ComSoc Awards

Promoting emerging technologies within COMSOC

It is my great pleasure to write this first annual article showcasing the Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) within ComSoc. The ETC was formed in 2006 to identify and promote new technology directions in the broad field of communications and related areas. Indeed, as communications becomes more interdisciplinary and its applications more diverse, the ETC's goal is to bring these cutting edge...

Ieee Comsoc Distinguished Lecture Tour Report

``Small cell" is an umbrella term for low-power radio access nodes that operate in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum and have a range of 10 meter to several hundred meters. These contrast with a typical mobile macrocell, which might have a range of up to several kilometers or even higher. The term ``small cell" covers femtocells, picocells, microcells, and metrocells. The evolving heterogen...

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Report and Discussion on the / €€E ComSoc

JOSEPH D. TOUCH is with the ATOMIC-2 and Cities-OnLine projects at USClInfonnarion Sciences Institute. his is a summary of the second Gigabit Networking Workshop (GBN '95) sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking (TCGN) association with INFOCOM in Ami1 1995. (Two earlier events were affiliated with ICC and LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, respectively....

Image awards

Why is the mirror neuron system so controversial? About a dozen papers have reported direct evidence for mirror neuron activity in monkeys and birds. Approximately 100 times as many papers refer to mirror neurons without directly recording their activity, often implying a link between mirror neurons and higher cognitive functions. While the existence of mirror neurons in animals is beyond doubt...