-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for papers: European Symposium on MobileMediaDelivery (EuMob) 2006 Datum: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:00:39 +0200 Von: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) markus.kampmann@ericsson.com An: multicomm@comsoc.org

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European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery

September 20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy

_http://www.eumob.org_

part of MobiMedia 2006 (see _http://www.mobimedia.org_) -------------------------------------------------

Organized by the European FP6 research projects "Ambient Networks" and "M-Pipe".

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Paper submission: May 15, 2006

Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006

Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006

SCOPE -------------------------------------- Mobile multimedia services is a hotter topic than ever before. Network operators offer multimedia services over mobile networks but it is still limited to particular devices on specific networks. The delivery of multimedia content to every mobile handset on every mobile network, anytime and anywhere is still a major challenge. Mobile media can be delivered via a multitude of different networks with very different characteristics like cellular networks (WCDMA, HSDPA, 3G MBMS), broadcast networks (DVB-H, DMB) or other networks standards like WLAN or Wimax. Mobile terminals like mobile phones, mobile TVs or handheld computers have different capabilities and characteristics. Consequently, seamless interworking between these terminals and networks is becoming more important in order to make uniform media delivery possible. New mobile multimedia services for large user groups like MobileTV, interactive TV, video on demand, TV chatting and multimedia telephony are arising. Each service has its own characteristics and demands for mobile media delivery. As always for mobile services spectrum efficiency is a pre-requisite for large scale deployment.

Several European research projects from the FP6 program are addressing the challenges of mobile media delivery. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of mobile media delivery, projects from the mobile and wireless area like Ambient Networks, PHOENIX and DAIDALOS, from the networked audiovisual systems area like DANAE, ENTHRONE and Visnet as well as from the content technologies area like M-Pipe are dealing with mobile media delivery. Besides these projects a lot other research work about mobile media delivery is carried at academia, research institutes and industrial companies.

EuMob 2006 will give researchers the opportunity to highlight their latest results on this topic. Researchers active in FP6 research projects as well as other leading international researchers will participate and share their latest findings. Original unpublished contributions are solicited dealing with topics of mobile media delivery like:

o Architectures for mobile media delivery o Next generation mobile media delivery frameworks o Overlay networks for mobile media delivery o Peer-2-Peer networks for mobile media delivery o Multimedia service composition for mobile media o Solutions for optimized media delivery and transport over heterogeneous networks o QoS problems and solutions o Network convergence for media delivery o Media adaptation to networks and devices o Network-based mobile media adaptation and pro-active caching o Cross-layer communication for mobile media delivery o (Scalable) source coding for mobile media o Source/channel coding, joint optimizations o Efficient usage of radio and spectrum resources o Mobile media delivery for multi-user services o Interactive mobile broadcast and Mobile TV o Security and protection for mobile media delivery o Context-aware mobile media delivery

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit articles of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through COCUS system at _http://cocus.create-net.it/_.

Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -----------------------------------------

Conference Co-Chairs: Stefan Håkansson, Ericsson, Sweden Markus Kampmann, Ericsson, Germany

Publications Chair: B. Mathieu, France Telecom, France

Publicity Chair: James le Blanc, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden

Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe

PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- M. T. Andrade, INESC, Portugal J. le Blanc, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden A. Cotarmanac'h, France Telecom, France C. Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway I. Fijalkow, ENSEA, France R. Glitho, Concordia University, Canada F. Hartung, Ericsson, Germany C. Henghan, UCD, Ireland W. Henkel, International University of Bremen, Germany L. Hiebinger, Siemens, Germany F. Kalleitner, Siemens, Austria D. Marpe, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany B. Mathieu, France Telecom, France T. Petersen, TNO Information- & Communication Technology, Netherlands F. Reichert, Adger University, Norway A. Sadka, University of Surrey, UK S. Schmid, NEC, Germany E. Steinbach, Technical University of Munich, Germany D. Taniar, Monash University, Australia S. Wenger, Nokia, Finland M. Wien, Aachen University of Technology, Germany L. Wolf, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany