2008-03-26

[Mycolleagues] CFP -- ICCCN'8 Workshop: First IEEE Workshop on IP Multimedia Communications (IPMC)

(Please accept our apology if you receive multiple copies of this CFP)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The First IEEE International Workshop on IP Multimedia Communications (IPMC)

In conjunction with IEEE ICCCN 2008

August 4 - 7, 2008

St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands

 

******* Paper submissions due on March 31, 2008 !!! **********

 

URL for the complete Call for Paper:

http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~fzhai/IPMC_cfp.html

 

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together industry and academic researchers to provide an up-to-date picture of the state-of-the-art research in the field of IP multimedia communications focusing on P2P multimedia streaming and networks, IPTV, and wireless IP-based multimedia applications. It is also intended to provide a forum to exchange varying beliefs and understandings in terms of how multimedia, especially video, should be delivered to end-users over IP networks.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

*           Multimedia transmission networks, systems, and applications

*           QoS management

*           Content-aware multimedia distribution

*           P2P multimedia networks

*           Video coding for P2P systems

*           Joint source-channel video coding

*           Distributed video coding

*           Multiple description video coding

*           Video transcoding

*           IPTV standards

*           Network security for P2P and IPTV services

*           Internet traffic classification and management algorithm and architecture for IPTV

*           P2P mobile video and mobile IPTV services

*           Video over 802.11 WLAN/802.11n and 3G/4G cellular networks

*           Error control and concealment

*           Video quality assessment

 

 PLENARY TALK:

 

"Video Quality and Video Databases"

Prof. Al Bovik, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

 

SPECIAL SESSIONS:

 

*           IPTV architectures and standards

*           P2P video streaming

*           Video coding and quality assessment

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

 

Paper submission due: March 31, 2008

Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2008

Camera-ready paper due: May 22, 2008

 

Co-Chairs:

 

Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Fan Zhai, Texas Instruments, USA

Steven Wright, AT&T, USA

 

Technical Program Committee (List incomplete):

 

Minghua Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland

Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm, USA

Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA

Lisimachos Kondi, University of Ioannina, Greece

Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China

Marco Mellia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Truong Nguyen, University of California, San Diego, USA

Luca Salgarelli, University di Brescia, Italy

Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Bergen, Germany

Wai-tian Tan, HP Labs, USA

Jo-Yew Tham, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Ye-Kui Wang, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri, USA

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