CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of Journal of Network and Computer Applications on

“Advances in Multimedia Services over Emerging Wireless Networks”

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnca

Scope:

The advances of emerging wireless networks and new multimedia technologies have inspired more diversified multimedia applications and services. It can be seen that the emerging wireless networks will make possible a new generation of multimedia services and applications. The objective of this special issue is to gather the state-of-the-art and future-oriented research contributions that focus on the applications, architectures, and protocols developed for emerging wireless multimedia services. This special issue solicits high-quality theoretical and practical research on the landscape of recent advances in multimedia services over emerging wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Emerging standards, technologies and novel paradigms for wireless multimedia services
• Multimedia delivery over 3G, 4G, ad hoc & sensor networks, WMN, WLAN, WMAN, and hybrid networks
• Multimedia services over VANET, DTN, wireless P2P network, and cognitive radio networks
• Wireless multimedia services for e-learning, e-commerce, e-entertainment, e-health, smart-home, social networking
• Mobile multimedia applications and services
• Real-time multimedia applications and services
• Multimodal services and applications for wireless multimedia networks
• Adaptive, context-aware, location-based wireless multimedia services
• Cross-layer design for wireless multimedia applications
• Service discovery : protocols and frameworks
• Resource allocation and QoS provisioning in wireless multimedia applications
• Audio-video surveillance and other privacy & security-related applications
• Case studies, test beds, field trials and evaluation of novel wireless multimedia services
• Recent trends in emerging wireless multimedia services and applications


Important Dates:

Paper Submission Due: July 16, 2010
1st Round notification: October 15, 2010
Final Notification: December 15, 2010
Publication date: 2nd Quarter 2011


Submission Guideline:

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select “SI: Wireless Multimedia - Vaidya” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/jnca/


Submission Format:

The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at www.elsevier.com/locate/jnca. For more information, please contact the Editor-in-Chief, Mohammed Atiquzzaman (atiq@ou.edu )


Guest Editors:

Prof. Hyuk Lim
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Email: hlim@gist.ac.kr

Prof. James Chang Wu Yu
Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Email: cwyu@chu.edu.tw

Dr. Binod Vaidya
(Corresponding Editor)
University of Ottawa, Canada
Email: bnvaidya@gmail.com