Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus

Massimo Valla, telecom Italia Labs

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Overview

A major factor in the success of the convergence of future networks to 4G, All-IP technology is the efficient support of content-rich multimedia applications and services in mobile networks.  There are many applications that will be enabled by new standards for mobile networking, such as triple services for mobile networks, digital television in a converged environment, video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services, context aware services, emergency and healthcare applications, and immersive communications in virtual environments. The research objective of the processing and delivery of multimedia in wireless environments, to heterogeneous mobiles and users, while, at the same time, achieving multimedia session continuity, retaining multimedia QoS characteristics and utilizing user context and content metadata, is a very challenging task and amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions, restrictions and also the opportunities under which the delivery of such services can be accomplished.

The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the technologies needed for Context-aware Multimedia Content Delivery. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following research areas: a) Development of new techniques for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) Definition of methods to utilize the situation and environment of a user (context) to initiate multimedia-rich content delivery; c) Deployment of broadcast/multicast adaptive content delivery technologies to mobile users with diverse QoS requirements.

Within this scope, the proposed CAMCD workshop aims to provide a unique international forum and foster interaction among researchers by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue for academic and industrial participants to discuss in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users.

The workshop will solicit high quality, original, theoretical and practical work in various aspects of mobile multimedia content delivery, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

Multimedia Services

Emerging and visionary multimedia applications for wireless mobile networks,

Multimedia Services over Wireless LAN, WAN and Ad-hoc Networks,

Context aware techniques for enhancing multimedia service support

Multimedia semantic characteristics

Context

Context Representation

Context Collection

Context Reasoning

Wireless delivery models

Broadcast/multicast/simulcast

P2P mobile video

Vehicular video delivery

Video Encoding and Processing

Wireless video coding techniques

Adaptive media coding

Compression techniques, standards and evaluation

Error resilience and concealment

Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless

Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery

Wireless network architectures and technologies

Architectures for Wireless Multimedia Communications

New network architectures for wireless communications (IEEE 802.11v, 802.11k, CAPWAP)

Use of existing technologies for multimedia services (802.11 WLAN/802.11n, 802.16 WiMAX, 3G cellular networks, MBMS,DVB- H)

Wireless multimedia terminal and devices

QoS support for wireless multimedia networks

QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia

Cross-layer interaction and optimization

Experimentation

Design and implementation of testbeds for multimedia over wireless

Field trials, experimental measurements and results

Measurements-based models for multimedia over wireless

Testing of protocols and standards for multimedia over wireless

Proceedings

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state- of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Explore. Papers must be submitted electronically in the EDAS. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words (6-pages) including tables and figures. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address.