Program
Final Program - PDF Program
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Wednesday 17 September 2008
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9:10-10:00 |
Keynote Talk 1 Mobile Computing 2015 – Law of Large Numbers Dr. Henry Tirri VP, Head of System Research, Nokia Research Centre |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 - 12:30 |
Session 1: Multimedia in wired and/or wireless networks Chair: Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra - Portugal |
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User Centric Media of the Future Internet (invited paper) Janko Calic; Petros Daras; Nick Achilleopoulos; Marianna Panebarco; Oscar Mayora; Peter Stollenmayer; Doug Williams; Tim Pennick; Nadia Magnenat- Thalmann; Carmen Guerrero; Michiel Pelt; Tim McGrath; Eugenia Fuenmayor; Nikolaos Papaoulakis; Federico Alvarez; Elias Kalapanidas; Alex Shani; Jean-Yves Le Moine DVC Based Stereoscopic Video Transmission in a Mobile Communication System Anil Fernando (Centre for Communications Research, University of Surrey, UK) Enhancing the Serviceability and the Availability of IMS-Based Multimedia Services: Avoiding Core Service Failure Mohamed Boucadair (France Telecom R&D, FR); Pierrick Morand (France Telecom, FR); Isabel Borges (Portugal Telecom, PT); Marco Tomsu (Bell Labs Alcatel Lucent, DE) Influence of Routing Protocol on VoIP Quality Performance in Wireless Mesh Network Simulation Arlen Nascimento (Federal University of Amazonas, BR); Saulo Queiroz (Federal University of Amazonas, BR); Edjair Mota (Federal University of Amazonas, BR) Towards Seamless Handovers in SSM Source Mobility - An Evaluation of the Tree Morphing Protocol Olaf Christ (HAW Hamburg, DE); Thomas Schmidt (HAW Hamburg, DE); Matthias Wählisch (HAW Hamburg & link-lab, DE) |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch in the main Foyer (Exhibition) |
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14:00 - 14:50 |
Keynote Talk 2 Challenges in Content Networking Dr. Andreas Mauthe Lancaster University, UK |
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14:50 - 15:20 |
Coffee Break |
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15:20 - 17:30
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Session 2: Quality of service management in multimedia networks Chair: Augusto Neto, Institute of Telecommunications - Aveiro, Portugal |
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Wireless Multicast Cross-Layer Framework for Rate Allocation: Protocol Design Amr Mohamed (Univ. British Columbia, CA); Hussein Alnuweiri (Texas A&M University, QA) Cross-Layer Joint Optimization of FEC Channel Codes and Multiple Description Coding for Video Delivery over IEEE 802.11e Links Simone Milani (University of Padova, IT); Giancarlo Calvagno (University of Padova, IT); Riccardo Bernardini (University of Udine, IT); Pamela Zontone (University of Udine, IT) Cost Efficient Media Streaming Algorithms for Rate-dependent Pricing Strategies in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Ahmed Zahran (University College Cork, IE); Cormac Sreenan (University College Cork, IE) Application-level QoS: Improving Video Conferencing Quality through Sending the Best Packet Next Ian McDonald (University of Waikato, NZ); Richard Nelson (University of Waikato, NZ) |
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Thursday 18 September 2008
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9:10-10:00 |
Keynote Talk 3 Convergence of Man and Machine Processes in the Emerging Internet Professor Imrich Chlamtac President of CREATE-NET, Honorary Bruno Kessler Professor at the University of Trento, Italy |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 - 12:30 |
Session 3: Quality of experience management in multimedia networks Chair: Mikolaj Leszczuk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Telecommunication - Poland |
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Quality of Experience Evaluation for Multimedia Michal Grega; Lucjan Janowski; Mikolaj Leszczuk; Piotr Romaniak; Zdzisław Papir (AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Telecommunication, PL) On the Quality of Experience of SopCast Benny Fallica (Delft University of Technology, NL); Yue Lu (Technology University of Delft, NL); Fernando Kuipers (Delft University of Technology, NL); Robert Kooij (TNO ICT, NL); Piet Van Mieghem (Delft University of Technology, NL) Multi-component Teleservice Model for Multimedia Applications Omar Alani (University of Leeds, UK); Rashid Mehmood (Swansea University, UK) Fast Frame-Based Scene Change Detection in the Compressed Domain for MPEG-4 Video Jens Brandt (Technische Universität Braunschweig, DE); Jens Trotzky (TU Braunschweig, IBR, DE); Lars Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, DE) A Utility-based QoS Model for Emerging Multimedia Applications Mu Mu (Lancaster University, UK); Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University, UK); Francisco Garcia (Agilent, UK) |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch in the Zen Room (4th Floor) |
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14:00 - 16:00
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Session 4: Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks Chair: Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University - United Kingdom |
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Enabling Global Multimedia Distributed Services based on Hierarchical DHT Overlay Networks Isaias Martinez-Yelmo (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES); Alex Bikfalvi (IMDEA Networks, ES; Carmen Guerrero (Universidad Carlos III Madrid, ES); Rubén Cuevas Rumín (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES); Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University, UK) Data Availability in P2P Streaming Systems Husam Alustwani (University of Franche-Comté, FR); Jacques Bahi (University of Franche-Comté, FR); Ahmed Mostefaoui (University of Franche-Comté, FR) Continuous Scheduling for Data-Driven Peer-to-Peer Streaming Jyrki Akkanen (Nokia Research Center, FI) Playback delay in mesh-based peer-to-peer systems with random packet forwarding Viktoria Fodor (KTH, SE); Ilias Chatzidrossos (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, SE) A Case for Hybrid Content Distribution for Interactive Video-on-Demand Andrew MacQuire (Lancaster University, UK); Andrew Brampton (Lancaster University, UK); Michael Fry (The University of Sydney, AU); Nicholas Race (Lancaster University, UK); Laurent Mathy (Lancaster University, UK) |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30 - 17:30 |
Expert Panel Service Platforms: From the Killer Application to the Killer Environment with George Kontopidis (NMS Communications, USA ), Luis A. Galindo (Telefonica, ES) and Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University, UK) |
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19:30 - 23:00 |
Gala Dinner – Welsh Banquet – Cardiff Castle |
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