The IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2013, the 8th in the series, will be held at Brunel University in Uxbridge, West London. The symposium is the premier forum for the presentation and exchange of technical advances in the rapidly converging areas of multimedia broadcasting, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and networking technologies.

General Chair
• John Cosmas

General Co-Chairs
• Pablo Angueira, Univ. of Basque Country, Spain
• Jae-Hong Park, Net & TV Inc., Korea
• Ulrich Reimers, Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany
• Yiyan Wu Comm Research Centre Canada

Technical Program Chairs
• Byeungwoo Jeon, Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea
• Namho Hur, ETRI, Korea
• Amaia Arrinda, Univ. of Basque Country, Spain
• Christian Foster, Univ. of Erlangen-Nürnberg,
• Germany
• Demin Wang, Comm. Research Centre, Canada
• Jian Xiong, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China The symposium seeks technical papers on the following topics:
1. Multimedia systems and services
1.1 Mobile TV
1.2 IPTV & Internet TV
1.3 DTV and broadband multimedia systems
1.4 VoD, interactivity, datacasting
1.5 Field trials and test results
1.6 Content management
1.7 Service deployments
1.8 Future of Broadcast TV (FOBTV)

2. Multimedia devices
2.1 Display technology
2.2 Acquisition technology
2.3 Set-top box and home networking
2.4 Mobile, portable, and handheld devices
2.5 Program guides and navigation
3. Multimedia quality: Performance evaluation

3.1 Performance evaluation
3.2 Objective evaluation techniques
3.3 Subjective evaluation techniques 4. Multimedia processing
4.1 Audio technology
4.2 Video coding and processing
4.3 Content adaptation and scaling
4.4 Error resilient and concealment
4.5 Rate control
4.6 Retrieval and indexing
4.7 3-D and multi-view video
4.8 Content protection and watermarking

5. Transmission and networking
5.1 Channel modeling and simulation
5.2 Channel coding, modulation, multiplexing
5.3 Signal processing for transmission
5.4 Propagation and coverage
5.5 Congestion control
5.6 Traffic and performance monitoring
5.7 Networking and QoS