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Call for Papers

ACM Multimedia Systems Journal

Special Issue on Multimedia Distribution

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/laurent/cfp_MM_distribution.html

Recent advances in core network and access network technologies, along with the continuous growth of user population in the Internet, are setting ideal conditions for high quality multimedia distribution (audio, video, interactive TV, etc) to the masses in the Internet. This is stimulating a wealth of research on the development and the deployment of large-scale multimedia distribution technologies, both as networking and as server-side solutions. Furthermore, new multimedia application services are being proposed that let the users customize their multimedia experience (e.g. interactive TV), but that also impose new requirements on the underlying distribution infrastructure.

This special issue of the ACM Multimedia Systems journal will collect and archive the state of the art in the provision and support of multimedia distribution for existing and future network technologies. Papers are solicited in all aspects of multimedia distribution. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- streaming technologies - multimedia content distribution architectures - scalability issues in multimedia distribution - deployment and management issues for multimedia distribution - Quality of Service and performance issues in multimedia distribution - novel multimedia distribution applications and services - large-scale multimedia servers - multimedia caching technologies

Authors are invited to submit, by email, full original papers in electronic format (PDF or PostScript) to laurent@comp.lancs.ac.uk. Authors should follow the ACM Multimedia Systems manuscript format, (see http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/00530/index.htm) (approximately 25-page long, double space, single column, 11 or 12 pt.)

Important dates ===============

Submission deadline: March 15, 2002 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2002 Provisional Publication: fall/winter 2002

Guest Editors:

David Hutchison dh@comp.lancs.ac.uk

Laurent Mathy (corresponding editor) laurent@comp.lancs.ac.uk

Lawrence A. Rowe Rowe@CS.Berkeley.EDU

Giorgio Ventre giorgio.ventre@unina.it