IFIP WORKING GROUP 6.8

Mobile and Wireless Communications

Report for Meeting 2003/1, Budapest, 18-19 May, 2003

Source: Jan Slavik
Date: 28.4.2003

1.	Reports from Conferences and Workshops held
	
-	PWC 2002 
-	October 23-25, 2002, Singapore
-	Dr. Guy Omidyar, E-mail address <gomidyar@cwc.nus.edu.sg>
-	Event URL: http://www.cwc.nus.edu.sg/pwc2002/
-	Event Form was signed
-	Kluwer Academic Publishers
-	Number of submitted papers:  60
-	Number of accepted papers:  37
-	Number of tracks:  1
-	Number of registered attendees:  80
-	Number of no-shows:  0
-	Countries represented:  16
-	Number of reviewers:  48 
-	Loan required:  3000 CHF
-	Registration fee:  317 CHF

2.	Plan for the next Conferences and Workshops

-	PWC 2003 
-	23 -25 September, 2003, Venice, Italy
-	Prof. Dr. Marco Conti, E-mail address :   <Marco.Conti@cnuce.cnr.it> 
-	Event URL: http://www.iii.cnr.it/PWC2003/
-	Status of ERF: was signed
-	Status of publication
-	Loan, grants and BPA required: Yes
-	Registration fee:  350 Euro
-	Any other relevant information

-	MWCN 2003 
-	27 - 29 October, 2003, Singapore
-	Dr. Guy Omidyar
-	Event URL: http://www.icr.a-star.edu.sg/mwcn2003/
-	Any other relevant information: organisation of the conference is unsure in view of virus infection

-	PWC 2004 
-	Autumn 2004, TU Delft, The Netherlands
-	Prof. Dr. Ignacious Niemegeers, E-mail address :   <niemegee@cs.utwente.nl> 
-	Event URL: 
-	Status of ERF
-	Status of publication
-	Loan, grants and BPA required
-	Registration fee
-	Any other relevant information.

3.	Plan of WG meetings

For each planned WG meeting indicate:
-	September 2003, Venice, Italy

4.	Aims and scope

Indicate any proposed change in the aims and scope of the WG. 
-	none

5.	Steering Committees

Indicate any proposed update for the Steering Committees of the WG events.
-	none

6.	Membership

Indicate updates in the WG membership. Include names and coordinates of new WG members.

WG members:
J. Slavik (CZ), T. Saito (JP),T. Hattori (JP), O. Spaniol (DE), W. B. Iversen (DK), O. Martikainen (FI), V. Hara (FI), G. Maguire (SE), S. Tohme (FR), C. G. Omidyar (US), S. Chandran (MY), Guy Pujolle (FR), D. Saha (IN), J. Wozniak (PL), F. Davoli (IT), O. Koné (FR), A. Wolisz (DE), M. Conti (IT), S. Giordano (CH), P. Lorenz (FR), I. Niemegeers (NL), A. Acharya (US), S. Heemstra de Groot (NL), A. G. Valko (HU), P. R. Chevillat (CH)

New WG members:
-	none

7.	Minutes of WG meetings

MINUTES
of the WG 6.8 meeting
held on October 24, 2002 in Singapore

Present:	Jan Slavik
	Guy Omidyar
	Tadao Saito
	Pascal Lorenz

1.	The WG 6.8 meeting was opened by Jan Slavik, welcomed its participants and introduced new co-chair Dr. Guy Omidyar approved in IFIP TC6 meeting 2002/1 in Saariselka, Finland.
2.	Jan Slavik presented important and interesting information from last IFIP TC6 meeting 2002/2 in Lisboa, Portugal. 
•	New initiative (Task Committee on Entertainment Computing, IT and Sport)
•	IFIP co-operation with UNESCO (program is under preparation)
•	New web page with link to TC6 conferences (example: PWC.ifip.org or MWCN.ifip.org)
•	Publications with Kluwer, optionally with Springer.
•	IFIP Digital Library is under negotiation (organisers are kindly asked to send digital copy - better in PDF format - to IFIP Secretariat, to prepare material for future D.L.
3.	The discussion concentrated on how to promote of Personal Wireless Communications Conference series. The following conclusions were made:
•	Active work of all WG members is necessary to focus on promotion of PWC conference namely in Asia and America.
•	Effort is to be concentrate to attract experts on mobile and personal communications area.
•	The name of PWC should reflect new research areas and may be it is needed to be changed accordingly.
4.	Future activities of WG 6.8.
•	PWC in following years: 	2003 – Venice, Italy
		2004 – Delft, The Netherlands
		2005 – Colmar, France
•	MWCN – This conference was financially sponsored in part by IEEE communications society in year 2002 and will be decided each year by the IEEE ComSoc board of management and conferences if it is requested. This conference is also an IFIP TC6 WG6.8 conference. 
MWCN in following years:	2003 – Singapore, Singapore Republic
		2004  - Italy (Tentative)
•	Med-Hoc-Net (Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop) – in following years:	
	2003 – Tunisia, Chair Farouk Kamoun, June 
	2004 – Turkey, Chair Ian Akiyldiz, June or September 

Recorded: Jan Slavik

8.	(Any other relevant items)
-	Students travel grants and BPA required for PWC2003 (Venice, Italy)