Call for Papers
Submission deadline: Friday 10th April, 2009
Selected papers will be considered for a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Business Data Communications & Networking
(IJBDCN) (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4293).
First International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and
Applications (WMNA’09)
(http://www.newi.ac.uk/tu/WMNA%2709/WMNA%2709CFP.html)
In conjunction with 3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies
and Applications (ITA’09)
Wrexham, North Wales, United Kingdom, Thursday 10th September, 2009
The First Workshop of Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications
(WMNA’09) will be a half-day workshop, held in conjunction with the 3rd
International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications
(ITA’09). The rapid expansion of wireless services from voice
communication to high performance multimedia communication in recent years
is an indication that significant value is placed on portable multimedia
applications as key innovations for both academia and industry. This
workshop is intended to provide a forum for presenting, exchanging and
discussing the most recent advances in different aspects of wireless
multimedia networking and applications. In particular, this workshop will
bring together leading researchers, industry professionals, and research
students to study the special problems and challenges of multimedia mobile
and wireless environments.
Original papers/posters are now invited for submission to WMNA’09. Topics
of interest include (but are not limited to):
– Deployment of wireless multimedia applications and services
– Deployment of wireless multimedia networks, architectures, and protocols
– Wireless multimedia multicasting technologies
– Multimedia support over multi-hop wireless networks (mesh, ad-hoc,
sensor networks)
– Traffic control and characterisation in wireless multimedia networks
– QoS and admission control in wireless multimedia networks
– Real-time streaming wireless multimedia communications and technologies
– Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval technologies
– Management of wireless multimedia networks
– Security in wireless multimedia networks
– Performance comparison of wireless multimedia networks
– Performance analyses of wireless multimedia networks
– Analytical modelling of wireless multimedia networks
– Design, implementation and testbed/experimental results of wireless
multimedia systems
– Coding and compression for wireless multimedia networks
– Handoff in wireless multimedia communications
– Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks
– Distributed wireless multimedia technologies
Submissions:
We are seeking submissions for full papers. All selected works will appear
in the main conference proceedings of ITA’09. For format and submission,
please visit
http://www.newi.ac.uk/tu/WMNA%2709/WMNA%2709SUB.html
Selected papers will be considered for a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Business Data Communications & Networking
(IJBDCN) (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4293).
Important dates:
Submission deadline:
Friday 10th April, 2009
Notification of acceptance:
Friday 22nd May, 2009
Camera-ready version:
Friday 19th June, 2009
Registration:
Friday 26th June, 2009
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Dr. V. Sridhar
Co-Editor, IJBDCN
Visiting Research Fellow
Sasken Communication Technologies, Bangalore
Phone: +91-80-39814005
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