[Tccc] IJCS Special Issue on Advances in Multimedia Communications

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Call for Papers
Intl. Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS)
SPECIAL ISSUE ON
Advances in Multimedia Communications
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Paper Submission Deadline: May. 21, 2010
Overview
Recent advances in communications technologies have witnessed a growing and
evolving multimedia
content delivery market based on information gathering, manipulation, and
dissemination. It is
a fact that personal communications, computing, broadcasting, entertainment,
etc. have turned
into streams of multimedia content, and the various communication and
network technologies have
become the means to carry that content to a wide variety of terminals.
Unlike traditional
communication systems, a fundamental challenge for present and future
communication systems is
the ability to transport multimedia content over a variety of networks
energy-efficiently at
different channel conditions and bandwidth capacities with various
requirements of
quality-of-service. There are many issues need to be addressed such as
signal processing,
collaborations, power management, flexible delivery, specialization of new
content, dynamic
access, telecommunications, networking, etc., due to the multi-disciplinary
nature of the
applications in advanced multimedia communications.
The goal of this issue is to bring together the state of the art research
contribution that
describes original and unpublished work addressing the new emerging
techniques on multimedia
communications. Especially, we solicit research papers on addressing
challenging issues existing
for enabling mobile multimedia communications over heterogeneous
infrastructure for realizing
next generation networking and computing, e.g., 4 G all IP networks, ad hoc
networks, wireless
sensor networks, ubiquitous computing environments, cognitive radio
networks, etc. For example,
ubiquitous multimedia is a requirement in next generation networks, such as
multimedia adaption
in wireless network; multimedia services in ubiquitous circumstance;
improving distributed
multimedia communication through location awareness, action awareness, user
awareness, etc.
On the other hand, due to the limited computational power, memory and
battery energy in wireless
and portable terminals, power efficient design also plays important role in
next generation
mobile multimedia applications.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope:
*New emerging multimedia applications and architectures
- Enabling multimedia capability in E-healthcare, Smart house etc.;
- Wireless sensor system for video surveillance
- Mobile and multimedia communications in sensor networks
- Ubiquitous and 'green' multimedia design next generation networks
*Video communication over next generation networks
- Energy efficient and scalable control in next generation wireless video
terminals
- Cost effective and low power video coding design in wireless networks
- Frontiers in game theory and multimedia systems
- Distributed video coding and dissemination in wireless networks
*Emerging technologies for multimedia communications
- Multimedia communications in new emerging systems
- Resource allocation in energy-constrained wireless multimedia networks
- Collaborative in-network processing;
- Cross-layer design for multimedia communications;
- Distributed coding and joint source-channel coding;
- Error resilience and concealment;
- Resource allocation and system scheduling;
- Multimedia security.

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: May. 21, 2010
1st Notification of acceptance: Aug. 1, 2010
Submission due date of revised paper: Sep. 1, 2010
2nd Notification of acceptance: Oct. 15, 2010
Submission of final revised paper: Nov. 15, 2010
Publication date: Mar., 2011 (Tentative)
Submission
Papers are solicited for the special issue, guidelines for preparation of
the manuscripts,
are provided at the International Journal of Communication Systems website,
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946196/grouphome/ForAuthors.html
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The authors need to submit their papers online while sending a cover letter
to all of the
guest editors. The cover letter must include paper title, abstract, the
corresponding
author's name and affiliation. The "Subject field" of the email must contain
"IJCS Multimedia Paper - ". All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on
the quality:
originality, high scientific quality, organization and clarity of writing,
and support
provided for assertions and conclusion.
Guest Editors
Prof. Victor C. M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada,
vleung@ece.ubc.ca)
Prof. Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, USA, yangxiao@cs.ua.edu )
Prof. Min Chen (Seoul National University, Korea, minchen@ieee.org)
Prof. Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan, hara@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp)
Dr. Liang Zhou (ENSTA-ParisTech, France, liang.zhou@ieee.org)
Contact
For more information, please contact the corresponding guest editor
Prof. Min Chen (minchen@ieee.org).
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