CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 18th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2008) Braunschweig, Germany May 28-30, 2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGMM http://www.nossdav.org/2008 Early registration deadline: May 5, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 18th NOSSDAV will be held in May 2008 at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. As always at NOSSDAV, new and controversial ideas and approaches are presented and discussed, and young and experienced researchers meet for lively discussions. From its original focus on support for audio and video, the scope of NOSSDAV has broadened to include networked games, sensor networks, multimedia interfaces, and peer-to-peer networking. As promised in the call-for-papers, interactivity plays a major role in this year's NOSSDAV. Many speakers present research on cooperative or interactive systems, and the attendees are invited to take a first-hand look at research systems in the demo session. The keynote speech of NOSSDAV 2008 will be given by Professor Joerg Liebeherr, University of Toronto. In his keynote entitled "Overlays can do more ... if not everything", he claims that the fundamental limits of overlay networking remain largely unexplored, and presents the challenges of large numbers of co-existing overlays. The invited talk by Paulo Mendes of INESC entitled "Cooperative Networking as Boosting Tool for Internet Interactivity" will show us that cooperative networking appears at several layers of the network stack and start a discussion on conditions for successful or failing systems. The workshop features the presentations of 17 research papers on topics including network and operating system support, new use of multimedia services, the understanding of multimedia workload and streaming with specific environments or applications. The workshop will also include a demo session where participants present prototypes of their software and research systems online and interactively. The authors and presenters come from 16 countries and expect your questions and feedback. You can find more about the program at http://www.nossdav.org/2008/program.html If you have any questions, please get in touch with the co-chairs: Lars Wolf (Technical University of Braunschweig) Carsten Griwodz (Simula Research Laboratory)