Charter and Scope
The IEEE Communication Society’s (ComSoc) Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Technical Committee plays a leading role in promoting, sponsoring, organizing, and advancing numerous technical activities in areas of interest to TAOS’ community. The following technical areas are of interest to this community:
- Digital and analog transmission systems and equipment
- Technologies, architectures and protocols for optical transmission systems
- Subscriber access systems and equipment (twisted pair, coaxial, optical, wireless, and combinations thereof)
- Medium access control protocols for optical, metallic, and wireless media
- Architectures, performance, and testing of wired and wireless access systems and networks
- SDH/SONET transmission systems
- Network synchronization
- Inductive coordination and electrical protection of wired media
Activities of TAOS in this regards include, but are not limited to, the following:
- ComSoc conferences and symposia (including our flagship ICC and GLOBECOM conference)
- ComSoc Workshops and Tutorials
- ComSoc-sponsored conferences and workshops
- Journal/magazine special issues
- Standards activities
- Promotion of industrial contribution to ComSoc technical activities
- Facilitation of exchange of technical ideas, innovations, and news among our global community (academic and industrial)
- Nominations for IEEE Fellow grade
- Nominations for Distinguished Lecturer program
- Nominations for IEEE/ComSoc Awards
- Collaboration with other TCs and other constituencies and organizations of our global community