International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
Special Issue on
Advances in Multimedia Broadcasting over
IPWireless Networks
Call for Papers
The ever-increasing demand for wireless multimedia applications
has resulted in spectacular strides in the progress
of wireless communication systems. These advances have
occurred within the multimedia communications chain,
ranging between multimedia source and channel coding,
transcoding and transmoding content distribution protocols,
quality-of-service (QoS), and Quality-of-Experience
(QoE) management to postprocessing of multimedia material.
In addition, IP has been widely accepted as a promising
universal network-layer protocol over all wireless systems
that provide a globally successful open network infrastructure
for creating and providing services and applications.
However, due to the time-varying characteristics of wireless
channels in general, and because of the higher bit error rates
imposed by the wireless medium, reliable transport of realtime
and error-sensitive multimedia traffic is a challenging
issue.
This special issue aims to attract state-of-the-art research
contributions addressing challenges in multimedia broadcasting
over IP wireless networks. Topics of primary interest
include, but are not limited to:
• Cross-layer optimizations for IP-based wireless multimedia
broadcasting networks
◦ Error-resilient encoding for IP wireless multimedia
broadcasting networks
◦ Source/channel multimedia encoding and optimization
for broadcasting applications
◦ Error recovery techniques
◦ Congestion avoidance and flow control for realtime
IP services over multicasting/ broadcasting
wireless networks
◦ QoS and QoE management, resource allocation,
and adaptive scheduling schemes for real-time
multimedia broadcasting over IP
◦ Content-aware multimedia broadcasting
• Impact of mobility and handoffs on user QoE
• Multimedia broadcasting over heterogeneous wireless
networks
• IPTV and mobile-TV broadcasting over wireless networks
◦ Multimedia broadcasting over emerging wireless
technologies (LTE, WiMAX, MANET, WiFi, and
beyond)
• New emerging wirelessmultimedia broadcasting applications
and architectures
Before submission authors should carefully read over the
journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www
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should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System
at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following
timetable:
Manuscript Due February 1, 2010
First Round of Reviews May 1, 2010
Publication Date August 1, 2010
Lead Guest Editor
Rouzbeh Razavi, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Blanchardstown Industrial Park, Dublin 15, Ireland;
rouzbeh.razavi@alcatel-lucent.com
Guest Editors
Holger Claussen, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Blanchardstown Industrial Park, Dublin 15, Ireland;
claussen@alcatel-lucent.com
Martin Fleury, University of Essex,Wivenhoe Park,
Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK; fleum@essex.ac.uk
Mohammed Ghanbari, University of Essex,Wivenhoe
Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK; ghan@essex.ac.uk
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