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IEEE Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications -QoEMC2012

(in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2012)

Anaheim, California, Friday December 7, 2012

Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications of the IEEE 

Communications Society

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It is now widely acknowledged that the adoption of new multi-modal media necessitatesmechanisms in order to assess and evaluate perceived multimedia quality. The problem of understanding and enhancing Quality of Experience (QoE) in complex, distributed and diverse environments has been and is continuing to be the subject of intense research investigation. Considerable efforts have been devoted to assessing QoE via objective or subjective means for new and emerging multimedia services over modern fixed/mobile devices (e.g. IPTV/HDTV/3DTV, Tablet video call, 3D smartphone). As of today though we do not know how tomanage and control QoE in a diverse heterogeneous environment. The variables that affect QoE are just too many and span several disciplinary areas, including multiple technologies, but also psychology and sociology factors.Despite the efforts devoted to QoE studies, managing and controlling user QoE is still an open issue.

Topics of interest

The SecondAnnual Workshop of IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) focusing onQuality of Experience for Multimedia Communications Workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry, to identify and discuss technical challenges, exchange novel ideas, explore enabling technologies, and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

* QoE relation and mapping to QoS

* KPI and KQI for the QoE definition

* QoE models, their applications and use cases

* QoE inference from user behavior

* QoE evaluation methodologies and metrics (subjective, objective, online versus offline)

* QoE for new wireless multimedia applications

* QoE-based routing and resource management

* QoE-aware cross-layer design

* QoE-based optimization in heterogeneous environments

* QoE Metrics for various media applications

* QoE Control, Monitoring and Management strategies

* Standardization activities for QoE

Submission Procedure

Submitted papers must represent original material which is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previouslypublished. Paper length should not exceed five-pages standard IEEE conference two-column format (including all text, figures, and references). Please refer to the workshop web pages for submission instructions: http://qoe.diee.unica.it

All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Extended versions ofselected best papers will be recommended for publication in Special Issues of prestigious International Journals.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece

Tasos Dagiuklas, TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece

Chang Wen Chen, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA

Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy

Important Dates

Manuscript submission: June 1, 2012

Acceptance Notification: July 10, 2012

Camera-ready: August 1, 2012