ICC 2002 minutes of meeting

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
Signal Processing and Communication Electronics Technical Committee (SPCE)

Meeting at ICC 2002, New York, NY, USA
29 April 2002, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

1. Introductions and welcome to new members – The meeting began at 5:10 pm.  Two new members attended.

2. Minutes of Globecom 2001 – The Globecom 2001 minutes were approved without change.

3. Technical Program Committee (TPC) reports

A. ICC 2002 T. Taniguchi (TPC/Symposium)
The ASPC Symposium with 13 sessions was very successful.  Many TC members were not at ICC02, thus there was some struggle to find session chairs.

B. GLOBECOM 2002 – N. Yang (TPC), Y. Lee (Local Committee), T. Taniguchi
1980 papers were submitted resulting in a 31% acceptance ratio.  241 papers submitted for ASPC makes it the third largest symposium.  ASPC will have 75 papers, giving us 9.5 sessions.  May 13 is the review deadline with an end of June notification of acceptance.

C. ICC 2003 Anchorage Alaska, J. Elmirghani
The ASPC Symposium is planned.  1 August is the paper submission deadline and notification of acceptance will be 31 December.

D. GLOBECOM 2003 
Tomo Tauiguchi volunteered to be our representative.

E. ICC 2004 
Yumin Le volunteered to be our representative.

F. GLOBECOM 2004 
Tomo Tauiguchi volunteered to be our representative.

G. ISPACS 2002 – N. Ohta
ISPACS 2002 will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.  Paper submission are due 2 May 2003.  He will recommend that papers not accepted to Globecom 2002, but high quality, be submitted to ISPACS 2002.

H. ISPACS 2003 – N. Ohta
The venue has not yet decided.

I. Other Workshops / Conferences
Ron Smith is involved with the AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), which has been technically cosponsored by IEEE ComSoc in the past.  SPCE endorses ComSoc cosponsorship of ICSSC 2003 and ICSSC 2004.  These will be held in Yokohama, Japan and Monterey, California, respectively.  Information is available at www.aiaa-icssc.org. 

4. Tutorial Proposals for future conferences
Globecom 2002 tutorials are limited due to the large number of paper submission.  Therefore, SPCE should endorse strong tutorials to ICC/Globecom TPCs. 

5. Workshop reports
None.

6. Communication Magazine – J. Elmirghani
SPCE should encourage submissions on topics such as VLSI in Communication, EQ, Neural Networks, MIMO Signal Processing (currently a hot area).  Physical layer signal processing articles are very much appreciated by the Magagazine Editorial board.  Jaafar will help with proposal to Communications Magazine. 

7. Any other business
SPCE officers election will be held at Globecom 02.  The nomination committee has been formed, including Jaafar, Naohisa, Trevor.  There will be an electronic election prior to Globecom 2002 with the final vote at the SPCE meeting. 

The ASPC Symposium is growing but the SPCE TC meeting is small.  Yumin and Tomo will send Globecom 2002 e-mail lists to Bin (our secretary) to solicit new TC members. 

Erchin suggests looking to the IEEE Signal Processing Society for TC members, and he will be liaison for us.  Ideas for joint activities include cosponsorship of events, soliciting papers, reviewing papers, session organizers and session chairs.

8. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 5:50pm. 

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