EURASIP JOURNAL ON APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING

Special Issues on
MULTIMEDIA OVER IP AND WIRELESS NETWORKS

Multimedia - an integrated and interactive presentation of speech,
audio, video, graphics, and text - have become a major driving force
behind today's information technology that merges practices of
communication, computing, and information processing into an
interdisciplinary field. Meanwhile, Internet protocol (IP) is
becoming the common denominator for multimedia services and wireless
access grows very rapidly recently. However, the intrinsic natures of
the IP and wireless networks impose some necessary tradeoff between
QoS guarantee and resources utilization efficiency. Therefore,
multimedia over IP and wireless networks face many challenges.

Two special issues will be published to address the challenges of how
to deliver multimedia applications in a cost effective, ubiquitous
and QoS levels/classes adaptive manner. One special issue will focus
on multimedia over IP networks, another one on multimedia over
wireless networks.

Original research papers are solicited from the following list of
possible topics:

 * Scalable coding and multiple description coding for multimedia over IP
 * Joint source-channel coding techniques
 * Efficient transcoding techniques for heterogeneous networks
 * Power-optimized multimedia coding and transmission
 * Resource allocation and QoS for multimedia transmission
 * Flow management (fairness, differentiated services, etc.)
 * Fairness in heterogeneous networks and rate control
 * Multimedia traffic modeling and shaping for efficient network utilization
 * Multimedia over next generation Internet
 * Multimedia over GPRS, 3G and emerging 4G wireless networks
 * Content- and location-aware techniques for multimedia transmission
 * Network-adaptive multimedia communication
 * Watermarking and security for IP applications
 * Multimedia database over IP
 * Terminal and server architecture for Internet radio and TV
 * Wireless system issues (mobile IP, hand-off issues, etc.)
 * Multicasting technique for multimedia communication
 * Wireless media streaming and synchronization
 * Overlay networks and distributed delivery of multimedia content
 * Standards and protocols for multimedia delivery over Internet or
   wireless networks (MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, H.26L, H.323, RTP, RTSP,
   SIP, SDP, etc.)

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at
the Journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/ and submit an electronic
copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP web
submission system at http://asp.hindawi.com/wss/, according to the
following timetable.

  Manuscript Due:          November 30, 2002
  Acceptance Notification: May 31, 2003
  Final Manuscript Due:    July 15, 2003
  Publication Date:        3rd and 4th Quarters, 2003

GUEST EDITORS:

Zixiang Xiong, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843, USA; zx@lena.tamu.edu

Mihaela van der Schaar, Wireless communications and Networking Dept,
Philips Research Labs, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, USA
mihaela.vanderschaar@philips.com

Jie Chen, Flarion Technologies, Bedminster One, 135 Route 202/206 South
Bedminster, NJ 07921, USA, chenjie@eng.umd.edu

Eckehard Steinbach, Technische Universitat Munchen, Lehrstuhl fur
Kommunikationsnetze D-80290 Muenchen, Germany, steinb@stanford.edu

C.-C. (Jay) Kuo, Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of
Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; cckuo@sipi.usc.edu

EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:

Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington, Seattle, USA