Call for Papers
Special Issue on : "Mobile Video Delivery over Broadband Wireless"
Guest Editor : Martin Fleury, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Video services are now set to dominate wireless network traffic, which were once given over to voice and data delivery. With the arrival of enhanced broadband wireless technologies such as IEEE.802.16e,m, 3G Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced, there is sufficient capacity to support multicast and unicast video streaming, and interactive services such as mobile video conferencing and videophone, if latency issues can be resolved. Equally mobile devices such as the Android and iPhone or the emergent High Definition (HD) laptops support the display and generation of video content. Despite these facilities, many forms of error control need to be considered, because the wireless channel is prone to all manner of noise and interference. A compressed video stream is not only delay-intolerant but, because of entropy coding and motion compensated coding, is particularly susceptible to any form of data loss. Mobility itself requires handoff, horizontally or vertically, between broadband access base stations, which can cause disruption to the service. If the server is remote then an infrastructure network must connect together the base stations. Consequently, congestion control not just across the fixed network but within the wireless access network itself may be required. Congestion control is an end-to-end solution but cross-layer intervention has also been contemplated. In summary, his Special Issue will address the issues that are likely to arise as video delivery becomes ubiquitous in next generation wireless networks.
The scope of the call includes but is not confined to the following topics:
- Video coding support for wireless transmission
- Congestion control for heterogeneous wireless networks
- Error resilience and/or Forward Error Correction and/or error control
- Video over emergent wireless technologies
- Quality of Service and Quality of Experience issues
- Authentication, encryption and other security issues
- Cross-layer intervention in favour of video services
- Resource allocation and scheduling
- Performance analysis, modelling and simulation
- Handoff management especially IEEE 802.21 and roaming
- Power management and energy conservation
- Video services: IPTV, video-on-demand, video conferencing and videophone
- Multicast and broadcast delivery of video content
- Broadband wireless network technology for multimedia
Time Table
| Deadline for submission of papers | : October 16th 2011 |
| Authors to receive a first decision by | : October 30th 2011 |
| Final notice of acceptance | : November 15th 2011 |
Enquiries: Dr Martin Fleury to whom enquiries should be addressed at fleum@essex.ac.uk
Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers for this journal through submission system as well e-mail: eic_cseij@airccse.org
Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal.