************************************************************************ Call for Papers: Advances in Multimedia Streaming (a Special Issue of the Advances in Multimedia journal) http://www.hindawi.com/journals/am/si/ams/ ************************************************************************ Multimedia streaming remains a leading research subject worldwide, both because of the growing demand for delivery of multimedia content with low latency and increased quality and because of the emerging diversification and complexity of the underlying wired and wireless networks. Applications include Internet TV, video on demand, and video conferencing. Recent advances in related fields, such as personal, mobile and ad hoc networks, content delivery networks, and P2P networking create a challenging environment for multimedia streaming and contribute to the increased and continuing interest in this research topic. We invite researchers to submit original, high-quality research and review articles that seek to enhance the techniques currently used to stream multimedia over wired and/or wireless networks. We are interested in articles that present, analyze, and discuss advances that will drive future networked multimedia streaming systems. Key challenges for this special issue are quality of service and interactivity in IP networks. We encourage articles whose results are supported by experimental evaluation. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * Multimedia streaming in mobile/ad hoc networks * Multimedia multicasting and broadcasting * Multimedia streaming in the future Internet * Content delivery networks for multimedia streaming * P2P multimedia streaming * Multimedia streaming for online games * 3D and multiview video streaming Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/am/guidelines/ Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: October 15, 2011 First Round of Reviews: January 15, 2012 Publication Date: April 15, 2012 ************************************************************************ Lead Guest Editor ----------------- * Christos Bouras, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, 26504 Rion, Greece; Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, 26504 Rion, Greece Guest Editors ------------- * Raouf Hamzaoui, Department of Engineering, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK * Xiaokang Yang, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China * Vaggelis Kapoulas, Research Unit 6: Networks, Telematics and New Services, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, 26504 Rion, Greece