Call for Papers
Mobile Multimedia Communications
OVERVIEW
Few subjects have attracted as much attention in
engineering and computer science in the recent years as
have multimedia communications and mobile networking.
Propelled by the powerful vision of being able to communicate
from anywhere at anytime with anytype of data, a natural
meshing between these two fields has been in progress these past
few years. The symbiosis that has lead to research in
mobile multimedia communications has brought with it an
interesting and unique set of challenges. While on one
hand researchers work towards providing traditional wireline
multimedia services over wireless channels with a level of service
that will please even the most skeptic consumers, on the other
hand, there has been an emergence of new opportunites
as mobile specific multimedia services
suitable and desirable only for the mobile
enviornment have risen.
TOPICS
The aim of this issue is to focus attention on the
fundamental problems and potential solutions for creating
mobile multimedia networks. Since robust mobile multimedia
communications (real-time and otherwise) is possible when
applications, operating systems and networks cooperate with
one another, prospective authors are invited to submit
papers on topics related to such issues and ones that
specifically address the communications aspect. Papers
that provide insights into the simultaneous support of voice,
data and digital video and the innovative
use of such technologies are particularly encourged. Possible
topics include
but are not limited to:
A) Network
B) Transmission
C) Services and Application
D) Software
E) Mobile Terminals
SUBMISSION and SCHEDULE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit
original, unpublished, and thought provoking research
articles for consideration. All articles will be evaluated
on the basis of technical content, originality, and relevance.
Authors should email an electronic Postscript copy of their
paper to one of the guest editors by
February 15, 1997.
Submissions should be limited to 20 double spaced pages, excluding
figures, graphs, and illustrations. If email submission is
impossible, then six (6) copies of the paper (double-sided if
possible) should be sent by the due date to one of the guest
editors. Commitment notification is anticipated for
June 1, 1997.
The anticipated publication date for this issue is
4th Quarter, 1997.
MANUSCRIPT DUE: February 15, 1997
ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: June 1, 1997
FINAL MANUSCRIPT DUE: August 1, 1997
GUEST EDITORS
Victor Bahl Hamid Aghvami
Operating Systems & Nomadic Department of Electrical and
Computing Group Electronic Engineering
Microsoft Research King's College London
One Microsoft Way, Bldg 9 Strand
Redmond, WA 98052-6399, U. S. A. London WC2R2LS, U. K.
Tel: 425 936 1021 Tel: +44 171 873 2898
Fax: 425 936 0502 Fax: +44 171 873 2664
bahl@microsoft.com h.aghvami@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk
Fumio Watanabe
Mobile Communications Laboratory
Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd. (KDD)
2-1-15 Ohara Kamifukuoka-shi,
SAITAMA 356 Japan
Tel: +81 492 78 7860
Fax: +81 492 78 7521
watanabe@lab.kdd.co.jp