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MOBIMEDIA 2006 Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (formerly MSAN)

September 18-20, 2006 -- Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.mobimedia.org

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------

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 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 Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of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

The technical program features a key-note speech 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. 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

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

A student prize of 1000 Euros 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.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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

Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 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