-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers: Distributed Multimedia Streaming at CCNC 2006 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:53:22 +0200 From: Pascal Frossard pascal.frossard@epfl.ch To: multicomm@comsoc.org

Please ignore if you already received this message ===================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2006) January 7-10, 2006 - Las Vegas, USA Special Session on Distributed Multimedia Streaming

Multimedia streaming is one of the most popular services on the current Internet. Its already-high demand is even on the rise as the Internet users have started to be familiar with peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies which enable them to share contents between one another directly. Streaming in the P2P manner, in contrast to the traditional client/server approach, takes advantage of existing end-system computational and networking resources, thus allowing economical clients to leverage their collective power to benefit the entire service community. However, multimedia content is resource demanding while user computing devices are not as powerful as are content servers. Consequently, designing a good decentralized streaming scheme in a large-scale peer-to-peer environment is challenging. The problem becomes more of a challenge due to the ad hoc behavior of peers; they can leave and join the system freely at any time.

As people tend to work beyond their office desk, it is also expected that the next generation of communication networks includes rapid deployments of independent mobile users. With the emergence of wireless technologies such as IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, mobile users are enabled to connect to each other directly without any networking infrastructure such as the Internet and infrastructure-based wireless LANs. In other words, the users form a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). As multimedia streaming becomes an integrated part of an increasing number of applications and wireless networks are emerging to dominate the communication environment of the future, it is interesting and worthwhile to investigate multimedia streaming solutions for MANETs. There are many open issues regarding this investigation due to the deviation between the resource, energy, and bandwidth availability of ad hoc networks and the quality of service desired by multimedia streaming users.

This special session seeks original contributions of high-quality papers that address novel systems challenges towards the success of multimedia streaming deployment in peer-to-peer, content distribution, and wireless ad hoc networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Signal processing/compression/information theories to support ad hoc multimedia streaming * Modeling, measurement, and performance study on ad hoc multimedia streaming * Internet P2P multimedia streaming * P2P multimedia content distribution networks * Ad hoc overlay solutions for multimedia streaming * Live streaming, video on demand, and video conferencing in wireless ad hoc networks * Network and transport protocols for streaming in wireless ad hoc networks * Management, QoS, and security aspects in streaming over wireless ad hoc networks * Streaming applications in sensor networks * Implementations of multimedia streaming in ad hoc networks

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: September 5th, 2005 --- EXTENDED Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2005 Camera-ready version due: October 14, 2005

Special Session Co-Chairs

Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University (thinhq@eecs.orst.edu) Duc A. Tran, University of Dayton (duc.tran@notes.udayton.edu) Pascal Frossard, EPFL (pascal.frossard@epfl.ch)

Information for Authors

Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers preferably through EDAS (http://edas.info/), or by email to one of the co-chairs. Submitted papers must be original, unpublished work, and not currently under review for any other conference or journal. The first page of the paper should include the authors' names, affiliations, fax/telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. The first page should also include a less-than-200-word abstract. The camera-ready version for an accepted paper will be no more than 6 pages in IEEE double-column standard format.

Contributions will be reviewed by at least three referees from both the program committee and external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance, and technical contents on basis of papers.