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First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Multimedia: Algorithms, Architectures and Applications (BroadWIM)
co-located with BroadNets 2004 (http://www.broadnets.org) Friday, October 29, 2004 San Jose, California, USA http://www.broadwim.org
CALL FOR PAPERS
The emergence and adoption of broadband wireless access standards, such as 802.16, 802.16a and 802.11a, offers exciting new possibilities for delivering rich multimedia content over the "last mile". The workshop is intended to present and discuss new architectures for delivering such rich media over single-hop or mesh broadband wireless architectures. It also focuses on the algorithms and protocols needed to integrate the application layer requirements, such as QoS, security etc. with the base functionality offered by the standardized 802.16/11 and other WLAN and WWAN interfaces. Of particular interest are practical case studies, demonstrations or pilots of innovative techniques for delivering a variety of multimedia content over such broadband local or metropolitan wireless networks. Preliminary results on interesting ideas and techniques are more welcome than detailed analysis of existing schemes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* System Prototypes and Experiences with Broadband Multimedia Delivery * IP-based Multimedia Services over WLANs and WMANs * Signaling for Converged Multimedia Applications * QoS for Real-time Voice and Video in Broadband Wireless Networks * Encoding Alternatives for Multi-media Streams * Video/Audio Distribution Architectures in Broadband WLANs and WMANs * Multicasting and Broadcasting Problems and Solutions * Caching and Content Management in WLANs and WMANs * Algorithms for Controlling Delay and Jitter in Broadband Channels * Integration of Broadband Wireless and WPANs/WBANs * Wireless Broadband Multimedia over Sensor Networks * Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks * Multimedia services for Ambient Intelligent and Pervasive Environments
PAPERS SUBMISSION
Papers should be written in English and should not exceed approximately 5000 words, including figures and references. (Each figure counts as 250 words). For the initial submissions, the papers should be in double-spaced, single-column format with a separate abstract of at most 250 words. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the Colibri' system (http://cnd1.iit.cnr.it/broadwim04). All papers will be peer reviewed. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of a reputed journal.
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2004. Acceptance Notification: July 11, 2004 Final paper submission: August 10, 2004 Workshop date: October 29, 2004
WHORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Workshop Chairs: ---------------
Marco Conti Istituto Informatica e Telematica (IIT) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Italy
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Archan Misra IBM T.J. Watson Research USA
Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------
Arup Acharya, IBM Research, USA Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara , USA John Apostopolous, HP Labs, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Tech, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul Natl. Univ, Korea Jon Crowcroft, Univ. of Cambridge, UK Sujit Dey, UC San Diego, USA Magda El-Zarki, UC Irvine, USA Aura Ganz, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA Javier Gomez, Natl. Univ. of Mexico, Mexico Martin Mauve, Univ. of Düsseldorf, Germany Giacomo Morabito, Univ. of Catania, Italy Hiroyuki Morikawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Michael Paterakis, Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece Sanjoy Paul, Lucent Bell Labs, USA Keith Ross, Brooklyn Poly, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, Univ. of Athens, Greece Vijay Subramanian, Motorola Research, USA Fouad Tobagi, Stanford University, USA Ooi Wei Tsang, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Roger Zimmerman, Univ. of Southern California, USA