International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
(IJCNDS)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1228
Special Issue on:
"Mobile, Multimedia, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks"
Ad hoc and sensor networks have received considerable attention from
both the academic community and industry for many years, since these
networks are the key underlying infrastructure for realising next
generation networking and computing, e.g., ubiquitous computing, 4 G all
IP networks. Along with the rapid development of hardware and embedded
systems, ad hoc and sensor networks are being further developed towards
a large number of mobile and multimedia applications, e.g., video
surveillance, traffic enforcement and control systems, advanced
healthcare delivery, structural health monitoring, and industrial
process control.
To eventually realise these mobility and multimedia technologies
combined applications, significant efforts are still needed from both
the academic community and industrial fields, since the requirements for
supporting both mobility and multimedia streaming in wireless ad hoc and
sensor networks raise many challenging issues, e.g., mobile network
self-organisation, limited resource intelligent allocation, cross-layer
optimisation, and intelligent content-aware transmission.
In this special issue, we solicit research papers on all aspects of
mobile, multimedia, ad hoc and sensor networks. We are especially
interested in the research submissions focusing on the following four
key aspects:
* Congestion control problem: when multiple multimedia source nodes are
deployed in wireless multimedia sensor networks and they try to send out
the streaming data to a single base station at the same time, a well
designed congestion control scheme is essential
* Mobility support problem: when both multimedia source nodes and sink
nodes can be mobile, it is easy to see that there is an opportunity to
apply the game theory to further solve some of the more complicated
optimisation problems
* Duty-cycle support problem: when sensor nodes in the wireless
multimedia sensor networks are random duty-cycled based, the network
topology and connectivity of sensor networks can change from time to
time. It is important to further investigate a cross layer optimised
sensor node sleeping scheduling scheme to guarantee the network
connectivity for packet delivery
* Target tracking problem: when multiple video sensor nodes are deployed
to tracking a certain target in the sensor networks, it is important to
further explore the collaboration between multiple video sensor nodes
for facilitating the target tracking task.
The objective of special issue is to bring together state-of-the-art
research contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address
these key aspects of mobile, multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks.
Original papers describing completed and unpublished work not currently
under review are solicited.
Topics to be covered in this special issue include but are not limited
to:
* Scalable and flexible network architectures, deployments, and
heterogeneous applications
* New middleware, system, and underlying infrastructure
* Semantic annotation for multimedia streams processing and management
* Protocols for supporting real-time and reliable multimedia streaming
* Energy-efficient multimedia gathering, transmission, traffic
management, and sensor data management
* Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design, and
optimisation for effective communications
* Context/content aware approaches for facilitating multimedia
streaming
* Secure multimedia streaming and transmission, QoS and admission
control
* Cooperative transmission for multimedia delivery, and collaborative
in-network processing
* Experimental and test bed studies, simulation tools
* Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions
* Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding
* Capacity modeling, performance analysis, and theoretical analysis
* Topology control and synchronisation protocols
* Delay-tolerant networking and physical layer technologies
* Distributed source coding, and lightweight multimedia encoding
techniques
* Multimedia aggregation and fusion, and multimedia sensor coverage
* In-network and distributed storage techniques
* MIMO techniques for multimedia delivery
* Multimedia traffic on cognitive radio networks
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 1 March, 2010
First rejection/revision/acceptance notice: 1 June, 2010
Revision submission deadline: 1 August, 2010
Final acceptance/rejection notice: 1 October, 2010
Final manuscript due: 1 November, 2010
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B.
Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally
copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written). All papers are
refereed through a double-blind review process. A guide for authors,
sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are
available on the Author Guidelines page.
You may send one copy in the form of an PDF file attached to an e-mail
(details in Author Guidelines) to the following: Dr. Min Chen, E-mail:
minchen at ece.ubc.ca, and Dr. Lei Shu, E-mail: lei.shu at ieee.org.
If the file is larger than 1MB, the authors are encouraged to use
WINZIP. (please Cc the email to: Inderscience Editorial Office, E-mail:
editorial at inderscience.com). Please include in your submission the title
of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest
Editor
N.B. each author is required to help the review process of the special
issue.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Victor Leung
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of British Columbia,
2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4, Canada,
Tel: +1-604-822-6932; Fax: +1-604-822-5949,
E-mail: vleung at ece.ubc.ca
Dr. Min Chen
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of British Columbia,
2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4, Canada,
Tel: +1-778-878-1688; Fax: +1-604-822-5949
E-mail: minchen at ece.ubc.ca
Dr. Lei Shu
Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Tel: +353-91-494305; Fax: +353-91-495541
E-mail: lei.shu at ieee.org
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