Chair: 
Hikmet Sari
hikmet.sari@supelec.fr


Vice-Chairs:
Prosper Chemouil, prosper.chemouil@francetelecom.com
Pascal Lorenz
lorenz@ieee.org


Tutorials: 
Jean-Claude Bic
(Passed away 26 December 2003)


Executive and Expert Panels:
Georges Passet
gpasset@bouyguestelecom.fr
Gael Serandour
gserando@bouyguestelecom.fr

Symposia Chairs and Committees

Access and Home Networks Symposium
Co-chairs:
Jacob Baal-Schem, j.baal.schem@ieee.org
Stefano Bregni, bregni@elet.polimi.it

TPC:
Giuseppe Bianchi, Universit^ di Palermo, Italy
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Jianfei Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tee-Hiang Cheng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
John M. Cioffi, Stanford University, USA
Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada
Jeff H. Derby, IBM Microelectronics, USA
Sachin Deshpande, Sharp Laboratories of America Inc., USA
Steve Gorshe, PMC-Sierra, USA
Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Ryerson University, Canada
Stanislaw Jedrus, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Alan Kaplan, Panasonic Technologies Co., USA
Michael Kincaid, Glow Networks, USA
Myung J. Lee, City University of New York, USA
Mike Little, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Jonathan C.L. Liu, University of Florida, USA
Merabti Madjid, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Guido Maier, Corecom, Italy
Daniela Maniezzo, UCLA, USA
Gianluca Mazzini, Universit^ di Ferrara, Italy
Marco Mellia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Algirdas Pakstas, London Metropolitan University, UK
Zdzislaw Papir, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland
Jong T. Park Kyungpok National University, Korea
Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
Yasser Rasheed, Intel Corporation, USA
Roberto Verdone, Universit^ di Bologna, Italy
Giacomo Verticale, Cefriel, Italy
Ma Yan Beijing, University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Richard Yao, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Qian Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China


Communication Theory Symposium
Co-Chairs:
Stefan Kaiser, Stefan.kaiser@dlr.de
Moe Win, moewin@mit.edu

TPC:
Clifford W. Anderson, Office of Naval Research, USA
Helmut Boelcskei, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), Switzerland
Joseph Boutros, ENST Paris, France
Robert Broderson, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Len Cimini, University of Delaware, USA
Andrea Conti, University of Bologna, Italy
Armin Dammann, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Tolga Duman, Arizona State University, USA
Marc Fossorier, University of Hawaii, USA
Atilio Gameiro, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Costas Georghiades, Texas A&M University, USA
David Gesbert, Eurecom Institute, France
Dennis L. Goeckel, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
Scott Goldstein, SAIC, USA
Alex Haimovich, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Robert W. Heath Jr., University of Texas at Austin, USA
Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California at Irvine, USA
Aleksandar Kavcic, Harvard University, USA
Dong Ku Kim, Yonsei University, Korea
Julius Kusuma, LIDS, MIT, USA
David Love, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Umberto Mengali, University of Pisa, Italy
Andreas F. Molisch, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory and Lund University, Sweden
Lorenzo Mucchi, University of Florence, Italy
Wilbur Myrick, SAIC, USA
Rohit Nabar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), Switzerland
Masao Nakagawa, Keio University, Japan
Krishna.R. Narayanan, University of Texas, USA
Michael J. Neely, University of Southern California, USA
Sedat Oelcer, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Ian Opperman, Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland
Erdal Panayirci, ISIK University, Turkey
Ramesh Pyndiah, ENST Bretagne, France
Tony Quek, LIDS, MIT, USA
L. Reggie Brothers, Draper Laboratories, USA
M. Saquib, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Sergio Servetto, Cornell University, USA
Timothy Settle, SAIC, USA
Arne Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Desmond P. Taylor, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland, USA
Venugopal V. Veeravalli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Shuangquing Wei, Louisiana State University, USA
Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Deleware, USA
Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M University, USA
Alberto Zanella, CSITE-CNR, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
Rodger Ziemer, University of Colorodo, USA


High-Speed Networks Symposium
Co-Chairs:
Mike Devetsikiotis, mdevets@eos.ncsu.edu
Joe Evans, evans@ku.edu

TPC:
Aftab Ahmad, DePaul University, USA
Luis Orozco Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Jose' Carlos Brustoloni, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Georg Carle, Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Germany
Dominique Delisle, France Telecom, France
Matthias Falkner, Cisco Systems, Germany
Yuguang "Michael" Fang, University of Florida, USA
Serge Fdida, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France
Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas Dallas, USA
Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy
Fotios Harmantzis, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Changcheng Huang, Carleton University, Canada
Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Mark Karol, Avaya Labs, USA
Miguel A. Labrador, University of South Florida, USA
Ioannis Lambadaris, Carleton University, Canada
Parsa Larijani, Nortel Networks, Canada
Amitabh Mishra, Virginia Tech, USA
Tim Moors, University of New South Wales, Australia
Giovanni Pau, University of Bologna, Italy
Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo, USA
Arunabha Sen, Arizona State University, USA
Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece
Dick Skillen, SE Communications, Canada
Sandra Tartarelli, NEC Europe, Germany
Iakovos Venieris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dominique Verchere, Alcatel, France
Yannis Viniotis, North Carolina State University, USA
Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA
Taieb Znati NSF/ANIR, USA


Multimedia Technologies and Services Symposium
Co-Chairs:
Heather Yu, heathery@research.panasonic.com
Steve Wright, s.wright@ieee.org

TPC:
Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Lei Cao, University of Mississippi, USA
S.-H. Gary Chan, Hong Kong University of Science & Tech., Hong Kong
Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Chang Wen Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe , UK
Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Joan Garcia-Haro, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, SPAIN
Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales, Australia
Hari Kalva, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA
Luigi Lancieri, France Telecom, France
Kai-Kuang Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jerome Moisand, Juniper Networks, USA
Mahfuzur Rahman, Panasonic Technologies Inc., USA
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy
Apostolis Salkintzis, Motorola, Greece
Paola Salomoni, University of Bologna, Italy
Dilip Sarkar, University of Miami, USA
Xiao Su, San Jose State University, USA
K. P. Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Qibin Sun, I2R, Singapore
Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University, USA
Dapeng Oliver Wu, University of Florida, USA
Min Wu, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Peng Yin, Thomsons Multimedia, USA
Wenjun Zeng, Univ. of Missouri, USA
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA
Wenwu Zhu, Microsoft Ressearch Asia, China


Optical Networking Symposium
Chair: Hussein Mouftah, mouftah@site.uottawa.ca
Vice-Chair: Mounir Hamdi, hamdi@cs.ust.hk

TPC:
M. Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Mario Baldi, Synchrodyne Net, USA
L. Benmohamed, Corvis, USA
Maged Beshai, Nortel Networks, Canada
Hakki Candan Cankaya, Alcatel, USA
Thomas Chen, Southern Methodist University, USA
Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Jacek Chrostowski, Emcore, USA
Piet Demeester, University of Gent, Belgium
Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, USA
Tarek El-Bawab, Alcatel, USA
Jeff Fitchett, Nortel Networks, Canada
Nasir Ghani, Sorrento, USA
Gerard Hebuterne, INT, France
Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada
M. Ilyas, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, USA
Amaury Jourdan, Alcatel, France
Jason Jue, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA
Jean-Francois Labourdette, Tellium, USA
Victor Li, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California-Davis, USA
Tim Ozugur, Alcatel, USA
Chunming Qiao, University Buffalo, USA
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Brunilde Sanso, Ecole Politechnique of Montreal, Canada
Ted Sargent, University of Toronto, Canada
Dominic Schupke, Siemens, Germany
Kris Struyve, Tellium, Belgium
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Institute of Technology, Greece
Jing Wu, Communications Research Center, Canada
Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA
Naoaki Yamanaka, NTT, Japan
Oliver Yang, University of Ottawa, Canada
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA

Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa


QoS and Performance Modeling Symposium
Co-Chairs:
Koichi Asatani, asatani@sin.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp
Nelson Fonseca, nfonseca@dcc.unicamp.br

TPC:
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Albert Banchs, UC3M, Spain
Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, China
Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T, USA
Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Michalis Faloutsos, University of California at Riverside, USA
Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
Khaled A. Harfoush, North Carolina State University, USA
Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Richard Hyong-Jun La, University of Maryland, USA
Tomohiro Ishihara, Fujitsu, Japan
George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan
Aleksandar Kolarov, NEC USA, USA
Timo Korhonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Rosa Maria Meri Leao, Fedareal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Emilio Leonardi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Steven Low, Caltech, USA
Kenichi Mase, Niigata University, Japan
Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Amitabh Mishra, Virginia Tech, USA
Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan
Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, China
Yuji Oie, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Juergen Quittek, NEC Europe, Germany
Jose F. Rezende, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Medy Sanadidi, UCLA
Mihail L Sichitiu, North Carolina State University, USA
Jorge M.de Souza, FITEC, Brazil
John C. Strassner, Intelliden Inc, USA
Heinrich J. Stuettgen, NEC Europe, Germany
Hiromi Ueda, NTT, Japan
Naoaki Yamanaka, NTT, Japan
T. Yasushi, Mitsubishi, Japan
Weider D. Yu, San Jose State University, USAv
Moshe Zukerman, The University of Melbourne, Australia


Signal Processing in Communications Symposium
Chair: Jaafar Elmirghani, j.m.h.elmirghani@swansea.ac.uk
Vice-Chair:  Naohisa Ohta, naohisa@sm.sony.co.jp

TPC:
Maruf Ali, Oxford University, UK
Mohammad Banat, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Mohamed Benaissa, University of Sheffield, UK
Said Bousakta, Leeds University, UK
Trevor Clarkson, Radio Communications Agency, UK
Marc Clement, University of Wales Swansea, UK
Luc Deneire, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Tolga Duman, Arizona State University, USA
Pierre Duhamel, LSS/Supelec, France
Khaled Fazel, Marconi Communications, Germany
Navid Lashkarian, Xilinx Inc., USA
Yamin Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jacques Palicot, Supelec, France
Bin Qiu, Monash University, Australia
Balaji Raghothaman, Nokia Research Center, USA
Bayan Sharif, University of Newcastle, UK
Ron Smith, TRW, USA
Heidi Steendam, Ghent University, Belgium
Tomohiko Tanigushi, Fujitsu, Japan
Stuart Tewksbury, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Ning Yang, GTE, USA


Wireless Communications Symposium
Co-Chairs:
Marco Chiani, m.chiani@ieee.org
Mohsen Guizani, mguizani@cs.uwf.edu

TPC:
Mosa Ali Abu-Rgheff, Plymouth University, UK
Sofiane Affes, INRS Telecommunications, Canada
Hussein Alnuweiri, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mohamed Slim Alouini, University of Minnesota, USA
Annamalai Annamalai, Virginia Tech, USA
Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA
Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada
Khaled Ben Letaief, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA
Michel Bousquet, Ecole Superieure d’Aeronautique, France
Ghassan Brahim, Western Michigan University, USA
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun-Yat Sen University,Taiwan
Davide Dardari, University of Bologna, Italy
Michael Fang, University of Florida, USA
Istvan Frigyes, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Ali Ghrayeb, Concordia University, Canada
George Karagiannidis, Institute for Space Appl. & Remote Sensing, Greece
Witold A. Krzymien, University of Alberta, Canada
Catherine Lamy, Thales Communications, France
Wei Li, University of Toledo, USA
Yao Ma, Iowa State University, USA
Mustafa Matalgah, University of Mississippi, USA
Gregory S. Mitchell, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Ross Murch, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
Mathiopoulos Panayiotis, Institute for Space Appl. & Remote Sensing, Greece
George C. Polyzos, University of Athens, Greece
Jihad Qaddour, Illinois State University, USA
Luca Simone Ronga, CNIT, Italy
Marina Ruggieri, University of Rome, Italy
Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Mohammad Saquib, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Alexander Seeger, Siemens, Germany
Mansoor Shafi, Telecom New Zealand, New Zealand
Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Peter Smith, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Ahmed Tewfik, University of Minnesota, USA
Tjeng Thiang Tjhung, Institute for Communications Research, Singapore
Velio Tralli, University of Ferrara, Italy
Murat Uysal, University of Waterloo, Canada
Reinaldo Valenzuela, Lucent, USA
Chin-Liang Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Zhengdao Wang, Iowa State University, USA
Kainam Thomas Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada
Takaya Yamazato, Nagoya University, Japan
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Alberto Zanella, IEIIT-CNR/BO, Italy


Wireless Networking Symposium
Chair: Ibrahim Habib, habib@ccny.cuny.edu
Vice-Chairs:
Franco Vatalaro, vatalaro@uniroma2.it
Romano Fantacci, fantacci@lenst.det.unifi.it

TPC:
Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Andrea Abrardo, University of Siena, Italy
Sofiene Affes, University of Quebec, Canada
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Fulvio Babich, University of Trieste, Italy
Enzo Baccarelli, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Philippe Bertin, France Telecom, France
Ezio Biglieri, Politechnico di Torino, Italy
Anthony C. Boucouvalas, Bournemouth University, UK
Francois Chin, Institue for InfoComm Research, Singapore
Chong-Ho Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Mark Cudak, Motorola Labs, USA
Fabrizio Davide, Telecom Italia Learning Services, Italy
Franco Davoli, DIST - Unversity of Genoa, Italy
Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium
Andrea Detti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, University of Rome la Sapienza, Italy
Ehab S. Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada
Khaled Elsayed, Cairo University, Egypt
Mohamed El-Tarhuni, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Barry Evans, University of Surrey, UK
Stefano Galli, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA
Ali Ghrayeb, Concordia University, USA
Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy
Nada Golmie, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Michael Hadjitheodosiou, University of Maryland, USA
Bassam Hashem, Sagacity, USA
Xiaoning He, NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, USA
Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, USA
Antonio Iera, University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Bijan Jabbari, George Mason University, USA
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
Anja Klein, Siemens, Germany
Miguel Labrador, USF, USA
Xavier Lagrange, ENST Bretagne, France
Pierpaolo Loreti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Mario Marchese, CNIT, Genoa, Italy
Mustafa M. Matalgah, University of Mississippi, USA
Takis Mathiopoulos, Space Research Agency, Canada
Franco Mazzenga, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Andreas Mitschele, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Ingrid Moerman, Ghent University, Belgium
Simone Morosi, University of Florence, Italy
Mohamed Moustafa, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Lorenzo Mucchi, University of Florence, Italy
Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Tommaso Pecorella, CNIT, Italy
Domenico Porcino, Philips, Italy
Mikko Rinne, Nokia, Finland
Roberto Sabella, Ericsson, Italy
Giovanni Santella, AGCOM, Italy
Roberto Saracco, TILAB, Italy
Dilip Sarkar, University of Miami, USA
Mamoru Sawahashi, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
Ray Sheriff, Bradford University, UK
Mihail L. Sichitiu, North Carolina State University, USA
Neeraj Suri, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
H. Linh Truong, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, University of Bologna, Italy
Maria Angeles Vazquez Castro, ESA, The Netherlands
Tobias Weber, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Markus Werner, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Takaya Yamazato, Nogoya Univertsity, Japan
Roy Yates, Rutgers University, USA
Aylin Yener, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jens Zander, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden