Call for Papers
Journal of Communications (JCM)
Special Issue on Multimedia Communications, Networking and Applications
URL: http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/si/jcmsi_mcna.html

With the advancement of multimedia signal processing/compression technology and wide deployment of wired/wireless networks, there is an increasing demand of multimedia communication services.  Advanced multimedia processing often aims at optimizing the satisfaction of human perceptual system and introduces higher dependency among its processed data, which exhibit different requirement from traditional data communication. Besides, modern communication networks explore multi-dimensional diversity, such as user, frequency, and location; and utilize finer granularity of resources, such as power and spectrum.  When transmitting multimedia over communication networks, there are many issues needed to be investigated to improve the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) requirement. For example, how to deploy the cross-layer design methodology to explore the characteristics in the multimedia signal processing unit and communication networks; and optimize the QoS subject to available resources.  When multiple nodes and multimedia sources are involved in the networks, one potential issue is how to allocate resources to each node and source to enhance the end-to-end QoS requirement.

== Topics ==
The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the various aspects of multimedia communications, networking, and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Cross-layer architecture design for multimedia transmission
* Content/Network-aware cross-layer design and optimization
* QoS-driven resource management, scheduling, and admission control
* Performance evaluation of cross-layer multimedia transmission design
* Joint source and network coding
* Cross-layer design for P2P streaming
* Ad hoc and infrastructure-based overlay network communication
* Cross-layer design for multimedia sensor networks
* Distributed wireless video communications
* Multimedia delivery over wireless mesh network
* Noncollaborative/collaborative resource management for multi-stream transmission
* Cooperative multimedia communications in multihop wireless networks
* Error resilience and error concealment techniques for multimedia communications

== Important Dates ==
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2009
Acceptance Notification: May 31, 2009
Final Manuscript Due: June 30, 2009
Publication Date: September 2009

== Submission ==
Submissions should follow the guidelines of Journal of Communications. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals.  Further information on Journal of Communications can be found at: http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/.

== Guest Editors ==
Dr. Guan-Ming Su,        
Marvell Semiconductor, USA

Prof.  Ivan V. Bajiæ,       
 School of Engineering Science
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Prof. Homer H. Chen,
 Department of Electrical Engineering
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Dr. Huifang Sun,        
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA