[ecoop-info] ICST - Multicom-4G Extended Deadline

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MULTICOM-4G EXTENDED ITS DEADLINE TO: May 18th 2007

MULTICOM-4G (http://www.mobimedia.org/documents/Multicom_4G.htm) is the Workshop on Convergence among Mobile Multimedia Services and Fourth-Generation Wireless Networking Standards: Technical Challenges and Users’ Perspectives, organized in the context of the MobiMedia 2007 Conference. 
The ambitious goals of future 4G standardization process are well known: broadband mobile connectivity, ubiquitous connectivity, global coverage reached by a tight integration of terrestrial and satellite networking infrastructures, adaptive reconfigurability of the terminals, seamless vertical handover, etc. Pillars in the transition from 3G to 4G are represented by multicarrier modulations (OFDM, MC-CDMA), software-defined radio (SDR) technologies, situation-location aware networks and services. If this panorama is “framed” in a multimedia perspective, some questions obviously arise. Could 4G standards be “broadband” enough to improve perceptual quality of video streaming, real-time interaction in delay-sensitive applications, throughput of TCP-based applications? How can mobility issues be addressed by 4G standards in multimedia applications? In other words, will it be possible to provide a good quality of service also to multimedia users travelling by high-speed trains or
  airplanes? What would the real impact of SDR technologies be on multimedia service provision? How might be efficiently exploited location-situation awareness in order to improve the perceived QoS? Should the concept of “wireless security” be revised in a renewed framework of large-scale broadband multimedia mobility? To try to answer to these questions (and to other ones), MULTICOM-4G workshop is organized. MULTICOM-4G aims at bringing together leading experts on multimedia signal processing and mobile communications in order to exchange novel ideas about the future of multimedia communications in the perspective of the “broadband” mobile revolution expected with the near-future deployment of 4G standards.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Perspective authors are kindly asked to tightly adhere to the ACM publication guidelines when they are formatting their papers (these guidelines, together with the related author kit can be found at the address: http://www.mobimedia.org/authorskitacm.php). 
The papers MUST be submitted by e-mail as pdf attachment to the following address: multicom-4g at lenst.det.unifi.it.

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