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Hindawi - International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/

Call for Papers Iterative Decoding and Cross-Layering Techniques for Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications

The explosive growth of multimedia applications over the Internet and the ever-increasing users' demands over commercial terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting all over the world call for efficient physical and cross-layer techniques able to mitigate the potential problems limiting broadband services over wireless networks. In this scenario, mobile multimedia is expected to be one of the key services of future wireless mobile networks. Meanwhile, recent advances in digital communications have paved the way to a variety of standards aimed at providing multimedia services over terrestrial broadband networks. To cite but a few, DVB-H, T-DVB, T-DMB, wireless LANs, and wireless MANs are some of the most recent standards enabling such technology.

Iterative decoding techniques for both source, channel, and joint source-channel coding and decoding and cross-layering techniques have proven to be very effective for providing a viable means of achieving capacity-approaching performance at very reduced computational burden.

The main aim of this special issue is to highlight state-of-the-art techniques on the most recent research advances enabling digital multimedia services over broadband wireless networks, focused on physical and cross-layering solutions. Novel contributions, previously unpublished, that are not being submitted to any other journal, are sought.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following subject categories:

Iterative decoding techniques for concatenated channel codes (turbo codes and serially concatenated codes) Iterative decoding techniques for joint source-channel decoding Novel capacity-approaching channel codes: coding strategies and efficient decoding algorithms Cross-layer modelling/analysis and optimization techniques Standardization activities on digital multimedia broadcasting protocols Space-time coding and decoding Novel MIMO solutions for counteracting multipath mobile channels Channel estimation and equalization Improved channel equalization techniques for SIMO and MIMO systems Experimental testbeds Hardware Implementation and SoC solutions

Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com

according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due: April 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews: July 1, 2008 Publication Date: November 1, 2008 _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues@grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues