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------------------------------------------------<BR> Call for Papers<BR>Intl. Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS)<BR> SPECIAL ISSUE ON <BR> Advances in Multimedia Communications<BR>------------------------------------------------<BR>
Paper Submission Deadline: May. 1, 2010<BR>
<BR>Overview<BR>
Recent advances in communications technologies have witnessed a growing and evolving multimedia <BR>content delivery market based on information gathering, manipulation, and dissemination. It is <BR>a fact that personal communications, computing, broadcasting, entertainment, etc. have turned <BR>into streams of multimedia content, and the various communication and network technologies have <BR>become the means to carry that content to a wide variety of terminals. Unlike traditional <BR>communication systems, a fundamental challenge for present and future communication systems is <BR>the ability to transport multimedia content over a variety of networks energy-efficiently at <BR>different channel conditions and bandwidth capacities with various requirements of <BR>quality-of-service. There are many issues need to be addressed such as signal processing, <BR>collaborations, power management, flexible delivery, specialization of new content, dynamic <BR>access, telecommunications, networking, etc., due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the <BR>applications in advanced multimedia communications.<BR>The goal of this issue is to bring together the state of the art research contribution that <BR>describes original and unpublished work addressing the new emerging techniques on multimedia <BR>communications. Especially, we solicit research papers on addressing challenging issues existing <BR>for enabling mobile multimedia communications over heterogeneous infrastructure for realizing <BR>next generation networking and computing, e.g., 4 G all IP networks, ad hoc networks, wireless <BR>sensor networks, ubiquitous computing environments, cognitive radio networks, etc. For example, <BR>ubiquitous multimedia is a requirement in next generation networks, such as multimedia adaption <BR>in wireless network; multimedia services in ubiquitous circumstance; improving distributed <BR>multimedia communication through location awareness, action awareness, user awareness, etc. <BR>On the other hand, due to the limited computational power, memory and battery energy in wireless <BR>and portable terminals, power efficient design also plays important role in next generation <BR>mobile multimedia applications.<BR>
<BR>Topics<BR>
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope:<BR>*New emerging multimedia applications and architectures<BR>- Enabling multimedia capability in E-healthcare, Smart house etc.;<BR>- Wireless sensor system for video surveillance<BR>- Mobile and multimedia communications in sensor networks<BR>- Ubiquitous and ‘green’ multimedia design next generation networks<BR>
*Video communication over next generation networks<BR>- Energy efficient and scalable control in next generation wireless video terminals<BR>- Cost effective and low power video coding design in wireless networks<BR>- Frontiers in game theory and multimedia systems<BR>- Distributed video coding and dissemination in wireless networks<BR>
*Emerging technologies for multimedia communications<BR>- Multimedia communications in new emerging systems <BR>- Resource allocation in energy-constrained wireless multimedia networks<BR>- Collaborative in-network processing;<BR>- Cross-layer design for multimedia communications;<BR>- Distributed coding and joint source-channel coding;<BR>- Error resilience and concealment;<BR>- Resource allocation and system scheduling;<BR>- Multimedia security.<BR>
<BR>Important Dates <BR>
Paper Submission Deadline: May. 1, 2010<BR>1st Notification of acceptance: Aug. 1, 2010<BR>Submission due date of revised paper: Sep. 1, 2010<BR>2nd Notification of acceptance: Oct. 15, 2010<BR>Submission of final revised paper: Nov. 15, 2010<BR>Publication date: Mar., 2011 (Tentative)<BR>
<BR>Submission<BR>
Papers are solicited for the special issue, guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts, <BR>are provided at the International Journal of Communication Systems website, <BR><A href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946196/grouphome/ForAuthors.html">http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946196/grouphome/ForAuthors.html</A>. <BR>The authors need to submit their papers online while sending a cover letter to all of the <BR>guest editors. The cover letter must include paper title, abstract, the corresponding <BR>author's name and affiliation. The "Subject field" of the email must contain <BR>"IJCS Multimedia Paper - ". All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on the quality: <BR>originality, high scientific quality, organization and clarity of writing, and support <BR>provided for assertions and conclusion. <BR>
<BR>Guest Editors<BR>
Prof. Victor C. M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada, <A href="mailto:vleung@ece.ubc.ca">vleung@ece.ubc.ca</A>) <BR>Prof. Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, USA, <A href="mailto:yangxiao@cs.ua.edu">yangxiao@cs.ua.edu</A> ) <BR>Prof. Min Chen (Seoul National University, Korea, <A href="mailto:minchen@ieee.org">minchen@ieee.org</A>)<BR>Prof. Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan, <A href="mailto:hara@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp">hara@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp</A>)<BR>Dr. Liang Zhou (ENSTA-ParisTech, France, <A href="mailto:liang.zhou@ieee.org">liang.zhou@ieee.org</A>)<BR>
Contact <BR>For more information, please contact the corresponding guest editor <BR>Prof. Min Chen (<A href="mailto:minchen@ieee.org">minchen@ieee.org</A>).<BR>
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