CFP: 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.

WHORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Chairs:
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Marco Conti
Istituto Informatica e Telematica (IIT)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Italy

and

Archan Misra
IBM T.J. Watson Research
USA

Technical Program Committee
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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