-------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Special Issue on 'Advances in Multimedia Communications' --------------------------------------------------------------

Submission deadline: 1 May 2010

OVERVIEW:

Recent advances in communications technologies have witnessed a growing and evolving multimedia content delivery market based on information gathering, manipulation, and dissemination. It is a fact that personal communications, computing, broadcasting, entertainment, etc. have turned into streams of multimedia content, and the various communication and network technologies have become the means to carry that content to a wide variety of terminals. Unlike traditional communication systems, a fundamental challenge for present and future communication systems is the ability to transport multimedia content over a variety of networks energy-efficiently at different channel conditions and bandwidth capacities with various requirements of quality-of-service. There are many issues need to be addressed such as signal processing, collaborations, power management, flexible delivery, specialization of new content, dynamic access, telecommunications, networking, etc., due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the applications in advanced multimedia communications. The goal of this issue is to bring together the state of the art research contribution that describes original and unpublished work addressing the new emerging techniques on multimedia communications. Especially, we solicit research papers on addressing challenging issues existing for enabling mobile multimedia communications over heterogeneous infrastructure for realizing next generation networking and computing, e.g., 4 G all IP networks, ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, ubiquitous computing environments, cognitive radio networks, etc. For example, ubiquitous multimedia is a requirement in next generation networks, such as multimedia adaption in wireless network; multimedia services in ubiquitous circumstance; improving distributed multimedia communication through location awareness, action awareness, user awareness, etc. On the other hand, due to the limited computational power, memory and battery energy in wireless and portable terminals, power efficient design also plays important role in next generation mobile multimedia applications.

TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope:

1 New emerging multimedia applications and architectures:

* IPTV, 3DTV, and mobile TV-related efforts * Enabling multimedia capability in E-healthcare, Smart house, etc. * Wireless sensor system for video surveillance * Mobile and multimedia communications in sensor networks * Ubiquitous and ‘green’ multimedia design next-generation networks

2 Video communication over next-generation networks * Energy-efficient and scalable control in next-generation wireless video terminals * Cost-effective and low-power video coding design in wireless networks * Frontiers in game theory and multimedia systems * Distributed video coding and dissemination in wireless networks

3 Emerging technologies for multimedia communications * Multimedia communications in new emerging systems (e.g. heterogeneous networks, relay networks, LTE-Advanced) * Resource allocation in energy-constrained wireless multimedia networks * Collaborative in-network processing * Cross-layer design for multimedia communications * Distributed coding and joint source-channel coding * Error resilience and concealment * Resource allocation and system scheduling * Multimedia security

Important Dates * Paper Submission Deadline: 1 May 2010 * 1st Notification of acceptance: 1 August 2010 * Submission due date of revised paper: 1 September 2010 * 2nd Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2010 * Submission of final revised paper: 15 November 2010 * Publication date: March, 2011 (Tentative)

PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers are solicited for the special issue, guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts, are provided at the International Journal of Communication Systems website, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946196/grouphome/ForAuthors.ht....

The authors need to submit their papers in the form of a PDF file to the following address: minchen@ece.ubc.ca while sending a copy to all of the other guest editors. The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and the corresponding author's name and affiliation. The "Subject field" of the email must contain "IJCS Multimedia Paper - ". All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on the quality: originality, high scientific quality, organization and clarity of writing, and support provided for assertions and conclusion.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission Deadline: 1 May 2010 1st Notification of acceptance: 1 August 2010 Submission due date of revised paper: 1 September 2010 2nd Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2010 Submission of final revised paper: 15 November 2010 Publication date: March, 2011 (Tentative)

Guest Editors

Victor C. M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada, vleung AT ece.ubc.ca) Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, USA, yangxiao AT cs.ua.edu) Min Chen (University of British Columbia, Canada, minchen AT ece.ubc.ca) Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan, hara AT ist.osaka-u.ac.jp) Liang Zhou (ENSTA-ParisTech, France, liang.zhou AT ieee.org)

Contact For more information, please contact the corresponding guest editor: Min Chen (minchen@ece.ubc.ca) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc