WMNA 09 2009 - The 1st International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications (WMNA 09)

The 1st International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications (WMNA'09)

Wrexham, United Kingdom, September 10, 2009


Call for papers
The First Workshop of Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications (WMNA¡¯09) will be a half-day workshop, held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA¡¯09). The rapid expansion of wireless services from voice communication to high performance multimedia communication in recent years is an indication that significant value is placed on portable multimedia applications as key innovations for both academia and industry. This workshop is intended to provide a forum for presenting, exchanging and discussing the most recent advances in different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and applications. In particular, this workshop will bring together leading researchers, industry professionals, and research students to study the special problems and challenges of multimedia mobile and wireless environments.

Original papers/posters are now invited for submission to WMNA¡¯09. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Deployment of wireless multimedia applications and services
Deployment of wireless multimedia networks, architectures, and protocols
Wireless multimedia multicasting technologies
Multimedia support over multi-hop wireless networks (mesh, ad-hoc, sensor networks)
Traffic control and characterisation in wireless multimedia networks
QoS and admission control in wireless multimedia networks
Real-time streaming wireless multimedia communications and technologies
Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval technologies
Management of wireless multimedia networks
Security in wireless multimedia networks
Performance comparison of wireless multimedia networks
Performance analyses of wireless multimedia networks
Analytical modelling of wireless multimedia networks
Design, implementation and testbed/experimental results of wireless multimedia systems
Coding and compression for wireless multimedia networks
Handoff in wireless multimedia communications
Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks
Distributed wireless multimedia technologies


Important dates

Submission deadline: Friday 10th April, 2009

Notification of authors: Friday 22nd May, 2009

Camera-ready version due: Friday 19th June, 2009

Registration by: Friday 26th June, 2009

Workshop date: Thursday 10th September, 2009