On behalf of the Executive Committee, it is a great pleasure to invite you to the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2008), which will be held in Beijing, China, on 19-23 May 2008. No doubt, this will be another historical event for IEEE Communication Society in the past 50+ years, not only because ICC comes to the largest developing country at the first time but also because it will be held in the year of Beijing Olympic Games. With the theme of “Communications: Faster-Higher-Stronger”, ICC2008 will provide an open platform for the information exchanges and discussions related to the major advances in telecommunications. ICC2008 is jointly organized by the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), Chinese Institute of Communications (CIC), Tsinghua University (THU), and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), under the supports from National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and major telecommunication operators and industries. The technical program will consist of Tutorials and Workshops on the latest technical and business issues in communications and networking topics, 9 Technical Symposia disseminating the latest research and development results in the areas of Advances in Networks and Internet, Communications QoS/Reliability and Performance Modeling, Communication Theory, Communication Software and Services, Information and Network Security, Optical Networks and Systems, Signal Processing for Communications, Wireless Communications, and Wireless Networking, and one General Symposium addressing the topics not covered by the technical symposia listed above. Panel discussions will also be organized to encourage interactive discussions or even debates on the hottest topics. Full details of submission procedures are available on the ICC2008 website www.ieee-icc.org/2008/. As a country with more than 5000 years' civilization, China is gaining more and more momentum since her implementation of open policy in the 80's and the WTO enrolment in 2002. Telecommunication market in China, as well as related research and development activities, grows in a pace much faster than its averaged economy, and becomes an attraction around the globe. Today, Chinese telecommunication market has been reaching the worldwide No.1 in scale, holding over 370 million PSTN terminals and more than 480 million mobile users, where new challenges facing with such a huge-scale network occurs everyday. Beijing, as the capital city for more than 800 years, is modern and traditional, attracting millions of visitors from all over the world every year. Especially, in order to have the Beijing Olympic, the social infrastructure and environment have been changing dramatically as the time approaches to 2008. Therefore, we sincerely invite you to make your plans to attend the technical and the social programs of ICC2008 and have an unforgettable stay in this magnificent city. This is also an excellent opportunity to bring your family along for pre-conference and post-conference tours in a region that has many world-class tourist destinations. We look forward to welcoming you to Beijing in 2008!