Service

Special Issue for IEEE MultiMedia Magazine

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Special Issue for IEEE MultiMedia

Advancing Multimedia Distribution with SDN/NFV-based Systems

Submission deadline: September 1, 2016
Publication: July-September, 2017

 

Recently, software-enabled appliances that support network virtualization have seen wide adoption by data centers and service providers. The main advantage of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is that the control plane is separated from the data plane, thereby allowing for network visibility, dynamic resource provisioning, and flexible service deployments. Complementary to SDN, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) focuses on virtualization of software-based network node functions, such as firewalls and intrusion detection. The increased agility and flexibility in the SDN/NFV-based network infrastructure opens up endless possibilities for multimedia content delivery and distribution. For example, virtual content delivery nodes can be dynamically deployed at the edge of the network in an on-demand fashion, potentially reducing energy costs and improving user satisfaction. This special issue aims to showcase and disseminate original research works that explore how multimedia content distribution can be supported and enhanced over SDN/NFV-based networks. Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

  • SDN/NFV-related architectures for next generation multimedia networks and services
  • Dynamic resource provisioning and management for SDN/NFV-based multimedia systems
  • QoE assessment for multimedia delivery over SDN/NFV-based multimedia systems
  • QoE management with dynamic policy deployments over SDN/NFV-enabled networks
  • Algorithms for live analysis and monitoring of audiovisual streaming quality in that correlates with network events in SDN or NFV-based multimedia systems
  • Real-time video adaptation algorithms over SDN/NFV-enabled networks
  • HTTP-based adaptive video streaming over SDN/NFV-enabled networks
  • Interactions between SDN/NFV architectures with content delivery networks (CDNs)
  • Applicability of SDN/NFV in mobile networks for multimedia provision
  • Integration of SDN/NFV-enabled mobile and fixed networks for multimedia services
  • Composition and deployment of Service Function Chains (SFCs) of video and/or VoIP services

Submission Guidelines

See https://www.computer.org/web/peer-review/magazines for general author guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 6,500 words, including all text, the abstract, keywords, bibliography, biographies, and table text. Each table and figure counts for 200 words.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mm-cs), selecting this special issue option.

 

Guest editors

Xiaoqing Zhu, Cisco Systems Inc., USA

Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Mea Wang, University of Calgary, Canada

David Hausheer, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

 

Mobilware’11

Mobilware 2011

4th Int. ICST Conf. on MOBILe Wireless
MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
June 22-24, 2011 – London, UK

ANNUAL THEME
Towards Mobile Middleware Enablers for Seamless Service Provisioning http://www.mobilware.org/index.shtml

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2011
Camera Ready Deadline: May 15, 2011
Conference Date: June 22-24, 2011

SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to communicate with each other, interact with
information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through
various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of these pervasive and
ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various
communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications.

TOPICS
The conference solicits original technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review for publication elsewhere.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
– New middleware concepts for mobile devices
– Cross platform application development
– Open terminal and network APIs
– End-to-end architectures for seamless service provisioning and deployment – Integration of heterogeneous wired and wireless networks and frequency bands – Interworking of mobile applications in mobile cloud environments – QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services – Opportunistic and delay-tolerant mobile and wireless networking – Location-aware and context-aware networking and computing
– Energy-efficient applications and services and OS air interface management – Mobility and handoff management
– Location and tracking supports and services
– Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices – Novel applications and communication protocols
for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, and home networks – Modeling, simulation, and performance
evaluation of mobile wireless systems and services
– Trustworthiness, security, and privacy of mobile and wireless systems

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the
Institute for Computer Sciences, Social
Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
(LNICST) series. The proceedings will be
available in both soft and hard copies by Springer.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Selected high-quality papers will be invited to a
Special Issue of a prestigious journal in the
area, probably Springer Mobile Networks and
Applications (MONET) and/or Elsevier Pervasive
and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journals approval pending.

Steering Committee
Paolo Bellavista
University of Bologna (Italy)
Carl Chang
Iowa State University (USA)
Imrich Chlamtac
Create-Net (Italy)
Thomas Magedanz
Technical University Berlin (Germany)

Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Vladimir Getov
University of Westminster (UK)
Martin Sauter
WirelessMoves (Germany)

TPC Chairs
Stephan Steglich
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian
University of California, Irvine (USA)
Qinghua Zheng
Xian Jiaotong University (P.R. China)

Publicity Chairs
Carlos Becker Westphall
Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Panagiotis Chountas
University of Westminster (UK)

Web Chair
Carlo Giannelli
University of Bologna (Italy)

Conference Coordinator
Gergely Nagy
ICST

Local Chair
Alexander Bolotov
University of Westminster (UK)

Technical Program Committee
Allott Nick
Wholesale Application Community (UK)
Bonnin Jean-Marie
Telecom Bretagne(France)
Borcea Cristian
New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Boussard Mathieu
Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs France (France)
Bu Jiajun
Zhejiang University (China)
Budimir Djuradj
University of Westminster (UK)
Caceres Marcos
Opera (Norway)
Cai Ying
Iowa State University (USA)
Cao Jiannong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HongKong)
Cheng Liang
Lehigh University (USA)
Dan Grigoras
University College Cork (Republic of Ireland)
Demeure Isabelle
Telecom Paris (France)
Dixit Sudhir
HP (India)
Dragehorn Olaf
University Kassel (Germany)
Economou Daphne
University of Westminster (UK)
Faeth Matthias
TNO (The Netherlands)
Fasbender Andreas
Ericsson (Germany)
Fu Xinwen
University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA)
Fuhrhop Christian
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Gavras Anastasius
Eurescom (Germany)
Georgalas Nektarios
British Telecom (UK)
Giambene Giovanni
Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy)
Gunes Mesut
FU Berlin (Germany)
H. Glitho Roch
Concordia University (Canada)
Hesselman Cristian
Novay (The Netherlands)
Hirschfeld Robert
Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam (Germany)
Holtel Stefan
flensburg.school for Advanced Business Research (Germany)
Hong Feng
Ocean University of China (China)
Jaokar Ajit
Futuretext (UK)
Ji Yang
BUPT (China)
Kanter Theo
Mid Sweden University (Sweden)
Kernchen Ralf
University of Surrey (UK)
Koolwaaij Johan
Novay (The Netherlands)
Krussel Steffen
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Ku Wei-Shinn
Auburn University (USA)
Kurze Martin
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Lachmund Sven
DOCOMO Euro-Labs(Germany)
Langendoerfer Peter
IHP Microelectronics (Germany)
Li Xiuqi (Suze)
University of North Carolina (USA)
Li Yan
Huawei (China)
Li Xiaolin
University of Florida (USA)
Lohi Mahi
University of Westminster (UK)
Minerva Roberto
Telecom Italia – Future Centre (Italy)
Moessner Klaus
University of Surrey (UK)
Nadeem Tamer
Old Dominion University (USA)
Nord Christian
Sony Ericsson (Sweden)
Ohsaki Hiroyuki
Osaka University (Japan)
Paul Andre
Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
Quantz Joachim
ART+COM (Germany)
Shikh-Bahaei Mohammad R.
King’s College London (UK)
Raggett Dave
W3C (UK)
Ravi Nishkam
NEC Labs (USA)
Roman Gruia-Catalin
Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
Salden Alfons
Almende (The Netherlands)
Schwaiger Roland
Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Sun Weiwei
Fudan University (China)
Taheri Javid
The University of Sydney (Australia)
Tao Xianping
Nanjing University (China)
Tarczynski Andrzej
University of Westminster (UK)
Tripathi Anand
University of Minnesota (USA)
Wagner Matthias
DOCOMO Euro-Labs (Germany)
Wang Xiaodong
National University of Defence Technology (China)
Xue Guangtao
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Zhu Yanmin
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Zambonelli Franco
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

CNSM 2010 (Former MANWEEK)

6th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management Niagara Falls, Canada
October 25 – 29, 2010

http://www.ieee-cnsm.org/

The 6th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2010) is a premier annual conference in the general area of network, systems, and services management. Built upon the success starting in 2005 to collocate six management workshops within the same week (MANWEEK), this year we debut the single main conference with a single track. The integrated conference provides a unique opportunity to showcase both premier research results and innovative cross-disciplinary explorations. As an open forum, we encourage authors to explore new ideas and to boost the synergy among distinctive but strongly correlated areas.

Topics of interest include:

Service and Business Management
Distributed systems operations and management
Application management (context-aware, enterprise, healthcare) Management of multimedia and data services
SOA and web services management
Data centers& hosting service management
IT service management and Business process management
Cloud computing and grid management
Virtualization& resource provisioning
Trust and privacy as a service
Decision support for business-driven management

Network Management
Ad-hoc networks
Wireless& mobile networks
IP/MPLS networks
LANs
Optical networks
Sensor networks
Overlay networks
P2P networks
Broadband access networks
Home networking
IP Operations and management
Smart Grids (Energy)
Future Internet and Next-Generation networks
Managing network and service changes

Management Methods and Technologies
Fault management
Configuration management
Performance management
Security management
Event management
Energy management
Policy-based management
Autonomic and self-management
Visualization
Protocols, middleware, and mobile agents
Control theory, optimization theory, and machine learning Probability and stochastic processes

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper registration and submission May 7, 2010
Author notification June 30, 2010
Camera ready papers due July 23, 2010
Conference date October 25-29, 2010

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports are also encouraged. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to CNSM 2010. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports) formatted according to the standard IEEE two-column Transactions guidelines
(http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html).

* Long papers (up to 8 two-column pages)
* Short papers (up to 4 two-column pages)

Please visit JEMS conference management system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/ for paper registration and submission (only PDF files are accepted).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

Program Chairs
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Program Vice Chairs
Service and Business Management
* Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * John Strassner, POSTECH, Korea
Network Management
* Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
* Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Management Methods and Technologies
* Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA * Joan Serrat, University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Publications Chair
Deep Medhi, University of Missouri, USA

Publicity Chair
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Workshops Chair
Noura Limam, POSTECH, Korea

Webmaster
Karthick Ramachandran, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Steering Committee
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
James Hong, POSTECH, Korea
Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Nethereland
Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA