[Tccc] CfP: ETT Special Issue on Quality of Experience in Wireless Multimedia Systems

Markus Fiedler markus.fiedler
Sat Mar 31 08:51:18 EDT 2012


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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Authors with recent unpublished work on QoE modeling, measurements,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/ForAuthors.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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