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Communications Society The IEEE CQR International Workshop is held annually 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. The output from the workshops adds to the community's body of knowledge and serves to inform, help form opinion, and to assist in the development of best practice and relevant standards. Continuing the tradition of this series of workshops, CQR 2015 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the requirements, metrics, measurement, management, and dissemination of Communications Quality & Reliability. The Workshop has two program tracks: Industry-focused Strategic Track and Technical Paper Track. For the Strategic Track, 3 themes are organized into 3 segments with one segment on each day. In addition, there are 3 Panels being organized.
Segment 1 (Tuesday, May 12):
Mobility To say Wireless is part of our everyday lives is trite. It has become the “go to” technology, and demand continues to soar. This segment will explore big data and mobility, solutions for providing more spectrum, and the efforts underway to ensure that the wireless experience is secure.
Segment 2 (Wednesday, May 13):
Production Readiness for NFV and SDN Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are driving next generation service provider and enterprise networks. While these offer great promise for rapid service rollout there are a number of questions that need to be addressed for widespread production deployments to realize the high level of quality and reliability operators and users expect from today’s networks. These questions include:
The goal of this segment will be to address these questions and provide concrete recommendations to guide development, trial, production rollout, and support of virtualized services.
Segment 3 (Thursday, May 14):
Next Generation CQR
for Public Safety Next Generation Emergency Services IEEE CQR Segment 3 will provide insights into planning, engineering, and operating reliable end-to-end 9-1-1 Public Safety networks capable of surviving manmade attacks and natural overloads, which include external and internal cyber attacks. Our keynote speaker is Admiral David Simpson, FCC Chief of Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. He will lay out the challenges for this audience as they pertain to national security and public safety. Access carriers, 9-1-1 Systems Service Providers, network integrators, vendors and PSAPs are participating in state and regional trials and implementations. Today, the full end-to-end process is not subject to one continuous set of testing, except in the field. In order to provide reliable networks with measurable Quality Assurance, it is important to include all participants in the processes. The true measure of success starts with the caller and ends when the First Responder is mobilized and helping that same caller. We need all Access Carriers and their vendors to be fully engaged in the success of this endeavor. By building reliability and resilience into the network, attacks from enemies, natural events such as storms and overloads will not take the safety-net of this country down. Our finale, the use of Technology for Social Good, includes a demonstration and futuristic ideas to support responses to Disaster Recovery. In addition, there are 3 Panels:
Executive Panel: Data Breaches, Security Incidents and Emerging Threats (Wednesday, May 13) The transition of geopolitical attacks to large-scale attacks on payment card systems made 2013 popular in many circles as the “year of the retailer breach”. The world experienced an onslaught of customer cyber-attacks and denial of service (DDoS) attacks on financial services providers, retailers, government institutions and telecommunications carriers. The impact to victims, both private and public has been astonishing and it’s not stopping. In 2014, there were hacks and major breaches that compromised millions of credit cards and potentially up to a billion online accounts. Major events like Heartbleed and GnuTu rocked the world and cyber terrorists decided that if those tactics could be stopped then they would infect you with malware and hold you digitally hostage for ransom, both iOS and Android smartphone users were threatened in 2014 with distributed denial of service attacks, pretexting for prohibiting use, and federal agency impersonation malware. The panel will take a look at the overall effect of data breaches in 2013 and 2014, the state of security incidents and attacks today and what emerging threats need to be addressed in order to reduce the magnitude of risk. We will look at the evolution of the threat landscape answering who, what, why and how, and discuss the multi-layered strategies to combat vulnerabilities and adversaries, respond to threats and incidents, and finally how to safeguard customer data and protect carrier and enterprise networks.
Distinguished Expert Panel: Next Generation 911 – A lifeline service
based on the Internet – Are we ready for this? (Wednesday, May 13) Emergency Services are traditionally accessed using telecommunications systems. As these telecommunications systems move to the Internet, the Web and to smart mobile devices, people expect to reach emergency services using all the expanded modes of communications these new methods afford, texting and sending real-time video to the emergency call center. But these centers and the networks that support them need technical standards, government policy, new networks and operations to meet the new demands. The National Emergency Numbers Association has created a set of standards and best practices to be adopted by emergency service providers. Building and securing the networks that will support NG911 services and creating the operations to make these services reliable requires expertise in many fields. This panel of experts will discuss the architectures, security, operations, and policies that are being developed to meet this need.
Operations Panel: Making Voice over LTE Work (Wednesday, May 13) Founded over 140 years ago, the widespread growth of telecommunications is in part due to the continued improvement of the quality of the sound and of the reliability of voice telecommunications services. Our charge as an industry is to continue this improvement in all communications technologies that are developed. The latest improvement in the quality of the sound of voice communications is VoLTE (Voice over LTE). This panel will discuss the current state of VoLTE quality and how we can improve it to be at the same high standard of reliability and availability that our customers have grown accustomed to over many years with all past major voice services. For questions on the Strategic Track, please contact the General Program Co-Chairs. ************************************* For the Technical Paper Track, you are invited to submit a paper related to various aspects of QoS and Reliability for the following networks/services:
The detailed technical area includes:
Technical Paper Submission Guidelines Papers should describe original work, and be 4-6 two-column and single-spaced pages in IEEE conference style. The first page should indicate the email addresses of the corresponding author. Paper submission must be made via EDAS (https://edas.info/19113). Manuscript Templates can be found on http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html, where a template of US Letter size is available. You can also download the template by clicking here msw_usletter_format_nov12.doc Papers accepted for CQR 2015 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. For questions on the Technical Paper Track, please contact the Technical Program Co-Chairs. |
General Program Co-Chairs
Chris Mayer, USA
Tara Timblin,
-Symantec, USA |
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Prof. Miki Yamamoto
Prof. Ana Goulart |
Paper Submission Key Dates: Paper submission deadline
January 19, 2015 (Extended) |
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members
Name |
Affiliation |
Name |
Affiliation |
Miki Yamamoto (Co-Chair) |
Kansai University, Japan |
Kelly Krick |
Ericsson, USA |
Ana Goulart (Co-Chair) |
Texas A&M University, USA |
Ronald Marx |
Fraunhofer SIT, Germany |
Tricha Anjali |
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA |
Amitabh Mishra |
John Hopkins University, USA |
Masaki Bandai |
Sophia University, Japan |
Nobuyuki Nakamura |
Oki Electric Industory, Japan |
Chris Corti |
Cisco Systems, USA |
Hiroyuki Ohsaki |
Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan |
Carol Davids |
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA |
Dimitri Papadimitriou |
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium |
Abdallah Farraj |
University of Toronto, Canada |
Hideyuki Shimonishi |
NEC, Japan |
Vijay Gurbani |
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA |
Ryoichi Shinkuma |
Kyoto University, Japan |
Go Hasegawa |
Osaka University, Japan |
Kundan Singh |
Avaya Labs, USA |
Takefumi Hiraguri |
Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan |
Ken-Ichi Suzuki |
NTT, Japan |
Koji Hirata |
Kansai University, Japan |
Takuji Tachibana |
Fukui University, Japan |
Noriaki Kamiyama |
Osaka University/NTT, Japan |
Hitoshi Ueno |
Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan |
Hideyuki Koto |
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan |
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C Q R Officers (Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2015)
Chair |
Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of
Technology,
Japan |
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