Latest advances in multimedia content encoding and representation, including HDTV, 3DTV, multi-view video and associated added-value interactive services, are offering to the end user a truly rich multimedia experience. At the same time advances in communications systems and network technologies give the ability to apply in-network processing techniques in order to take advantage of the available user and media contextual information for efficient, flexible and auto-configurable media transmission. On the other hand network-aware applications and cross-layer mechanisms are being developed in order to take advantage of network information in order to adapt the media to the current network conditions, terminal capabilities, and user preferences. This workshop solicits novel contributions and breaking results on all aspects of multimedia-aware networking. In particular, workshop papers should describe algorithms, issues and experiences related to content-aware networking and network-aware applications, future (media) Internet architectures, User-Generated Content and High-popularity VoD - the CfP in PDF format is here.

We are particularly interested (but not limited to) in areas such as:

Content Aware Networking and Network Aware Applications

• Content creation: coding (e.g., 2D/3D, SVC, HEVC), preparation, packaging
• Content delivery: transport, streaming, live, on-demand, real-time, download
• Content adaptation: server, in-network, client
• Content-aware and media-aware forwarding and routing
• Content consumption: widget

Context Aware Applications and Networks

• Future Internet architectures and content/media centric aspects
• Network/infrastructure management and virtualization
• Cross-layer design, cross-layer optimization

User-Generated Content

• User generated content creation, management and consumption systems
• User centric media services
• Personalized access to media systems

High-popularity VoD

• Scalable and cost-efficient content distribution architecture
• Optimized resources utilization and cost
• Enhanced user experience for heterogeneous and extended user environment.
• Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

The papers of WoMAN’12 will be published within the proceedings of TEMU2012 and, thus, must be formatted according to the author guidelines of TEMU2012.

Important Dates

Submission: 25/03/2012

Notification: 22/04/2012

Camera-ready: 30/04/2012

 

Contact
Evangelos Markakis emarkakis@pasiphae.teicrete.gr    

George Xilouris xilouris@iit.demokritos.gr