============================================================ Best papers (extended version) will be published in a special issue of the Springer's Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications. ============================================================ International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2009) June 8, 2009, Zagreb, Croatia (in conjunction with ConTEL 2009 and technically cosponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Croatia Section, and IEEE Region 8) http://www.contel.hr/2009/workshops Submission deadline: February 1, 2009 -------------------------------------- The International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2009) is a one-day event to be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Telecommunications ConTEL 2009. ConTEL 2009 is organized by the University of Zagreb – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and the IEEE Communication Society Croatia Chapter, and technically cosponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Croatia Section, and IEEE Region 8. The tentative day of the workshop is June 8, 2009. For up-to-date information on ConTEL and IWITMA, visit the ConTEL 2009 Homepage: http://www.contel.hr/. 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 (including NGN based, Non-NGN based, IPTV service and scenario, etc.) * IPTV Service deployments, interactivity, datacasting * IPTV QoS/QoE issues (including performance considerations, traffic management, cross layer reliability solutions, monitoring, etc.) * Video Content Distribution Networks for distributed IPTV systems * IPTV system integration issues (including head-end integration, networking, end systems, portability scalability / interoperability aspects, etc.) * Mobile IPTV (system deployment, mobile extension considerations, etc.) * IPTV test beds and field trials for multimedia broadcasting applications * 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 control, rate control * IPTV processing, video coding and processing * IPTV content protection and watermarking. Additionally, the workshop plans 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. Workshop Chair: Dr. Oscar Martinez Bonastre IEEE Communications Member Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain E-mail: ombonastre@ieee.org Technical Program Committee: Carlos Palau Salvador, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA Jian Liang, eBay Inc, USA Pablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands Olivier Fourmaux, Pierre et Marie Curie University, LIP6, France Jinsul Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea Albert Canigueral, Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), Switzerland Mohamed Essaaidi, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco Meeyoung Cha, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs – Research, USA Marie-José Montpetit, Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab, USA Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel, Network Strategy Group, Belgium Byung Sun Lee, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea Sachin Agarwal, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories – Research, Germany Maurizio Murroni,University of Cagliari, Italy Ulf Essler, Centre for Information and Communications Research (CIC), Sweden Manfred Weihs, Institute of Computer Technology, Austria Vijay Gopalakrishnan, AT&T Labs – Research, USA Xiaojun Hei, Huazhong Univ. Science & Tech.,P.R. China Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D, France Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS' Media Interoperability Lab, Germany Dalibor Turina, Ericsson, Sweden Alen Bazant, University of Zagreb, Croatia James She, University of Waterloo, Canada Jivesh Govil, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA If you are interested in joining the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for this event, please send your brief CV with a list of your most recent publications and workshop area(s) of your specialty to the Workshop Chair, Dr. Oscar Martinez Bonastre (E-mail: ombonastre@ieee.org). IMPORTANT DATES February 1, 2009: Full Papers, Due March 27, 2009: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection April 24, 2009: Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions for this workshop should follow the submission format and guidelines for regular ConTEL papers, and be submitted electronically before submission deadline, via EDAS (http://edas.info), under the track "Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications". Please see ConTEL web site for details. 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 Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications. For all questions about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Chair (ombonastre@ieee.org).