[aims-announce] CfP - Special Issue of the International Journal on Network Management (IJNM) on: "Advances in Management of Multimedia Services"

[Marinos Charalambides]

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A    PDF   version   of    this   call    can   be    downloaded at:
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mcharala/cfp_ijnm_multimedia_management.pdf

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue, the International Journal on Network Management (IJNM):
"Advances in Management of Multimedia Services"

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2014 Publication: July 1, 2015

Scope of the Special Issue

In recent years,  we observe several important trends in  the delivery
of multimedia services: (i) increase of video bandwidth, necessitating
content  placement,  prioritization,  scheduling,  and cloud-assisted
streaming, (ii)  increased importance  of  Quality of Experience (QoE)
for  the  end  user,  (iii) complex  multimedia  consumption patterns
(interactive  multiple  screen  applications,  non-linear  TV content
consumption  over-the-top streaming),  (iv)   increased  mobile video
consumption  (e.g.  on  smart phones, tablets)  over  several wireless
technologies, and (v) increased interest in adaptive streaming, where
client  software  determines  the  desired quality level for segmented
content.

These trends pose interesting challenges for  the efficient management
of multimedia  services and applications.  The traditional approach of
management through a set of Quality of Service parameters (e.g. packet
loss, delay, jitter) is no longer sufficient: the quality as perceived
by  the end  users  -the Quality of Experience (QoE)-  should be taken
into account as well.  For this special issue,  we welcome submissions
addressing  these  challenges  (e.g.  in  the areas  listed below) and
presenting novel research or experimentation results.

Areas of Interest

Contributions  to the following topics are of  specific interest, but
are not limited to:
* Optimized multimedia network management
* Advanced network control for multimedia delivery
* Advanced content placement
* Cooperative caching
* Prediction-based caching
* Definition of QoE: methods and tools
* Objective & subjective QoE assessment
* New objective & subjective methods and algorithms
* Network diagnostics, tracing, troubleshooting for multimedia service
   delivery
* Dynamic resource management for mobile services
* Adaptive video streaming in Over-The-Top and IPTV networks
* HTTP Adaptive Streaming for mobile environments
* Cognitive adaptive streaming approaches
* Content delivery to Networked video walls
* In-network synchronization
* Next generation TV delivery to multiple screens
* Context-aware user-centric media delivery
* Efficient mobile media delivery
* Multimedia delivery over advanced wireless technologies
* Multimedia service management in smart cities
* Self-organization  techniques   for  the  management  of multimedia
   services
* Experimental  facilities  for  QoE   evaluation  of  algorithms and
   services
* Streaming aware video encoding
* QoE oriented coding for multimedia streaming

Submission Guidelines

Authors   should   submit  their   papers  in   PDF  format  only to:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem

Paper  submissions  should not exceed 20 pages (double-space). Author
instructions are available at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/ForAuthors.html

and   the    respective    LaTeX    template    can    be   found at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190/homepage/latex_class_file.htm

All  submissions  will be  peer-reviewed.  In case of acceptance, the
final  and camera-ready version has  to  take into account comments of
reviewers and needs to follow the template's requirements.

Important Deadlines

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2015
Final Version: April 1, 2015
Publication: July 1, 2015

Submissions in PDF  format only to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem

Guest Editors

Marinos Charalambides, University College London, UK
Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Hiroshi Saito, NTT, Japan
Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Steven Latré, Antwerp University-iMinds, Belgium
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