CALL FOR PAPERS

THE FOURTH ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING
AND PERFORMANCE MODELING (WMUNEP 2008)
27-31 October 2008, Vancouver, Canada
http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/
To be held jointly with the 11-th ACM MSWIM
http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/mswim2008/


SCOPE
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The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking
and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP 2008) will be a highly selective one-day
event, held in conjunction with the 11th Annual ACM Symposium on Modeling,
Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008).
This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless
multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs,
WMANs, WWANs, MANETs, VANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and
wireless streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms,
synchronization, analysis and performance modeling.


TOPICS
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
-Wireless multimedia network management
-Wireless multimedia traffic modeling
-Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia
-Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution
-Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless
multimedia networks and systems
-Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services
-Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and networks
-Protocols for wireless multimedia networks
-QoS and Resource Allocation in wireless multimedia networks
-Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks
-End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications
-Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks
-Distributed wireless multimedia services
-Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools
-Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications and
applications
-Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking
-Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks
-E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia networks
-Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks
-Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks
-Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless
multimedia networks
-Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems
-Wireless multimedia sensor networks



IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: June 10, 2007
Author Notification: July 16, 2008
Camera-ready Paper: August 1, 2008

Other information on WMuNeP2008 can be found at the workshop site:
http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/