The Atlanta IEEE SPS Chapter is hosting its semi-annual planning meeting to schedule events for the second half of 2022. Both chapter officers and chapter members may attend to support planning and action items to support the chapter activities. Volunteering is a great way to get oriented to the chapter officers and process, and can be a gateway to holding chapter office in the future. This meeting will be held virtually through the webex link provided. Agenda: -Review activties from the first half of 2022 -Follow up on action items from the Januar 2022 plannig meeting -Discuss upcoming guest lecture- who might be a good expert/IEEE member to invite to give a talk? -Discuss planning STEM events and/or resume review event for the fall? Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/316776

Bimonthly Administrative Meeting This will be an in-person meeting with dinner. Please make sure to indicate whether you will be attending in person or virtually. Please see "Menu Selections" for more information. Call-in information: TBD Agenda: 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Meeting Room: 5th Floor Board Room, Bldg: GTRI Conference Center, 250 14th St NW, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30318, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/317006

Bimonthly Administrative Meeting This will be an in-person meeting with dinner. Please make sure to indicate whether you will be attending in person or virtually. Please see "Menu Selections" for more information. Call-in information: TBD Agenda: 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Meeting TBD, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/317006

Austin ComSoc/SP/CT and Jamaica ComSoc Section would like to invite you to attend a special VDL talk on Giovanni Giambene (h index = 25 Googlescholar, 18 SCOPUS, 14 ISI WoS) was born in Florence, Italy, in 1966. He received the Dr. Ing. degree in Electronics in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications and Informatics in 1997, both from the University of Florence, Italy. From 1994 to 1997, he was with the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Florence, Italy. He was Technical External Secretary of the European Community COST 227 Action (“Integrated Space/Terrestrial Mobile Networks”). He also contributed to the SAINT Project (“Satellite Integration in the Future Mobile Network”, RACE 2117). From 1997 to 1998, he was with OTE (Marconi Group) in Florence, Italy, working on a GSM development program. In 1999, he joined the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy. At present, he is associate professor, teaching the first-level course on Fundamentals on Telecommunications and the advanced course on Networking at the University of Siena. From 2000 to 2003, he contributed to the EU FP5 “Personalised Access to Local Information and services for tourists” (PALIO) IST Project. He was vice-Chair of the COST 290 Action (2004-2008), entitled “Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks” (Wi-QoST). He participated in the projects: (i) the SatNEx I & II network of excellence (EU FP6, 2004-2009) and SatNEx III&IV (ESA 2010-2018) as work package leader on radio access techniques, cross-layer air interface design, and network coding techniques for satellite systems; (ii) the EU FP7 Coordination Action “Road mapping For any information, please send an email to f.behmann at f.behmann@ieee.org or Chistopher Udeagha at udeaghac@gmail.com Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/318917

Austin ComSoc/SP/CT and Jamaica ComSoc Section would like to invite you to attend a special VDL talk on Giovanni Giambene (h index = 25 Googlescholar, 18 SCOPUS, 14 ISI WoS) was born in Florence, Italy, in 1966. He received the Dr. Ing. degree in Electronics in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications and Informatics in 1997, both from the University of Florence, Italy. From 1994 to 1997, he was with the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Florence, Italy. He was Technical External Secretary of the European Community COST 227 Action (“Integrated Space/Terrestrial Mobile Networks”). He also contributed to the SAINT Project (“Satellite Integration in the Future Mobile Network”, RACE 2117). From 1997 to 1998, he was with OTE (Marconi Group) in Florence, Italy, working on a GSM development program. In 1999, he joined the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy. At present, he is associate professor, teaching the first-level course on Fundamentals on Telecommunications and the advanced course on Networking at the University of Siena. From 2000 to 2003, he contributed to the EU FP5 “Personalised Access to Local Information and services for tourists” (PALIO) IST Project. He was vice-Chair of the COST 290 Action (2004-2008), entitled “Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks” (Wi-QoST). He participated in the projects: (i) the SatNEx I & II network of excellence (EU FP6, 2004-2009) and SatNEx III&IV (ESA 2010-2018) as work package leader on radio access techniques, cross-layer air interface design, and network coding techniques for satellite systems; (ii) the EU FP7 Coordination Action “Road mapping For any information, please send an email to f.behmann at f.behmann@ieee.org or Chistopher Udeagha at udeaghac@gmail.com Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/318925

(Abstract: Future 5G/6G mobile communication systems are expected to integrate various radio access technologies, including the satellite component. 3GGP release 17 is now frozen and includes the satellite and aerial part under the name of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN). In this framework, terrestrial services can be augmented with the development of novel satellite systems (namely, UHTS GEO and mega-LEO constellations) to meet the needs of service in those areas that terrestrial 5G systems cannot cover. A first part of this lecture will survey the most common satellite systems (operational or planned). Then, advanced satellite networking concepts will be considered like 3D architectures, gateway diversity, Internet-centric networking, QoS, network coding, and mobile edge computing. A second part of this talk will address satellite IoT. In particular, different architectures and sensor technologies (e.g., NB-IoT, LoRa, and SigFox) will be considered. These systems will also envisage drones/UAVs to receive IoT data via opportunistic connectivity with the sensors on the ground. Some applications for satellite IoT will also be reviewed for remote area monitoring, fire alarm detection, smart agriculture, animal tracking, and plant disease control, to name a few.) (Abstract: Future 5G/6G mobile communication systems are expected to integrate various radio access technologies, including the satellite component. 3GGP release 17 is now frozen and includes the satellite and aerial part under the name of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN). In this framework, terrestrial services can be augmented with the development of novel satellite systems (namely, UHTS GEO and mega-LEO constellations) to meet the needs of service in those areas that terrestrial 5G systems cannot cover. A first part of this lecture will survey the most common satellite systems (operational or planned). Then, advanced satellite networking concepts will be considered like 3D architectures, gateway diversity, Internet-centric networking, QoS, network coding, and mobile edge computing. A second part of this talk will address satellite IoT. In particular, different architectures and sensor technologies (e.g., NB-IoT, LoRa, and SigFox) will be considered. These systems will also envisage drones/UAVs to receive IoT data via opportunistic connectivity with the sensors on the ground. Some applications for satellite IoT will also be reviewed for remote area monitoring, fire alarm detection, smart agriculture, animal tracking, and plant disease control, to name a few.) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/320322