Call
for Papers
IEEE Communications
Magazine
Feature Topic
on
Advances in Mobile Multimedia
Broadcasting
Mobile
broadcasting has been intended to allow the
delivery of multimedia content to mobile
terminals such as cell phones and PDAs. Mobile
broadcasting applications target horizontal
mass-markets, and are expected to have a very
important impact in terms of diffusion of
value-added services. While the mobile
broadcasting industry is beginning to generate
interest from many sectors of the mobile and
broadcast industries, including mobile operators,
handset vendors, broadcasters and content
providers, there are still many issues and
problems that need to be resolved. Amongst the
biggest hurdles in delivering wireless multimedia
services to consumers are quality of service,
mobility performance, cost of delivery,
regulation, capacity and spectrum planning.
However, at the heart of the mobile broadcasting
industry is the tussle between broadcast and
cellular networks to find the optimum solution
for all players to benefit in an extremely
complex business environment. An integral part of
any wireless multimedia service system is to
complement existing networks and cost-effectively
deliver optimum multimedia performance to the
end-user, without impacting the subscribed voice
and data services. Several standards and
technologies are being developed such as MBMS
within 3GPP, DVB-H in the DVB forum, MediaFLO
within TIA, S-DMB within the satellite community
and the ETSI S-UMTS group. The goal of this
special issue is to provide a forum for sharing
knowledge on the recent advances in mobile
multimedia broadcasting technology, the related
research challenges, and possible approaches to
solve those issues. Scope of
Contributions
We solicit papers covering
various topics of interest that include (but not
limited to) the following:
- Spectrum management for future
mobile broadcasting services
- IP-based
architectures for mobile multimedia broadcasting
services in 4G
networks
- Interoperability/convergence
among MBMS, DVB, DMB, MediaFLO, and other
systems
- Mobile multimedia broadcasting
via satellites
- Mobile multimedia
broadcasting in IEEE 802.16
networks
- Application layer coding for
mobile multimedia broadcasting
services
- Radio resource management for
wireless mobile multimedia broadcasting
- Cross-layer analysis and design for
mobile multimedia broadcasting
protocols
- Killer applications for mobile
multimedia broadcasting
services
- Standardization
activities
- Test-beds and field trials
for wireless mobile multimedia
broadcasting
- Mobility, power consumption
and spectral efficiency performance of various
systems for mobile multimedia
broadcasting
- Network Economics for
mobile multimedia
broadcasting
SubmissionArticles
should be tutorial in nature, with the intended
audience being all members of the communications
society. Complete guidelines for prospective
authors can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html.
The authors will require to submit the PDF or
MSWORD formatted paper via Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com)
by the deadline.
Schedule for
Submissions:
Submission Deadline:
December 31, 2006
Acceptance Notification:
March 31, 2007
Final Manuscript Due (to
Publication Editor): May 31, 2007
Publication
Date: August 2007
Guest Editors
Sastri Kota
Harris
Corporation, USA
Email: skota@harris.com
Yi Qian
University of Puerto Rico at
Mayagüez, USA
Email: yqian@ece.uprm.edu
Ekram
Hossain
University of Manitoba, Canada
Email: ekram@ee.umanitoba.ca
Rajamani
Ganesh
QUALCOMM India Pvt. Ltd.
Email: rganesh@qualcomm.com