Call for Papers ********************************************************************* 2nd International Workshop on FUTURE MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING IEEE Technical Sponsorship and in Collaboration with ACM* http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt June, 22nd and 23rd 2009, Coimbra, Portugal ********************************************************************** *ACM Approval pending - AUTONOMIC CONTENT NETWORKING - Aims and Goals of the Workshop In recent years real-time multimedia services have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the future Internet. The management of content distribution services is an important key to attract and keep customers, while increasing profits to content providers. The efficient delivery and deployment of real-time multimedia services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wired and wireless systems is a challenging research objective. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols, as well as, the demand for improved Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE), and seamless mobility control creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols, architectures and methods towards Future Multimedia Networking Systems. One major challenge in this context is the ever growing complexity of communication management and network m! aintenance in this context. Thus, solutions are required in which services, management and administration entities interact and behave autonomously with the overall goal of creating Autonomic Content Networks. The objective of the Future Multimedia Networking (FMN09) workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia systems, content networking, and autonomous communication. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Autonomous management in next generation content networks - Content delivery networks - Audio-visual systems - Novel protocol for multimedia services - Grid networking for multimedia services - Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks - Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks - Quality of service management in content networks - Quality of experience management in content networks - Management of service oriented architectures - Seamless mobility of multimedia services - Novel multimedia architectures/platforms - Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management - IP multimedia system operations and management - Resource reservation for multimedia services - Multimedia in mobile and broadband wireless access networks - Experiments/lessons from recent deployments - Watermarking of Multimedia Data - Performance evaluation of multimedia services - Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services - Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services - Context-aware content distribution - Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services PARALLEL POSTER/DEMONSTRATION SESSION A parallel poster/demonstration session entitled “Demonstrations on Future Multimedia Networking” will be organized along with the main workshop. This event encourages researchers to present and discuss “work-in-progress” or “experience-in-practice” of their current implementations and research prototypes that cover the topics of FMN’09. Authors are invited to submit a short paper of up to 6 pages following the format of workshop. All accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings of FMN’09. PUBLICATION Proceedings: FMN´09 papers will be published by Springer-Verlag - LNCS series (pending). Special Issue Journal Publication: Extended versions of best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal planned shortly after the workshop. BEST PAPER AWARD One best paper award, selected by the organizing committee, based on referee reviews, will be presented to the author(s) of the best paper submitted to the workshop along with other awards presented during the social event. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on FMN´09 topics are solicited. Submissions must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere while being evaluated for this workshop. - Formatting: The proceedings will be published by the prestigious Springer-Verlag* - LNCS series (pending). *** Full papers (main workshop): The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. *** Short Papers (poster/demonstration): The maximum size of posters/demos should be 2500 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 6-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. - How to submit: The paper submission for FMN´09 will only be accepted through the EDAS Paper Submission System accessible from the link on the website. Only papers in PDF will be accepted for reviewing. Submissions as e-mail attachment will not be accepted. A paper can be registered first and then uploaded at any time up to the paper submission deadline! *** To register or submit a FULL PAPER click on http://edas.info/7119 *** To register or submit a SHORT PAPER click on http://edas.info/7273 - Reviewing: Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive rigorous peer reviewing. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. Selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers of the workshop are expected to be presented and will be included in the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission deadline: 2009 / January / 31 Short paper submission deadline: 2009 / February / 20 Acceptance notification: 2009 / March / 17 Camera ready: 2009 / April / 4 COMMITTEES General Chair Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal @ marilia(at)dei(.)uc(.)pt General Co-chair Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra, Portugal @ ecoelho(at)dei(.)uc(.)pt TPC Chairs Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK @ a.mauthe(at)lancaster(.)ac(.)uk; Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA @szeadally(at)udc(.)edu Publicity Chairs Mikolaj Leszczuk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland; Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Jo Yew THAM, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore Technical Programme Committee Abdelhamid Mellouk, University Paris XII, France; Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Scott Fowler, Aston University, UK; Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway; Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Nicolas Sklavos, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece; Susana Sargento, IT - University of Aveiro, Portugal; Parag Mogre, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; Eng Keong Lua, Carnegie Mellon University, USA – Japan; Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Centre, Finland; Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy; Fernando Kuipers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Wan H Hassan, Sunway University College, Malaysia; Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil; Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Thomas C. Schmidt, HAW Hamburg, Germany; Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan; Naveen Chilamkurti, LaTrobe University, Australia; Augusto Neto, Institute of Telecommunications - Aveiro, Portugal; Mickael Hoerdt, Lancaster University, UK; Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France; Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil; Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of Russian Academy of Science, Russia; Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; Guome Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University, UK; Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland; Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway; Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy; Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Mu Mu, Lancaster University, UK; Toshihiko Yamasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan; Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PRC; Kelvin Dias, Federal University of Para, Brazil; Eduard Babulak, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Canada; David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Ejair Mota, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil; Eckhart Koerner, University Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany; Francisco Garcia, Agilent, UK; Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada; Zdzislaw Papir, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland; Luis Veloso, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Olivier Fourmaux, University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris6), France; Antonio Jorge Abelem, Federal University of Para, Brazil; Nicholas Race, Lancaster University, UK; Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden; Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Luigi Iannone, Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany; Carmen Guerrero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain; Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany; Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany; Lucjan Janowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland; Piotr Romaniak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland; Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway; Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland;