Internet Technical CommitteeMeeting

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013)June 10, 2013

Budapest, Hungary

Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany)Jaime Lloret Mauri (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)

Stefano Secci (University Pierre and Marie Curie, France)

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Meeting Agenda1. Introductions2. Approval of ICC 2012 minutes. 3. 2012 ITC Best Paper Award announcement4. Conference updates

– Global Internet Symposium 2013, 2014 – ICC and GLOBECOM 2014, 2015– Endorsed 2013 conferences and statistics

5. Updates from Special Interest Groups and Standards Activities 6. Upcoming election of new officers: call for nominations7. Upcoming fellow/senior member and DL nominations8. Publication activities9. ITC recertification status10. Open Discussions and Other Business11. Adjourn

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1. introductionsStructure: IEEE, ComSoc, and TAC

IEEE

IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc)– One of the 38 societies of IEEE

ComSoc Technical Activities Council (TAC)– Members: VP Technical Activities, TAC Vice-chair,

TC Chairs and Vice-chairs• 24 TCs, 14 Emerging Tech. Subcommittees, 1 Tech. Sub

Committee: http://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/Technical

• Internet TC is a joint tech. committee of ComSoc and ISOC

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1. ITC Officers• Officers (2011-2013):

– Chair: Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany)

– Vice-Chair: Jaime Lloret Mauri (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)

– Secretary: Stefano Secci (University Pierre and Marie Curie, France)

Elected in Nov. 2011

• Previous Chairs (1995-2011):– Deep Medhi (2007-2011), Markus Hoffman (2004-2007), Joe Touch (2000-2004), Henning Schulzrinne (1995-2000)

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1. ITC Community

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Subscribing: send an email to listserv@comsoc.org and type in the body of the message "join itc FirstName FamilyName”

http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/reports/itc-meeting-2012.html

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2. Approval of ITC GC meeting Minutes

3. 2012 ITC Best Paper Award

• A new award recently set up by ITC

• 2013-2014 Committee

– Deep Medhi (UMKC) - Chair; Jorg Liebeherr (U. Toronto); Lixin Gao (UMass)

• Eligibility

– Only papers that have been published in conferences held during the preceding calendar year, which have been endorsed by the Internet Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society, are eligible for the ITC best paper award

• Currently the committee is processing on the nominations

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4. Conference Update• IEEE INFOCOM Global Internet Symposiums

• IEEE ICC & GLOBECOM 2014, 2015

• IEEE CLOUDNET 2013 & 2014

• Endorsed conferences

– (since GLOBECOM 2012): ITC 2013, NOF 2013

– Statistics (since Nov. 2011):TCS applications: 73ITC-endorsed with TCS: 16Rate: 22%

– Open CFPs

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4. IEEE INFOCOM Global Internet Symposium

• New rule of the composition of the GISC

– The ITC chair acts as GISC chair

– one from each of recent 3-4 editions of GI, considering the institution/country/continent diversity

• New GISC

– Xiaoming Fu (U Goettingen)

– Marcelo Bagnulo Braun (UC3M)

– Tilman Wolf (UMass)

– Colin Perkins (U.Glasgow)

– Joerg Ott (Aaalto U)

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• Thank former GISC’s contributions:

– Joe Touch (USC/ISI)

– Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia U)

– Dinesh Verma (IBM Research)

– Georg Carle (TU Munich)

– Kevin Almeroth (UCSB)

4. 16th IEEE INFOCOM Global Internet Symposium

• 16th Global Internet Symposium at IEEE INFOCOM 2013

– April 14-19, 2013 - Turin, Italy – TPC co-chairs: Marcelo Bagnulo Braun (UC3M), Rod Van Meter (Keio U.)– 28 submissions, 13 accepted, 20 attendees (Note: GI was on Friday + high

registration fee)– Report: http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/reports/report-gi-2013.html

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4. 17th IEEE INFOCOM Global Internet Symposium

• 17th Global Internet Symposium at IEEE INFOCOM 2014 (?)

– April 27 – May 2, 2014 – Toronto, Canada

– TPC co-chairs: TBD; suggestions welcome!

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4. IEEE GLOBECOM 2012

• GC’12 Next Generation Networking and Internet– James P.G. Sterbenz

Professor, U. Kansas, USA– Number of submissions: 152, accepted 59

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4. IEEE ICC 2014

•Accepted nomination – Next Generation Networking and Internet

• Antonio PescapèAssistant ProfessorU. Napoli – Federico II, Italy

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4. IEEE GLOBECOM 2014

•Accepted nominations– Next Generation Networking

• Yevgeni Koucheryavy Tampere University of Technology

– Communications Software and Services• Antonios Argyriou

University of Thessaly

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4. IEEE ICC 2015

•Sent nomination – Next Generation Networking and Internet

• Shiwen MaoAuburn University, USA

– Communications Software and Services• Periklis Chatzimisios

Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece

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4. IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, San Diego

• We are receiving nominations!– About the co-chair position: each symposium will have its own technical

program committee that is managed by a set of 2-4 Symposium Co-Chairs. The co-chairs retain full responsibility for all aspects of the symposium technical program, including the shaping of its technical program, managing the review process, selecting accepted papers, and organizing its sessions. Symposium co-chairs are highly respected leaders in their fields of expertise, with outstanding records of IEEE publications and proven experience in the peer review process.

– Strongest profiles will be nominated so as to increase selection chances

• Please send nominations to ITC_Officers@comsoc.org ASAP

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4. IEEE CLOUDNET 2013

•IEEE CLOUDNET 2013

– November 11-13, 2013 – Hilton Hotel, San Francisco Downtown, USA

– ITC representatives: Deep Medhi as General Chair, Xiaoming Fu as TPC co-chair, Dijiang Huang and several more

– New IEEE ComSoc portfolio event, second of a long series!

• CLOUDNET’14 to be held in Luxemburg; receiving suggestions for 2015 in USA or Asia

4. ITC 2013

• ITC 2012

– September 4-7, 2012 – Krakow, Poland

– ITC representatives: Kurt Tutschku, Deep Medhi and Prosper Chemouil

– Submissions: 91

– Accepted: 32 (full – 9 pages) + 7 (posters – 4 pages)

• 4 reviews per paper

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4. NOF 2013

• NoF 2013: Oct. 23-25, 2013 – Pohang University, South Korea

– 53 submissions. Mostly from Asia and Europe.

• The most recurrent topics of submitted papers :

– Technologies for Future Internet, Network protocols and architectures, Cloud computing and network virtualization, Security, trust and privacy challenges, SDN

– ITC representatives: Prosper Chemouili, Antonio Pescapè, Stefano Secci

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4. SACONET 2013

• SACONET 2013: 17-19 June, 2013 – Paris, France

– Papers received : 76; accepted : 28 (ratio : 36,84%)# TPC members : 79

– Keynote Speakers : Michael Melloul, Juniper: From SDN to Cloud NetworkingJim Roberts, INRIA: The Cloud and the future Internet: the challenge of data center traffic control.

– 6 sessions, 3 Workshops (Monday June 17)

– ITC representatives: Neuman Souza, Dijiang Huang, Stefano Secci

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5. Special Interest Groups- ITC gives importance to cutting-edge research areas opening Special Interest Groups and supporting related activities such as:

- Special Issues,

- Conferences, Workshops.

- Large research projects, Standardization.

- If you are active on any of the active SIG area, please get in contact with the ITC representative to allow listing and reporting.

- Stay tuned on : http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/activities.html#SIG

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5. SIG on the Internet of Things

- Internet of Things

- Resp.: Neuman Souza, UFC, Brazil

- Vacant seat since Jan 2013

Keep it alive or close it? We are receiving nominations, to be sent to itc_officers@comsoc.org

- Report: http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/reports/report-sig-iot-1112.pdf

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5. SIG on Cloud Networking

- Cloud Networking

- Resp.: Dijiang Huang, ASU, USA, and José M. Alvarez Calero, HP labs, UK

- IEEE CloudNet series

- SI on “Communications and Networking in the Cloud”, COMNET

- ITC representative associate editor: Stefano Secci

- 45 of submissions received (currently under review)

- 2012 report: http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/reports/report-sig-cnet-1112.pdf

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5. SIG on Loc/ID Separation Protocols

- Loc/ID Separation

- Resp.: Luigi Iannone, Télécom ParisTech, France

- IETF Routing WG activities

- Open Source LISP router activities

- 2012 report:

- http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/reports/report-sig-lis-1112.pdf

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5. SIG on Information-Centric Networking

- Information-Centric Networking

- Resp.: Mayutan Arumaithurai, NEC labs, Heidelberg, Germany

- Call for PapersIEEE Network MagazineSpecial Issue on Information-Centric Networking Beyond Baseline Scenarios: Research Advances and ImplementationDeadline: Oct. 1, 2013ITC representative: Prosper Chemouil

- 2012 report: http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/reports/report-sig-icn-1112.pdf

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5. Call for new Special Interest Groups

- New propositions are welcome!

- A SIG is generally opened

- on a very recent subjects in Internet-working,

- if there is a clear activity related to the subject,

- Conferences, workshops, special issues, standardization, large research projects, etc

- in which ITC members are involved and willing to report.

- Please send propositions to ITC_officers@comsoc.org

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5. ITC Activities on Standards

- IEEE ComSoc Standards BoardRepresentative: Periklis Chatzimisios, ATEITHE, Greece2012 Report:http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/reports/ITC_Standard_Activities_12.pdf

- ISOC/IRTFRepresentative: Luigi Iannone, Telecom ParisTech, France2012 Reports: http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/reports/report-irtf-2013a.txt

- Activities include: Crypto Forum RG, DTNRG, ICCRG, ICNRG, SDNRG; NCRG, NMRG, RRG

- Applied Networking Research Prize (http://irtf.org/anrp, formed in 2011)

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6. Publication activities

• Any member has organized special issues of COMNET, IEEE Network, TON etc.?

• Other thoughts?

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7. Upcoming Election of New Officers

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- As of ITC by laws:

- http://committees.comsoc.org/itc/policies-and-procedures.html

- Election made electronically via Internet

- … rules…

- Rough planning

- A nomination committee is to be formed in the coming 2-4 weeks

- Call for nomination will be issued in 1-2 months

8. Upcoming nominations for SM, F, DL

• DL: – nomination due Aug. 1, to itc_officers@comsoc.org – basic criteria: 1) good speaker, 2) research visibility, 3)

diversity in topic and region

• SM/F: – A TC may endorse a candidate if a qualified member has

contributed to the TC related activities significantly

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9. ITC recertification

• Every 3 years• We sent recert materials to TAC in February • Len Cimini (VP- Technical Activities): no issue

with our TC; formal notification to come

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10. Other Business

• Do you have any planned/ongoing activities related to ITC?

• Do you like to contribute to ITC (and ComSoc in general)?

• Join us: – Join the mail list by sending an email to

listserv@comsoc.org and type in the body of the message "join itc FirstName FamilyName”

– Participate/raise discussions in the list– Provide your inputs and help

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11. Adjourn

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Next ITC meeting:

IEEE GLOBECOM 2013Dec. 9-13, 2013

Atlanta, GA, USA