AsiaFI Steering Group Meeting Minutes
2008.10.27
Huanghai Hotel,
Qingdao
Participants: Kilnam Chon, Arika
Kato, Koji Okamura, CS Hong (by skype), Mingwei Xu, Jun Bi, Hewu Li, Bingyang
Liu (Secretariat)
Absent: Xiaohong
Huang, Dongman Lee, Sureswaren Ramadass
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Working Group/Committee Review
(1) Architecture WG
Mingwei Xu reported
the WG progress. Two new co-chairs were elected: Ikjun Yeom and Jun Bi. The
steering group discussed to put the Testbed BoF under Architecture WG as a
Task. Currently, there are two tasks: Testbed, and Trust/Security.
The candidate members
for Testbed Task: China: Jilong Wang, Japan: Akira Kato, Korea: Jongwon Kim.
(2) Mobile &
Wireless WG
Hewu Li reported the
WG meeting and progress: 1. wireless/mobile testbed, and 2. WG goals: school
and joint projects.
(3) Education
Committee
CS Hong and Jun Bi
reported the progress of education committee. The steering group will review
the milestone of course development and Ph.D research database in the next
steering group meeting during 2009 winter school in Beijing.
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AsiaFI schools
(1) Hewu Li reported
the preparation on 2009 winter school and 2010 winter school. The 2010 winter school on mobile and
wireless has not been decided on its venue.
(2) Jun Bi reported
the 2009 summer school proposal. The proposal then is approved. Suggestions will
be taken in the school plan (no parallel tracks, using evening sessions,
extending 10 mins presentation to 15 mins, student panel topic: how to publish
papers in high quality conferences and journals such as SIGCOMM). Wang-Cheol
Song from Cheju Univ. joined the school committee as the local support team.
The Chair of East Asia Workshop will also be committee member. The student
committee needs a co-chair from Japan.
There was discussion
on holding 2010 summer school in Japan, possibly at Keio University,
Hiyoshi/Yagami Campus.
(3) Prof. Chon
emphasized to always ask the opinion of student committee on choosing invited
speaker, activates, student award, etc. We should also learn from the student
workshop of SIGCOMM, CoNext, and Hot Nets.
(4) Student Advisory
Committee for AsiaFI schools was created. The initial members are: Kilnam Chon,
Lixia Zhang, Akira Kato, Jun Bi,and Ikjun Yeom, who actively participated in
the last school. Rodney Van Meter is also nominated later.
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The Joint Research
We are so far
successful in the schools but the joint research was not established yet.
Mingwei Xu introduced A3 projects. The steering group draw the conclusion:
(1) Yes, we are
interested in high quality joint research projects.
(2) We will learn
from EuroNF. We plan to collaborate with them with a project to learn more.
(3) Where to start?
Visiting(short and long terms), joint supervision of students, case studies on
successful research collaboration in Asia and else where.
(4) To organize a
brainstorming session on joint research in Asia during 2009 winter school in
Beijing. Ask session participants to show their cases.
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MoU
Koji Okamura is
assigned to write it on cooperation between AsiaFI and institutions in Asia and
elsewhere.
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Next Steering Group meetings
(1) 2009.1.12 Monday
16:00~18:00 during the winter school in Beijing(with Board Meeting in
13:30~15:30)
(2) 2009.3.2 Monday
16:00~18:00 during APAN Meeting in Kaohsiung