3rd European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EUMOB) 2009

in conjunction with MobiMedia 2009
7-9 September, 2009, Kingston University, UK

http://www.mobimedia.org/eumob2009.shtml

The delivery of multimedia content to every mobile handset on every mobile network, anytime and anywhere is still a major challenge. Several European research projects from the FP6 and the FP7 programme are addressing the challenges of mobile media delivery. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of mobile media delivery, projects from the mobile and wireless area, from the networked media area as well as from the content technologies area, not neglecting security and experimental facilities, are dealing with mobile media delivery.

One of the goals of the symposium is to allow exchange of ideas and interaction among the different European Projects on the topic in question, with a special focus on recently started FP7 projects. European technology platforms are also invited to present their views in the area.

Besides these projects, other research work about mobile media delivery is carried out in academia, research institutes and industrial companies. EUMOB 2009 will give researchers the opportunity to present their latest results on this topic. Researchers active in FP6 and FP7 research projects as well as other leading international researchers are invited to participate and share their latest findings.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished contributions dealing with topics on mobile media delivery, including, but not limited to:

• Architectures for mobile media delivery
• Mobile media delivery over next generation systems
• Peer-to-peer networks for mobile media delivery
• Solutions for optimized media delivery and transport over heterogeneous networks
• Quality of Service/Experience issues and solutions, including video quality assessment methods
• Network convergence for media delivery
• Media adaptation to networks and devices
• Cross-layer communication for mobile media delivery
• (Scalable) source coding for mobile media
• Source/channel coding and joint optimizations
• Efficient usage of radio and spectrum resources
• Mobile media delivery to multiple users
• Interactive mobile broadcast and Mobile TV
• Security and protection for mobile media delivery
• Content-aware and context-aware mobile media delivery
• Standards for mobile media delivery
• Health, transport and environment applications

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: May 31, 2009
• Review Results: June 26, 2009
• Submission of Camera-ready Papers: July 23, 2009

Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 5 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to ACM publication template. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the ASSYST system and the instructions can be found at http://www.mobimedia.org/eumob2009.shtml. Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNICST (Lecture Notes of ICST) and will be made available in ACM Digital Library.

Chairs
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Jyrki Huusko, VTT, Finland

Program Committee (tentative)
Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, Austria
Susanne Boll, OFFIS e.V., Germany
Giovanni Cordara, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Alan Hanjalic, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Harilaos Koumaras, Demokritos, Greece
Keith Mitchell, University of Lancaster, UK
Daniel Négru, University of Bordeaux I, France
Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fernando Pereira, IST Lisbon, Portugal
Thomas Sikora, TU Berlin, Germany
Martin Stiemerling, NEC, Germany
Mathias Wien, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University / IBBT, Belgium

ISMW 2009 Deadline Extension until January 20

We've extended the deadline for ISMW 2009 to be aligned with the mother conference, i.e, Int'l Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2009).

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008January 20, 2009

Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009

Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 15, 2009

Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009

Please register and upload your paper via EDAS.

International Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless: Deadline Extended

Co-located with the Int'l Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2009)
June 21-24, 2009 in Leipzig, Germany

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008January 15, 2009

Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009

Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 15, 2009

Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009

Submission

Please register and upload your paper via EDAS.

All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double-column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC2009, which will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Wiley Journal of "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)," and "International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)". There will also be best paper and best symposium awards.

Outline and Topics

One of the key elements in the convergence of future networks and services to IP technology is the efficient support of rich multimedia applications and services over wireless networks including sensor and mesh networks. The delivery and transport of multimedia in such wireless environments, to heterogeneous mobiles and users, is very challenging. The multimedia services should face many shortcomings caused mainly by the wireless channel unreliability and its sharing among many users, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, etc. Future multimedia services require innovation and advances in better MAC and routing protocols, session establishment and signaling architectures, cross-layer interaction and optimization, QoS provisioning and continuity, adaptive transmission techniques, and scalability support, among others.

The purpose of this symposium is to solicit high-quality theoretical and practical research on the landscape of recent advances on multimedia over wireless.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Architectures for wireless multimedia communications
• Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks
• Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks/relay, WLAN, WMAN, multi-hop wireless, and hybrid networks)
• Wireless video sensor networks
• Multimedia over wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network
• Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks
• QoS support for wireless multimedia networks
• Multimedia delivery over wireless embedded devices
• Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless
• Multimodal multimedia services
• Error resilience and concealment
• Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery
• Cross-layer optimizations and interactions
• Interaction among (MAC), radio link control (RLC), IP and application layers
• Wireless multimedia terminal and devices
• Wireless multimedia traffic modeling
• Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices
• Multimedia over wireless testbeds and related research infrastructures and demo
• QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia
• Applications, best practices, and standard's support

Technical Program Committee

• Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France
• Eugen Borcoci, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
• Cyril Concolato, TELECOM ParisTech France
• Annie Gravey, INSTITUT TELECOM - TELECOM Bretagne, France
• Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
• Zhihai He University, of Missouri-Columbia, USA
• Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• ChingYao Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Andreas Hutter, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
• Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
• Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
• Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA
• Francine Krief, University of Bordeaux I, France
• Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
• Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France
• Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK
• Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• George Pavlou, University College London, UK
• Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
• Fabrizio Rovati, STMicroelectronics, Italy
• Zafer Sahinoglu, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
• Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Further information at http://ismw2009.itec.uni-klu.ac.at/.

International Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless - ISMW 2009

Co-located with the Int'l Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2009)
June 21-24, 2009 in Leipzig, Germany

http://ismw2009.itec.uni-klu.ac.at/

One of the key elements in the convergence of future networks and services to IP technology is the efficient support of rich multimedia applications and services over wireless networks including sensor and mesh networks. The delivery and transport of multimedia in such wireless environments, to heterogeneous mobiles and users, is very challenging. The multimedia services should face many shortcomings caused mainly by the wireless channel unreliability and its sharing among many users, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, etc. Future multimedia services require innovation and advances in better MAC and routing protocols, session establishment and signaling architectures, cross-layer interaction and optimization, QoS provisioning and continuity, adaptive transmission techniques, and scalability support, among others.

The purpose of this symposium is to solicit high-quality theoretical and practical research on the landscape of recent advances on multimedia over wireless.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Architectures for wireless multimedia communications
• Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks
• Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks/relay, WLAN, WMAN, multi-hop wireless, and hybrid networks)
• Wireless video sensor networks
• Multimedia over wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network
• Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks
• QoS support for wireless multimedia networks
• Multimedia delivery over wireless embedded devices
• Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless
• Multimodal multimedia services
• Error resilience and concealment
• Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery
• Cross-layer optimizations and interactions
• Interaction among (MAC), radio link control (RLC), IP and application layers
• Wireless multimedia terminal and devices
• Wireless multimedia traffic modeling
• Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices
• Multimedia over wireless testbeds and related research infrastructures and demo
• QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia
• Applications, best practices, and standard's support

Chairs

Toufik Ahmed
University of Bordeaux I, France

Christian Timmerer
Klagenfurt University, Austria

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008
• Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009
• Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 15, 2009
• Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009

Submission

Please register and upload your paper via EDAS. All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double-column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC2009, which will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Wiley Journal of "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)," and "International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)". There will also be best paper and best symposium awards.

Contact

For further details please contact the chairs via chairs-ismw2009(at)itec(dot)uni-klu(dot)ac(dot)at.

Note: Replace (at) by @ and (dot) by . in the above email.

Technical Program Committee

• Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France
• Eugen Borcoci, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
• Cyril Concolato, TELECOM ParisTech France
• Annie Gravey, INSTITUT TELECOM - TELECOM Bretagne, France
• Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
• Zhihai He University, of Missouri-Columbia, USA
• Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• ChingYao Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Andreas Hutter, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
• Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
• Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
• Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA
• Francine Krief, University of Bordeaux I, France
• Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
• Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France
• Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK
• Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• George Pavlou, University College London, UK
• Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
• Fabrizio Rovati, STMicroelectronics, Italy
• Zafer Sahinoglu, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
• Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria