Happy New Year to all of you!

Building on the great success of the first edition of the IEEE Workshop on Telecommunications Standards: "From Research to Standards" (which won the Best IEEE ComSoc Workshop Award at IEEE ICC 2012), we are happy to announce the organization of its second edition in Budapest, Hungary, collocated with IEEE ICC 2013 (June 9 - 13, 2013).

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 aninternational 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 abstract deadline: Jan 4, 2013 Paper submission deadline: Jan 11, 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 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