A special issue of the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile 
Computing (IJWMC), published by Inderscience Publishers, is scheduled 
to appear during the last quarter of 2004, on the topic of 'Media 
streaming over Wireless and Mobile networks'.

Submissions on all research areas relating to media streaming over 
wireless and mobile networks are welcome.

Full article submission:	February 2, 2004
Acceptance/rejection/revision: 	April 19, 2004
Revised manuscript due: 	May 3, 2004
Final manuscript due: 		May 17, 2004

Guest Editor
Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece 
http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/~bpatr
<mailto:bpate@telecom.ntua.grt>

Co-Guest Editors
Mario S. Nunes, IST/INESC, Portugal  
<mailto:Mario.Nunes@inesc.pt> 

Iakovos. S. Venieris, National Technical 
University of Athens, Greece  
<mailto:ivenieri@cc.ece.ntua.gr> 

Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece  
<mailto:pdemest@unipi.gr>


 
Subject coverage

Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications have set the scene for
introducing new services. In fact, progress in media streaming promises to
make content available for the large population of mobile users, from
anywhere, at any time. However, streaming over wireless and mobile networks
is still in its infancy and many challenges should be faced in order to
enable its full scale deployment. Audio-visual information must be tailored
to the variability of effective bandwidth, the processing and display
capabilities of the mobile devices.

Furthermore, users should be able to customize their viewing experience. 
Apart from addressing access network and terminal heterogeneity, the services
offered should be scalable, reliable and QoS-enabled. Also, special issues
arising from the mobility of users such as the midstream handoffs of
streaming sessions should be investigated. This special issue of the
International Journal on Wireless and Mobile Computing will collect and
archive the state of the art in the provision and support of media
distribution mechanisms for wireless and mobile networks. Areas of interest
include but are not limited to the following topics:

    * Adaptive video delivery for real time streaming
    * Overlay network solutions for media streaming in ad hoc networks
    * Streaming over wireless protocols
    * Seamless handoff of streaming sessions
    * Scalability and QoS aspects in streaming over mobile networks
    * Streaming video applications for Personal Area Networks (PANs)
    * Real time multimedia applications featuring Universal Multimedia
      Access
    * Mobile Streaming Content Delivery Networks
 
 
Submission of papers
 
Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, 
affiliations, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. Please 
submit full papers electronically, not previously published or 
submitted for publication elsewhere and not exceeding 15 single spaced 
pages, in PDF format. Hard copies can only be sent if electronic 
submission is not possible.
 
Please submit full paper for consideration to this special issue to 
the guest editor by 2 February, 2004.

Dr. Ing. Charalampos Z. Patrikakis
Telecommunications Laboratory
Department of Electrical Enginnering
National Technical University of Athens  Heroon Politechniou 9, 
Zographou - GReece T.K. 15773 Tel +30 210 7721513 Fax +30 210 7722534 
Email : bpatr@telecom.ntua.gr 
<mailto:bpatr@telecom.ntua.gr> 
web : <http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/~bpatr>

All manuscripts will be reviewed by a selected panel of referees, and 
those accepted will be published in a special issue of 
IJWMC/Inderscience Publishers. Original artwork and a signed copy of 
the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers.



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