Dear all,

I wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2013.

After the long Christmas and New Year break and upon requests from many potential authors, the submission deadline of the "IEEE Workshop on Telecom Standards: From Research to Standards" has been extended to 25 January 2013 (FIRM).

It has been also decided that extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for publication in Special Issues of IEEE Magazines.

The organization of the second edition of the workshop is decided based on the great success of the first edition (which won the Best IEEE ComSoc Workshop Award at IEEE ICC 2012). The workshop will be collocated with IEEE ICC 2013 (June 9 - 13, 2013) in Budapest, Hungary.

The goal of this Workshop is to bridge the gap between researchers, scientists, and standards experts in both academia and industry and to promote standardization as an important vehicle for information sharing and cooperation between academia and industry. An additional goal is to bring together experts from different standardization bodies, providing opportunities for closer understanding and collaboration; catalyzing development of more interoperable standards and more efficient and effective communication systems.

The Workshop technical program will deliver high quality technical as well as visionary papers that will be reviewed and selected by an international program committee representing both academia and industry with a strong standardization background. All submissions are required to comply with ICC's guidelines. Accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore.

Looking forward your submissions to the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Telecommunications Standards: "From Research to Standards". For further details, please visit the workshop's official site: http://www.research2standards.net/

IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: Jan. 25, 2013 Acceptance notification: Feb. 22, 2013 Final manuscript: Mar. 08, 2013

Steering Committee Dr. Heinrich J Stuettgen, Vice President, NEC Europe Ltd (Chair) Dr. Alexander D. Gelman, CIO, IEEE ComSoc, Member of IEEE-SA Standards Board Dr. Asok Chatterjee, Vice President of Industry Relations, Ericsson, USA Mr.Brian Kiernan, VP and Chief Scientist, InterDigital, USA Prof. Sherman Shen, Waterloo University, Canada Dr. Marcus Brunner, Head of Standards Department, Swiss Com, Switzerland

Workshop General Chair Dr. Tarik Taleb, NEC Europe, Germany

TPC Co-Chairs Dr. Tuncer Baykas, Tohoku University, Japan Dr. Alex Reznik, InterDigital, USA Dr. Konstantinos Samdanis, NEC Europe, Germany

Publicity Co-Chairs Prof. Joe Touch, Univ. of Southern California, USA Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Dr. Adlen Ksentini, University of Rennes, France.