HWNQoE 2017 - 2nd International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks and Quality-of-Experience (HWNQoE-2017)

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.
Topics of the Workshop
Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
Heterogeneous networks architecture and performance analysis
QoE-aware resource allocation, interference management and admission control
Energy-aware QoE control in resource-constrained wireless networks
QoE-aware cross-layer design and optimization
M2M/IoT network architecture and performance analysis
5G network architecture/techniques, and performance analysis
QoE-aware green technologies for multimedia applications
Secure routing design and analysis 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
Multimedia session signalling in wireless/mobile environments
Multimedia content management and distribution
Context-aware wireless multimedia applications
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 and vehicular networks
QoE evaluation for emerging applications and services
Network security, reliability and survivability
Mobile cloud computing and applications
Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection