2010 Annual IEEE CQR International Workshop June 8 – 10, 2010 The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www.westin.com/bayshore Click here to download Patronage Information

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2010 International Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR) Workshop

The annual IEEE CQR International Workshop is held with the purpose of bringing together industry and academic experts to present and discuss communications quality, reliability and security issues as they relate to real world issues. Continuing the tradition, CQR2010 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in two program tracks: Industry-focused Strategic Track and Technical Paper Track.

For the Strategic Track, 3 themes aligned with CQR’s Charter: quality & reliability of Service, Network and Product/System are being organized into three segments. The abstracts of the three segments are shown on the Strategic Track Page (Click here). Topics and presentations of past years can be found on the CQR events page http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/events.html.  

In addition, there will be a special theme on the telecommunications of Olympic Games. In the Millennium Workshop (CQR2000), select industry executives, seasoned managers, and senior subject matter experts from sponsor organizations of world-class events, telecommunication companies, and government officials of host cities/countries came together to discuss the requirements and steps necessary to build and operate a “Perfect Network” for such events.  Among them were people who played a pivotal in the success of the Winter and Summer Olympiads in the 1992-2006 period.  They shared experiences, plans, “do lists”, and their vision to ensure a “Perfect Service”.  The three intense days of selected presentations focused on how to avoid “re-inventing the wheel” every time that a city or country becomes a candidate/host for such world class events.  The output of the Millennium Workshop was published in a well received special issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine (July 2001, Vol. 39, No. 7).

Ten years later, this sequel CQR Workshop will focus on the unique challenges of hosting Olympiads in the Internet and wireless era.  The telecommunications technology for the Olympic Games has gone through remarkable changes since 2000.  Following a technological migration path, the Olympic Networks are evolving to a Next Generation Network (NGN), which is a packet-based network that seamlessly supports data, voice, and video services.  However, evolving network architectures and technologies pose interesting challenges in measuring the “end-to-end” reliability and QoS, two critical aspects regarding the resilience of the Olympic Networks.

The goal of this sequel workshop is to cover the Winter and Summer Olympic Games in the 2008-2016 period.  Key people from the International Olympic Committee, the Organizing Committees, the Grand Telecom Sponsors, and the telecom industry involved in the telecommunications aspects of those Games will be invited to participate.

For the Technical Paper Track, the paper submission deadline (01/26/2010) was passed. The paper submissions were related to various aspects of QoS and Reliability in the following topics and technical areas:

• Grid and Distributed Computing
• Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks
• Overlay Networks
• Multimedia Networks and VoIP Services
• VPN, MPLS and Multicast Services
• Web Services
• Broadband Audio Visual Services
• Multi-sensory Communications
• Current and Next-generation Internet
• Emerging Technologies and Services

The detailed technical area includes:

• Measurements Techniques
• Network Architecture and Design
• Network Security
• Network Survivability
• Operations, Administration and Maintenance
• QoS Metrics and Measurement
• QoS Policy and Assessment
• QoE Assessment and Management
• Traffic Control
• Traffic Modeling and Characterization

Technical Paper Submission Guidelines Papers should describe original work, and be 4-6 two-column and single-spaced pages or less in IEEE conference style.  The cover page should clearly indicate the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the phone and fax numbers of the contact author. Paper submissions must be made electronically via e-mail attachment in PDF format to cqr-submission@ieee-cqr.org .  Hardcopy submissions will not be accepted. Download the Call For Paper

General Program Co-Chairs James Runyon, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA jrunyon@alcatel-lucent.com Martin Guldberg, Verizon Wireless, USA Martin.Guldberg@VerizonWireless.com Technical Program Chair Professor Yutaka Ishibashi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan ishibasi@nitech.ac.jp

Papers accepted for CQR 2010 will be included in the Workshop Proceedings, IEEE XPlore, and EI Index, with the exception that IEEE reserves the right to exclude any paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Papers that are removed from IEEE Xplore will not be available through the EI Index.

Key Dates Jan. 26, 2010       Paper submission deadline Mar. 23, 2010      Notification of acceptance Apr. 19, 2010       Camera-ready paper submission deadline Jun. 8-10, 2010    CQR2010 Workshop

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members, as of November 9, 2009

Name	Affiliation	Name	Affiliation
Yutaka Ishibashi  (Chair)	Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan	Anil Macwan	Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Paolo Bellavista	Universita di Bologna, Italy	Takumi Miyoshi	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Rocky K. C. Chang	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK	Tutomu Murase	NEC, Japan
Sweety Chauhan	Microsoft, USA	Hidenori Nakazato	Waseda University, Japan
Chi-Ming Chen	AT&T, USA	Hitoshi Ohnishi	The Open University of Japan
Kuan-Ta Chen	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Shinji Sugawara	Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Yacine Ghamri Doudane	Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise France	Dan Keun Sung	KAIST, Korea
Nelson Fonseca	State University of Campinas, Brasil	Sandra Tartarelli	NEC, Germany
Stefano Giordano	University of Pisa, Italy	Ning Wang	University of Surrey, UK
Fabrizio Granelli	University of Trento, Italy	Jing Wu	Communications Research Centre, Canada
Go Hasegawa	Osaka University, Japan	Katsunori Yamaoka	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Toru Hasegawa	KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan	Tokumi Yokohira	Okayama University,  Japan
Kenji Hikichi	Fujitsu, Japan	Tetsuya Yokotani	Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
Hideaki Imaizumi	University of Tokyo, Japan	Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh	University of California, Irvine, USA
Ryoichi Kawahara	NTT, Japan	Weider Yu	San Jose State University, USA
JongWon Kim	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

C Q R Officers (2010-2011)

Chair Chair-Elect Vice Chair – Operations Vice Chair – Programs Vice Chair – Publications Secretary Treasurer Advisory Board Chair Advisory Board Chair Emeritus Advisory Board Members

Hiromi Ueda, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan Anil Macwan, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Hideaki Yoshino, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan Peter Hoath, BT, UK Wei-Der Yu, San Jose State Univ., USA Yokotani Tetsuya, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan Kevin Krantz, Nortel Networks, USA Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T Labs, USA Kenichi Mase, Niigata University, Japan Karl Rauscher, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University, Japan, Kelly Krick, Nortel Networks,  USA Ray Bonelli, Consultant, USA

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