EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

 

General Chair
Robert Walp r.walp@ieee.org

Vice-General Chair
Robert Baldwin r.baldwin@ieee.org

Technical Program Chair
Ian F. Akyildiz ian@ece.gatech.edu

Technical Program Vice-Chairs
Geoffrey Li liye@ece.gatech.edu
Raghupathy Sivakumar siva@ece.gatech.edu

Business Application and Panel Chair
Mehmet Ulema m.ulema@ieee.org

Application and Panel Vice Chairs
Edwin Chong
echong@engr.colostate.edu

Tutorial Co-Chairs
John Barry barry@ece.gatech.edu
Catherine Rosenberg cath@ecn.purdue.edu

Finance Chair
Bruce Broquet bbroquet@gci.com

Accounting Chair
David Broline dbroline@gci.com

Local Arrangements Chair
Ocie Mitchell omitchell@gci.com
Char McClelland char@alaskadestinations.com

Registration Chair
Dee Fultz d.fultz@ieee.org

Patron Chair
Jeffrey Roe jtroe@alascom.att.com

IEEE Communications Society Liaison
Gayle Weisman g.weisman@comsoc.org

 

GENERALCONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Networking Track

Kang-won Lee, IBM Research, USA, kangwon@us.ibm.com
Tao Wu, Nokia, USA, tao.wu@nokia.com
Srikanth Krishnamurthi, UCR, USA, krish@cs.ucr.edu
Baochan Li, U of Toronto, Canada, bli@eecg.toronto.edu
Xia Gao, Docomo Labs, USA, gao@docomolabs-usa.com
Elizabeth Royer, UCSB, USA, ebelding@cs.ucsb.edu
Prasun Sinha, Bell Labs, USA, prasunsinha@dnrc.bell-labs.com
Krishna Sivalingam, Washington State U, USA, krishna@wsu.edu
Jun Xu, Gatech, USA, jx@cc.gatech.edu
Erdal Cayirci, Gatech, USA, erdal@ee.gatech.edu
Wenwu Zhu, Microsoft Research, China, wwzhu@microsoft.com
Buyurman Baykal, Middle Eastern Technical University,
Turkey, buyurman@metu.edu.tr
Suresh Singh, Portland State, USA, singh@cs.pdx.edu
Marwan Krunz, U Arizona, USA, krunz@ece.arizona.edu
Jennifer Hou, UIUC, USA, jhou@cs.uiuc.edu
Songwu Lu, UCLA, USA, slu@cs.ucla.edu
Jia-Ru Li, ISI International, USA, juru@server.hiq.com
Cem Ersoy, Bogazici U, Turkey, ersoy@boun.edu.tr
Panganamala Kumar, UIUC, USA, prkumar@uiuc.edu
Faramarz Fekri, Gatech, USA, fekri@ece.gatech.edu
Robin Kravets, UIUC, USA, rhk@cs.uiuc.edu
Giacomo Morabito, Catania, Italy, Giacomo.Morabito@diit.unict.it
Haitao Zheng, Bell Labs, USA, ht_zheng@yahoo.com haitaoz@lucent.com
Surendar Chandra, U NotreDame, USA, surendar@cse.nd.edu
Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington U, USA, suresh@seas.gwu.edu
Young Bae Ko, Ajou U, Korea, youngko@ajou.ac.kr
Chiara Petrioli, U of Rome, Italy, chiara.petrioli@flashnet.it
Hugh Smith, Cal Poly, USA, husmith@calpoly.edu
Yi Pan, Georgia State U, USA, cscyip@suez.cs.gsu.edu
Novella Bartolini, U of Rome, Italy, bartolin@mail.uniroma2.it

Communications Track

Tulay Adali, U. of Maryland at BC, MD, USA
Stella N. Batalama, NYSU at Buffalo, NY, USA
Guoan Bi, Nanyang Tech. U., Singapore, egbi@ntu.edu.sg
Rick S. Blum, Lehigh U., PN, USA
Helmut Boelcskei, ETHZ, Switzerland, boelcskei@nari.ee.ethz.ch
Maite Brandt-Pearce, U. of Virginia, VA, USA
Roger Cheng, HKUST, Hong Kong, P.R.China
Xiaodai Dong, U. of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Tolga Duman, Arizona State U., AZ, USA
Monisha Ghosh, Philips Research, NY, USA
Kwang Bok Lee, Seoul National U., Seoul, South Korea
Andreas Molisch, Lund University LTH, Swiss, Andreas.Molisch@ieee.org
Ross D. Murch, HKUST, Hong Kong, P.R.China
Dimitris Pados, NYSU at Buffalo, NY, USA
Const. C. Papadias, Bell Labs of Lucent Tech., NJ, USA
Markus Rupp, Technical U. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Hamid R. Sadjadpou, U. of California at Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Ulukus Sennur, U. of Maryland at CP, MD, USA
Ananthram Swami, Army Research Lab., VA, USA aswami@arl.army.mil
Vahid Tarokh, MIT, MA, USA
John Terry, Nokia Research Center, TX, USA
Wen Tong, Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada
Uf Tureli,Stevens Tech., NJ, USA
Li-chung Wang, NCTU, Taiwan, R.O.China lichun@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Xiaowen Wang, Agere Systems, NJ, USA
Richard D. Wesel, UCLA, CA, CA
Kainam Thomas WONG, U. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
ktwong@ece.uwaterloo.ca, Academia
Min Wu, U. of Maryland at CP, MD, USA
Xian-Gen Xia, U. of Delaware, USA, xxia@ee.udel.edu
Yu-Dong Yao, Stevens Tech., NJ, USA
Fuchun Zheng, U. of Victoria, Australia, fzheng@matilda.vu.edu.au

SYMPOSIA CHAIRS & TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

Optical Networking

Co-Chairs:
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo, USA
Mohsen Guizani, Unversity of West Florida, USA
- Shakil Akhtar, University of UAE
- Mohamed Ali, City University of New York
- Franco Callegati, Universita` di Bologna
- Gary Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas
- Hyeong-Ah Choi, The George Washington University
- Piet Demeester, Ghent University
- Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks
- Ibrahim Habib, The City University of New York
- Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, Inc.
- Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH-Poland
- Jason Jue, University of Texas-Dallas
- Mark Karol, Avaya Inc
- Bilal Khan, NRL
- Huiling Ko, National Taiwan University
- Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida
- Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Guangzhi Li, AT&T Labs - Research
- Guoqiang Li, University of California-San Diego
- Fotis Liotopoulos, Computer Technology Institute
- Francesco Masetti, Alcatel
- Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh
- Hussein Mouftah, Queen's university
- Biswanath Mukherjee, Dept. of Computer Science - Univ. of California Davis
- Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- George Rouskas, North Carolina State University
- Lu Ruan, Iowa State University
- Edward H. Sargent, University of Toronto
- Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
- Arun Somani, Iowa State University
- Suresh Subramaniam, The George Washington University
- Robert Tench, AGERE
- Allan Willner, University of Southern California
- Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida
- Anthony Coucouvalas, Bournemouth University, UK
- Chadi Assi, Nokia, USA

Next Generation Internet

Co-Chairs:
Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Marjory Johnson, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
- Alagan Anpalagan, Ryerson University
- Elizabeth Belding-Royer, University of California Santa Barbara
- Gary Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University
- David Harle, University of Strathclyde
- Mohammad Ilyas, Florida Atlantic University
- Huiling Ko, National Taiwan University
- Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs
- Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace
- Amitabh Mishra, Virginia Tech.
- Vishal Misra, Columbia University
- Tim Moors, University of New South Wales
- Jogesh K. Muppala, Dept. of Computer Science, HKUST
- Algirdas Pakstas, London Metropolitan University
- Symeon Papavassiliou, NJIT
- Behcet Sarikaya, Alcatel USA


Advanced Signal Processing for Communications

Co-Chairs:
Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology
Helmut Boelcskei, ETH Zurich
Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Wales Swansea, UK
- Horst Bessai, University of Siegen, Germany
- Trevor Clarkson, Radio Communications Agency, UK
- Luc Deneire, I3S University of Sophia Antipolis
- Tolga Duman, Arizona State University
- David Gesbert, University of Oslo
- Franz Hlawatsch, Vienna University of Technology
- Yumin Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Youjian Liu, Universityiv of Colorado
- Gerald Matz, Vienna University of Technology
- Naohisa Ohta, Sony, Japan
- Bin Qiu, Monash University, Australia
- F. Ayhan Sakarya, Motorola Labs
- Ron Smith, TRW, USA
- Andrej Stefanov, Polytechnic University
- Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu, Japan
- Cihan Tepedelenlioglu, Arizona State University
- Murat Torlak, Univ. of Texas, Dallas
- Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland
- Murat Uysal, University of Waterloo
- Aylin Yener, Pennsylvania State University


Communication Theory


Co-Chairs:
Steven McLaughlin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California, USA
- Achilleas Anastasopoulos, University of Michigan
- Helmut Boelcskei, ETH Zurich
- Joseph Jean Boutros, ENST
- Tolga Duman, Arizona State University
- Hesham El Gamal, Ohio-State University
- Evangelos Eleftheriou, IBM
- Dennis Goeckel, University of Massachusetts
- Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Technology
- Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California, Irvine
- Huiling Ko, National Taiwan University
- Ralf Koetter, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Umberto Mengali, University of Pisa
- Guido Montorsi, Politecnico di Torino
- Dan Raphaeli, Tel Aviv University
- Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University
- Akbar Sayeed, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Anna Scaglione, Cornell University
- Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
- Amin Shokrollahi, Digital Fountain
- Erik Ström, Chalmers University of Technology
- Arne Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology
- Daniela Tuninetti, EPFL
- Bane Vasic, University of Arizona
- Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University
- Moe Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware
- Aylin Yener, Pennsylvania State University


Global Services and Infrastructure for Next Generation Networks


Co-Chairs:
Heinrich Stuttgen, NEC, Germany
Ryoichi Komiya, Multimedia University, Japan
- Knarig Arabshian, Columbia University
- Melbourne Barton, Telcordia Technologies
- Hendrik Berndt, DoCoMo Eurolabs
- David Boyer, Avaya Labs
- Torsten Braun, University of Berne
- Maja Bystrom, Boston University
- Anni Cai, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- Georg Carle, Fraunhofer Fokus / University of Tübingen
- Gary Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Tasos Dagiuklas, INTRACOM
- Sachin Deshpande, Sharp Research Lab of America
- Elliot Eichen, Genuity
- Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa
- Nelson Fonseca, State University of Campinas
- Nobuo Fujii, NTT Network Innovation Lab
- Nicolas Georganas, University of Ottawa
- Amir Ghavam, University of Ottawa
- Roch Glitho, Ericsson Canada Inc.


Broadband Wireless & Satellite Communication Systems


Co-Chairs:
Tony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA
Zoran Kostic, AT&T Research, USA
- Wen Gao, Thomson Multimedia
- Saeed Ghassemzadeh, AT&T Labs - Research
- Sangjin Hong, SUNY Stony Brook
- Sangjin Jeong, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Byoung-Jo Kim, AT&T Labs - Research
- Huiling Ko, National Taiwan University
- Wei Luo, Lucent
- Anastasios Michail, Aperto Networks
- Eytan Modiano, MIT
- Ramesh Rao, University of California at San Diego
- Chandrasekar Sankaran, Motorola
- Predrag Spasojevic, Rutgers University
- Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland
- J. E. Wieselthier, Naval Research Laboratory


Communication QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling

Co-Chairs:
Koichi Asatani, Kogakuim University, Japan
G.S. Kuo, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Nelson Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil
- Hiromi Ueda, NTT, Japan
- Yoshiro Ashi, Hitach Ltd.
- Albert Banchs, Network Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd.
- Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T
- Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University
- Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus
- Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento
- Go Hasegawa, Osaka University
- Junseok Hwang, Syracuse University
- Mohammad Ilyas, Florida Atlantic University
- Tomohiro Ishihara, Fujitsu
- Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney
- George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University
- Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC
- Huiling Ko, National Taiwan University
- Aleksandar Kolarov, NEC Laboratories America
- Timo Korhonen, Helsinki University of Technology
- Kelly Krick, Nortel Networks
- Fumito Kubota, Communications Research Laboratory, MPT
- Daniel C. Lee, University of Southern California
- Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace
- Steven Low, California Institute of Technology
- Anil P. Macwan, Lucent Technologies
- Daneshmand Mahmoud, AT&T
- Kenichi Mase, Niigata University
- Kurenai Murakami, NEC Networks
- Masayuki Murata, Osaka University
- Yuji Oie, Kyushu Institute of Technology
- Luis Orozco-Barbosa, University of Ottawa
- Symeon Papavassiliou, NJIT
- Juergen Quittek, NEC Europe
- Karl Rauscher, Lucent Technologies
- Jose F. de Rezende, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Cathy Savolaine, AT&T
- Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T
- Yantai Shu, Tianjin University
- Jorge M. de Souza, FITEC
- Dan Keun Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Takao Tashiro, OKI Electric
- Tetsujiro Yasushi, Mitsubishi Electric
- Tadahiro Yokoi, NTT
- Moshe Zukerman, University of Melbourne


Personal Communication Systems and Wireless LANs

Co-Chairs:
Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM, USA
Sajal Das, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
- Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research
- John Barton, HP Labs
- Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University
- Kalyan Basu, University of Texas at Arlington
- Azzedine Boukerche, Univ. of North Texas
- Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida
- Marco Conti, CNR - Istituto CNUCE
- Michael J. Franklin, University of California, Berkeley
- Nada Golmie, NIST
- Per Johansson, Ericsson Sweden
- Geng-Sheng Kuo, National Chengchi University
- Archan Misra, IBM T J Watson Research Center
- Timucin Ozugur, Alcatel
- George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business
- Franklin Reynolds, Nokia Inc.
- Rajeev Shorey, IBM India Research Laboratory
- Terence D. Todd, McMaster University
- Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Geoffrey Voelker, University of California at San Diego
- Gergely Zaruba, University of Texas at Arlington
- Yongbing Zhang, University of Tsukuba
- Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh
- Michele Zorzi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara

 

For the program committees of the different symposia, please
refer to individual symposium homepages (links provided in the
Call for Papers page).