-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP Deadline Extension: Special issue on "Collaboration and Optimization for Multimedia Communications", Hindawi Journal of Advances in Multimedia Datum: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:07:24 -0400 Von: Jianwei Huang jianweih@Princeton.EDU An: tccc@cs.columbia.edu, itc@comsoc.org, Jianwei Huang jianweih@Princeton.EDU

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Submission deadline has been extended to May 15, 2007

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Call for Papers

Hindawi Journal of Advances in Multimedia (http://hindawi.com/journals/am/si/comc.html)

Special issue on "Collaboration and Optimization for Multimedia Communications" ===============================================================================

The advances of internet and wireless access technologies have opened up new opportunities to serve high quality, on-demand multimedia applications. Applications like mobile TV, IPTV, on-demand streaming, and peer-to-peer video sharing have fundamentally changed the content distribution landscape, and have been accelerating a social and engineering revolution in media distribution and consumption.

To achieve the ultimate goals of total freedom in self-expression, seamless mobile access, and any time anywhere media consumption, technology advances in various areas need to be reexamined and joined utilized under a coherent optimization framework to reach an efficient end-to-end media delivery solution. New models, metrics, and methodologies in both source, and channel coding, distributed and collaborative communications are needed to intelligently adapt the multimedia content to suit user preferences, meet device and network constraints, and achieve better communication resource utilization. The source coding and adaptation decisions of media sources need to be reconciled with the limited network resources, end-user preferences, and resource allocation schemes at network nodes. Distributed optimization schemes like pricing and game theoretical approaches are needed to improve resource allocation and management efficiency.

This special issue seeks original contributions of highquality papers that report the recent advances in multimedia coding, adaptation, and transmission approaches that support multiuser collaboration and optimize the network performance for multimedia communications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Source/channel coding/adaptation techniques for increasing the elasticity of multimedia traffic * Collaborative multicast schemes utilizing source and channel diversity for efficient multimedia distribution * Distributed resource allocation and management for multimedia communication * Network utility maximization based on collaborative multimedia communication * Pricing models for collaborative multimedia transmission * Game theoretical models for multimedia contents interactions

Authors should follow the Advances in Multimedia manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/am. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the Advances in Multimedia Manuscript Tracking System at http://www.hindawi.com/mts/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due May 15, 2007 Acceptance Notification September 1, 2007 Final Manuscript Due December 1, 2007 Publication Date 1st Quarter, 2008

Any questions should be directed to the following guest editors:

Jianwei Huang, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Zhu Li, Multimedia Research Lab, Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL 60196, USA

Qian Zhang, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong