CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Network Magazine
Special Issue on: Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks

[Note the NEW deadline, extended due to multiple extension requests]

Today, the wireless Internet provides access primarily to Web-based content
and services. However, the emergence and adoption of broadband wireless
access standards, such as IEEE 802.16, 802.16a and 802.11a/g, offers new
possibilities for wireless delivery of rich multimedia content and services,
like video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive games,
conversational navigation services, and future immersive communications in
virtual environments. Advances in technology are enabling a world of
converged wireless and mobile communications, where users access a variety
of media formats using a single device. Some of these novel networking
protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, UWB, Mobile
IP and its variants, IP paging, wireless IP QoS and SIP. Similarly, newer
multimedia standards such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC provide significant
improvements in compression, and specifications such as 3GPP Version 6
provide the ability to adapt the multimedia delivery for wireless networks
with varying transmission characteristics and mobile devices with different
capabilities.

The goal of this special issue is to present a concise reference of
state-of-the-art efforts in delivering multimedia over emerging packet-based
broadband wireless networks. Specifically, the special issue is intended to
present tutorials, survey and original research articles (in a tutorial
manner readable by non-specialists) on emerging architectures, protocols and
services for delivering multimedia over single-hop or mesh broadband
wireless networks. It also focuses on the protocols needed to integrate the
application layer requirements, such as QoS, security, etc., with the base
functionality offered by the standardized 802.16/11 and other WLAN and WMAN
interfaces. Of particular interest is the inter-play between newer
techniques of multimedia encoding and streaming and the network-layer
features to exploit these techniques.

Following are the topics of interest for which we solicit contributions for
this special issue:
* IP-based multimedia delivery and services over WLANs and WMANs
* QoS for real-time voice and video in broadband wireless networks
* Media multicasting and broadcasting problems and solutions for wireless links
* Caching and content management in WLANs, WMANs and 3G Networks
* VoIP over wireless networks
* Multimedia over single-hop and mesh-based wireless networks
* Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks
* Multimedia services for ambient intelligent and pervasive environments
* Broadband multimedia prototypes and system experiences
* Broadcast and point-to-point multimedia in indoor & outdoor environments,
  e.g. homes, convention centers, sports arenas

Manuscript Submission
Papers should be submitted in PDF format at http://colibri.iit.cnr.it. For
any questions or clarification, please contact any of the guest editors.
With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions,
prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for
authors that can be found at
“http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html.”

Important Dates:
* Submission Deadline:                June 25, 2005
* Reviews Completed:                  September 30, 2005
* Final Manuscripts Due:              November 30, 2005
* Publication of Special Issue:       1st Quarter, 2006

More details available at:
http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/cfpnetwork2006.htm