Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN)

1. Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Dec 8, 2010 12:30 - 2:00 PM Trade Room InterContinental Miami Hotel

2. AgendaWelcome and introduction TCCN Election TCCN Outstanding Service Award TCCN Best Paper Award DySPAN 2011 GLOBECOM 2010 Cog. radio track ICC 2011 Cog. radio networking symposium GLOBECOM 2011 Cog. radio networking symposium PHYCOM Special Issue : Cognitive Radio for LTE Advanced and Beyond New business Adjourn

3. TCCN Vice-Chair Election Europe/Africa RegionTwo Candidates:Dr. Jaime Lloret Mauri Polytechnic University of Valencia Dr Rangarao Venkatesha Prasad Delft University of Technology

4. Bio of Prasad Dr. Prasad received his bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.Tech degree in Industrial Electronics from University of Mysore, India in 1991 and 1994. He received a Ph.D degree in 2003 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India. During 1996 he was working as a consultant and project associate for ERNET Lab of ECE at Indian Institute of Science. While pursuing the Ph.D degree, from 1999 to 2003 he was also working as a consultant for CEDT, IISc, Bangalore for VoIP application developments as part of Nortel Networks sponsored project. In 2003 he was heading a team of engineers at the Esqube Communication Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore. From 2005 till date he is a senior researcher at Wireless and Mobile Communications group, Delft University of Technology. His work profile includes guiding graduate students and working on projects. He has been involved in the EU funded projects MAGNET/MAGNET Beyond and PNP-2008. He has been working on IOPGenCom FHN project since 2009. He has published many papers in refereed journals and conferences. He is an active member of TCCN, IEEE SCC41, and reviewer of many Transactions and Journals. He is on the TPC of many conferences including ICC, GlobeCom, ACM MM, ACM SIGCHI, etc. He was the TPC co-chair of CogNet workshop in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and TPC chair for E2Nets at IEEE ICC-2010 and 2011. He is also running PerNets workshop from 2006 with IEEE CCNC. He is the Tutorial Co-Chair of CCNC 2009 & 2011 and Demo Chair of IEEE CCNC 2010. He has been the co-author of the best paper at IEEE PIMRC - 2009. He is actively involved in IEEE standardization efforts and thus has been appointed as TCCC liaison to IEEE ComSoc Standards Board.

5. Bio of Mauri Jaime Lloret received his M.Sc. in Physics in 1997, his M.Sc. in electronic Engineering in 2003 and his Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering (Dr. Ing.) in 2006. He is a Cisco Certified Network Professional Instructor. He worked as a network designer and as an administrator in several enterprises. He is currently Associate Professor in the Polytechnic University of Valencia and he is the research line coordinator of the "communications and remote sensing" of the Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute. He has more than 70 scientific papers published in national and international conferences, he has more than 34 papers about education and he has more than 38 papers published in international journals (more than half of them with Impact Factor in Journal Citation Report). He has been the co-editor of 15 conference proceedings and guest editor of several international books and journals. He is editor-in-chief of the international journal "Networks Protocols and Algorithms", editor-in-chief of the international Journal "Advances in Network and Communications", IARIA Journals Board Chair (8 Journals) and he is associate editor of several international journals. He has been involved in more than 100 Program committees of international conferences and in several organization and steering committees until 2010. He has been the chairman of SENSORCOMM 2007, UBICOMM 2008, ICNS 2009 and ICWMC 2010 and co-chairman of ICAS 2009 and INTERNET 2010. He is the co-chairman of IEEE MASS 2011. He is IEEE Senior Member and IARIA Fellow Member.

6. New TCCN Officers (2010-2012) Chair: Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University Vice-Chairs K.P. Suba Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology, (North America) Ramachandran Ramjee, Microsoft Research India, (Asia Pacific) Jaime Lloret Mauri, Plytechnic University of Valencia (Europe/Africa) Publications Award ChairSumit Roy, University of Washington Recognition Award ChairPetri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen University