[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Multimedia Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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CALL FOR PAPERS
AD HOC NETWORKS (ELSEVIER) JOURNAL

Special Issue on
MULTIMEDIA AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS
http://www.elsevierscitech.com/pdfs/cfp_adhoc0709.pdf
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Multimedia applications enabled by quality-aware wireless multi-hop networks
include online gaming, video conferencing, video streaming, mobile TV, and
peer-to-peer streaming. In addition, they include monitoring applications
such as video surveillance, traffic enforcement and control systems,
advanced health care delivery, structural health monitoring, and industrial
process control. In spite of the increasing demand for multimedia wireless
networking, we are still lacking a clear understanding of analytical and
computational techniques, as well as best practices, to design resource
allocation schemes, communication protocols, and self-organization
algorithms for wireless multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks that will
deliver, in a predictable and quantifiable fashion, the quality of service
and experience required by the end user.
In addition, while significant advances in physical layer techniques offer
new opportunities for cross-layer optimizations designed to satisfy
application needs, efforts to leverage these techniques from a networking
perspective to support the needs of multimedia traffic demands in multi-hop
wireless networks are still at initial stages. In particular, dynamic
spectrum access and cognitive radios, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
techniques, ultra-wide-band and cooperative communications, among other
techniques, will have a profound impact on our ability to flexibly and
predictably deliver multimedia content over wireless networks. Finally, with
a few exceptions, processing of multimedia content has mostly been
approached as a problem isolated from the network-design problem. However,
in-network processing and delivery of multimedia content are not independent
and their interaction has a major impact on the levels of quality of service
(QoS) that can be delivered. Hence, it is necessary to develop flexible and
self-organizing architectures and algorithms to flexibly perform in-network
processing of multimedia contents.

This special issue solicits papers on all aspects of multimedia ad hoc and
sensor networks, with a primary focus on three key aspects. First,
content-aware cross-layer design and resource allocation techniques, as well
as new networking protocols based on metrics associated with quality of
service/video/experience are of particular interest. Second, original papers
examining networking aspects that leverage advances in physical and multiple
access techniques to support multimedia traffic are particularly welcome.
Third, papers investigating the interdependencies between multimedia
in-network processing and networking aspects are sought, e.g., architectures
and techniques to store, process in real-time, correlate and fuse multimedia
data originating from heterogeneous sources.
The objective of this special issue is to bring together state-of-the-art
research contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these
key aspects of multimedia content delivery over ad hoc and sensor networks.
Original papers describing completed and unpublished work not
currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference are
solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Architectures and applications for multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks
- Protocols for real-time, reliable multimedia streaming
- Distortion and quality/experience-aware cross-layer design
- Optimization techniques for multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks
- Capacity modeling
- Quality-aware medium access control, scheduling, routing, and transport
- Quality-aware resource management and admission control
- Cross-layer design for P2P streaming
- Experimental and testbed-based studies
- Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design
- Standardization issues related to quality-aware cross-layer design
- Multimedia traffic on cognitive radio networks
- Cooperative communication techniques for real-time video streaming
- MIMO techniques for multimedia delivery
- Physical layer technologies for efficient delivery of multimedia content
- Secure multimedia communications
- Joint multimedia processing and communication
- Compressed sensing for multimedia sensor networks
- Distributed source/video coding and multimedia processing

Submission Instructions:

Prospective Authors: Please follow the Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal
manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc and
submit your papers to the online submission and reviewing system at
http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/. Please select Article Type: ³SI: Multimedia
Ad Hoc And Sensor Networks². Papers must be in single-column format,
double-spaced, and use at least 11 pt fonts, and should not exceed 25 pages
including references.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: December 15th, 2009
First round notification date: March 15th, 2010
First round revision date: April 15th, 2010
Second round notification date: May 15th, 2010
Camera-ready due: June 15th, 2010

Guest Editors:

Prof. Tommaso Melodia
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA
E-mail: tmelodia@eng.buffalo.edu
http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~tmelodia/

Prof. Martin Reisslein
Arizona State University, USA
E-mail: reisslein@asu.edu
http://www.eas.asu.edu/~mre/

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Tommaso Melodia
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo
Office: 215G Bonner Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
Tel: (716) 645-1027
Email: tmelodia@eng.buffalo.edu
Web: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~tmelodia/
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