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* DEADLINE APPROACHING: FEBRUARY, 19 *
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International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications
(in conjunction with ConTEL 2009 and technically cosponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Croatia Section, and IEEE Region 8)
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Best papers (extended version) will be published in a special issue of the Springer's Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications.
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(http://www.contel.hr/2009/workshops)
The ConTEL 2009 Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2009) is a one-day event to be held in conjunction with the main conference.
The tentative day of the workshop is June 8, 2009.
The workshop seeks innovative technical papers on all aspects of IPTV in multimedia broadcasting, including architectural standardization, content protection, quality of service and quality of experience, middleware, etc.
Topics include but are not limited to:
* Architectures for IPTV systems
* IPTV Service deployments, interactivity, datacasting
* IPTV QoS/QoE issues
* Video Content Distribution Networks for distributed IPTV systems
* IPTV system integration issues
* Mobile IPTV
* IPTV test beds and field trials for multimedia broadcasting apps
* IPTV home networks, set-top-box and home networking
* Architectures for P2P-based IPTV Service delivery
* Mathematical and analytical models for IPTV networks
* IPTV content consumption measurement, congestion and rate control
* IPTV processing, video coding and processing
* IPTV content protection and watermarking.
Additionally, the workshop organizers plan to bring an invited speaker to talk on "IPTV in Industry", i.e., to discuss original contributions from various industry IPTV domains (e.g. consumer electronics, broadcasters, producers, broadband companies, software and hardware developers, telecom operators). The objective will be discussing evidences of issues regarding IPTV technologies' dealing with industry cases in the above areas of interest.
Deadlines are the same as for the main conference.
February 19, 2009: Full Papers, Due [---Extended deadline!---]
March 27, 2009: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
April 24, 2009: Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due
Paper submissions for the workshop should follow the submission guidelines for regular ConTEL papers, and be submitted electronically before submission deadline, via EDAS under the "IPTV Workshop" track.
Instructions and guidelines are available on ConTEL Web site (http://www.contel.hr/).
Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process and accepted papers will be published in the special section of the ConTEL 2009 conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Best papers (extended version) will be published in a special issue of the Springer's Multimedia Tools and Applications journal. For more details on the journal, see http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042
Technical Program Committee
Oscar Martinez Bonastre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Operations Research Center, Spain, Chair
Sachin Agarwal, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - Research, Germany
Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS' Media Interoperability Lab, Germany
Alen Bazant, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Albert Canigueral, Advanced Digital Broadcast, Switzerland
Pablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherland
Meeyoung Cha, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel, Network Strategy Group, Belgium
Mohamed Essaaidi, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco
Ulf Essler, Centre for Information and Communications Research, Sweden
Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy
Olivier Fourmaux, Pierre et Marie Curie University, LIP6, France
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Jivesh Govil, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Xiaojun Hei, Huazhong Univ. Science & Tech., P.R. China
Jinsul Kim, ETRI, Korea Byung Sun Lee, ETRI, Korea
Jian Liang, eBay Inc., USA Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Marie-José Montpetit, Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab, USA
Hasna Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France
Maurizio Murroni, University of Cagliari, Italy
Carlos Palau Salvador, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA
James She, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dalibor Turina, Ericsson, Sweden
Manfred Weihs, Institute of Computer Technology, Austria
For all questions about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Chair, Dr. Oscar Martinez Bonastre (E-mail: ombonastre@ieee.org).
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