CFP : Kluwer Telecommunication Systems Special Issue on Multimedia Streaming over Next Generation Telecommunication Networks
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                                 Call for Papers
		Telecommunication Systems (Kluwer Academic Publishers) 
				Special Issue on 
	"Multimedia Streaming over Next Generation Telecommunication Networks"

Research and development efforts in mobile and wireless telecommunication systems and 
networks enable the rapid growth of fixed and wireless broadband network infrastructures. 
Innovations in media processing, storage, retrieval and networking promise to enable 
anywhere and anytime multimedia solutions, across a wide spectrum of commercial, 
educational, entertainment and consumer domains. 

Though there is not yet defined a real "killer application", the most foreword looking ones are 
touted to be multimedia based, optimised over the IP layer. Supporting streaming multimedia 
applications and services over next generation wireless and wireline telecommunication 
networks is challenging due to constraints such as high heterogeneity, high-rate limited 
bandwidth, randomly time-varying network interference, stringent quality of service (QoS) 
requirements, interoperability, etc.

The objective of this session is to present state-of-the-art research and developing activities 
contributing to all facets of multimedia streaming across next generation all-IP networks. The 
session will serve as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, 
and implementations of networked multimedia systems and technologies with special 
emphasis on multimedia streaming.

We solicit papers covering a variety of topics including, but not limited to: 
- Wireline/Wireless Applications Internetworking 
- "Killer" wireless multimedia applications 
- End-to-end QoS control and scheduling
- VoIP, IP Video, streaming, interactive video service management
- Mobility in multimedia 
- Multimedia over next generation wireless networks 
- Streaming Multimedia over wireless ad hoc networks 
- Multimedia over wireless peer-to-peer networks 
- Robust and resilient video coding, transcoding and transport 

Submission Guideline 
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Authors should follow the Telecommunication Systems manuscript format described at 
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1018-4864. 
Prospective authors should submit a PDF/PS version of complete manuscript to Guest Editor
Dr. Theodore Zahariadis at zahariad@ellemedia.com 

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: March 1, 2004  
Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2004
Final Manuscript Due: August 15, 2004  
Expected Publishing Date: November/December 2004


Guest Editors
Dr. Theodore B. Zahariadis
Ellemedia Technologies, Greece
E-mail: zahariad@ellemedia.com

Dr. Rigobert Foka
Thales, France
E-mail: Rigobert.FOKA@fr.thalesgroup.com