WITMA 2009 - International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2009)

International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary
Applications (IWITMA 2009)

International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary
Applications (IWITMA 2009)

June 8, 2009, Zagreb, Croatia

(in conjunction with ConTEL 2009 and technically cosponsored by the
IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Croatia Section, and IEEE Region 8)

http://www.contel.hr/2009/workshops

Submission deadline: February 1, 2009
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The International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary
Applications (IWITMA 2009) is a one-day event to be held in
conjunction with the 10th International Conference on
Telecommunications ConTEL 2009. ConTEL 2009 is organized by the
University of Zagreb ? Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computing and the IEEE Communication Society Croatia Chapter, and
technically cosponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE
Croatia Section, and IEEE Region 8.

The tentative day of the workshop is June 8, 2009.

For up-to-date information on ConTEL and IWITMA, visit the ConTEL 2009

Homepage: http://www.contel.hr/.

The workshop seeks innovative technical papers on all aspects of IPTV
in multimedia broadcasting, including architectural standardization,
content protection, quality of service and quality of experience,
middleware, etc.

Topics include but are not limited to:

* Architectures for IPTV systems (including NGN based, Non-NGN based,
IPTV service and scenario, etc.)
* IPTV Service deployments, interactivity, datacasting
* IPTV QoS/QoE issues (including performance considerations, traffic
management, cross layer reliability solutions, monitoring, etc.)
* Video Content Distribution Networks for distributed IPTV systems
* IPTV system integration issues (including head-end integration,
networking, end systems, portability scalability / interoperability
aspects, etc.)
* Mobile IPTV (system deployment, mobile extension considerations, etc.)
* IPTV test beds and field trials for multimedia broadcasting applications
* IPTV home networks, set-top-box and home networking
* Architectures for P2P-based IPTV Service delivery
* Mathematical and analytical models for IPTV networks
* IPTV content consumption measurement, congestion control, rate control
* IPTV processing, video coding and processing
* IPTV content protection and watermarking.

Additionally, the workshop plans to bring an invited speaker to talk
on "IPTV in Industry", i.e., to discuss original contributions from
various industry IPTV domains (e.g. consumer electronics,
broadcasters, producers, broadband companies, software and hardware
developers, telecom operators). The objective will be discussing
evidences of issues regarding IPTV technologies' dealing with industry
cases in the above areas of interest.

Workshop Chair:
Dr. Oscar Martinez Bonastre
IEEE Communications Member
Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
E-mail: ombonastre-AT-ieee.org

Technical Program Committee:
Carlos Palau Salvador, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Giancarlo Fortino, Universit? della Calabria, Italy
Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA
Jian Liang, eBay Inc, USA
Pablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
Olivier Fourmaux, Pierre et Marie Curie University, LIP6, France
Jinsul Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea
Albert Canigueral, Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), Switzerland
Mohamed Essaaidi, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco
Meeyoung Cha, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs ? Research, USA
Marie-Jos? Montpetit, Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab, USA
Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel, Network Strategy Group, Belgium
Byung Sun Lee, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
(ETRI), Korea
Sachin Agarwal, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories ? Research, Germany
Maurizio Murroni,University of Cagliari, Italy
Ulf Essler, Centre for Information and Communications Research (CIC), Sweden
Manfred Weihs, Institute of Computer Technology, Austria
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, AT&T Labs ? Research, USA
Xiaojun Hei, Huazhong Univ. Science & Tech.,P.R. China

If you are interested in joining the Technical Program Committee (TPC)
for this event, please send your brief CV with a list of your most
recent publications and workshop area(s) of your specialty to the
Workshop Chair, Dr. Oscar Martinez Bonastre (E-mail:
ombonastre-AT-ieee.org).

IMPORTANT DATES

February 1, 2009: Full Papers, Due
March 27, 2009: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
April 24, 2009: Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due

PAPER SUBMISSION

Paper submissions for this workshop should follow the submission
format and guidelines for regular ConTEL papers, and be submitted
electronically before submission deadline, via EDAS
(http://edas.info), under the track "Workshop on IPTV Technologies and
Multidisciplinary Applications". Please see ConTEL web site for
details. Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process and
accepted papers will be published in the special section of the ConTEL
2009 conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Selected papers (extended
version) will be invited for possible publication in a special issue
of a top journal in IPTV area (pending). For all questions about the
workshop, please contact the Workshop Chair (ombonastre-AT-ieee.org).