Current WMN group research on Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) headed by Dr Christos Politis and carried out by researchers Arvind Ramrekha, Grant Millar and Emmanouil Panaousis has attracted the attention of the mainstream media leading to many articles and radio interviews summarised below.

Dr Christos Politis was interviewed for the radio station Radio Jackie, extracts from that interview can be listened to below.

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In the aftermath of the London bombings mobile phones and radios stopped working making the already tricky rescue operation even more difficult. Now experts from Kingston University, London, have developed a solution to ensure breakdowns in communication are a thing of the past for emergency workers responding to disasters.

Communicating in a crisis

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The WMN Group’s Dr. Maria Martini is  lead guest editor of the upcoming IEEE JSAC special issue on “QoE-Aware Wireless Multimedia Systems”. The issue has a manuscript deadline of August 7, 2011.

The WMN Group’s Dr. Maria Martini is to be guest editor of the upcoming International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications special issue on “Healthcare Applications and Services in Converged Networking Environments 2011”. The issue has a manuscript deadline of June 15, 2011.

The goal of this special issue is to report on cutting-edge research in converged communications solutions for healthcare. Basic research papers are solicited, but papers on systems integration or deployment will also be considered. We seek papers that describe original and unpublished contributions and those which reflect those aspects of communications research for healthcare, which are distinctly different from communications research in general. Potential topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

For more information and to read the full call please click here.

WMN Group researcher and PhD Student Emmanouil Panaousis has had his paper ‘”Non-Cooperative Games Between Legitimate Nodes and Malicious Coalitions in MANETs’ accepted for publication at the IEEE Future Network and Mobile Summit, Jun 15-17, Warsaw, Poland, 2011.

Mahdi Pirmoradian, PhD Student at the WMN Group has had his paper ‘Power Allocation in Cognitive Spectrum Sharing Area Using Effective Capacity in Imperfect Fading Channel’ accepted for publication at the International Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (CNDS 2011).

The conference will take place on February 23–24, 2011 in Tehran, Iran

The conference is sponsored by IEEE Iran section.

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Dr. Maria Martini is organising the First International Workshop on Cross-Layer Operation Aided Multimedia Streaming in conjunction with the OPTIMIX FP7 EU project. Co-located with IEEE VTC Spring 2011.

Budapest, Hungary, 15th—18th May 2011

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Workshop Objectives
The object of the workshop is to discuss innovative solutions enabling enhanced video streaming for
point to point and point to multi-point transmissions in an IP based wireless heterogeneous system,
based on cross layer adaptation of the whole transmission chain. Many areas of improvements
classified in the following in four categories are considered in the workshop: i) applications for content
delivery; ii) networking; iii) radio access; iv) cross-layer solutions. Indeed, today’s approach, relying on
traditional separation approaches and focussing on services delivered over homogeneous networks,
does not allow to meet the on-going demands to maintain the required Quality of Service (QoS) for each
of the users, who have different needs and requirements. This workshop looks into solutions allowing
the applicability of a cross-layer design approach to the end-to-end multimedia streaming.

Workshop Topics:
– Cross-layer design
– Multimedia streaming over wireless networks
– Quality assessment
– Point to multipoint video communication
– Signaling for cross-layer communication
– System adaptation and control
– Media adaptation to wireless delivery
– Wireless network adaptation for video streaming
– Radio resource allocation for heterogeneous traffic
– Error Correction for video applications

Dr. Maria Martini of the WMN Group is organising the IEEE Workshop on Streaming and Media Communication (StreamComm 2011) in conjunction with IEEE ICME 2011

Barcelona, Spain, July 11, 2011

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Increased connectivity and processing power of end-user devices create opportunities for development of new media streaming applications in addition to traditional video and audio services, such as online gaming, telemedicine, interactive arts, immersive environments, etc. At the same time, user demands are growing beyond the basic delivery of media to their devices. Media presentation, personalization, and relevance, are all increasingly important factors for device manufacturers and service providers. StreamComm 2011 is intended to be a dissemination and discussion platform for latest research ideas and results in media streaming and related Quality of Experience (QoE) issues. As such, StreamComm 2011 should be of interest to researchers from both industry and academia.

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE ICME 2011 proceedings, and will be made available through IEEE digital library. Please visit the section on “Paper submission” for further details. Topics of interest include:

• Media coding, decoding, and processing for streaming applications
• Media synchronization, playback, and buffer management
• Wired and wireless architectures for media streaming
• Protocols for media streaming
• In-network media stream management and processing
• Security and rights management issues in media streaming
• 3D video streaming
• Media streaming testbeds
• QoE assessment and prediction methods for media streaming
• Subjective tests and methodologies for QoE measurement
• Objective measures and methodologies for QoE
• Databases and validation of QoE models
• Online and offline QoE monitoring schemes
• QoE provisioning for media streaming
• QoE adaptation and control mechanisms for media streaming

Medical video streaming over wireless channels is a challenging area due to the requirement for high fidelity to avoid loss of information that could help diagnosis, and due to the limitation on bandwidth of the wireless channel. In considering transmission over IP based wireless networks, an end-to-end cross-layer methodology which consists of the joint design across the classically separated OSI protocol layers is beneficial. Based on this insight, the aim of the project is to enable real-time delivery of diagnostic quality medical video over wireless/mobile channels utilising a cross-layer approach employing closed-loop on-line adaptation of the transmission system.

The theme of the meeting will be:

Wireless for the Next Generation

With the burgeoning demand for content delivered over mobile broadband networks, the potential explosion of wireless sensor networks predicted by WWRF’s vision, and the debate on the future architecture of the Internet, now is the time to bring together visions and research results that can guide the definition of the next generation of wireless communication.

In addition to this overarching theme, WWRF has defined four specific themes to study in 2010, and contributions are particularly welcome of each of these areas:

•    Green Radio
•    The Internet of Things
•    The Unwired Office
•    Wireless Communication for Emerging Market

Click here to visit the WWRF website for more information.

Our research student Tipu Arvind Ramrekha has presented his work entitled “A Cognitive and Adaptive Module for MANETs” in the MANET WG (Working Group) in the IETF 78 meeting in Maastricht, Netherlands.

You can view the proceeding online at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/78/

July 25-30, 2010
Host: TBD
Location: Maastricht, Netherlands

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