What's New @ IEEE in Communications

VOLUME 6 NUMBER 8 AUGUST 2005

CONTENTS:
1. New Report: IEEE Publishes Top-Cited Journals in Communications
2. View the Latest IEEE Xplore Communications Content Updates
3. Military Communications Conference Coming to Atlantic City
4. IEEE Magazine Examines Current Self-Organization Approaches in Networks
5. Finnish Broadband Firm Aims to Provide Super-Speed Internet Access
6. Proceedings from Consumer Communications Conference Now Available
7. Standard for Broadband-Over-Powerline Systems Under Development
8. New Online Research Tools Now Available in IEEE Xplore 2.1
9. New Technique Makes Typing Text Messages Faster and Easier
10. IEEE Starts Two Standards for Point-of-Care Medical Devices
11. Submission Deadline Announced for Multimedia Conference
12. Phone Service the Main Topic in Internet Media
13. Developers Plagued by Growing Complexity of Grid Environments

WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK IN IEEE XPLORE?
Find the latest technical papers online:
ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/newinfo.jsp

1. NEW REPORT: IEEE PUBLISHES TOP-CITED JOURNALS IN COMMUNICATIONS
For the third year in a row, the IEEE publishes 18 of the top 20 journals in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, according to the recently published 2004 ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The report also reveals that IEEE publishes the top six journals in Telecommunications, and the top journals in many other technical fields. The JCR ranks journals by their impact factor, defined as the average number of times articles published in a specific journal in the previous two years were cited in a particular year. For a complete breakdown of IEEE journal rankings, visit: www.ieee.org/citations

2. VIEW THE LATEST IEEE XPLORE COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT UPDATES
Last month, IEEE posted new content from over 100 publications to the IEEE Xplore online delivery platform. Recent additions in the communications field include:The latest weekly content updates in IEEE Journals and Magazines, Conference Proceedings or Standards can be found by visiting: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/newinfo.jsp
2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

2005 Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks
2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2005
IEEE Transactions on Communications, July 2005

3. MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE COMING TO ATLANTIC CITY
The IEEE/AFCEA Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2005) will be held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA from 17 to 20 October. Under the theme of "Innovation - Fueling the Transformation," technical sessions and exhibits will focus on information relevant to communication and information systems capabilities that address the 21st century challenges of national defense and homeland security. Topics include network management, digital processing and routing, communication modeling and analysis, signal processing and coding, RF and optical technologies, and homeland defense systems and technologies. For more information, or to register, visit: www.securecomm.org/

More essential IEEE conferences in telecommunications:

16th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor & Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 11 to 14 September, Berlin, Germany: www.pimrc2005.de/Conferences_en/pimrc+2005/

14th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 18 to 21 September, Chania, Greece: www.ieee-lanman.org/

Don't miss the next conference you need for your career. IEEE sponsors more than 300 technical conferences and workshops each year, highlighting the latest technological advances. Find events through the IEEE ConferenceSearch Web site at www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/

4. IEEE MAGAZINE EXAMINES CURRENT SELF-ORGANIZATION APPROACHES IN NETWORKS
The August issue of IEEE Communications Magazine presents a special feature entitled "Self-Organization in Networks Today." While a previous issue of the magazine looked at some long-term and more revolutionary approaches, this issue focuses on how today's self-organizing principles can already ease the life of users and system administrators. Papers cover topics such as self-organization for large networks, the establishment of personal "overlay" networks, and wireless sensor networks. The guest editorial on the topic is accessible to all readers at: www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/public/2005/aug/index.html

5. FINNISH BROADBAND FIRM AIMS TO PROVIDE SUPER-SPEED INTERNET ACCESS
In an effort to greatly increase the traditional speed of broadband Internet access, Finnish broadband equipment manufacturer Teleste announced plans to offer its users an Ethernet-to-home product with a speed of 100 megabits per second by next year. By connecting Ethernet into cable television networks, Teleste says it can expedite the transmission speed of their service. The technology is one of several rival technologies in development. Read more: money.cnn.com/2005/07/20/technology/broadband.reut/index.htm

6. PROCEEDINGS FROM CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE NOW AVAILABLE
The proceedings of the 2005 Second IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), held this past January, are now available. The conference presented the latest approaches and technical solutions in the areas of consumer networking, middleware and multimedia, and novel applications and services. To purchase the complete proceedings of the conference from ShopIEEE, visit: shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/Product.aspx?product_no=EX954C
***IEEE members save up to 60% off the list price for conference proceedings titles***

Individual papers from the conference are also accessible online via IEEE Xplore for IEEE Member Digital Library subscribers. Institutions with subscriptions to IEEE online collections may also have access to these proceedings, depending on their access rights: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentCon.jsp?punumber=9640

7. STANDARD FOR BROADBAND-OVER-POWERLINE SYSTEMS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
IEEE has begun work on a new standard, called the "Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications," which will define the nature of communication channels utilized in the installed bases of electrical power lines for Internet and other broadband communications. The standard, which is being developed in the IEEE Standards Association Corporate Program, will make it easier for high-speed communication equipment to be used with AC power lines. It is targeted for completion in early 2007. For details, visit: standards.ieee.org/announcements/pr_BPL.html

8. NEW ONLINE RESEARCH TOOLS NOW AVAILABLE IN IEEE XPLORE 2.1
IEEE members can now take advantage of many new research features available through IEEE Xplore 2.1, the online delivery platform that powers IEEE member subscriptions. Through this latest version of IEEE Xplore, members can now purchase IEEE standards directly, for instant downloads, at members-only prices. Also, a display of bibliographic information has been enhanced on various pages throughout the site. Digital Object Identifier (DOI), volume number, issue number, page number(s), and Author/Title are displayed on all tables of contents, search results, IEEE Member Digital Library file cabinets, Abstracts, and AbstractPlus pages. Members can also search the metadata of all current book titles from Wiley-IEEE Press and Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. Try these new features today at: ieeexplore.ieee.org

9. NEW TECHNIQUE MAKES TYPING TEXT MESSAGES FASTER AND EASIER
A potential solution to the cumbersome task of using a cell phone to send a text message or a personal digital assistant to type an e-mail has been developed by a researcher at IBM, who has created a technique that allows people to type between 50 to 80 words per minute. With ShortHand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding (SHARK), words are typed using a grid and stylus on the touch-sensitive screen of a portable device. After putting the stylus on the first letter of the word to be typed, the stylus can be dragged to draw a line joining all the other letters of the word. Once the stylus is lifted up, the words appear on the screen, creating sentences in a fraction of the time it would normally take to type them. Read more: www.primidi.com/2005/07/16.html

10. IEEE STARTS TWO STANDARDS FOR POINT-OF-CARE MEDICAL DEVICES
The IEEE has begun to develop two new point-of-care medical device standards. The first standard, IEEE P1073.2.2.0™, will provide for establishing, releasing and aborting an association between a medical device agent and a system acting as a manager. The other new standards project, IEEE P1073.2.2.1™, will define a method for retrieving application data with medical devices that communicate through polling protocols. For more information, visit: standards.ieee.org/announcements/pr_newPocStds.html

11. DECEMBER SUBMISSION DEADLINE ANNOUNCED FOR MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE
Paper submissions for the 2006 IEEE Annual International Conference on Multimedia and Expo are due 31 December. The conference, which takes place 9 to 12 July in Toronto, Canada, will accept papers based on a broad range of topics concerning multimedia technologies, including audio, image, video processing, hardware and software for multimedia systems, multimedia applications, and virtual reality and 3-D imaging. Awards for best paper and best student paper will be presented. For more information, visit: www.icme2006.org/

12. PHONE SERVICE THE MAIN TOPIC IN INTERNET MEDIA
Though Internet phone service represents only one-half of one percent of overall telephone business in the United States (about one million users), its technical standards and business opportunities preoccupy telecommunications professionals and telephone and cable companies, almost to the exclusion of all other Internet media, according to an article from IEEE Internet Computing magazine. Every major U.S. telephone company and many cable television companies are already offering or experimenting with services. Meanwhile, the number of independent service providers who aren't associated with ISPs continues to grow. Most Fortune 500 companies are also considering large-scale deployment of IP telephone services. Read more: dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/0507&file=w4gei.xml&xsl=article.xsl&

13. DEVELOPERS PLAGUED BY GROWING COMPLEXITY OF GRID ENVIRONMENTS
Debate has arisen among Grid developers over the future of industry-driven Grid environments, in which resources are shared among groups of individuals online, according to an article from Computer Magazine. Grid environments, which are becoming increasingly larger in scale due to highly emergent, industrial-strength software, are more complex and problematic for users than ever before. Now, rival perspectives on the fate of the Grid's structure are running head-to-head among developers. Read more: dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/0507&file=c4bak.xml&xsl=article.xsl&

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