1. T ECHNICAL C OMMITTEE ON C OMMUNICATIONS Q UALITY & R ELIABILITY Committee Meeting 12/2/2004 GLOBECOM 2004 Dallas, Texas, USA C Q R http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/index.html

2. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 2 Agenda WELCOME PRIORITIES for 2004-2005 (Karl) TECHNICAL PROGRAMS (Kenichi & Hiromi) STRATEGIC PROGRAMS (Karl) COMSOC TAC and NEW BUSINESS ADJOURN Strategic Programs Technical Programs

3. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 3 Officer Team Chair: Karl Rauscher Chair Elect: Kenichi Mase* Vice-Chair-Publications: Chi-Ming Chen Vice-Chair-Operation: Hiromi Ueda Vice-Chair-Programs: P.J. Aduskevicz Secretary & Treasurer: Anil Macwan Advisory Board: –Koichi Asatani * (Advisory Board Chair) –Kelly Krick (Advisory Board Chair Emeritus) –Raymond Bonelli *recently elected as IEEE Fellows (19 selections out of 71 nominations)

4. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 4 Priorities for 2004-2005 Emphasize professional society role Provide a structure for both the Technical and Strategic Programs to thrive –implement alternating Chair/Chair Elect rotation plan where both T & S are emphasized simultaneously –enhance value of each Program to the other Ensure continuity of leadership Clarify scope of security... New Network Security TC being formed – deciding on leader Implement a Chairmans Award for industry professionalism in Q&R&S Operational Improvements –develop and maintain templates, checklists and other guides (conference TPC, workshop TPC, ISCs, officer, other) –regular periodic officer meetings will rotate time for different regions approximately quarterly have welcome dinner for new members at ICC and Globecom

5. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 5 Technical Programs - Review July 2004 IEEE Communications Magazine Issue on VoIP and QoS. Guest editors are Koichi, Clayton and Hiromi. 2004 GLOBECOM (Dallas, Nov 29-Dec 3) –TPC=Yu 2005 ICC (Seoul, May 16-20, 2005) –TPC=Ueda-san; September 1 deadline –Expect 9.5 sessions! 2005 GLOBECOM (St. Louis, Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2005) –TPC=Yu & Mase –2 workshop proposals (one is mobile communications network reliability, and disaster recovery, collaboration and support, potential solutions) –Tutorial (Richard Thompson) End of 2006: JSAC Special Issue – (Chi-Ming & Weider Yu) Q&R&S in network systems and services ICC 2006 (Istanbul) –TPC=Ueda-san –Symposium on communications QoS, reliability, and performance modeling (joint w/ Performance Modeling TC) Strategic Programs Technical Programs

6. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 6 Technical Programs - Review GLOBECOM 2006 –San Francisco, California, USA –TPC = Weider Yu ICC07 –Glasgow, SCOTLAND –TPC =Hiromi-san Strategic Programs Technical Programs

7. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 7 Strategic Programs - Review Emergency Power Conference (Karl) Rick Krock, General Program Chair November 22, 2004 Washington, DC 97% rating as valuable by participants (~50) 2005 Workshop (Anil) Don CeSar, St. Pete Beach, Florida April 26-29, 2005 Topics to include: service reliability optimization, Q&R&S for public safety, emergency power, wireless network reliability, network security,... Business Application Sessions Strategic Programs Technical Programs

8. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 8 Ongoing Business Tutorials Now –PowerPoint/Audio over Internet –~ $200 cost per student –Some royalty for author –Sources come from conference/workshop Tutorials or from scratch Bridges between Technical and Executive Programs –Strategic Program support symposia at conferences Templates –Workshop: ISC, FASC, ISKS (Anil Macwan) –Officer responsibilities checklist –TPC Representative checklist and time guide (Weider and Hiromi-san) CQR member expertise matrix for selection reviews (Weider)

9. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 9 COMSOC TAC Summary from Mase-san & Ueda-san - make report on budget (Anil) - some budget available for TCs (CQR introduced Chairmans Award (5 x $100)... Consider dinner at ICC05 - make proposal about workshop, technical sessions, business applications session, symposia - nominations for fellow awards, distinguished lecturer

10. C Q R GLOBECOM 2004 CQR MEETING 12/9/2004 - K. F. Rauscher 10 Notes Attendees Karl Rauscher (Lucent Bell Labs) Hiromi Ueda-san (Tokyo University of Technology) Chi-Ming Chen (AT&T) via phone Weider Yu (San Jose State University) Richard Thompson (University of Pittsburgh) Steven Wright (BellSouth) Pradeep Ray (University of New South Wales)