******************************************************************************* CFP - IEEE Communications Magazine - IP-Based TV Technologies, Services and Multidisciplinary Applications http://www.comsoc.org/commag/call-for-papers ****************************************************************************** The move to Internet Protocol (IP) based television services has challenged the traditional television value chain by allowing the Internet, wired and wireless, private and public, to deliver high-quality television content. In this new paradigm for content consumption, television content is expected to play a disruptive role in the next few years. As a result, TV convergence is becoming a popular topic for networking and user experience research because it provides a significant challenge for both the next generation networks as well as for the future viewing ecosystem, Significant questions need to be answered: from how to manage content delivery networks, protect commercial and personal content and to design efficient distribution architectures, to how to enhance visual perception and Quality of Experience. The papers in this featured topic will focus on the recent changes in the Internet as the new television delivery medium and how these changes will reshape the IP-based television of the future. The special issue will focus on recent research and deployment in various aspects of today's IP-based TV technologies, services and applications. The targeted audience combines researchers and developers in the end-to-end delivery of converged TV services and applications, video system engineers, and strategic business managers who need to know "what is next" in terms of video and television services and applications. The guest editors solicit papers, from both academia and industry, covering topics of interest that include, but are not limited to: * Next generation converged TV architecture and performance - especially those combining heterogeneous networks and platforms * Quality of Experience in social TV systems and applications over mobile and converged networks * Performance of novel approaches to TV network design including wireless Internet TV * Analysis and simulation of TV services over heterogeneous networks * Performance of novel content protection especially for Peer-to-Peer and community TV viewing * End-to-End TV Quality of Experience including monitoring, measuring and user behavior * Content modeling and metadata for next generation converged TV * Video convergence, Mobile TV, Mobile Social TV applications and interactivity * Interactive end-to-end IP-based TV applications * IP-based TV application models (in particular for social interaction, shared experiences and metrics) * Field trials and user studies of IP-based TV applications * Scalable compression, network coding, congestion control, rate control of IP-based TV content * Cross-layer dynamic adaptation and end-to-end Quality of Service issues for heterogeneous IP-based TV networks * Video Content Distribution, Networks and P2P architectures for distributed TV applications * Innovative methods for evolving IP-based TV applications (including aspects of computer networking oriented to billing, pricing and advertising models, large-scale data management, etc.) Prospective authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine manuscript format described in the Authors Guidelines (http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines). All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com) select "April 2013/IP-Based TV Technologies, Services and Multidisciplinary Applications" from the drop down menu), according to the following timetable: Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: January 30, 2013 Publication Date: April 2013 Guest Editors Oscar M Bonastre, PhD (Lead Guest Editor) Email: ombonastre@ieee.org Operations Research Centre, University Miguel Hernandez (UMH), Spain Marie-Jose Montpetit, PhD, mariejo@mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA http://web.mit.edu/~mariejo/www/mjm.html Pablo Cesar, PhD, P.S.Cesar@cwi.nl Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/