1. Flight Times to Anchorage
North America
Seattle hours
Salt Lake City 5
San Francisco
Los Angeles 5
Chicago
New York City 8
International
London
Zurich
Tokyo
Seoul

2. Anchorage Physical Data
International Airport deg. N, deg. W
40 meters (131 ft.) above msl
Typical May Conditions
Daylight 17 hours 18 minutes
Temperature range deg. C ( F)
Precipitation (month) 1.7 cm. (0.7 in.)
Snow depth Zero
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3. ICC 2003 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

4. Technical Program Framework
May 11 & 15
Tutorials (4 parallel sessions/day or 4-8 tutorials/day depending on number of whole- and half-day tutorials)
Workshops (2, half-day)
May 12-14
16 tracks/day, 4 sessions/day (General Conference, Symposia, PBAS)
Plenary Sessions part of General Conference/Symposia/PBAS
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5. SYMPOSIA – 1 Optical Networking Chairs:
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo,
Mohsen Guizani,University of West Florida

6. SYMPOSIA – 2 The Next Generation Internet Chairs:
Mario Gerla, University of California Los Angeles,
Marjory Johnson NASA Ames Research Center,
Horst Besier, T Systems, Germany,

7. SYMPOSIA – 3 Broadband Wireless & Satellite Communication Systems
Chairs:
Tony Ephremides, University of Maryland,
Zoran Kostic, AT&T Research,
Satchandi Verma, TRW,

8. SYMPOSIA – 4 Communication Theory Chairs:
Steve McLaughlin, Georgia Tech University,
Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California,

9. SYMPOSIA – 5 Personal Communications and Wireless LANS Chairs:
Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Watson Research Center,
Sajal Das, University of Texas Arlington,

10. SYMPOSIA – 6 Advanced DSP for Multimedia Chairs:
Jaafaar Elmirghani, University of Wales, Swansea, UK,
Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology,

11. SYMPOSIA – 7 Communication QoS, Reliability, and Performance Modeling
Chairs:
Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University, Japan,
K.S. Kuo, National Chengchi University, Taiwan,
Nelson Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil,

12. SYMPOSIA – 8 Global Services and Infrastructure for NG Networks
Chairs:
Seshadri Mohan, Comverse,
Fawzi Daoud, GMD,
Heinrich Stuttgen, NEC,

13. TUTORIALS Physical Layer Communication Chair:
John Barry, Georgia Tech University,
Networking Layers
Catherine Rosenberg, Purdue University

14. PANELS AND BUSINESS APPLICATION SESSIONS
Chairs:
Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College,
Panels Chairs:
Edwin Chong, Colorado State University,
Feng-Wen Sun, Hughes Network Systems,

15. Technical Program Matrix

16. Technical Program Committee (TPC)
Consist of about 200 experts in different areas of communications
Handle ICC’03 submissions (coordinate review process)
Organize and chair sessions
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17. Workload for TPC Members
Number of submissions: 1200 – 2000 (1600 for Globecom’02)
Number of papers for each TPC member:
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18. Paper Submission Authors must chose general conference, and
one of 8 symposia,
specify their priorities.
Examples:
1st priority: Symposia 6, 2nd priority: General conference  acceptable
1st priority: General conference, 2nd priority: Symposia 2  acceptable
1st priority: Symposia 7, 2nd priority: Symposia 2  not acceptable
1st priority: General conference, 2nd priority: General conference  not acceptable
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19. Paper Assignment to Symposia Chairs
According to
author’s choice,
distribution of submissions.
Example:
Sessions in Symposia X need 45 paper Chairs of Sym. X need to handle 100 submissions (assuming 45% acceptance rate) 
80 submissions with Sym. X as 1st priority and 40 submissions with Sym. X as 2nd priority
 80 1st priority + 20 from 40 2nd priority to Sym. X
120 submissions with Sym. X as 1st priority and 30 submissions with Sym. X as 2nd priority
 100 from 1st priority to Sym. X
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20. Final Decisions on Papers
TPC of general conference or each symposia accepts top 1/3 papers and rejects bottom 1/3 papers. (The results should not be released to the authors yet)
All TPC members of general conference and 8 symposia discuss and shuffle the middle 1/3 papers, and make final decisions on those papers at Globecom’02 in Taiwan.
The decisions of all papers will be released to authors.
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21. Summary of Review Process
Everything is done electronically
Each paper should have at least 3 qualified reviews
Each TPC member determines top 1/3 (accepted) & bottom 1/3 (rejected) papers according to review results
TPC will discuss the middle 1/3 papers at Globecom’02 and make decisions according to the reviews.
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22. Rules for TPC Members Rules of thumb for review process of ICC’03:
No TPC member handles his/her own or colleague’s paper(s).
TPC members should not contact authors directly regarding his/her paper review.
Contact technical program or symposia chairs immediately if you feel uncomfortable to handle some papers due to any reasons.
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23. Time Table for Paper Review
Deadline for paper submission: Aug. 1, 2002
Papers assigned to different symposia: Sept. 1, 2002
Papers assigned to different TPC members: Sept. 15, 2002
Feedback from the TPC members for top 1/3 & bottom 1/3 papers: Oct. 27, 2002
Final decisions (Globecom’02): Nov. 17, 2002
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