[Tccc] CFP: Special Session on Quality of Experience in Wireless Multimedia Systems (ETT)

Kan Zheng zkan
Tue Nov 22 20:44:15 EST 2011


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-------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -----------------
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT)

Quality of Experience in Wireless Multimedia Systems

Aim and Scope:
One important objective of new broadband wireless communication networks is
to enable people to enjoy multimedia services anywhere at any time. During
the recent decade, a variety of techniques have been developed that address
Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia applications in wireless networks.
Good QoS is necessary, but not necessarily sufficient for good user
perception, enjoyment and acceptance of a service. Thus, Quality of
Experience (QoE) / Quality of Perception (QoP) has emerged as an important
concept, covering subjective and objective, qualitative and quantitative
measures of ultimate importance for users and thus, for service providers
and operators. QoE issues have been creating a new assessment and management
paradigm in multimedia systems, and they are gaining special attention in
wireless communication networks, as the latter have proven to be quite
hostile environments for multimedia streaming due to volatile radio
conditions and lacks of capacity. QoE metrics are considered as important
metrics to measure the quality level of multimedia contents from the users'
perspective. QoE-oriented approaches aim to overcome the limitations of
current QoS-aware schemes, not only emerging as a new trend towards
objective measures but also providing necessary links to human perception.
The use of such metrics is expected to turn the optimization of wireless
networks more efficient in terms of user satisfaction than traditional
techniques that are focusing solely on objective QoS metrics such as
throughput, delay, jitter, throughput-based fairness, etc. QoE models that
include user perception and user behavior are of essential importance for
QoE-aware optimization of any communication system. In particular, novel
QoE-aware transmission approaches are encouraged to be proposed to improve
the efficiency of wireless networks for multimedia services.

The aim of this feature topic issue is to encourage researchers to submit
their work related to QoE-aware wireless multimedia networks. Authors with
recent unpublished work on QoE modeling, measurements, analysis, control and
optimization are particularly encouraged to submit their original
contribution to this special issue. This feature topic also aims at bringing
together the state-of-the-art research results of QoE issues for wireless
multimedia networks.

Topics of Interest:
The topics relevant to this special issue include but are not limited to:
--Relationships between traffic patterns, QoS and QoE parameters
--QoE models, their applications and use cases
-- QoE inference from user behavior
--QoE measurement methodologies and metrics (subjective, objective,
pseudo-subjective testing, etc.)
--QoE for new wireless multimedia applications (e.g. 3D video)
--QoE-based routing and resource management
--QoE-aware transmission in wireless systems
--QoE-based network management
-- QoE-aware cross-layer design
--QoE-driven adaptation and control mechanisms for wireless systems and
devices
-- QoE-based optimization in wireless environments
--Testbed for QoE performance evaluation
--Media synchronization, playback, and buffer management

Papers must strictly focus on QoE issues and thus significantly go beyond
current QoS approaches. The editors maintain
the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special
issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and
invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be
formatted according to the ETT guidelines
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1541-8251/homepage/For
Authors.html). Authors should submit a
PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscriptcentral
(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ett) according to the
timetable below.


Important Dates:
--Submission deadline: 1. May 2012
--Author Notification: 1. October 2012
--Final Manuscript: 3. December 2012
--Publication: 2013


Guest Editors:
   Markus Fiedler Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Karlskrona, Sweden
(markus.fiedler at bth.se)
   Yuming Jiang Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
Norway
   Kan Zheng Beijing University of Posts& Telecommunications (BUPT), China
   Periklis Chatzimisios Alexander Technological Educational Institution of
Thessaloniki (TEITHE), Greece
   Wei Xiang University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia




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