Multimedia Communications over Next Generation Wireless Networks

Call for Papers

Here the special issue “Multimedia Communications over Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWNs)” is an area of tremendous industrial as well as academic activities at present. Simply stated, an NGWN is a packet-based wireless network that offers access over diverse connected technologies by users from diverse service providers. Recent advances in communication technologies have witnessed a growing and evolving multimedia-content-delivery market based on information gathering, manipulation, and dissemination. Unlike traditional Internet based on communication systems, a fundamental challenge for NGWN is the ability to transport multimedia content over a variety of networks at different channel conditions and bandwidth capacities with various requirements of quality-of-service. There are many issues such as signal processing, collaborations, power management, flexible delivery, specialization of new content, dynamic access, telecommunications, networking, and so forth, resulting from the multidisciplinary nature of the applications in advanced multimedia communications.

The goal of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions, which describe original and unpublished work to address the new emerging techniques on multimedia communications over NGWN. Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Communications issues for multimedia over NGWN
    • Multimedia communications in new emerging networks (e.g., heterogeneous networks, relay networks, cognitive networks, LTE-Advanced)
    • System architectures and framework
    • Collaborative in-network processing
    • Cross-layer design for multimedia communications
    • Resource allocation and system scheduling
    • Multimedia security
  • Signal processing issues for multimedia over NGWN
    • Distributed coding and joint source-channel coding
    • Network coding for multimedia over NGWN
    • Error resilience and concealment
    • Information restoration and resolution- improvement
    • Sync and timing recovery
  • New emerging multimedia applications over NGWN
    • IPTV, 3DTV, and mobile TV-related efforts
    • Enabling multimedia capability in E-healthcare, E-education, smart house, and so forth
    • Video surveillance system in wireless senor networks

We solicit original unpublished research papers only. Papers previously published in conference/workshop proceedings can be considered, but should be substantially extended.

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript DueMarch 1, 2010
First Round of ReviewsJune 1, 2010
Publication DateSeptember 1, 2010

Lead Guest Editor

  • Liang Zhou, Laboratory of Electronics and Computer Engineering, ENSTA ParisTech, Paris, France

Guest Editors

  • Athanasios T. Vasilakos, Department of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, 531 00 Florina, Greece
  • Laurence T. Yang, Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada B2G 2W5
  • Neal N. Xiong, Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA