Links Of Interest

1) Collected Resources & Advices on Study & Research

• Computer Science Student Resource (by William Stallings)
  
• Collected Advice on Research (primarily for Computer Scientists)
  
• Resources on Academia (compiled by Wilson Hsieh)
  

2) Journals

• IEEE Communications Magazine
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC)

• IEEE Computer Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)

• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• IEEE Transactions on Reliability

• Performance Evaluation
• Performance Evaluation Review
• ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
  

3) Conferences

• International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
• International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST)
• International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2005)
• Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2004)
  

4) Researchers

• Iyer, Ravishankar K. (UIUC, USA)
• Sanders, William H. (UIUC, USA)
  
• Trivedi, Kishor S. (Duke Univ, USA)

5) Tools 

• Möbius (UIUC, USA)
• SHARPE & SPNP (Duke Univ, USA)

• A Collection of Petri Nets Tools (by International Petri Nets Community)
  

• ns-2

6) Research Indexes

• ACM Digital Library (Papers Published by ACM)
  
• CiteSeer (Scientific Literature Digital Library)
• Google Scholar (Powerful Web Search Engine for Scholars)
• IEEE Xplore (IEEE Digital Library)

7) Organizations & Communities

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
  
• IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS)
  
• IEEE Communications Society (IEEE-ComSoc)
  
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  
• ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
  
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
  
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

• Dependability.org (Sponsored by the IEEE-CS's Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and IFIP WG10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance)
• Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluation (CC)
  

• Software Engineering Institute (SEI) 
• Capability Maturity Model (CMM)  &  Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) 
• Performance Excellence (PE)
  
• Project Management Professional (PMP)