[ecoop-info] CFP: Special Issue on "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks " Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal (Deadline Extended to July 30, 2007)

[Ozgur B. Akan]

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                         Call for Papers

                COMPUTER NETWORKS JOURNAL (ELSEVIER)

                         Special Issue on

                WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORKS


           *EXTENDED* Submission deadline: July 30, 2007
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Wireless  Sensor  Networks  (WSN)  have  recently been the focus of a
significant amount of attention and effort of the research community.
The  main motivation has been to  address the challenges posed by the
WSN paradigm, i.e., limited node power, processing, and communication
capabilities, dense network deployment, multi-hop communications, and
heterogeneous application-specific requirements. The vast majority of
these studies  applies to conventional WSN applications   which  need
reliable  and  efficient  communication of scalar event features  and
sensor data such as temperature, pressure, humidity.

With  the  availability of low-cost small-scale imaging sensors, CMOS
cameras,  microphones,  which   may  ubiquitously  capture multimedia
content  from  the  field, Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN)
have been proposed  and drawn the immediate attention of the research
community. WMSN applications, e.g., multimedia surveillance networks,
target  tracking,  environmental  monitoring,  and traffic management
systems,  require  effective  harvesting  and  communication of event
features  in  the form of multimedia such as audio, image, and video.
To   this end,  additional challenges for energy-efficient multimedia
processing and communication in  WMSN, i.e., heterogeneous multimedia
reliability  definitions,  tight QoS expectations, and high bandwidth
demands, must be addressed as well.

This  special  issue solicits papers describing the state-of-the-art,
reliable  and  efficient multimedia processing and delivery solutions
imperative  for  the  realization  of   WMSN. Original  contributions
(previously  unpublished    and   not  currently  under  review)  are
solicited in areas including (but not limited to) the following:

* Novel WMSN architectures and applications
* Protocols for real-time, reliable multimedia streaming in WMSN
* Energy-efficient MAC, routing, and traffic management for WMSN
* Cross-layer design for effective communications in WMSN
* Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for WMSN
* Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions for WMSN
* Distributed source coding and multimedia processing in WMSN
* Information fusion and multimedia aggregation  in WMSN
* Group  and  cooperative  communications  for multimedia delivery in
   sensor/actor networks
* WMSN capacity modeling and theoretical analysis
* Delay-tolerant networking for WMSN
* Topology control, localization, synchronization, and mobility
* Physical layer technologies for efficient WMSN
* Secure multimedia communications in WMSN
* Experimental and testbed studies of WMSN


Submission Instructions and Important Dates:
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Prospective Authors:  Please  follow   Computer  Networks  (Elsevier)
Journal   format  described at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comnet,
and submit  your papers to the online submission and reviewing system
at   http://www.editorialmanager.com/comnet.  Please  select  Article
Type:  Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. Papers must be in single-
column  format, double-spaced,and use at least 11pt fonts, and should
not exceed 25 pages including references.


*NEW* Submission Deadline:           July 30, 2007
Notification of Acceptance:      December 30, 2007
Camera-Ready Papers Due:         February 30, 2008
Online Publication Date:                 July 2008
Journal Publication Date:            November 2008


Guest Editors:
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Ozgur B. Akan     ( akan at eee.metu.edu.tr )
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Nikil Jayant      ( jayant at ece.gatech.edu  )
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Pascal Frossard   ( pascal.frossard at epfl.ch )
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Qian Zhang        ( qianzh at cse.ust.hk  )
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong

-- 
Dr. Ozgur B. Akan
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey 06531
Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 2304
E-mail: akan at eee.metu.edu.tr
http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan