Dear all,
thanks for the many answers regarding attendance of the Coimbra TC6 meeting.
Replies are still missing from:
Theorode Apostolopoulos, Janez Bester, Ilyoung Chong, Javier Diaz,
Sarolta Dibuz, Hong Doan, Villy Baek Iversen, Koos Koen, Elie Najm,
Miquel Nicolau i Vila, Ignas Niemegeers, Guy Omidyar, Louis Pouzin,
Imad Sabouni, Samir Tohmé, Vilas Wuwongse.
With 22 participants the meeting will be quite well attended
and we might expect a few more positive answers.
I will soon send out the agenda of the meeting. If you have some
particular topics then please send me a corresponding email.
Best regards
Otto
Due to a large and strong demand, paper submission deadline for the Autonomic-Networking conference is now extended:
Papers due May. 21, 2006
Notification of acceptance June 15, 2006
Camera-ready papers due June 30, 2006
Autonomic-Networking conference will take place in Paris, September 25-29, 2006
All information is on the web site: www.Autonomic-Net.org
You can submit to one of the four conferences, through EDAS and Autonomic-Networking conference:
SMARTNET (Tools for the Autonomic Networking)
INTELLCOMM (Autonomic Management and Services)
IWAN (International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks)
WAC (International Workshop on Autonomic Communication)
Please accept our apologies for the multiple copies of this CFP.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGNAL PROCESSING: IMAGE COMMUNICATION JOURNAL (ELSEVIER)
Special Issue on MOBILE VIDEO
http://www.MobiMedia.org/MobileVideo
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Video communication over wireless networks is destined to become
pervasive in daily life and a pillar for key emerging
telecommunication services. The success of advanced services in
mobile environments requires integrative approaches embracing
video signal processing and networking technology. The interlinking
of these research fields is fostering the development of underlying
technology and workflows for mobile video. These technologies,
generally hidden to the user, will be pre-requisite to allow for
efficient multimedia support of digital communication and leisure
time over wireless channels.
This special issue will report the results of latest research
efforts on video communication in mobile environments. The main
goal of this special issue is to collate and disseminate the most
relevant achievements of researchers working on video signal
processing and communication for mobile applications. High quality
contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects
are solicited.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Low-bit rate video coding
* Scalable video coding for wireless communication channels
* Error control resilience and concealment
* Multiple video descriptions for wireless communications
* Video transcoding for heterogeneous wireless channels
interoperability
* Video streaming over wireless channels
* Video communication in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
* Mobile video multicast
* Quality measurement for mobile video
* Mobile video testbeds and applications
Submission Procedure
--------------------
Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers according to
the instructions in the ''Information for Authors'' on the back
cover of a recent issue of the Signal Processing: Image
Communication Journal. Authors should submit their manuscripts in
PDF format through the COCUS Conference Management System. If you
are not a COCUS user yet, you need to register at first. Then,
select SPIC-MobileVideo from the ''Events' list'' page and follow
the instructions to submit your manuscript. Selected papers on
mobile video submitted to MobiMedia 2006 (www.MobiMedia.org) will
also be considered for publication in this special issue.
Important Dates
---------------
Deadline for Manuscript Submission: May 12, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2006
Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 15, 2006
Publication Date: January 2007
Guest Editors
-------------
Luigi Atzori (l.atzori(a)diee.unica.it)
DIEE,
University of Cagliari,
Cagliari, Italy
Ebroul Izquierdo (ebroul.izquierdo(a)elec.qmul.ac.uk)
Multimedia and Vision Lab,
Queen Mary, University of London
London, UK
Pascal Frossard (pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch)
EPFL,
Signal Processing Institute
Lausanne, Switzerland
Ozgur B. Akan (akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr)
Dept. of Electrical Eng.
Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
--
Dr. Ozgur B. Akan
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey 06531
Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261
E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr
http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan
[ We apologize in advance for the multiple copies of this CFP. ]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
MOBIMEDIA 2006
Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
(formerly MSAN)
September 18-20, 2006 -- Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
http://www.mobimedia.org
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2006
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SCOPE
The successful development of multimedia services and applications
in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary
approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed
jointly. Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards
functionalities, as well as network protocols performance and
channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be
carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the
applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards for
mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video
streaming, audio conferencing, interactive gaming, conversational
navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and
immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these
novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11
(infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB,
DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants.
Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique
international forum for researchers working in multimedia and
mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions,
and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited
that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated
design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of
advanced mobile multimedia applications.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS
The technical program features a key-note speech from Roberto
Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG
Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST
vision. The conference will also include invited panels, to
facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific
sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions
of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics
are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs
and Workshop Chairs.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not
more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will
be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference
web site. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and
will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). Extended
versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed
and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image
Communications Journal.
STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS
A student prize of 1000 Euros will be awarded to the best paper
authored by a full time student as first author. Travel grants will
be provided to students attending the conference. Additional
information can be found at the conference website.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs:
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA
Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK
Steering Committee Chair:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI
Publications Chair:
Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
Workshops Chair:
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA
Panels Chair:
Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA
Local Chair:
Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA
Conference Management:
Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University
Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA
John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA
Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA
Gary Chan, HK University
Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN
Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA
Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR
Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA
U.B Desai, IIT Bombay
Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN
Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA
Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER
Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED
Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA
Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA
Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA
A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR
Fernando Pereira, IST, POR
Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA
Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA
Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA
Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA
Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER
Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER
M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR
Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR
Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA
Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA
Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA
Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA
Qian Zhang, HK University, HK
--
Dr. Ozgur B. Akan
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey 06531
Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261
E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr
http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan
Dear all,
here comes the first and very preliminary attendance list for
meeting 2006/01 in Coibra, Portugal (May 19+20, 2006).
You will see that many delegates did not yet respond.
Please check the list and communicate your presence or absence (the
latter hopefully not!) to Augusto Casaca and to me.
Best regards
Otto
Dear all,
please find enclosed a new paper on IFIP's strategy: "The new IFIP".
If you want to comment then please do it to me and/or to
Basie von Solms <basie(a)rau.ac.za>.
Deadline: End of April.
Best regards
Otto
---------------- Anfang Weiterleitung ----------------
Betreff: [Ifip_tcchairs] IFIP Strategy
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 12:43 Uhr
Von: Sebastiaan von Solms <basie(a)rau.ac.za>
An: Ifip_tcchairs(a)ifip.org
Dear TC Chairs
As you remember, you were asked to complete some questionnaire about a
future IFIP Strategy, sent to you by Leon and myself. Furthermore we had
extensive discussions about this aspect during the TC dinner and during
Council. There was a general feeling that the document produced by the
Strategy meeting in London in Dec 2005, was not comprehensive (and
novel) enough. TA therefore decided that TA will create a further
document, based on the results of the questionnaire, and the
discussions, which will then be submitted to the June 2006 meeting of
the Strategy committee.
Leon and myself undertook to do this. Leon was however snowed under by
WCC 2006, WITFOR and other IFIP activities, so I carried on with the
process.
I used the inputs from the questionnaire and discussions to draft the
attached document. Leon has provided some comments which helped. Again,
if you do not like the content, blame me, and not Leon, because he went
with the attached version, but does stil have some reservations.
Nevertheless the 2 of us agreed to circulate this version.
Please study the document, and provide comments - it may seem a little
'blue sky' for some, but I have no doubt that IFIP must change
dramatically - this document is an effort to move in that direction.
On Leon's advice, I will draft a second document, covering all the
tactical/operational aspects mentioned in your replies. That will be a
second document submitted to the Strategy meeting in June, because we
did not want these operational and tactical aspects to 'contaminate'
the more strategic direction of the attached document. This second
document will be circulated later.
The attached one is however the most important, and I hope we can use it
as a basis to move to a new strategy agreed on by all TC Chairs which we
can submit in June.
Can I please have your comments/inputs/reservations/critisism/whatever
by 24 April. I will then consolidate, and resend. I want to submit our
final version by middle May.
Regards
Basie
_______________________________________________
Ifip_tcchairs mailing list
Ifip_tcchairs(a)ifip.org
http://www.ifip.org/mailman/listinfo/ifip_tcchairs
----------------- Ende Weiterleitung -----------------
Dear colleagues,
The first meeting of TC6 in 2006 will take place in Coimbra, Portugal on May
19th and 20th. You are kindly invited to attend this meeting.
The meeting follows the Networking Conference, which takes also place in
Coimbra starting on May 15th. I have already agreed with Otto Spaniol that
the TC6 meeting will start on Friday (May 19th) in the morning and will end
on Saturday (May 20th) by lunch time. Therefore, all the planning is done
assuming this time allocation. On Friday evening there will be the TC6
dinner in a place still to be defined and on Saturday afternoon you are
invited for a small excursion in Coimbra and its surroundings.
In attach you can find a document containing information about Coimbra, the
two available hotels and the excursion. It is urgent that you choose the
hotel and book it following the indications given in the document. We advise
you to do it until April 8th as the block booking is only accepted until
that date. You do not need to worry with transportation to the meeting place
in the University, as the local organization will provide it. Concerning the
two hotels, I can inform that Hotel Astoria is near the old part of town but
has only three stars although it is a renovated hotel. Hotel Melia is a more
modern hotel with four stars but is not in the old town.
Later on we will provide more information about the meeting and the meeting
agenda will be directly sent by Otto.
Looking forward to seeing all of you in Portugal
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
Call for Participation
First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems
(INFOSCALE)
30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/
The final program can be found from:
http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/techprog.html
Two workshops in conjunction with INFOSCALE 2006:
1. International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management
(P2PIM06): http://p2p-im.org/
2. Infoscale Work in Progress Workshop (I-WIPW):
http://www.i-wipw.org/
For the main conference, there will be 14 sessions spanning 2.5 days
(May 30 - June 1) and featuring 45 presentations.
In the afternoon of June 1, participants are invited to join a guided
local tour of the city free of charge.
===============
INFOSCALE 2006
First International Conference
on Scalable Information Systems
30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong
http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/
As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information
dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods
and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed
and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed
information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be
merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this
key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this
diversifying world of information.
Conference Scope
===============
* Parallel Information Retrieval
* Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval
* Scalable Grid Information Systems
* P2P Systems
* Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems
* Index Compression Methods
* Architectures for Scalability
* Networking for Scalable Information Systems
* Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology,
military, etc.)
* Evaluation Metrics for Scalability
* VLDB
* Data Mining
* Information Security
Publications
Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for
presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The
proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and available online through
IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be published in The International
Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications
(http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/).
General Chair
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong
(jia(a)cs.cityu.edu.hk)
PC Chairs
Abdur Chowdhury, AOL (cabdur(a)aol.com)
Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong (fcmlau(a)cs.hku.hk)
Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance
Computing Facilities (f.wang(a)cranfield.ac.uk)
Steering Committee Chairs
Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair
Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair
Publicity Chair
Jinli Cao, La Trobe University
Publications Chair
Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong
Workshops Chair
Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair
Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair
Hao Zhu, Vice Chair
Local Arrangement Chair
Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong
******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 ****************
Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
(formerly MSAN)
September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
http://www.mobimedia.org
-------------------------------------------------
******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************
-------------------------------------------------
Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006
******** IMPORTANT NEWS **************************
--------------------------------------------------
keynote speeches:
- Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society,
EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision
- Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia
Publication of accepted papers:
- Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending)
- Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and
considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
Workshops/symposiums/special sessions:
- International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006)
- European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006)
- Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
SCOPE
--------------------------------------
The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires
adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly.
Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols
performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when
proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards
for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing,
interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and
immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and
technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB,
DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants.
Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers
working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards.
Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the
integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS
--------------------------------------
The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and
Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia.
The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific
sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on
emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
--------------------------------------
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures
and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site.
Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending).
Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special
issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS
--------------------------------------
A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author.
Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at
the conference website.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
General Co-Chairs:
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA
Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK
Steering Committee Chair:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI
Publications Chair:
Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
Workshops Chair:
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA
Panels Chair:
Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA
Local Chair:
Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA
Web masters:
Maria Teresa Carta, University of Cagliari, ITA
Tatiana Onali, University of Cagliari, ITA
Conference Management:
Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University
Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA
John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA
Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA
Gary Chan, HK University
Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN
Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA
Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR
Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA
U.B Desai, IIT Bombay
Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN
Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA
Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER
Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED
Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA
Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA
Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA
A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR
Fernando Pereira, IST, POR
Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA
Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA
Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA
Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA
Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER
Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER
M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR
Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR
Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA
Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA
Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA
Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA
Qian Zhang, HK University, HK
******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 ****************
Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
(formerly MSAN)
September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
http://www.mobimedia.org
-------------------------------------------------
******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************
-------------------------------------------------
Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006
******** IMPORTANT NEWS **************************
--------------------------------------------------
keynote speeches:
- Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society,
EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision
- Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia
Publication of accepted papers:
- Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending)
- Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and
considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
Workshops/symposiums/special sessions:
- International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006)
- European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006)
- Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
SCOPE
--------------------------------------
The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires
adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly.
Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols
performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when
proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards
for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing,
interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and
immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and
technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB,
DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants.
Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers
working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards.
Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the
integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS
--------------------------------------
The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and
Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo
Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia.
The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific
sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on
emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
--------------------------------------
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures
and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site.
Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending).
Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special
issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal.
STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS
--------------------------------------
A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author.
Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at
the conference website.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
General Co-Chairs:
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA
Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK
Steering Committee Chair:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI
Publications Chair:
Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
Workshops Chair:
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA
Panels Chair:
Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA
Local Chair:
Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR
Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA
Web masters:
Maria Teresa Carta, University of Cagliari, ITA
Tatiana Onali, University of Cagliari, ITA
Conference Management:
Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------------
Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University
Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA
John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA
Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA
Gary Chan, HK University
Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN
Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA
Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR
Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA
U.B Desai, IIT Bombay
Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN
Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA
Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER
Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED
Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA
Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA
Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA
A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR
Fernando Pereira, IST, POR
Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA
Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA
Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA
Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA
Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER
Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER
M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR
Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR
Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA
Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA
Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA
Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA
Qian Zhang, HK University, HK