-------- Original Message -------- Subject: REMINDER: MTAP Special Issue - Advances in Consumer Communications and Networking (CFP) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:06:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Roccetti roccetti@cs.unibo.it To: multicomm@comsoc.org CC: Marco Roccetti roccetti@cs.unibo.it, heathery@research.panasonic.com, M.Merabti@livjm.ac.uk, stanm@research.telcordia.com, mehmet.ulema@manhattan.edu, gchan@cs.ust.hk

Dear Colleague,

Just an email to remind you that the submission deadline for the CfP below is coming up (November 1). Please, address your submissions directly to me.

All the best, ______________________________________________________________________ Prof. Marco Roccetti Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione - Universita' di Bologna Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7 Tel. +39 051 2094503 40127 Bologna ITALY Fax. +39 051 2094510 URL: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~roccetti e-mail: roccetti@cs.unibo.it

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Call For Papers

MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS (MTAP) An International Journal

Special Issue on Advances in Consumer Communications and Networking

The demand for networked consumer systems and devices is large and growing rapidly. At home, in a car or truck, at work or at play, Internet users want transparent internetworking of their systems and devices to provide them entertainment, information, and communications. This internetworking should be on-demand and should be set up with whomever or whatever users want, regardless of time or location. As a result, consumer networking is gaining increasing attention from industry, spawning a range of dramatically different solutions in different environments such as wireless, wireline, and power-line communications systems. These environments have their own strengths and challenges to overcome. The scope of consumer networking spans from the body area and personal area networks to home and wide area networks. In the not too distant future, we will see Ad hoc networks augmented with sensors sharing network information that enables devices and systems to seamlessly interact with Internet and wide area wireless systems such as WiFi, 3G and future 4G networks. This phenomenon, "Consumer Communications and Networking", has been attracting many researchers in diverse areas from networking to consumer electronics. The focus of this Special Issue is to present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of consumer and home networking. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks Body and Personal Area Networks Consumer Driven Applications and Systems for Networked Entertainment Consumer Network Architecture, Protocols, Management and Control Distributed Gaming Protocols and Systems Entertainment Networks Hybrid Network Architectures In-home and Inter-home Networking Integration and Interoperability Issues Last-Mile Network Technologies Multimedia Distribution Protocols Policy Support Programmable Networks and Mobile Code Platforms QoS Support and Performance for Consumer Networking Residential Gateways Security and Privacy for Consumer Networking Session, User and Device Mobility Thin Client Support Ultra Wideband (UWB) for Home Devices Vehicle Networks for Consumer Communications Wireless mesh and Wi-Fi for Home Networking Integration of wireless technologies for Consumer Electronics

Only original and unpublished research papers will be considered. Authors should follow the MTAP manuscript style described in the Information for Authors chapter of http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1380-7501. Prospective authors should submit a pdf version of their complete manuscript (which should be compressed if the file size exceeds 1 Mbyte) according to the following timetable, directly to the e-mail address of prof. Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy: roccetti@cs.unibo.it.

Manuscript Submission: November 1, 2004 Acceptance Notification: February 1, 2005 Final Manuscript Due: May 1, 2005 Publication Date: 4th Quarter 2005

Guest editors:

Prof. Gary Chan, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong

Prof. Madjid Merabti, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

Dr. Stan Moyer, Telcordia, USA

Prof. Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy

Prof. Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA

Dr. Heather Yu, Panasonic Technologies, USA