IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: Special Issue on Smart, social and converged TV

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IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Special Issue on Smart, social and converged TV

*Important Dates*:

- Submission deadline: 25-Sep-2011

- First notification: 30-Jan-2012

- Revised manuscript (for 2nd review) due: 15-Mar-2012

- Notification of acceptance: 05-May-2012

- Final manuscript due: 31-May-2012

- Tentative publication date: Last quarter of 2012 (TBD)

*URL: http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/uploads/special_issues_deadlines/converged_tv.pdf

*Summary*

The move to web-based television has challenged the traditional

television value chain by allowing any IP-based network,  wired and

wireless, to deliver high quality television content. In this new

paradigm for content consumption, TV-related services are expected to

play a decisive role for fixed, nomadic and mobile devices over

heterogeneous networks.  Consequently, the rapid adoption of web-based

TV applications is fueled by user demands for social and

user-generated multimedia content, in addition to the traditional

linear and on-demand offerings. As well, the new television is social,

allowing exchange of ratings and comments between viewers; connected,

with content available on many devices and via many networks; and

smart, thanks to application stores and personalized offerings. As a

result, TV convergence, as a significant problem for next generation

networks and devices, is becoming a popular topic for network, device,

content and user experience research. Significant challenges need to

be addressed from heterogeneous bandwidth management, content

protection and distribution architectures to visual perception and

quality of experience.

*Scope:*

This special issue is focused on recent disruptions in IP-based and

Web-based TV. According to this framework, it wants to provide avenues

for future research in the emerging areas of social, connected and

smart TV. The targeted audience combines researchers in the many

aspects of the end to end delivery of converged TV services but also

practitioners and strategic business managers who need to know “what

is next” in terms of video and television services, applications and

the overall value chain.

The editors of this special issue solicit original and innovative

technical papers that include (but are not limited to) the following

topics:

- Next generation converged TV architecture and performance -

especially those combining heterogeneous networks and platforms

- Quality of experience in social TV systems and applications over

mobile and converged networks

- Performance of novel approaches to TV network design including

wireless Internet TV

- Analysis and simulation of TV services over heterogeneous networks

- Analysis and simulation of content distribution and transmission technologies

- Performance of novel content protection especially for Peer-to-Peer

and community TV viewing

- End-to-End TV quality of experience including monitoring, measuring

and user behavior

- Content modeling and metadata for next generation converged TV

*Submission Procedure:*

Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts

that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other

journals. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the

online IEEE manuscript submission system at

(http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). All papers will be reviewed

by at least three independent reviewers. Papers should be formatted

according to the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia guidelines for

authors (please visit:

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/tmm/author_info.html

*Organization:*

All papers will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers.

Invited papers will be solicited first through white papers to ensure

the quality and relevance to the special issue. The accepted invited

papers will be reviewed by the guest editors and expect to account for

about one fourth of the papers in the special issue.

*Guest Editors:*

- Oscar M Bonastre, PhD.  Operations Research Centre, Miguel Hernandez

University, Spain (Lead Guest Editor)

Email: ombonastre@ieee.org

- Marie-Jose Montpetit, PhD. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT), USA Email: mariejo@mit.edu

- Pablo Cesar, PhD. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, (CWI), Netherlands

Email: P.S.Cesar@cwi.nl

- Zhu Liu, PhD. AT&T Labs – Research, USA

Email: zliu@research.att.com

- Jon Crowcroft, PhD. Cambridge University, UK

Email: jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk

- Maja Matijašević, PhD. University of Zagreb, Croatia

Email: maja.matijasevic@fer.hr

Please address all correspondences regarding this special issue to the

Guest Editors