4. ICST Transactions on Distributed Multimedia
Aim and scope:
Near-future telecommunication services are expected to provide the end-user with multimedia data at any-time, any-where, at the desired quality of service, through either fixed or mobile networks. In this scenario, multimedia data is progressively more provided by distributed sources and combined at the user side, in the network or at any intermediate proxy server between the transmitter and the clients to adapt the content to the user profile and needs as well as to the network conditions. Heterogeneity is a key feature in these service scenarios; it refers to the data source, which can be a virtual or physical server devoted to a specific application or a peer, and to the network, which can be a federation of different domains managed by different provides. The successful provisioning of such service scenarios demands for integrative investigations of different technology issues, spanning from signal processing to networking protocols definition, from network architecture design to system modeling. These technologies, generally hidden to the user, will be pre-requisite to allow for efficient multimedia support of user-centric digital communications.
Within this scope, ICST Transactions on Distributed Multimedia is intended to provide a unique international journal for researchers from industry and academia, working on multimedia coding, communication and networking fields, to study new technologies, applications and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced distributed multimedia services and applications.
EIC’s keywords:
peer-to-peer multimedia distribution, immersive multimedia applications, distributed and scalable multimedia coding, architectures for multimedia distribution, multimedia collaborative authoring, multimedia collaborative description and annotation, streaming over wireless heterogeneous channels, distributed multimedia services, multimedia service composition, management of multimedia systems, multimedia system test beds and applications, etc.
Editor in chief:
Dr. Luigi Atzori
University of Cagliari, Italy
l.atzori@diee.unica.it
Luigi Atzori joined the University of Cagliari (Italy) in 2000, where he is currently assistant professor. His main research topics of interest are in multimedia networking: error recovery and concealment, IP Telephony, video streaming, network QoS management. He has published more than 70 journal articles and refereed conference papers. Dr. Atzori has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (11/2003-05/2004) to work on video at the University of Arizona. He is editor for the ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal and has been the guest editor of the special issue on Multimedia over Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (Monet Journal, 2008), guest editor of the special issue on Mobile Video (Elsevier Image Communication Journal, 2007) and the editor of LNCS Visual Content Processing and Representation (Springer LNCS 3893). He is involved in the organization of several international conferences on Multimedia Communications and Networking.
Area Editors:
- Tasos Dagiuklas, TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece
- Peer-to-peer multimedia distribution, Architectures for multimedia distribution
- Laura Grindei, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
- Multimedia system testbeds and applications, Multimedia collaborative authoring
- Maria Martini, Kingston University, UK
- Architectures for multimedia distribution, Distributed multimedia services
- Ioannis Patras, QMUL, UK
- Multimedia collaborative authoring, Multimedia collaborative description and annotation
- Cristian Perra, University of Cagliari, Italy
- Distributed and scalable multimedia coding, Immersive multimedia applications
- Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK
- Distributed multimedia services, Streaming over wireless heterogeneous channels
- Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Multimedia service composition, Multimedia service composition
- Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Italy
- Streaming over wireless heterogeneous channels, Immersive multimedia applications
- Thomas Schierl, HHI Fraunhofer, Germany
- Peer-to-peer multimedia distribution, Distributed and scalable multimedia coding
- Jon Sporring, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, DK
- Multimedia service composition, Multimedia service composition
- Jean-Marc Thiriet, IUT de Grenoble, FR
- Distributed systems, Management of multimedia systems
- Vesna Zeljkovic, DESU University, USA
- Multimedia collaborative authoring, Multimedia system testbeds and applications