The 1st International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications (WMNA'09)
Wrexham, United Kingdom, September 10, 2009
Call for papers
The First Workshop of Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications (WMNA’09) will be a half-day workshop, held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA’09). The rapid expansion of wireless services from voice communication to high performance multimedia communication in recent years is an indication that significant value is placed on portable multimedia applications as key innovations for both academia and industry. This workshop is intended to provide a forum for presenting, exchanging and discussing the most recent advances in different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and applications. In particular, this workshop will bring together leading researchers, industry professionals, and research students to study the special problems and challenges of multimedia mobile and wireless environments.
Original papers/posters are now invited for submission to WMNA’09. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Deployment of wireless multimedia applications and services
- Deployment of wireless multimedia networks, architectures, and protocols
- Wireless multimedia multicasting technologies
- Multimedia support over multi-hop wireless networks (mesh, ad-hoc, sensor networks)
- Traffic control and characterisation in wireless multimedia networks
- QoS and admission control in wireless multimedia networks
- Real-time streaming wireless multimedia communications and technologies
- Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval technologies
- Management of wireless multimedia networks
- Security in wireless multimedia networks
- Performance comparison of wireless multimedia networks
- Performance analyses of wireless multimedia networks
- Analytical modelling of wireless multimedia networks
- Design, implementation and testbed/experimental results of wireless multimedia systems
- Coding and compression for wireless multimedia networks
- Handoff in wireless multimedia communications
- Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks
- Distributed wireless multimedia technologies
Important dates
Submission deadline: Friday 10th April, 2009
Notification of authors: Friday 22nd May, 2009
Camera-ready version due: Friday 19th June, 2009
Registration by: Friday 26th June, 2009
Workshop date: Thursday 10th September, 2009
Selected papers will be considered for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Business Data Communications & Networking (IJBDCN).