Notification of acceptance:             June 15, 2006

 

Submission of camera-ready papers:      July 10, 2006

 

 

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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
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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Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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