[Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Special Issue on Improving Quality of Experience for Network Services

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IEEE Network Special Issue on

Improving Quality of Experience for Network Services

Call for Papers
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 July 2009

CFP in PDF: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/cfp/CFP_SI_v4.pdf

Guest Editors: Jahan A. Hassan, Sajal K. Das, Mahbub Hassan, Chatschik
Bisdikian, and David Soldani

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In pursuit of new revenue opportunities and to improve
competitiveness, network service providers are offering new value-
added network services, such as VoIP, video on demand, IPTV, and so
on. With the increased competition, improving the quality of the
offered services as perceived by the users, commonly referred to as
the quality of experience (QoE), becomes very important to providers
in order to reduce customer churn and maintain and increase their
competitive edge. There are many issues that may impact users
perception in many different ways. For example, government regulation
on viewing IPTV may impact QoE in a way that may be difficult to
measure with traditional tools and techniques. Similarly, the pricing
strategy selected will likely to impact the QoE irrespective of the
technical performance of the underlying network. Developing tools and
techniques for accurately measuring, monitoring, and improving QoE in
complex end-to-end networking infrastructure has become the focus of
many industry R&D initiatives. QoE standardization is actively pursued
by International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and industry
consortia. At the same time, despite the considerable foundational
progress already made, engineering QoE for existing and future network-
based services remains a challenging research topic, hence, attracting
significant interest from academia as well.

This timely special issue will bring together researchers from
industry, academia and standard bodies to present and analyze this
challenging and important area of improving QoE for existing and
future network services. We are soliciting original research and
survey articles written in a tutorial style comprehensible to all
readers of the magazine regardless of their speciality. Submissions
will go through an open call-for- papers and will undergo rigorous
peer review process. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• QoE measuring, monitoring and performance improvement strategies for
network services (e.g.,

IPTV, VoIP, VoD, Internet)

• Modeling of user satisfaction and tolerance to quality degradation

• Test-bed studies of QoE for networked applications

• Impact of user mobility on QoE

• Impact of radio and network resource utilization and management on QoE

• Impact of billing and pricing on QoE

• Impact of regulatory issues on QoE

• Measurement and optimization of end-to-end QoE

Manuscript Submission and Schedule:
Prospective authors must prepare their original submissions in
accordance with the IEEE Network guidelines to authors, see http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html
. Authors should submit their single column, double-spaced manuscript
electronically in PDF format by email to the corresponding guest
editor (with cc to all the other guest editors) according to the
following timetable (authors are encouraged to notify at least 15 days
before deadline, their intention to submit a paper indicating title,
authors and keywords):

• Paper Submission Deadline: 31 July 2009
• Acceptance notification to authors: 01 November 2009

• Final Manuscripts due: 01 January 2010

• Publication of Special Issue: First half of 2010

Guest Editors:

Dr. Jahan A. Hassan (Corresponding Editor)
School of Computer Science and Engineering

University of New South Wales

Kensington, Sydney 2052, Australia

E-mail: jahan@cse.unsw.edu.au

Prof. Sajal K. Das

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University Texas at Arlington

P.O. Box 19015

Arlington, TX 76019, USA

E-mail: das@cse.uta.edu

Prof. Mahbub Hassan

School of Computer Science and Engineering

University of New South Wales

Kensington, Sydney 2052, Australia

E-mail: mahbub@cse.unsw.edu.au

Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

19 Skyline Drive, M/S 3S-B34

Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA

E-mail: bisdik@us.ibm.com

Dr. David Soldani

Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.

Riesstr. 25, 80992

Munich, Germany

E-mail: david.soldani@huawei.com

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