QoE-OTTMS 2014 - Special Session on QoE for Over-The-Top Multimedia Services

Nowadays, Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia services’ popularity keeps increasing. Video streaming already accounts for a large portion (over half, by some estimates) of all Internet traffic, and it its growing trend is expected to continue. These services typically have stringent performance requirements, if end-users are to enjoy acceptable levels of Quality of Experience (QoE). This poses significant challenges for network providers and in particular for mobile operators.
The main target of the special session is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, whose interests are related to understanding and managing the QoE of OTT services, as well as, to enhance the performance of networks and the multimedia services that run on them based on this understanding.
Participants will have the opportunity to highlight and discuss technological challenges through interaction with peer researchers, exchanging ideas that fuel future research.
The topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following areas:
QoE assessment for OTT services
QoE?based traffic Management
QoE Estimators
QoE?based service pricing
QoE?driven Optimization for online multimedia content delivery
Adaptive HTTP streaming techniques
Author instructions:
All submissions to this Special Session will be subjected to peer review coordinated by the Special Session Chair(s). Special Session’s Papers should be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iisa20... by selecting the “Track IV: Technologies, Protocols and Applications” and then the Special Session “(QoE-OTTMS) QoE for Over-The-Top Multimedia Services” you will find after the paper abstract section.
Details of the required paper format are available at the official IISA 2014 website (http://iisa2014.unipi.gr/instructions-for-authors/). For further information, please contact directly the Special Session Organizers.
Session Organizers:
Dr. Martín Varela, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland.
Prof. Markus Fiedler, BTH ? Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden.
Assoc. Prof. Angelos Michalas, Department of Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of West Macedonia, Greece.
Dr. Aggeliki Sgora, Department of informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece.
Important Dates:
Special Session’s Paper submission due: Friday February 28, 2014
Author notification: Friday March 28, 2014
Camera-ready paper submission: Friday April 18, 2014
Contact Information:
Aggeliki Sgora, University of Piraeus, Greece, asgora-AT-unipi.gr
Angelos Michalas, Technological Educational Institute of West Macedonia, Greece, amichalas-AT-kastoria.teikoz.gr
Martín Varela, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland, martin.varela-AT-vtt.fi
Markus Fiedler, BTH ? Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden, markus.fiedler-AT-bth.se