Call for Papers

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In cooperation with ACM SIGMM, technically sponsored by EURASIP.

SCOPE

The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia semantic characteristics, Human Interpretation of audiovisual information, extraction and usage of semantic information, coding standards and its interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research issues that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that will be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as triple services for mobile networks, digital television, video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services, context aware services, and immersive communications in virtual environments. The efficient delivery of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The research effort for the 3G/4G vision of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which delivery of such services can be accomplished.
Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding, and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications.

Research Areas:

• Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments
• Multimedia QoS in wireless networks
• Extraction and usage of semantic information
• Performance evaluation of multimedia services
• Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments
• Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in emerging wireless networks
• Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and mobile networks
• Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless networks
• Joint source-channel coding
• Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks
• Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless multimedia
• P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks
• Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging wireless networks
• Mobile Content Delivery Networks

Technical program:

The conference will also include invited panels to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs.

Paper submission and publication:

Mobimedia 2007 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 6 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered for oral presentations. Short papers should report on work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through COCUS system: http://cocus.create-net.it. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index.

Workshops:

Two workshops will run in parallel with Mobimedia General Conference entitled “Workshop on Context Aware Mobile Multimedia Systems and Applications” and “Workshop on Convergence among Mobile Multimedia Services and Fourth- Generation Wireless Networking Standards: Technical Challenges and Users’ Perspectives”

Important dates:

Students award and grants:

Five student prizes will be awarded to the best papers authored by full time students as first author.