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1st ACM Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP '05)

Thursday, October 13th, 2005 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

http://www2.dcc.ufmg.br/%7Eloureiro/wmunep05.html ===========================================================================

To be held in conjunction with ACM MSWiM'05 http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2005/

Best papers will be selected for the Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications.

Sponsored by: ACM In cooperation with: IEEE Computer Society Supported by: UFMG, Brazil

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Submision deadline: July 20th, 2005

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The demand for wireless multimedia communications thrives in today's consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve multimedia applications and services, and their associated protocols for emerging networks is at a critical point given the proliferation and integration of wireless systems to intelligent and broadband networks, mobility of people, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in mobile devices.

This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, WWANs, MANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and wireless streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, synchronization, analysis and performance modeling. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Wireless multimedia network management * Wireless multimedia traffic modeling * Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia * Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution * Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks and systems * Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services * Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and networks * Protocols for wireless multimedia networks * QoS in wireless multimedia networks * Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks * End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications * Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks * Distributed wireless multimedia services * Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools * Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications and applications * Security in wireless multimedia networks * Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking * Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks * E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia networks * Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks * Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks * Analytical modeling of wireless multimedia networks * Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks * Performance comparison of wireless multimedia networks * Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: July 20th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: August 20th, 2005 Camera ready papers: September 30th, 2005

Paper Submission Instructions:

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs.

Paper length should be no more than 20 pages, single column, double spaced, including tables and figures, and no less than 11pt fonts single or double side. No paper templates are provided in this phase. All paper submissions should be sent one of the Program Co-Chairs (loureiro AT dcc.ufmg.br, wzhuang AT bbcr.uwaterloo.ca). Authors should prepare a PostScript or Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper.

Accepted papers will be published by ACM Press, as proceedings of the WMuNeP. At least one listed author on the final paper must register for and attend the workshop to present his/her paper.

Venue:

The 2005 ACM Workhop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP '05) will take place in Montreal, October 13, 2005, co-located with ACM MSWiM '05 http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2005/.

For more information see for instance http://www.montreal.com/tourism/general.html

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Email: loureiro AT dcc.ufmg.br

Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada wzhuang AT bbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Program Committee:

* Rossana Andrade, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil * Regina Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil * Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France * Raffaele Bruno, CNR, Italy * Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan * Zihua Guo, Lenovo Corporate R&D, China * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada * Hai Jiang, University of Waterloo, Canada * Tho Le-Ngoc, McGill University, Canada * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Wei Li, University of Toledo, USA * Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada * Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France * Brian Mark, George Mason University, USA * Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada * Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil * Linnyer Ruiz, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil * Jianping Pan, NTT MCL, USA * Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan * Murat Uysal, University of Waterloo, Canada * Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA * Yang Yang, University College London, UK * Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University, USA

Further Information:

For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

Antonio A.F. Loureiro Department of Computer Science Federal University of Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil E-mail: loureiro AT dcc.ufmg.br Tel: +55-31-3499-5860 Fax: +55-31-3499-5858