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Journal of Communications (JCM, ISSN 1796-2021)
Special Issue on Multimedia Streaming
The penetration of broadband residential access and high-speed wireless access has dramatically increases
the demands for multimedia content. As the broadband access rates increase, multimedia streaming
applications are embedded in more and more hardware devices, e.g., TVs, cars, and cell phones. In the past
decade, multimedia streaming has evolved from simple client-server applications to large-scale Peer-to-Peer
(P2P) applications. Hundreds of sites, including CNN, MSN, and Yahoo, have joined the parade of multimedia
streaming. Furthermore, sites like YouTube also provide the Video-on-Demand services that allow users to view
the video clips from any playback points. In addition to video and audio streaming, the advances in multimedia
streaming also stimulate the emerging Internet telephone and television services.
Multimedia applications are significantly different from other conventional networking applications. In particular,
multimedia applications are very sensitive to end-to-end delay and bandwidth fluctuation, but are tolerable to
occasional data loss. The quality of the video highly depends on the available bandwidth in across the network.
Endeavor has been made by researchers and application developers to improve the QoS (Quality of Services) in
multimedia streaming from all aspects. On the application end, various codec and compression techniques
have been proposed, e.g., MPEG and H.261, to reduce the bandwidth demand while maintaining the quality of
the multimedia content. In communication networks, protocols and algorithms have been proposed and
analyzed, including RTSP, RTP, RTCP, and SIP. From the network architecture point of view, we have the client-
server setup and the Peer-to-Peer infrastructure. YouTube is by far the most successful client-server approach to
video streaming with the cost of high bandwidth demand at the content source. In contrast, the Peer-to-Peer
(P2P) approach invited peers (end hosts) to contribute their upload bandwidth and computational resources,
resulting in better scalability, flexibility, and less demand on the servers. The success of P2P multimedia
streaming has been demonstrated by systems like Octoshape and UUSee. Despite the advantages and the
disadvantages of the existing solutions and technologies, there is no doubt that multimedia streaming is
growing at a phenomenal rate.
This special issue solicits original high-quality research related to delivering multimedia content over the
Internet. The goal is to provide an overview of the research in this area from both theoretical and practical
aspects, to highlight current problems and solutions in multimedia streaming, and hopefully to enlighten new
research directions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- • Audio and video streaming
• Peer-to-peer multimedia streaming
• On-Demand multimedia streaming
• Interactive video and audio systems
• Enabling technologies for high-quality multimedia streaming
• Video codec for multimedia streaming
• Multimedia streaming for wireless networks
• Multimedia streaming ad-hoc networks
• Energy-efficient designs for multimedia streaming
• Practical multimedia streaming systems
• Security issues in multimedia streaming
• New multimedia streaming applications
Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high quality papers that have not appeared, nor are under
considerations, in any other journals. Submissions should follow the author guidelines set out by Journal of
Communications. The complete instruction for authors can be found at http://www.academypublisher.
com/jcm/forauthors.html. Should you have further questions, please contact the corresponding guest editor (Mea
Wang, meawang@ucalgary.ca).
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: Feb. 15, 2011
Author Notification: May 15, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2011
Publication Date: Q3, 2011
Guest Editors (in alphabetic order of last name)
- Mohammed Ghanbari, University of Essex, UK (ghan at essex.ac.uk)
Hideki Tode, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan (tode at cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp)
Mea Wang, University of Calgary, Canada (meawang at ucalgary.ca)
Bin Wei, AT&T Research, USA (bw at research.att.com)
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