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. 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. 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 We seek papers that describe original and unpublished contributions and those which reflect those aspects of communications research for healthcare, which are distinctly different from communications research in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. For more information click here. 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 For more information click here Workshop Topics: 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 To visit the website click here 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: The theme of the meeting will be: 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 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 Christos Politis was amongst the esteemed Panelists for the Plenary Session on RAS Next Generation Terminals where he made a presentation on Future Spectrum Issues and Cognitive Radio and answered questions of the audience. Maria Martini presented a paper entitled “Prioritized 3D Video Distribution over IEEE 802.11e” at the session on Platforms, Services & Applications, proposing a novel scheme of prioritizing 3D video images over 3D depth maps utilizing the IEEE 802.11e standard, written in conjunction with Chaminda Thushara Hewage. Grant Millar presented a paper entitled “ROBUST: Reliable Overlay Based Utilisation of Services and Topology for Emergency MANETs” in the RAS Showcase II session, proposing a novel hierarchical based scheme for optimising Distributed Hash Tables in Mobile Ad hoc Networks co-authored by Emmanouil Panaousis. Emmanouil Panaousis made a poster presentation based on his paper at the RAS Poster session entitled “Secure Routing for Supporting Ad-hoc Extreme Emergency Infrastructures” proposing a novel secure routing mechanism for Mobile Ad hoc Networks co-authored by Tipu Arvind Ramrekha whom also attended the conference.
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.
– 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
Kingston University in association with WMN Group is to host the 25th meeting of WWRF will be held from the 16th to 18th of November in Kingston, UK.Wireless for the Next Generation
• The Internet of Things
• The Unwired Office
• Wireless Communication for Emerging Market
Summer 2010 – 78th IETF
Host: TBD
Location: Maastricht, Netherlands
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The special issue invites submissions on the latest research on QoE-aware wireless multimedia systems, including relevant
applications in new areas. We particularly welcome papers reporting original research on QoE-aware systems exploiting and
analyzing QoE information at the different layers of the communication protocol stack, addressing multiple and new media
sources (audio, images, 2D/3D/multiview video,…), and proposing QoE-scalable transmission approaches. The issue seeks original completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
(i) Architectures and Protocols for QoE-driven media streaming
• Wireless architectures for QoE-driven media streaming
• Protocols and mechanisms for wireless media streaming
• In-network media stream management and processing
• Cross-layer signalling for QoE-aware wireless communications
• QoE-aware security and rights management in wireless media streaming
(ii) System optimization based on QoE criteria
• QoE-aware error control
• QoE-aware cross-layer design
• QoE-aware MAC layer strategies
• QoE-driven adaptation and control mechanisms for existing and next generation wireless systems/devices
• Media synchronization, playback, and buffer management
• QoS to QoE mapping
(iii) QoE assessment and monitoring methodologies
• Objective QoE metrics for wireless image, graphics, video, animation and audiovisual transmission
• No reference or reduced reference QoE models for mobile multimedia applications/services
• Online and offline QoE monitoring schemes and QoE measurement from live mobile/wireless networks
• QoE metrics for 3D Video streaming and multimodal applications
• QoE metrics and system design for novel applications (e.g., augmented reality, cloud-based online gaming).
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