Subject: [manet] [CFP] Call for Book Chapter: Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications

From: "Yan \(Josh\) ZHANG" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:22:47 +0800

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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER

Title: Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications

(to be published by Auerbach Publications, Taylor&Francis Group
http://www.crcpress.com/)

http://yanzhangsg.googlepages.com/MMCFP.html

Introduction
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Nowadays, we have experienced rich mediums and are expecting the new
services in both wire and wireless communications, e.g. voice, data, video,
text, image/picture, instant messenger etc. It is envisioned that more
services and mediums will appear in the Internet as well as wireless
scenarios. The increasing demand for multimedia communication drives the
development of consumer and enterprise markets as well as the evolution of
wireless technologies. The support of multimedia is believed to be one of
the pre-requisites to guarantee the success of the next generation wireless
networks.

However, a number of inherent challenges should be addressed in order to
smoothly transmit and delivery multimedia services. The first challenge is
the traffic characteristics. For instance, voice is real-time service and
data is non-real-time service. Consequently, different efficient mechanisms
should be designed by taking into account such properties in an integrated
system. The second challenge is the emerging diversity of wireless systems,
architectures and standards. The traditional wireless networks are
infrastructure-based architecture, e.g. GSM and UMTS. Recently, mobile ad
hoc networks, sensor networks and mesh networks are emerging as three
typical multi-hop networks. The multimedia transmission in multi-hop
scenario is much more difficult than that in single-hop environment due to
the unavailability of coordinator in the procedures of topology formulation,
resource allocation and security management. As a consequence, the need to
develop techniques, protocols, algorithms, applications and architectures
for emerging wireless multimedia networks is at critical moment to achieve
the broadband high-speed, high-capacity and high-reliability requirements.

Recommended Topics(not limited to)
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Techniques and Protocols
MIMO, smart antenna and distributed antenna systems
Signal processing algorithms
Cooperative transmission and reception
Capacity and connectivity
Spectrum management
Cognitive radio
OFDM, OFDM+MIMO
Coding and transmission
Medium Access Control protocol
Routing, Broadcasting, Multicasting, Anycasting
Channel assignment algorithms
Adaptive/distributed algorithms
Call admission control
Fault-tolerance
Load balancing algorithms
Link adaptation algorithms
Scheduling and congestion control
Multimedia services
Traffic modeling
Quality-of-Service architecture, algorithms and provision
Handoff management
Mobility management architecture and strategy
Network management and control
Cross-layer design, modeling and optimization
Resource, energy, security management mechanisms and interactions
Access authentication, trustworthy networks, privacy and security Models
End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications
Video, real-time streaming in wireless multimedia communications
Multimedia content protection and security
Pricing/Billing mechanisms
Wireless multimedia systems introduction
Testbed, prototype, practical system architecture
Network planning and deployment
Standardization activities, specifications and enhancements in the emerging
standards
Performance analysis, simulation and experiment
Anomaly, intrusion detection and error recovery
Case studies and market analysis
Multimedia information retrieval algorithms and tools
Mobile middleware
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In addition, multimedia communication in various mobile systems indicates
different properties and should employ different techniques to address the
issues. Accordingly, the recommended topics shalll be explored in the
following future wireless scenarios
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§ Wireless ad hoc networks
§ Sensor networks
§ Mesh networks
§ Wireless Personal Area Networks
§ Wireless Local Area Networks
§ Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
§ Wireless Wide Area Networks
§ UMTS, TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000
§ IMS
§ HSDPA
§ Wireless Internet
§ Bluetooth, RFID, UWB, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, WiMAX
§ 3G, B3G and 4G Systems and Networks
§ Peer-to-Peer networks
§ Grid networks

Important Dates
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You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal discribing the topic of your
chapter. The proposal should include the chapter organization, number of
pages of the final manuscript and contact authors. Deadline: 30, Nov. 2006
Notification of proposal acceptance: 30, Dec. 2006
Full chapter submission: 30, March 2007
Review report received: 30, May 2007
Final version submission: 30, June 2007

Manuscript Submission
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Set as double-spaced
Estimated, each chapter should has about 20 pages in the typeset format;
i.e. about 35-45 pages with double-space format.
***Note***: each lead chapter author will get a free copy of the book.

Contact
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Please make correspondence and paper submissions to:

Dr. Yan ZHANG
Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Email: yanzhang<AT>ieee.org

Dr. Shiwen Mao
Auburn University, USA
Email: smao<AT>ieee.org

Dr. Laurence T. Yang
St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Email: lyang<AT>stfx.ca

Dr. Thomas M. Chen
Southern Methodist University, USA
Email: tchen<AT>engr.smu.edu

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