* * * Extended deadline: February 19, 2009 * * *

ConTEL 2009 Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications
[ co-located with ConTEL 2009 - The 10th Int'l Conference on Telecomunications June 8-10, 2009, Zagreb, Croatia ]

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Best papers (extended version) will be published in a special issue of the Springer's Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications.
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(http://www.contel.hr/2009/workshops)

The ConTEL 2009 Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2009) is a one-day event to be held in conjunction with the main conference.

The tentative day of the workshop is June 8, 2009.

The workshop seeks innovative technical papers on all aspects of IPTV in multimedia broadcasting, including architectural standardization, content protection, quality of service and quality of experience, middleware, etc.

Topics include but are not limited to:

* Architectures for IPTV systems
* IPTV Service deployments, interactivity, datacasting
* IPTV QoS/QoE issues
* Video Content Distribution Networks for distributed IPTV systems
* IPTV system integration issues
* Mobile IPTV
* IPTV test beds and field trials for multimedia broadcasting apps
* IPTV home networks, set-top-box and home networking
* Architectures for P2P-based IPTV Service delivery
* Mathematical and analytical models for IPTV networks
* IPTV content consumption measurement, congestion and rate control
* IPTV processing, video coding and processing
* IPTV content protection and watermarking.

Additionally, the workshop organizers plan to bring an invited speaker to talk on "IPTV in Industry", i.e., to discuss original contributions from various industry IPTV domains (e.g. consumer electronics, broadcasters, producers, broadband companies, software and hardware developers, telecom operators). The objective will be discussing evidences of issues regarding IPTV technologies' dealing with industry cases in the above areas of interest.

Deadlines are the same as for the main conference.

February 19, 2009: Full Papers, Due [---Extended deadline!---]
March 27, 2009: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
April 24, 2009: Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due

Paper submissions for the workshop should follow the submission guidelines for regular ConTEL papers, and be submitted electronically before submission deadline, via EDAS under the "IPTV Workshop" track.

Instructions and guidelines are available on ConTEL Web site (http://www.contel.hr/).
Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process and accepted papers will be published in the special section of the ConTEL 2009 conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore.

Best papers (extended version) selected by TPC will be published in a special issue of the Springer's Multimedia Tools and Applications journal. For more details on the journal, see http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042

Technical Program Committee

Oscar Martinez Bonastre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Operations Research Center, Spain, Chair

Sachin Agarwal, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - Research, Germany Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS' Media Interoperability Lab, Germany Alen Bazant, University of Zagreb, Croatia Albert Canigueral, Advanced Digital Broadcast, Switzerland Pablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherland Meeyoung Cha, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel, Network Strategy Group, Belgium Mohamed Essaaidi, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco Ulf Essler, Centre for Information and Communications Research, Sweden Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy Olivier Fourmaux, Pierre et Marie Curie University, LIP6, France Vijay Gopalakrishnan, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Jivesh Govil, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Xiaojun Hei, Huazhong Univ. Science & Tech., P.R. China Jinsul Kim, ETRI, Korea Byung Sun Lee, ETRI, Korea Jian Liang, eBay Inc., USA Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Marie-José Montpetit, Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab, USA Hasna Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France Maurizio Murroni, University of Cagliari, Italy Carlos Palau Salvador, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA James She, University of Waterloo, Canada Dalibor Turina, Ericsson, Sweden Manfred Weihs, Institute of Computer Technology, Austria

For all questions about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Chair, Dr. Oscar Martinez Bonastre (E-mail: ombonastre@ieee.org).