The 11th edition of the IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) returned to Brasil for in 2019. (LATINCOM 2011 was held in Belém, Brasil). The conference goal is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners in Latin America to share R&D results, to meet, and to network. The technical program received 114 submissions which were reviewed by 65 technical program committee members. Fifty-four of the submissions were accepted for presentation at LATINCOM 2019 in 15 technical sessions. These papers were also included in the conference proceedings which is now available on IEEE Xplore. The authors of the accepted papers are from 12 countries (six in Latin America and six beyond Latin America). This is a healthy international mix that allowed those from outside Latin America to learn what is happening in Latin America and for Latin Americans to interact with fellow researchers from outside the region. The quality of this year's technical program was quite good and included papers on diverse topics ranging from vehicle-to-everything networks (two sessions) to a variety of issues on Internet of Things (two sessions) to an interesting variety of applications that help people, such as location-based services, multimedia, and healthcare. The quality of this program would not be possible without the diligent efforts of the technical program committee. This truly international committee devoted many hours to reviewing and obtaining reviews for the submissions.
This paper presents a new approach for modeling the availability of the networks composed of the multiple interconnected rings in two nodes. Method of algebraic formulation is used for the availability modeling. Using this method, the general expression for the availability between two terminals of multiple ring networks is derived through the availability of multiple ring networks consisting of two and three-rings connected to two nodes. To perform the expression some real assumptions have been taken. Analytical calculation showed that the use of these expressions under these assumptions provides real values for availability between the two terminals of multiple ring networks. Information on the availability of links and nodes are taken from previously published works.
Women Members of the scientifi c committee of the conference 6th-IEC 2020 with Sattar B. Sadkhan, Chair of IEEE ComSoc Iraq Chapter. We highlight the role of the women in such important activities. GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS NEWSLETTER GCN Sattar B. Sadkhan (at right), Chair of IEEE ComSoc Iraq Chapter, with the Dean of Baghdad Economic University College (at left) at the IT-ELA 2020 conference. The volunteer team of organizers of IT-ELA 2020 from the IEEE ComSoc Iraq Chapter
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