[sigcomm] CFP - IEEE JSAC, Special issue on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications

[Pascal Frossard]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 

CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZED WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS 

Submission deadline: May 15, 2006

Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications provide ample
opportunities for introducing new services. Supporting multimedia
applications and services over wireless networks is challenging due to
constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited
bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and
standards, stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Cross-layer
design methodologies hold great promise for addressing these challenges and
providing reliable and high-quality end-to-end performance in wireless
multimedia communications. 

This issue solicits the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions
in the area of cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications and
networking. The issue will provide a compelling forum for researchers and
practitioners to present their results. Original contributions, previously
unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited
in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: 

- Architectures for wireless multimedia communications 
- Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad
hoc networks, WLAN, WMAN, or hybrid networks) 
- End-to-end QoS support for wireless networks 
- Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices 
- Caching and content management in WLANs and WMANs 
- Interaction among medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC),
and routing protocols for media delivery over multi-hop wireless networks 
- Wireless video sensor networks 
- Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks 
- Secure multimedia communications 
- System prototypes and experiences with broadband wireless multimedia
delivery 

Please note that submitted papers must explicitly address cross-layer design
issues. 

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described
in the Information for Authors, at
http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html. Authors MUST
submit their manuscripts through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit
(CMT) at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/COWMC2006/CallForPapers.aspx,
together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words) in the CMT website
form. In addition, the mandatory cover page is not included in the page
count. The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords
indicating the paper's topic area, authors' full names, affiliations with
complete addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Please note
potential authors should create their own accounts through the CMT peer
review website before submitting manuscript(s). CMT will accept manuscripts
in PDF format only. There will be one round of reviewers and acceptance will
be limited to those papers requiring only moderate revisions. The following
timetable will apply: 


Manuscript submission: MAY 15, 2006 
Acceptance notification: November 1, 2006 
Final manuscript due: December 1, 2006 
Publication: 2nd Quarter 2007 


Guest Editors:

Chang Wen Chen
Dept Elect & Comp Engr
Florida Inst of Technology
Melbourne, FL 32901
cchen at fit.edu 

Pascal Frossard
Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne - 1015, Switzerland
pascal.frossard at epfl.ch 

Cormac Sreenan
Dept of Comp Science
Univ College Cork
Cork, Ireland
cjs at cs.ucc.ie 

K. P. Subbalakshmi
Dept of Elect & Comp Engr
Stevens Inst of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07733
ksubbala at stevens.edu 

Dapeng Oliver Wu
Dept of Elect & Comp Engr
Univ of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
wu at ece.ufl.edu 

Qian Zhang
Dept of Comp Science
Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech
Hong Kong
qianzh at cs.ust.hk