-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for proposals: Special session "Adaptive Video Streaming" at ICIP05 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:29:38 +0100 From: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) markus.kampmann@ericsson.com To: 'special-session-icip05-recipients@ericsson.com'

Dear colleagues,

I am currently planning for a special session about "adaptive video streaming" at the next IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP'05, Genova, Italy, 11-14 September 2005 (see http://www.icip05.org/call.htm).

While video streaming is likely to become one of the most important services for mobile terminals in the near future, obtaining satisfactory quality from an end user perspective is still a challenge because of the varying conditions typical for wireless links and the limited capabilities of the mobile terminal. In order to avoid quality degradations caused by varying link rates, delay variations or cell updates, a streaming solution requires capabilities commonly referred to as > "> Adaptive Streaming> "> . Adaptive Streaming means that during the streaming session the transmission link characteristic is monitored and the streaming server changes its behavior if needed. Reaction to changed link conditions can include a multitude of different techniques, e.g. adjusting the rate at which the server transmits packets (transmission rate control), deciding which packets of the pre-encoded content to send or drop (packet scheduling) or switching to a stream with a content bit rate better suited to the current available bandwidth of the wireless link (stream switching). Recently, adaptive streaming features are included into Release 6 of the 3GPP streaming standard PPS. However, concrete reactions of the streaming server to changed link conditions are out of the scope of PSS.

The special session about "adaptive video streaming" should describe the current status of research within this area. Therefore, I would appreciate it very much if you could contribute to this special session with a proposal for a paper. Your paper proposal should include the author names, paper title and a short abstract of around 100 words. Please send it to me until November 25th. I will forward it to the ICIP program committee for approval. Please note that a special session at ICIP contains a maximum of eight papers.

Best regards,

Markus Kampmann

Dr.-Ing. Markus Kampmann Ericsson Research, Corporate Unit EDD/XR/N Mobile Multimedia Networks Ericsson GmbH, Ericsson Allee 1, 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany Phone: +49 2407 575-7830 Fax: +49 2407 575-400 Markus.Kampmann@ericsson.com