-------- Original Message -------- Subject: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMEDIA OVER WIRELESS(ISMW'06) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:50:16 -0600 (CST) From: jqchen@dimitra.ece.northwestern.edu (Junqing Chen) To: multicomm@comsoc.org

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SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMEDIA OVER WIRELESS (in conjunction with IWCMC 2006)

Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada July 3-6, 2006

http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong/ismw2006/index.html

The rapid growth in interactive multimedia applications, such as video telephonies, video games and TV broadcasting has resulted in spectacular strides in the progress of wireless communication systems. The current third generation (3G) wireless systems and the next generation (4G) wireless systems in planning support higher bit rates. However, the high error rates and stringent delay constraints in wireless systems are still significant obstacles for these applications and services. On the other hand, the development of more advanced wireless systems provides opportunities for proposing novel wireless multimedia protocols and new applications and services that can take the maximum advantage of the systems.

The symposium aims to provide an excellent forum for all experts working in these areas to join together and to discuss various important issues on multimedia over wireless. The timing of this symposium is set such that the ideas that come out of it can affect the evolution of 4G. The papers submitted to this symposium should focus on the state-of-the-art research in various important areas related to emerging technologies and standards on the coding and transmission of multimedia information over wireless networks. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but not limited to the following subjects:

Advanced multimedia coding algorithms Error resilient and error concealment Video quality assessment Rate control for wireless video Scalable and multiple description multimedia coding and transmission Joint source-channel coding Efficient transport protocols for wireless Optimal resource allocation for energy-efficient wireless multimedia Cross-layer multimedia communication system design and optimization Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution Lightweight video encoding methods based on distributed source coding Quality of Service issues Multimedia processing for wireless sensor networks Wireless multimedia traffic modeling

Only original and unpublished paper will be considered. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than six (6) pages in double-column IEEE format before December 15, 2005.

** Important dates **

Manuscript Submission: December 15, 2005 Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 30, 2006 Conference Date: July 3, 2006

** Organizing Committee **

Co-Chairs: Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc., USA

Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,Switzerland

Vice-Chairs: Chingyao Huang, National Chiao Tung Univeristy, Taiwan Z. Jane Wang, University of British Columbia, Canada

Publicity Char: Junqing Chen, Unilever Inc, USA

** Technical Program Committee **

Ghassan AlRegib, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Lap-Pui Chau, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chang Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Junqing Chen, Unilever Inc, USA Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada Zhu Han, University of Maryland, USA Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA Lisimachos P. Kondi, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA Jie Liang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Chia-Wen Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Jung Tao Liu, Lucent Bell Labs, USA Yuxin Zoe Liu, Nokia Research Center, USA Zhen Liu, Qualcomm Inc, USA Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia, Canada King N. Ngan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HongKong Mirek Pawlak, University of Manitoba, Canada Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, France Clark Taylor, Brigham Young University, USA A. Murat Tekalp, Rochester University, USA Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany Jiqiang Song, ASTRI, Hong Kong Vincent S. Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Hideki Tode, Osaka University, Japan Olivier Verscheure, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, USA