May 2008M. Ulema1 IEEE Communications Society Global Communications Conference Honolulu, Hawaii 30 November – 4 December 2009 Hilton Hawaiian Village Riding.

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IEEE Communications SocietyGlobal Communications Conference

Honolulu, Hawaii

30 November – 4 December 2009Hilton Hawaiian Village

“Riding the Wave to Global Connectivity”

GITC Review – May 2008

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Decision Matrix

C-20 Final Call for Papers Ready for GIMS/GITC approval at ICC 2008

C-18 Final List of TC Reps Ready for GITC review

C-18 Revised Technical Program Matrix

No changes from C-24

C-18 Revised Preliminary Budget

Ready for GIMS approval

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Technical Program Leadership Team*

• Technical Program Chair – Mehmet Ulema• Manhattan College, New York, USA

– Symposia Chair - Stefano Bregni• Polytechnic of Milan, Dept. of Electronics and Information, Italy

– Tutorials Chair - Nelson Fonseca• State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

– Workshops Chair - Rolf Stadler• KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

– Publications Chair - Barcin Kozbe• Ericsson Inc, Bellevue, USA

– Student Travel Grants Chair - Guenter Schaeffer• Technical University Ilmenau, Germany

_______* Already Approved by GITC

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Globecom 2009 Symposia1. Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications

Cognitive Radio and Networks, Emerging Technologies for Access Systems and Networks, Consumer Networks, Data Storage, Satellite and Space Communications, Other Related Technologies

2. Ad-Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium

3. Communication and Information System Security Symposium

4. Communication Theory Symposium

5. Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium

6. Communication Software and Services Symposium

7. Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium

8. Optical Networks and Systems Symposium

9. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium

10. Wireless Communications Symposium

11. Wireless Networking Symposium

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Globecom 2009 Symposia Co-chairs

Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications

Cognitive Radio and Networks Emerging Tech. for Access Sys. and Nets

Consumer NetworksData Storage Satellite and Space Communications Other Related Technologies

Mainak Chatterjee, Univ. of Central Florida, USAMasaaki Katayama, Nagoya Univ., JapanKwang-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan Univ.Fatih Erden, Seagate Tech., USAClaudio Sacchi, Univ. of Trento, ItalyTarek El-Bawab, Jackson State Univ., USA

Ad-Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium

Nizar Bouabdallah, INRIA, FranceAzzedine Boukerche, Univ. of Ottawa, CanadaChunxiao (Tricia) Chigan, Michigan Tech., USAAshfaq Khokhar, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Communication and Information System Security Symposium

Abderrahim Benslimane, LIA/CERI, FranceStamatios Kartalopoulos, Univ. of Oklahoma, USAQingming Ma, Juniper Networks, USAGuenter Schaeffer, Tech. Univ. of Ilmenau, Germany

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Globecom 2009 Symposia Co-chairs (Cont.)

Communication Theory Symposium

Lars Rasmussen, Univ. of South Australia, Australia Merouane Debbah, SUPELEC, FranceElza Erkip, Polytechnic Univ. Brooklyn, USASyed Ali Jafar, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA

Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium

Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, ItalyHajime Nakamura, KDDI, Japan

Communication Software and Services Symposium

Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam Univ., KoreaPascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute-Alsace, FranceBiplab Sikdar, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., USAQian Zhang, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology

Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium

Nasir Ghani, Univ. of New Mexico, USAAshwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay / MIT, IndiaYinghua Ye, Nokia Siemens Networks, USADeep Medhi, Univ of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

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Optical Networks and Systems Symposium

Alberto Bononi, Univ. of Parma, ItalyGalen Sasaki, Univ. of Hawaii, USANaoaki Yamanaka, Keio Univ., JapanArunita Jaekel, University of Windsor, Canada

Signal Processing for Communications Symposium

Hung Henry Nguyen, Aerospace Co., USATomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu Labs, JapanHsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State Univ., USA

Wireless Communications Symposium

Robert Schober, Univ. of British Columbia, CanadaAlberto Zanella, Univ. of Bologna, ItalyCheng Li, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, CanadaJingxian Wu, Sonoma State Univ. USA

Wireless Networking Symposium

Sastri Kota, Harris Corp., USAMaria Luisa Merani, Univ. of Modena and R.Emilia, ItalyTarik Taleb, Tohoku Univ., JapanJiang (Linda) Xie, Univ. of N. Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Globecom 2009 Symposia Co-chairs (Cont.)

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TC Globecom 2009 Reps

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Nirwan Ansari

Communication Theory Scott Miller

Communications Quality and Reliability Hajime NAKAMURA

Communications & Information Security Stam Kartalopoulos

Communications Software Pascal Lorenz

Communications Switching & Routing Abbas Jamalipour

Communications Systems Integration & Modeling Fabrizio Granelli

Computer Communications Biplap Sikdar

Data Storage M. Fatih Erden

Enterprise Networking Dan Minoli

High Speed Networking Ashwin Gumaste

Information Infrastructure Yacine Ghamri

Internet Deep Medhi

Multimedia Communications Nelson Fonseca

Network Operations and Management Young-Tak Kim

Optical Networking Jun Zheng

Power Lines Communications Masaaki Katayama

Radio Communications Cheng Li

Satellite and Space Communications Tarik Taleb

Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Hung Nguyen

Tactical Communications Gabriel Jakobson

Transmission, Access and Optical Systems Tarek El-Bawab

Wireless Communications Chengshan Xiao

Emerging Technologies - Applications of Nanotechnologies in Communications Amr Helmy

Emerging Technologies - Cognitive Networks Rajarathnam Chandramouli

Emerging Technologies - Autonomic Communications Marcus Brunner

Emerging Technologies - Consumer Networking K.C Chen

Emerging Technologies - Integrated Fiber & Wireless Technologies Chunming Chao

Emerging Technologies - Peer-to-Peer Sherman Shen

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Technical Program Matrix*

_____*Same as before (presented in Nov 2007)(The number of sessions, tutorials, workshops, etc., are TBD.

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Technical Team Contact

Mehmet Ulema, TP Chair

[email protected]

+1 732 957-0924

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Aloha!