-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine: Call For Papers:IPTV Systems, Standards and Architectures Datum: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:13:08 -0500 Von: Wright, Steven Steven.Wright@bellsouth.com An: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

IEEE Communications Magazine: Call For Papers IPTV Systems, Standards and Architectures Broadcast television services are becoming increasingly digitized and interactive, and advances in video compression technology are reducing the bandwidth requirements. The network access bandwidths widely available as consumer services are increasing. The convergence of these trends has fueled increasing interest in delivery of TV services via IP networks, known as IPTV. A number of operators and vendors are currently working on IPTV standardization efforts (e.g. ATIS/IIF, ITU-T FG IPTV) to support wider availability and interoperability of IPTV as a secure, reliable, managed service. While technologies for packet video have been explored for some time, there are a number of remaining issues in the design, development and deployment of commercially viable IPTV services. These include the standardization of architectural elements, content protection and service aspects including portability, scalability, interoperability, performance and accounting. The goal of this special issue is to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and recent advances in IPTV services, the related research, design and deployment challenges and possible approaches for future evolution of the services. We solicit tutorial papers covering various topics of interest that include (but are not limited to) the following: * IPTV Standards Progress (e.g. ATIS-IIF, ITU-T FG IPTV, DVB, TISPAN, OMA BCAST etc.) * Architectures for IPTV Systems including enabling IPTV with NGN Environments * IPTV Deployment Challenges include delivering Interactive TV service * IPTV Performance Considerations * Managing Content for IPTV services * Integrated or Blended IPTV and Communications Services * Test beds and Field Trials, lessons from early deployments of IPTV services * Network Economics - considerations for Scaling IPTV Services * Security consideration for IPTV services * Mobile IPTV services including Mobility considerations Article Submission Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the Communications Society. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted via Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com) by the deadline. Choose "January 2008/IPTV Systems, Standards and Architectures" from the drop down menu. Schedule Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: July 1, 2007 Acceptance Notification: October 1, 2007 Final Manuscript Due (to Publication Editor): December 1, 2007 Publication Date: February 2008 Guest Editors: Steven Wright, ATT, USA Steven.Wright.3@att.com Simon Jones BT Retail, UK Simon.T.Jones@BT.Com Mr. Chae-Sub Lee ETRI Korea (Rep. Of) chaesub@gmail.com

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