Call for
Papers
IEEE Communications Magazine
IP-Based TV
Technologies, Services and Multidisciplinary
Applications
The move to Internet Protocol (IP)
based television services has challenged the traditional television
value chain by allowing the Internet, wired and wireless, private and
public, to deliver high-quality television content. In this new
paradigm for content consumption, television content is expected to
play a disruptive role in the next few years. As a result, TV
convergence is becoming a popular topic for networking and user
experience research because it provides a significant challenge for
both the next generation networks as well as for the future viewing
ecosystem, Significant questions need to be answered: from how to
manage content delivery networks, protect commercial and personal
content and to design efficient distribution architectures, to how to
enhance visual perception and Quality of Experience.
The papers
in this featured topic will focus on the recent changes in the
Internet as the new television delivery medium and how these changes
will reshape the IP-based television of the future. The special issue
will focus on recent research and deployment in various aspects of
today's IP-based TV technologies, services and applications. The
targeted audience combines researchers and developers in the
end-to-end delivery of converged TV services and applications, video
system engineers, and strategic business managers who need to know
"what is next" in terms of video and television services and
applications.
The guest editors solicit papers, from both
academia and industry, covering topics of interest that include, but
are not limited to:
- Next generation converged
TV architecture and performance - especially those combining
heterogeneous networks and platforms
- Quality of
Experience in social TV systems and applications over mobile and
converged networks
- Performance of novel approaches
to TV network design including wireless Internet TV
- Analysis and simulation of TV services over heterogeneous
networks
- Performance of novel content protection
especially for Peer-to-Peer and community TV viewing
- End-to-End TV Quality of Experience including monitoring,
measuring and user behavior
- Content modeling and
metadata for next generation converged TV
- Video
convergence, Mobile TV, Mobile Social TV applications and
interactivity
- Interactive end-to-end IP-based TV
applications
- IP-based TV application models (in
particular for social interaction, shared experiences and
metrics)
- Field trials and user studies of IP-based TV
applications
- Scalable compression, network coding,
congestion control, rate control of IP-based TV content
- Cross-layer dynamic adaptation and end-to-end Quality of
Service issues for heterogeneous IP-based TV networks
- Video Content Distribution, Networks and P2P
architectures for distributed TV applications
- Innovative methods for evolving IP-based TV applications
(including aspects of computer networking oriented to billing,
pricing and advertising models, large-scale data management,
etc.)
Prospective authors should follow the IEEE
Communications Magazine manuscript format described in the Authors
Guidelines (http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines).
All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted
through the IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com) select "April
2013/IP-Based TV Technologies, Services and Multidisciplinary
Applications" from the drop down menu), according to the following
timetable:
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012
Notification
of Acceptance: January 15, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: January 30,
2013
Publication Date: April 2013
Guest Editors
Oscar M
Bonastre, PhD (Lead Guest Editor) ombonastre@ieee.org
Operations Research Centre,
University Miguel Hernandez (UMH), Spain
Marie-Jose Montpetit,
PhD, mariejo@mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), USA
http://web.mit.edu/~mariejo/www/mjm.html
Pablo Cesar,
PhD, P.S.Cesar@cwi.nl
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
(CWI), The Netherlands
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/