CMSTC Members
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CMSTC Members
CMSTC Meeting August 4, 2014 Dr. F. Ayhan Sakarya Chair asakarya@reedintegration.com Dr. Jim Dimarogonas Chair-Elect jad@mitre.org Dr. Robert D. Parker Secretary rdparker@alumni@Caltech.com The AIAA Communications Systems Technical Committee –CMSTC https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Dr. Denis J. Curtin Treasurer dcurtin@xtarllc.com Agenda CMSTC MEETING AGENDA, AUGUST 4TH 2014 Meeting Location: Mission Beach B, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California Room Availability: 6:00 PM PDT--9:00 PM PDT (PDT is GMT-7) On-Line Meeting/Audio Conference: WebEx/Dial In instructions appended # Agenda Item Lead Sakarya Time (PDT) 6:00 1 Social /Introductions/Welcome 2 Overview of AIAA/TAC/ISG Garg (AIAA ISG Director) 6:10 3 4 Conference Subcommittee a. ICSSC 2014 Highlights Colloquium Conference b. ICSSC 2015 Plans / Japan Forum c. ICSSC 2016 Plans d. ICSSC 2017 Open Steering —Membership Frueholz Cynamon/Singh Kitazume/Harshberger Dimarogonas/Butash Dimarogonas/Butash Sakarya/Parker/Dimarogonas 6:20 6:25 6:35 6:45 6:50 6:55 5 Web Committee —Update and Redesign Parker/Klein-Lebbink 7:00 6 Awards Smith 7:10 7 Treasury Curtin 7:15 8 Publications Butash/Dimarogonas 7:20 9 Member Action Items/ Announcements Sakarya 7:25 Meal Pick-up / Break All 7:30 10 ICSSC-AIAA-SPACE Forum Issues /Dinner All 8:00 11 Other/Unfinished Business All 8:30 Adjournment All 8:45 2 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Acknowledgements • WebEx/AudioCon Support for the CMSTC Meetings 4 August 2014, San Diego, CA, USA F. Ayhan Sakarya http://reedintegration.com/ 13 Jan 2014, National Harbor, MD, USA Chris F. Hoeber Space Systems Loral http://sslmda.com/ 14 October 2013, Florence, Italy Riccardo De Gaudenzi http://www.esa.int/ESA 3 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx ICSSC 2014: Dr. F. Ayhan Sakarya • ICSSC 2014 is a part of SPACE Forum 2014 • ICSSC General Chair: Mr. Chuck Cynamon, SSL • Vice President for US Government Business Development at SSL Federal, LLC Technical Program Chair: Mr. Rob Singh, SSL • Dates: 4 – 7 August 2014 Location: San Diego, California Venue: Manchester Grand Hyatt Forum Web Site: http://www.aiaa.org/space2014/ Executive Director for Communications Systems at SSL Colloquium Chair: Dr. Bob Frueholz General Manager, Communications and Networking Division, The Aerospace Corporation 4 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx ICSSC 2014 Colloquium: Dr. Bob Frueholz • ICSSC 2014 Colloquium – Next Generation Broadband SATCOM Nine presenters addressing topic from different points of view – Boroson – MIT Lincoln Lab – Gardner – ViaSat – Harlow – XTAR Chan – Aerospace Corp. Choi – Aerospace Corp. D’Ambrosio – O3b Networks Lober – Hughes Aaselth – USAF/SMC Vanderpoorten – USAF/SMC Speakers Panel moderated by VADM Lyle Bien, USN (Ret) Colloquium Notebook contains presentations from eight of the speakers – Sponsored by Hughes – $3,600 – Potential to email final presentation to attendees Attendee count as of 7/29: 106 attendees, 10 speakers Estimate approximately $1,500 ~$7500 net income from event 5 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx ICSSC 2014: Mr. Chuck Cynamon / Mr. Rob Singh • Registration Count 91 registrants for ICSSC as of 2 Aug (817 for AIAA Space total) • ICSSC 2014 Industry Panels Industry Executives Panel: The Satellite Industry of the Future Satellite Industry Dynamics The Future of Space-Based Communications • Awards CMSTC Aerospace Communications Award Best Professional Paper Best Student Paper • Survey 2-page survey to capture feedback and posture for attendance in 2015 Drawing for prize after last session on Thursday August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx 6 ICSSC 2014: Mr. Chuck Cynamon / Mr. Rob Singh • ICSSC 2014 Technical Panels (2 panels) The Future of Flexible Digital Satellites – Peter Garland The Future of High Throughput Satellites – Tom Butash • ICSSC 2014 Technical Sessions (16 sessions, 48 papers) ICSSC-02. Augmenting Satellite Communications - Song An ICSSC-03. LEO Communications Networks - Robert Cleave ICSSC-04. Communication Satellite Systems - Hector Fenech ICSSC-05. RF Performance Modeling and Optimization - Tony Stajcer ICSSC-06. Nanosatellite Communications Systems - Alicia Kavelaars ICSSC-07. Multi-Beam Satellite Systems I - Peter Takats ICSSC-08. Optimizing Communications Throughput - Dilip Gokhale ICSSC-09. Multi-Beam Satellite Systems II - John Walker ICSSC-10. Digital Communications Systems - Douglas McKinnon ICSSC-11. High Throughput Satellite Systems - Andrea Suriani ICSSC-12. Modulation and Coding Techniques - Michel Bousquet ICSSC-13. Network Simulation and Modeling I - Sastri Kota ICSSC-14. Optical Communications Network I - Daniel Raible ICSSC-15. Navigation and Hosted Systems - Eric Butte ICSSC-16. Network Simulation and Modeling II - Mustafa Eroz ICSSC-17. Optical Communications Network II - Eugene Kopp 7 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx ICSSC 2014 Survey 8 August 4, 2014 ICSSC 2015: Dr. Kitazume / Mr. Harshberger 9 August 4, 2014 Japan Forum on Satellite Communications JFSC Dr. Hajime Fukuchi JSFC Chair fuku@tmu.ac.jp Dr. Susumu Kitazume JSFC Member kitazume@mxb.mesh.ne.jp Dr. Hiromitsu Wakana JSFC Secretary hwakana@nict.go.jp https://info.aiaa.org/tac/ISG/CMSTC/Web%20Pages/subcommittees/Japan%20Forum%20Subcommittee.aspx August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 August 4, 2014 ICSSC 2016: Dr. Jim Dimarogonas/Dr. Tom Butash Status Update • SPACE Forum 2016 ISG Director proposed if we collocate with SPACE CMSTC can choose the conference chair to ensure we get ICSSC represented appropriately We are waiting for 2014 results to see if it in our best interest to repeat in 2016 • DASC 2016 (Digital Avionics Systems Conference) Discussion with Denise Ponchak (Chair Digital Avionics TC) Very positive reception, but some logistical issues – – DASC would take ownership of the entire logistics They use IEEE for paper submission and IEEExplore for storing papers (AIAA may have an issue with this) Continuing discussion • KaBand Conference No discussions pending results of the 2014 conference and DASC discussions ACTION: Chuck Cynamon to send/provide the East Coast Conference options to TC (8/4/14) 21 August 4, 2014 ICSSC 2017: Dr. Jim Dimarogonas/Dr. Tom Butash Fall 2017 Europe Location Will you consider attending? Conference Dates Location Preferred Country/City? Yes ICSSC-2015 Fall 2015 Australia ICSSC-2016 Fall 2016 North America ICSSC-2017 Fall 2017 Europe No Gold Coast, Queensland 22 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Steering/Membership: Dr. Sakarya / Dr. Parker / Dr. Dimarogonas • Alumni and Former CMSTC Members Dr. Jerry Fiedziuszko left AIAA Mr. Chris Hoeber and Dr Sajjad H Durrani resigned Many thanks to Mr. Hoeber for his invaluable services to the TC and Aerospace Community at Large, as Publications Subcommittee Chair, ICSSC General Chair, arranging for its corporate sponsorship multiple times, his valued executive acumen & advice, and bringing in 2 valuable new members while resigning, who have been the keys to make ICSSC2014 happen. Mr. Hoeber continues his support as Ex-Officio. Many thanks to Saj Durrani for his participation in TC telecons/meetings during, and well-known valuable contributions to the TC and satellite communications as they are acknowledged by the fellow TC members in response to his resignation. Many thanks to Mr. Richard Houston for his services as TC Chair during 2005-2007. Ex-officio listing additions: – Chris Hoeber, Sajjad Durrani, Edward Ashford, Richard Houston, Eduardo Elizondo, Sastri Kota, Jorgen Sandberg, Dr. Charles Wang 23 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Steering/Membership: Dr. Sakarya / Dr. Parker / Dr. Dimarogonas • New Member Nomination Deadline November 1, 2014 Please send your nominee resumes to the TC Chair by October 15th and complete your nominations on-line by November 1st. • 2014 Status: 41 Members (28US+12Int+1Assoc) and 8Ex-Officio CMSTC Membership (Alumni & Assoc & Int. Memb): Limited to 50 US Members: Limited to 35 No limit on Ex-Officio List 24 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Steering/Membership: Dr. Dimarogonas • Status of Membership Proposals We need to focus on member advancement/ grade status We need to increase member diversity – We are in the process of recruiting student members It has been proposed we can cross pollinate by rotating members with other Information Sciences Group TCs – One new member from Digital Avionics TC • Nominations are accepted all year Nominations from Europe and Asia are encouraged Associate Member nominations are encouraged • New Steering committee process in preparation Will be submitted to the TC by October 2014 for review Will include review of current roster, processes for nominating members 25 for advancement, and annual membership drive. August 4, 2014 Web Subcommittee: Dr. Bob Parker / Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink • CMSTC Web site upgraded. Each subcommittee web page improved Instructions on how to update prepared for future improvements Member list updates, and now includes Ex-officio members • Next steps CMSTC Member-only area CMSTC Bios Improved links for ICSSC 2015 26 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx CMSTC Awards Subcommittee: Dr. Ron Smith • Awards Subcommittee Mandate The Awards Subcommittee is responsible for all awards activities for CMSTC as well as for promoting Associate Fellow and Fellow nominations for AIAA members who contribute to the field of communications systems. A key activity is recommending and reviewing nominations for the AIAA Aerospace Communications Award. • Subcommittee Chair: Ron Smith • Members: There are two subcommittees that form the Awards Subcommittee 1. Awards Selection Subcommittee (performs the reviews for the Aerospace Communications Award each year). – Members are: Krishna Pande (2003 recipient) , Ed Habib (1970 recipient), Chandra Kudsia (2005 recipient) , Eugene Kopp, Yoshiaki Suzuki 2. Awards Nomination Subcommittee (nominates candidates for the Aerospace Communications Award). – Members are: Naoto Kadowaki, Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink, Joseph Pelton 27 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/ISG/CMSTC/Web%20Pages/subcommittees/Awards%20subcommittee.aspx CMSTC Awards Subcommittee: Dr. Ron Smith • AIAA Aerospace Communications Award The Aerospace Communications Award is presented for an outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace communications. Candidates for the award are usually individuals, but small teams are also considered. – Past TC members become eligible one year after leaving the TC – On line nomination form is available at http://www.aiaa.org/secondary.aspx?id=230 – The award is typically presented at the ICSSC Awards Luncheon, but this may vary based on the particular conference structure and events 2013 Winner: Dr. Tony Tether – Award was presented in D.C. July 14, 2014 with AIAA Exec. Dir. Dr. Sandy Magnus 2014 Winner: Peter Garland, MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates – Citation: For technical and management contributions to the advancement of space and ground communications technology. To be presented at ICSSC2014 2015 Nominations due by 1 October 2014 – We need two new nominations to present the award in 2015, one has been submitted and a second is in process – Thanks to Mario Caron for both. August 4, 2014 28 CMSTC Awards Subcommittee: Dr. Ron Smith • ICSSC Best Paper Awards Best Student and Professional paper awards are determined by each ICSSC Organizing Committee with approval of the CMSTC. A typical process follows: – – – – – – Select Best Paper Organizer and Reviewers as part of the ICSSC Technical Committee Students identify themselves during abstract/paper submission Session Organizers / Chairs and other TPC members nominate papers for evaluation Reviewers score nominated papers (criteria available from previous ICSSCs) Winners announced at ICSSC closing ceremony AIAA certificates of merit and cash award for student (typically $500 funded by CMSTC) mailed after the conference – Selection process must be validated by CMSTC prior to certificate request submission to AIAA Thanks to Jim Dimarogonas for drafting a detailed process this year. 29 August 4, 2014 CMSTC Awards Subcommittee: Dr. Ron Smith • ICSSC Best Paper Awards - continued Selection Criteria for the ICSSC Professional Best Paper and the Student Best Paper (Example from ICSSC 2012) A Criteria for Professional Best Paper 1 Novelty and technical quality of the results. SCORE _____ 2 Interest/usefulness of the results to the satcom community. SCORE _____ 3 Clarity/conciseness of exposition. SCORE _____ B Criteria for Student Best Paper 0 The first author and the presenter must be student. 1 Novelty and technical quality of the results. 2 Interest/usefulness of the results to the satcom community. 3 Clarity/conciseness of exposition. • Yes/No _____ SCORE _____ SCORE _____ SCORE _____ Score Key: 4 = Excellent, 3 = Good, 2 = Fair, 1 = Poor 30 August 4, 2014 Treasury: Dr. Denis Curtin • Budget Status The Bank Account as of July 1, 2014 – $56,926.03 TC Budget Income Source – ICSSC Colloquium Budget is used for activities such as – Survey Drawing for ICSSC (Prize this year is iPad Mini ) – 2014 Best Student Paper Award ($500) – ICSSC Colloquium expenses Plans for ICSSC2015 Colloquium – TBD by JFSC and EMS 31 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Publications: Dr. Butash • The Aerospace America Year in Review Article Draft notes on significant communications satellite and launch vehicle year-to-date developments have been compiled Draft notes and outline sent to committee Targeting Article 1st draft 3rd week in August 600 word-count (hard) limit article due to AIAA September 5. • The AIAA also sends an email each month with a link to the digital version of Aerospace America when it is posted on the website. Look out for Dec issue. 32 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Publications: Dr. Dimarogonas • Proposal to have 10-12 best ICSSC papers be published as a special issue of the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems Discussion with editor of JAIS, Ashok Srivastava Issue: will not accept papers in areas related to RF, antennas, information theory as they are outside the scope of the journal – Need to rethink how to approach this 33 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Marketing/Infotech: Dr. Jim Dimarogonas • Exploring new Social Media strategy Sent out Call-for-Papers to half a dozen groups on linkedin and twitter (30,000 – 60,000 recipients) Linked-in Tweeter Facebook http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4247271&trk=anet_ug_hm https://twitter.com/AIAACOMMS https://www.facebook.com/AIAACMSTC • Solicitation for ICSSC 2014 was announced on Twitter, and several Linked-in groups, reaching potential audience of 30,000+ Need to institutionalize the process as part of our regular activities. This is a work in progress. • We created a request for papers for SciTech 2014 on UAV comms No papers submitted If we are to repeat this we need to be more proactive in soliciting papers August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx 34 Member Action Items / Announcements: Dr. Sakarya • Jan 2014 Meeting: Reminder from Email Circulated on June 22, 2013 “Please take a look at the CMS-TC link below and let us know which areas or subcommittees you would be specifically interested in contributing more actively so that we can update the subcommittee lists accordingly: https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Please note that Exhibits Subcommittee has been inactive, and Educations, Standards, and Technical Review Subcommittees have never been formed: https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/Web%20Pages/subcommittees.aspx Please advise if you have any recommendations in these areas as well. “ • Thank you to those members who took action New subcommittee members/chairs are posted on the CMSTC Web site – MEMBER ACTION ITEM: If you are not a part of any subcommittee, please join one as appropriate. CMSTC Web site updates are complete and improvements are underway – August 4, 2014 MEMBER ACTION ITEM: CMSTC Web site improvements requires TC member input https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx 35 Member Action Items / Announcements: Dr. Sakarya • Jan 2014 Meeting: Reminder from Email Circulated on June 22, 2013 (Ct’d) “Copied below are "Example CMS-TC Member Expectations" outlined by AIAA, and any recommendations are welcome to help steer the committee activities. •Stay in Communication: ** Attend your appropriate subcommittee/working group meetings (reference matrix on roster workbook) ** Notify TC/PC and Subcommittee Chairs if you are unable to attend ** Notify TC/PC Secretary of changes in phone, email, and others •Participate Actively: ** In any combination of two subcommittees, conferences, or working groups ** Be the major contributor/leader of at least one of these activities” • Thank you to those members who took action Serving on subcommittees, actively communicating, supporting ICSSC/subcommittees MEMBER ACTION ITEM: If you have not been participating, please advise on your plans August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx 36 Member Action Items / Announcements: Dr. Sakarya • Jan 2014 Meeting: Reminder from Email Circulated on June 22, 2013 (Ct’d) “•Provide Support As: ** Conference Session Chair (Annually) ** Reviewer for Outstanding Papers ** TC/PC Mentor ** Contributor to TC/PC Newsletter ** Contributor to AA Highlights article •When the Opportunity Arises: ** Submit TC/PC Member Nominations ** Submit Nominations for TC/PC’s Technical Award “ • Thank you to those members who took action CMSTC Secretary is updating the member activity log which was circulated last week MEMBER ACTION ITEM : Please send your activity info to Dr. Parker/CMSTC Secretary 37 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Member Action Items / Announcements: Dr. Sakarya • ACTIONS: All CMSTC Members to Recruit 2 submissions per member for ICSSC 2015: please notify CMSTC Send short member bios to post on a secure CMSTC site (if not already) Send quarterly activity status demonstrating active contribution such as – Participating in quarterly/biannial CMSTC Meetings – Participating-in/supporting subcommittees as appropriate Send Roster verification/updates to CMSTC Secretary by Oct 1st, 2014 • ACTIONS: All Subcommittee Chairs to Send Annual Activity/Status Report by Jan 15th, 2015 Verify/update finalized list of subcommittee members by Oct 1st, 2014 Organize quarterly working group meetings, and keep log of participation • Quarterly Member/Subcommittee Activity Submission Dates Mar 30, June 30, Sep 30, Dec 30 38 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx Member Action Items / Announcements: Dr. Sakarya • Announcements 2015 In-Person CMSTC Meetings: – During 5-9 January 2015 at SciTech 2015 at Gaylord Palms and Convention Centre – During 7-10 Sep 2015 at ICSSC 2015 in QT Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia 2014 CMSTC Teleconferences/Correspondences – Numerous telecons/correspondences for ICSSC 2014/2015 and Awards 2015 CMSTC Teleconferences Planned – Nov 30, Mar 30 Successful paper submission/recruitment and CMSTC member nominations may count towards 1 of 2 required In-Person CMSTC Meeting participation. Please Report 39 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx ICSSC-AIAA-SPACE Forum Issues: All • Record of Discussion (Meeting Held on 8th Jan 2012) (2.a) ICSSC used to be held every two years in North America (NA) and alternating between the East and West coasts before year 2000. After 2000, the ICSSC was alternating in oddnumbered years between Europe and Asia while maintaining its presence in NA every two years as in the past. (2.e) “village concept” in NA co-located with the Space conference when in the West coast and potentially with another AIAA conference to be held in the East coast in order to maintain our alternating locations. (2.j) When the conference is held in NA, AIAA will handle all the logistics with support from the CMS TC. • CMSTC Experienced Significant Issues with Item (2.e) Lessons Learned – Action Item: ICSSC 2014 Leadership to Coordinate/Report Lessons Learned by Oct 1st , 2014 Next Steps – Action Item: ICSSC 2015 Leadership to Schedule/Execute Plans to Avoid Issues – Action Item: ICSSC 2016/2017 Leadership to Prepare Plans According to Outcome of ICSSC 2014/2015 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx 40 Any Other Business: All Members • Other Business: Comments, Recommendations, Others? • Adjournment Thank you for your participation. Much Appreciated! 41 August 4, 2014 https://info.aiaa.org/tac/isg/CMSTC/default.aspx 42 42