ijdmb 2011 - Special Issue on: Advances in Dynamic Mesh Networks International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

Special Issue on:

Advances in Dynamic Mesh
Networks
International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
(an EI Compendex
Journal)

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/osi.html

New Deadline: August 1,
2010

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are characterized by
the twofold role played by each node, acting either as a user or as a server. In
literature, great efforts have been devoted to investigate internodes
transmission, cooperation, and optimization strategies, mostly referring to an
application unaware communication framework. However, in the evolving multimedia
communication scenarios, the role of each end-user application may change from
producing to consuming multimedia data, in a more and more flexible way. Each
user plays, at the same time, a source/destination role, and it can even
cooperate with other users at the application layer, as shown by recent studies
on distributed source coding, as well as on multicamera networks, or on
distributed rate allocation. The potentiality of such a flexibility achieved at
the application layer can be powered when it copes with a dynamic mesh network
transmission framework.
The scope of this special issue is to investigate the
potentiality of such a dynamic multimedia network, envisaging different services
scenarios and possible technical solutions. Several research areas are involved:
standards, architectures, systems, services, and others at the different
layers.
Research contribution are solicited, at the aim of envisaging a
framework of candidate solutions, so as to step further a scenario in which
interoperability is not superimposed but it naturally arises from a design
philosophy aiming at enriched and open dynamical communication
schemes.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Advanced coding techniques, including but not limited to multiple
description coding and single and multiview distributed video CodingEmerging standard for multimedia scalable, distributed, multiview encoding:
advantages and limits of nonstandard versus standard compliant techniquesCompression versus protection trade-off: channel coding versus error
resilient media coding on wireless mesh networkMedia aware communication and resource allocation over WMNMedia-friendly network architecture and transmission technologies for
WMNCross-layer optimization and codingNetwork protocols for multimedia quality aware delivering: interoperability
and advanced functionalitiesDiversity, security, and interoperability in multimedia communicationPeer-to-peer and overlay networks approaches for multimedia
communicationsLocation-based multimedia communicationsBefore submission, authors
should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/guidelines.h....
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/,
according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due
August 1, 2010

First Round of Reviews
November 1 , 2010

Publication Date
February 1, 2011
Lead Guest Editor
Stefania Colonnese,
Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Roma, Italy
Guest Editors
Oscar C. AU, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong KongMarco Carli, University of “Roma
TRE”, Roma, ItalyStefano Rinauro, Università
“La Sapienza” di Roma, Roma, Italy