[Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC SI -- Trading Rate for Delay at the Transport and Application Layers

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Trading Rate for Delay at the Transport and Application Layers
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Remote control, media streaming, and interactive multimedia
applications are becoming increasingly prevalent uses of the Internet
and cellular networks. Because these applications require high rate
and low latency, they are not well matched to best effort
statistically multiplexed network architectures. In order to
efficiently and reliably deliver such low latency high rate services,
it is necessary to understand the fundamental and practical tradeoffs
between rate and delay for network communication.

This special issue solicits original research utilizing a broad
spectrum of technical approaches to manage rate and delay at the
application and transport layers, including i) information theoretic
limits, ii) the design of source and network coding schemes, iii)
queueing theoretic models and network control, and iv) protocol
design, implementation, and performance evaluation. Information
theoretic approaches may involve error exponent and/or unequal
erasure protection schemes as well as new theoretical analyses of
multi-resolution and multiple description source coding. Coding
approaches to the problem include the use of fountain codes,
practical multiple description source code design, delay aware
network coding, and hybrid network coding ARQ schemes. Network
control approaches may incorporate the queueing theoretic and/or
network utility maximization paradigms. Solutions that focus on
architectural (e.g., DiffServ and IntServ) and protocol (e.g., RTMP)
design as well as practical deployment issues are also encouraged.

Approaches which focus on the relationship between rate and delay
over a single link are explicitly excluded from the scope, as the
issue will focus on end to end multi-link and overlay approaches.

Relevant tools and techniques include:
- Network coding
- Overlay networks
- Queueing based performance analysis
- Controlled queues
- Fountain codes
- Multi-resolution and multiple description source codes
- Error exponents
- Network utility maximization
- Multiclass architectures (e.g., DiffServ, IntServ)
- Multimedia protocol solutions (e.g., RTMP)
- Streaming and live streaming multimedia/data
- Multicast
- P2P streaming and live streaming
- TCP-friendly approaches

All submissions should be prepared in a manner consistent with the
JSAC guidelines available at www.jsac.ucsd.edu/guidelines/info.html,
and should be submitted via email to rdTradeSpecIss@gmail.com.

Timeline:
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Submission deadline: July 1, 2010
Acceptance notification: November 1, 2010
Final manuscript due to COMSOC: January 1, 2011
Publication: 2nd quarter 2011

Guest Editors:
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Atilla Eryilmaz, Ohio State University
Lizhong Zheng, MIT
Muriel Medard, MIT
John MacLaren Walsh, Drexel University
Jaudelice de Oliveira, Drexel University
Steven Weber, Drexel University

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