MESSAGE FROM THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications  (ICCSC) is a small conference with a solid technical program covering many topical areas of wireless communications.  The program addresses the interests of the two sponsoring IEEE Societies, the Circuits and Systems Society and the Communications Society, and of colleagues in both universities and industry.  We are grateful for the strong co-sponsorship by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the work contributed by its faculty and students. 

ICCSC, our two-society conference held every four years in the past but likely to be held more frequently in the future, provides a venue for high-quality technical papers across research and implementation topics. This year we scheduled 184 papers from the 450 submitted, the majority from China but including papers from many countries around the world.  Papers were reviewed and distributed for outside reviews by our 62 TPC members.  Several members of the Communication Society's conferencing staff, but particularly Phyllis O'Neill, provided constant and critical support.  The successful organization of this conference can be credited to our General Chair, Professor Rueywen Liu; to our TPC members; to a large group of reviewers; to the ComSoc conferencing staff; to the SJTU faculty and students; and, not least, to our excellent authors.

In addition to the main ICCSC technical program with both lecture and poster sessions, whose papers are contained within these Proceedings and meet the same high standards, our program includes keynote addresses by two prominent members of our community, Professor Lang Tong of Cornell University and Dr. Botaro Hirosaki, EVP of NEC Corporation, and a workshop on "Key Technologies for Future Wireless Communications" sponsored by Huawei Corporation. We believe the conference as a whole has the quality and breadth demanded by our cross-Societies community.

We welcome all participants, authors and non-authors alike, to the dynamic city of Shanghai and this stimulating conference.  We expect and encourage lively interactions and progress toward new systems, services, and interesting topics for all of us to study and develop further.