The demand for wireless multimedia
communications thrives in today's
consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve multimedia
applications and services, and their associated protocols for emerging
networks is at a critical point given the proliferation and integration
of wireless systems to intelligent and broadband networks, mobility of
people, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and
communication in mobile devices.
This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless
multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs, WMANs,
WWANs, MANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and wireless
streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms,
synchronization, analysis and performance modeling. The workshop will
provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their
contributions related to the above high-level aspects.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Wireless multimedia network management
- Wireless multimedia traffic modeling
- Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless
multimedia
- Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content
distribution
- Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless
multimedia networks and systems
- Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services
- Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and
networks
- Protocols for wireless multimedia networks
- QoS in wireless multimedia networks
- Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband
networks
- End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications
- Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks
- Distributed wireless multimedia services
- Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools
- Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications
and applications
- Security in wireless multimedia networks
- Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking
- Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks
- E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia
networks
- Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks
- Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks
- Analytical modeling of wireless multimedia networks
- Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless
multimedia networks
- Performance comparison of wireless multimedia networks
- Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of
systems
Important Dates:
| Submission deadline: |
July 20th, 2005 |
| Notification of acceptance: |
August 20th, 2005 |
| Camera ready papers: |
September 30th, 2005 |
Paper Submission Instructions:
Authors are invited to submit
research contributions representing
original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be
carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical
soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at
least three members of the program committee. Please direct any
questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs.
Please submit your manuscript to loureiro AT dcc.ufmg.br
Paper length should be no more than 20 pages, single column,
double spaced, including tables and figures, and no less than 11pt
fonts single or double side. No paper templates are provided in this
phase. Authors should prepare a PostScript or Portable Document Format
(PDF) version of their paper.
Accepted papers will be published by ACM Press, as
proceedings of the WMuNeP. At least one listed author on the final
paper must register for and attend the workshop to present his/her
paper.
Best papers will be selected for the
Journal of
Pervasive Computing and Communications.
Venue:
The 2005 ACM Workhop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance
Modeling (WMuNeP '05) will take place in Montreal, October 13, 2005,
co-located with
ACM MSWiM
'05.
For more information see for instance
http://www.montreal.com/tourism/general.html
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Email: loureiro AT dcc.ufmg.br
Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada
wzhuang AT bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Program Committee:
- Hussein Alnuweiri, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Rossana Andrade, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
- Regina Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
- Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France
- Raffaele Bruno, CNR, Italy
- Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan
- Zihua Guo, Lenovo Corporate R&D, China
- Anna Hac, University of Hawaii, USA
- Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada
- Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Hai Jiang, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Tho Le-Ngoc, McGill University, Canada
- Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Wei Li, University of Toledo, USA
- Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
- Brian Mark, George Mason University, USA
- Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil
- Linnyer Ruiz, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Jianping Pan, NTT MCL, USA
- Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan
- Murat Uysal, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA
- Yang Yang, University College London, UK
- Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University, USA
Publicity Chair (TBA):
Further Information:
For any further questions or inquiries please contact:
Antonio A.F. Loureiro
Department of Computer Science
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
E-mail: loureiro AT dcc.ufmg.br
Tel: +55-31-3499-5860
Fax: +55-31-3499-5858
