on architectures, applications, systems, terminals and technologies to provide personal, location-independent communication and computing in voice, data and visual media. Its areas of interest include techniques for achieving portability, ubiquity and transparency using wireless networks ranging from microcellular to satellite, and wired networks ranging from narrow to broadband.
Chair | Mohsen Guizani
Vice Chair | Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Secretary | Ross Murch
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