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IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Technologies and Applications

12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia

http://www.icumt.org/w-41.html

Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT 2009)

Technically sponsored by IEEE

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The rapid expansion of wireless services from voice communication to high performance multimedia communication in recent years is an indication that significant value is placed on portable multimedia applications as key innovations for both academia and industry. This workshop is intended to provide a forum for presenting, exchanging and discussing the most recent advances in different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and applications. In particular, this workshop will bring together leading researchers, industry professionals, and research students to study the special problems and challenges of multimedia mobile and wireless environments. Original papers/posters are now invited for submission to WMTA’09.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Deployment of wireless multimedia applications and services • Deployment of wireless multimedia networks, architectures, and protocols • Wireless multimedia multicasting technologies • Multimedia support over multi-hop wireless networks (mesh, ad-hoc, sensor networks) • Traffic control and characterisation in wireless multimedia networks • QoS and admission control in wireless multimedia networks • Real-time streaming wireless multimedia communications and technologies • Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval technologies • Management of wireless multimedia networks • Security in wireless multimedia networks • Performance comparison of wireless multimedia networks • Performance analyses of wireless multimedia networks • Analytical modelling of wireless multimedia networks • Design, implementation and testbed/experimental results of wireless multimedia systems • Coding and compression for wireless multimedia networks • Handoff in wireless multimedia communications • Integration of wireless multimedia networks with broadband networks • Distributed wireless multimedia technologies

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Important dates:

Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2009 Camera ready version: August 15, 2009

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Submission Guidelines:

Authors please prepare your PDF files in single-spaced, double-column pages by using the IEEE LaTex or Microsoft Word templates. Please find the templates at www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html Please note that the paper length should not exceed 6 pages, including text, figures, tables, references, and appendices. The front page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author’s e-mail and postal address. All papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS (http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7857&track=7531).

Submitted papers must present original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference/workshop or journal. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Explorer. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

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Contact Person:

If you have any question about WMTA 2009, please contact Dr. Wanqing Tu. E-mail: w.tu@glyndwr.ac.uk; Telephone: +44 01978293542.

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