<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div><br>(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.)<br><br><span> The 2011 International Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Networking (MultiCom 2011) is to be held in conjunction with IEEE ScalCom 2011 (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/SCALCOM2011/index.php">http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/SCALCOM2011/index.php</a>) between 31 August and 02 September 2011 in Pafos, Cyprus. </span><br><br>Scope <br><span>MultiCom 2011 (<a target="_blank" href="http://www-users.aston.ac.uk/%7Epengx1/MultiCom2011/">http://www-users.aston.ac.uk/~pengx1/MultiCom2011/</a>) is dedicated to address the challenges in the areas of delivering multimedia content using modern communication and networking techniques. The workshop looks for significant
contributions to multimedia content encoding, network transfer, and quality evaluation in theoretical and practical aspects. The multimedia & networking computing domain emerges from the integration of multimedia content such as audio and video with distribution technologies. This workshop aims to cover contributions in both the design and analysis in the context of multimedia, wired/wireless/heterogeneous networks, and quality evaluation. It also intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on advanced multimedia and networking performance analysis concepts and establish new collaborations in these areas. </span><br><br>Authors may contribute to the workshop by submitting articles about the research results, projects and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to: <br><br>• Mobile TV<br>• IPTV & Internet TV<br>• Video coding and
processing<br>• Multimedia quality: Objective evaluation techniques<br>• Peer-to-peer multimedia streaming<br>• Multimedia quality: Subjective evaluation techniques<br>• Content adaptation and scaling<br>• Error resilience and concealment<br>• Channel modelling and simulation<br>• Erasure coding, modulation, multiplexing<br>• Video transmission in wireless networks<br>• Congestion control and rate adaptation<br>• Multimedia Broadcasting<br>• Multimedia content caching and distribution<br>• Cross-layer optimization<br>• Traffic monitoring and control<br>• Client playout buffer management<br>• Network structure, routing and resource management<br><br><br>Paper submission <br><span>Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers must not exceed 6 pages with two columns, single-spaced and using 10 fonts. The
IEEE Computer Society Proceedings template can be found at: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting">http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</a> Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to EasyChair at: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=multicom2011">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=multicom2011</a></span><br> <br>All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. The accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society in the Proceedings of ScalCom 2011 (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register to attend the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. <br><br>Important dates <br>Submission deadline: Extended to April 22, 2011. <br>Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2011 <br>Camera-ready paper due: May 27, 2011
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