MCDN 2016 - Special Issue on Mobile Content Delivery Networks

According to a recent study by Cisco, video traffic accounted for about 40% of consumer Internet traffic in 2014 and will reach 62% by the end of 2015. Global mobile data traffic is expected to increase 26 times from 2013 to 2016. Moreover, we are witnessing a significant growth in the access bandwidth of mobile networks and the amount of mobile devices. Content delivery services, such as mobile IPTV, video streaming, and cloud applications, are expected to dominate the mobile Internet traffic, and potentially cause bandwidth bottlenecks that impair the user quality of experience (QoE). Therefore, there is an increasing demand for designing a content delivery system that can be overlaid on both the public Internet and mobile networks.
The special issue focuses on state-of-the-art research on mobile content delivery systems. We solicit high-quality original research works that can push the frontiers of the research area, particularly in the system-level innovation of architecture design, protocol development, and performance analysis.
The topics of interest in the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
Unicast, multicast, manycast, anycast, or broadcast protocols for mobile CDNs
Architecture design and analysis of mobile CDNs
Quality of experience (QoE) evaluation for mobile CDNs
Backbone and/or access network infrastructure design for supporting mobile CDNs
Cross-layer design for high-fidelity data transmission in mobile CDNs
Adaptive media playback systems for mobile CDNs
Mobile CDNs supported by software defined networks (SDNs)
Network function virtualization (NFV) and service function chaining (SFC) for mobile CDNs
Design of cyber-physical systems for mobile CDNs
Design of mobile CDNs for supporting telecom datacenter networking.
Billboard/signage management under mobile CDNs
Internet of things on mobile CDNs
Issues of security and privacy preservation in mobile CDNs
Tentative Schedule
Manuscript submission deadline: January 15, 2016
First notification: May 1, 2016
Submission of revised paper: July 15, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2016
Guest Editors:
Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada (p4ho-AT-uwaterloo.ca)
Ming-Fu Li, Chang Gang University, Taiwan (mfli-AT-mail.cgu.edu.tw)
Hsiang-Fu Yu, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan (yu-AT-tea.ntue.edu.tw)
Xiaohong Jiang, Future University, Japan (jiang-AT-fun.ac.jp)
György Dán, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (gyuri-AT-kth.se)
Instructions for submission:
Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should be a substantial extension of the conference paper. Authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Papers must be submitted through the Computer Communications website at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom, where guidelines for the manuscript preparation can also be found. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration by the Special Issue, the authors should select "Special Issue: Mobile CDN" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.