1. TCCN Meeting at GLOBECOM 2009 Report on the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) Special Issue - Achievements and the Road Ahead: The First Decade of Cognitive Radio Joseph Mitola III, Alireza Attar, Honggang Zhang, Oliver Holland, Hiroshi Harada, and Hamid Aghvami December 3, 2009

2. TVT Special Issue Guest Editors Prof. Joseph Mitola III Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Dr. Alireza Attar University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada Prof. Honggang Zhang Zhejiang University, China Dr. Oliver Holland Kings College London, UK Dr. Hiroshi Harada National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Prof. Hamid Aghvami Kings College London, UK

3. TVT Special Issue Timeline Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009 First Review Deadline: August 15, 2009 Revised Paper Deadline: October 15, 2009 Second and Final Review Deadline: December 1-5, 2009 Revised Manuscript Deadline: January 15, 2010 Publication: May 2010

4. Total paper submissions: 114 Regional distribution of the submitted papers: USA: 29 China: 16 South Korea: 13 Canada: 10 Taiwan – China: 8 UK: 7 Singapore: 6 Finland: 4 France: 3, Spain: 3, Japan: 3 Italy: 2, Greece: 2, Lebanon: 2 Australia: 1, Denmark: 1, Germany: 1, Turkey: 1, Iran: 1, Qatar: 1 TVT Special Issue Statistics

5. First round of reviewing results: Reject: 54 Reject & Resubmit: 9 Major Revision: 45 Minor Revision: 5 Withdraw: 1 General (required) TVT accept rate: 30% Second round of review (final) due: December 1-5, 2009 Target TVT special issue papers in publication: <114*30%=34 (less than 34) TVT Special Issue Statistics (cont)

6. Thank You ! Joseph Mitola III, Alireza Attar, Honggang Zhang, Oliver Holland, Hiroshi Harada, and Hamid Aghvami