Special Session

QoE-MM: QoE for Mobile Multimedia-Aware Applications

collocated with MOBIMEDIA - 7th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference

It is now acknowledged that the adoption of new media application in diverse networking environment necessitates the use of mechanisms in order to assess and evaluate User Experience. The problem of understanding and enhancing Quality of Experience (QoE) in complex, distributed and diverse environments has been and is continuing to be the subject of intense research investigation. Considerable efforts have been devoted to assessing QoE via objective or subjective means. Many have looked at this as a usability problem. Others study the correlation between specific technological settings and the user-perceived QoE. As of today though we do not know how to manage and control QoE in a diverse heterogeneous environment. The variables that affect QoE are just too many and too changeable and span several disciplinary areas including multiple technologies but also psychology and sociology factors. QoE is extremely important forthe main players of the service provisioning chain:

  • Content providers companies require a quality-controlled digital distribution network that goes beyond the capabilities offered by state-of-the-art solutions, such as content-aware distribution networks.
  • Service providers require the ability to offer QoE differentiated services. This is particularly relevant when the user (terminal and access network) context is diverse and the data-flow is intense, which makes QoE differentiation a must rather than an option.
  • Network operators currently suffer from the de-intermediation problem, a phenomenon by which internet applications bypass the operators’ management and control planes, creating operational issue and economic losses.

The Special Session aims to receive both peer-reviewed original technical research papers, state-of-the-art and survey papers in the areas of QoE and invited presentations in this challenging emerging interdisciplinary area.

  • Architectures for mobile QoE-driven media streaming
  • Signalling mechanisms to measure QoE
  • Objective QoE metrics for diverse multimedia applications (e.g. 2D AVC/SVC, 3D/MVC, animations)
  • QoS-to-QoE mapping
  • QoE provisioning in heterogeneous networking environments
  • QoE-driven cross-layer design
  • QoE-driven session mobility
  • Middleware solutions for QoE management
  • Tools and methodologies for QoE management
  • Integration of QoE metrics in business models of service and network providers


Organizer
Submission Instructions


Special Session Co-Chairs:

Tasos Dagiuklas
[TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece]

Weisi Lin
[Nanyang Technological University, Singapore]


Peer reviewed papers appear in LNICST published by Springer, (on Springer database)

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Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures.

 

Committee Members


Chang Wen Chen [University at Buffalo, USA]
Frederic Dufaux [Telecom ParisTech, France]
Ahmet Kondoz [University of Surrey, UK]
Maria Martini [Kingston University, UK]
Andrew Perkis [NTNU, Norway]
Lingfen Sun [University of Plymouth, UK]
Christian Timmerer [Klagenfurt University, Austria]

 

Important dates

Paper submission deadline: 28 April 2011

Notification of paper acceptance: 12 June 2011

Submission of camera-ready papers: 3 July 2011