Spectrum - aware QoS MAC for Multimedia Services in Cognitive Radio Networks
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Dear MMTC fellow members, This is the first time that I am writing to you as the Chair of MMTC. I want to thank all of you for contributing to the fast growth and success of MMTC during the past years, especially in the past two years during which I served as Vice Chair of MMTC. Special thanks go to our past Chair, Dr. Haohong Wang, who has made MMTC a very strong community through his great leadership. The new team has a good diversity in terms of technical backgrounds, experiences, and geographical locations. All of them have been very active in the MMTC leadership team during the past years. The team will work together to provide the best service to the community. In the next two years, we will continue the development of MMTC and try to reach an even higher standard. Our TC has been growing into a large community with 1500 members, with strong presence in ComSoc conferences, journals, and other technical activities. We will build upon this strength, and further increase the visibility of the TC and provide better services to the community. Here are several thoughts on the future directions.-Keep expanding and supporting MMTC sponsored high quality conferences and workshops in major venues (ICC/GC/ICME/INFOCOM).-Continue improving the quality of the now very popular E-letter and R-letter. Attract more substantial submissions through invited special issues and open calls, with focus on emerging new topics.-Increase the visibility and impact of MMTC in major ComSoc journals, through special issues, editorship, and involvement in steering committees.-Help members in IEEE membership promotions (to senior member and fellow grades), by providing support letters that faithfully represent the candidates' contributions to the MMTC.-Strengthen the service e-platform so that more members will use and benefit. Provide high quality research idea exchanges through MMTC Distinguished Talk Program. This will be an evolving list, and I look forward to hearing your great suggestions as always. room 112 of the conference location. Please check the conference for updated information on July 10 again, and we look forward to seeing you there. Cognitive radio network and technology has been attracting many attentions from both industries and academia. From spectrum sensing, MAC protocol design, to service differentiation and quality of service provisioning, there are many key challenges and open issues to be addressed in these research areas. This Special Issue collects six selected papers that present various discussions on …
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