C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= 3rd International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (M O B I M E D I A 2 0 0 7)
Supported by ACM, EURASIP, ICST, Create-Net Nafpaktos, Greece, August 27 - 29, 2007 http://www.mobimedia.org
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 semantic characteristics, Human Interpretation of audiovisual information, extraction and usage of semantic information, coding standards and its interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research issues that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that will be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as triple services for mobile networks, digital television, video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services, context aware services, and immersive communications in virtual environments. The efficient delivery of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The research effort for the 3G/4G vision of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which delivery of such services can be accomplished. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding, 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 Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of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.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments * Multimedia QoS in wireless networks * Extraction and usage of semantic information * Performance evaluation of multimedia services * Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments * Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in emerging wireless networks * Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and mobile networks * Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless networks * Joint source-channel coding * Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless multimedia * P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks * Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging wireless networks * Mobile Content Delivery Networks
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS: Proposals for half-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to Markus Kampmann (markus.kampmann@ericsson.com).
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Workshop proposals: February 10, 2007 - Special session proposals: March 15, 2007 - Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2007 - Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2007 - Submission of camera-ready papers: July 2, 2007
Students award and grants:
Five student prizes will be awarded to the best papers authored by full time students as first author.
General Co-Chairs Tasos Dagiuklas Dept. of Telecommunication Syst. & Networks TEI of Mesolonghi, Nafpaktos, Greece Email: ntan@teimes.gr
Nicolas Sklavos Dept. of Telecommunication Syst. & Networks TEI of Mesolonghi, Nafpaktos, Greece Email: NSklavos@ieee.org
Technical Co-Chairs Magda El-Zarki Dept. of Information and Computer Science University of California at Davis Irvine, CA, USA Email: elzarki@uci.edu
Rahim Tafazolli Center for Communication System Research University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, UK Email: R.Tafazolli@surrey.ac.uk
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA * John Apostolopoulos, HP, USA * Pedro A. Amado Assuncao, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal * Luigi Atzori, University Of Cagliari, Italy * Pietro Camarda, Politecnico di Bari, Italy * Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Trista Chen, Intel Corporation, USA * Reha Civanlar, Koc University, Turkey * Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland * Magda El-Zarki, University of California, USA * Sergio Faria, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal * Frank Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark * Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland * Mohammad Ghanbari, University of Essex, UK * Christine Guillemot, IRISA, France * Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Ebroul Izquoerdo, Queens Mary College, UK * Wolfgang Klas, University of Wien, Austria * Odysseas Koufopavlou, University of Patras, Greece * Stavros Kotsopoulos, University of Patras, Greece * Inald L. Lagendjik, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Maja Matijasevic, FER, Croatia * James Modestino, University of Miami, USA * Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland * Thrasos Pappas, Northwestern University, USA * Francisco Pereira, IST, Portugal * Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway * Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland * Wan-Chi Siu, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong * Thanos Skodras, Hellenic Open University, Greece * Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany * Rahim Tafazolli, CCSR, UK * Murat Telkap, Koc University, Turkey * Micaela van der Schaar, UCLA, USA * Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA * Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia
Paper submission and publication:
Mobimedia 2007 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 7 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered for oral presentations. Short papers should report on work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through COCUS system: http://cocus.create-net.it. All papers should be electronically submitted in Adobe PDF format.
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