HWNQoE 2015 - 1st International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks and Quality-of-Experience (HWNQoE-2015)

The 1st International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks and Quality-of-Experience
(HWNQoE-2015)
http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/wm255/HWNQoS/
Liverpool, England, UK, 26-28 October 2015
Sponsored by
IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC)
INTRODUCTION
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With the rapid innovation in sophisticated wireless communication technologies including 4G LTE-Advanced, fixed and mobile broadband WiMAX, 3G UMTS/CDMA and high-speed Wi-Fi, the past years have witnessed a dramatic growth of mobile multimedia applications, for example, Live Mobile Video, 3D Video Stream, Digital and Mobile TV, VoIP, etc. These content-rich multimedia applications consume a huge amount of network resources and create new challenging issues for heterogeneous wireless networks to satisfy the ever-increasing Quality-of-Experience (QoE) requirements. Furthermore, the traditional criteria for the measurements and provisioning of network performances are generally based on Quality of Service (QoS), which is defined in terms of network delivery capacity and resource availability such as bandwidth, jitter, throughput, transmission delay and availability. While it is widely accepted that QoS is inadequate for successfully and comprehensively evaluating the user-perceived quality of multimedia services over heterogeneous networks, as QoE is determined not only by QoS but also by the quality of multimedia content to be delivered.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together industry and academic researchers to provide an up-to-date picture of the state-of-the-art research in the field of heterogeneous wireless communications and QoE provisioning. It is also intended to provide a forum to exchange varying beliefs and understandings of how to seamless integrate advanced wireless networking and adaptive multimedia processing for enabling evolution of the current wireless system toward future networks.
SCOPE AND TPOCIS
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Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to:
? Heterogeneous networks architecture and performance analysis
? M2M/IoT network architecture and performance analysis
? 5G network architecture/techniques, and performance analysis
? QoE-aware resource allocation, interference management and admission control in wireless and mobile networks
? QoE-aware cross-layer optimization
? Energy-aware QoE control in resource-constrained wireless networks
? QoE-aware green technologies for multimedia applications
? Design and analysis of secure routing in QoE-aware mobile networks
? Multimedia traffic modeling and characterization in heterogeneous wireless networks
? Resource-aware efficient multimedia video coding
? 2D/3D Visual media over heterogeneous networks
? Advanced image and video processing
? User-centric performance and optimisation of advanced media services
? Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection
? Multimedia session signalling in wireless/mobile environments
? Multimedia content management and distribution
? Software defined networking and network function virtualization
? Subjective QoE testing of wireless social networking services
? Real experiments and testbeds for QoE evaluation in mobile networks, vehicular networks and sensor networks
? QoE evaluation for emerging applications, e.g., 3D video, VVoIP, online gaming
? Network security, reliability and survivability
? Mobile cloud computing and applications
? Context-aware wireless multimedia applications
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline:
15 June 2015
Authors Notification:
15 August 2015
Final Manuscript Due:
15 September, 2015
Registration Due:
15 September 2015
Conference Date:
26-28 October 2015
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the workshop website (http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/phd/wm255/HWNQoS/) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/
Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.