-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Network Special Issue on "Video over Mobile Networks" Datum: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:40:02 +0200 Von: Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano cjbc@it.uc3m.es Antwort an: cjbc@it.uc3m.es Organisation: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid An: Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

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IEEE Network Special Issue on "Video over Mobile Networks"

Background Video is a major challenge for the future mobile Internet as it is foreseen to account for close to 64% of consumer mobile traffic by 2013. Already today, mobile network operators are suffering from the exploding number of subscribers accessing high-volume mobile data services, and this trend is expected to intensify even further in the near future. The enormous proliferation of multimedia-capable portable devices -- such as smart phones, tablets and laptops equipped with 3G and WLAN interfaces -- has increased the volume and variety of multimedia digital content and related services.

A large portion of portable devices benefit today from cellular flat rates, offered by mobile operators as a response to the increasing users’ demand for ubiquitous and seamless access to content. This demand is mainly caused by the exponential growth of the popularity of multimedia web based services, such as YouTube, Flickr and Facebook, which has ultimately created a large pool of mobile multimedia “consumers”. Moreover, user portable devices are typically equipped with integrated cameras, enabling people to create multimedia content in a simple way, and thus dramatically enlarging the population of multimedia "producers" as well.

Current network infrastructures are not prepared to deal with this traffic increase. The mobile Internet was not designed with video requirements in mind and, as a consequence, its architecture is not tailored to efficiently handle a large volume of video traffic. Scope and Contributions

The goal of this special issue is to share research efforts on the design, adaptation and enhancement of IP-based mobile network architectures aimed at providing efficient video traffic support. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Improvements to cellular network architectures (at core and/or access level) for better mobile video support. * Integration of heterogeneous radio technologies for mobile video transport. * Mobile content distribution networks. * Mobile P2P video transport. * Cross-layer optimizations for video traffic. * New mobility management paradigms adapted for video traffic (e.g., management of users mobility, handoff process enhancements, app-level mobility, distributed mobility schemes, multicast mobility, etc.). * Layer 2 specific video optimizations (e.g., 802.11aa, video specific scheduling for LTE, etc.). * Video-related standardization efforts in the relevant standardization bodies (IEEE, IETF and 3GPP). * QoS policies for video traffic. * Testbed, experiments, and real-world deployments focusing on video over mobile networks.

Submission Authors must follow the IEEE Network Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Network Magazine Web site at http://dl.comsoc.org/ni/. Authors must submit their manuscripts electronically through ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/network-ieee/ (choose this special issue from the drop down menu on the submission page) according to the schedule below.

Authors are encouraged to notify one of the Guest Editors about their intention to submit a paper at least 15 days before the deadline, indicating title, abstract, authors and keywords.

All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance.

Schedule for Submission: Manuscript submission due: July 15, 2012 Acceptance notification: November 1, 2012 Final manuscript due: December 15, 2012 Publication date: March 2013

Guest Editors Dr. Carlos J. Bernardos (corresponding editor) Associate Professor, Department of Telematics Engineering Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Leganes, Spain cjbc@it.uc3m.es

Dr. Ulas C. Kozat Project Manager, Principle Research Engineer DOCOMO Innovations Palo Alto, California, USA kozat@docomoinnovations.com

Dr. Joerg Widmer Chief Researcher Institute IMDEA Networks Leganes, Spain joerg.widmer@imdea.org

Dr. Michele Zorzi Professor, Department of Information Engineering University of Padova Padova, Italy zorzi@dei.unipd.it