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MULTICOMM 2006
The 1st Multimedia Communications Workshop:
State of the Art and Future Directions
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Istanbul - Sunday, 11 June 2006

An ICC 2006 Workshop
sponsored by the
IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee

Check the workshop website http://www.multicomm.org for updates.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Full paper submission: 2 April 2006 (firm deadline)
Notification of acceptance: 16 April 2006
Author registration: 21 April 2006 (ICC advance registration deadline)


SCOPE
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The multimedia revolution is undoubtedly taking place.
Never in history, in fact, humanity has had the opportunity
of accessing so much audio and video content, from such a large
variety of sources and for purposes so diverse that include both
pure entertainment and scholarly pursuits.

The multimedia revolution, however, is still far from being over;
many issues remain open to debate and  competing visions of the
future continue to vie for supremacy. It is, therefore, the right
time to discuss what is the future of multimedia delivery,
quantitatively addressing questions such as the role of streaming
in an increasingly download-based digital world, peer-to-peer
multimedia communications, multimedia  over ad hoc mobile networks,
DVB-H, packet videoconferencing, video sensor networks, 3D television,
car-to-car and car-to-roadside signal communications, and other
evolving and emerging applications.

The ICC 2006 Multimedia Communications Workshop (MultiComm) offers
a unique, focused opportunity to gather and discuss with peers
the state of the art as well as the most interesting potential new
directions of multimedia communications.

Experts in the fields of speech, audio and video communications are,
therefore, invited to submit original, unpublished works as a way
to contribute to an exchange of results, experiences, ideas and
proposals that has the ambition of setting a milestone in the
evolution of the international multimedia communications community.

Topics of particular interests include, but are not limited to the
following:
- Quality of service for multimedia communications
- Cross layer techniques for multimedia over wireless networks
- Multimedia support over multi-hop networks
- Reliable delivery for streaming, VoIP, videoconferencing applications


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit the full papers (max 6 pages, double
columns, including figures and references) electronically in PDF
format using the web form at http://www.multicomm.org.

Paper format must follow the ICC 2006 IEEE standard for conference
manuscripts.  Authors must guarantee that their paper will be
presented at the conference. One of the authors must register
by the ICC 2006 advance registration deadline, i.e., 21 April 2006.

Accepted papers will be published in the
ICC Workshop Proceedings CD-ROM.


ORGANIZATION
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General and Technical Program Chair:
Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Technical Program Committee:
Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux, France
Reha Civanlar, Koc University, Turkey
Enrica Filippi, ST Microelectronics, Italy
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland
Jerry Gibson, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Enrico Masala, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Alan McCree, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
David Miller, Penn State University, USA
Antonio Servetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Oguz Sunay, Koc University, Turkey
Murat Tekalp, Koc University / University of Rochester
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA

Publicity Chair:
Enrico Masala, Politecnico di Torino

Publication Chair:
Antonio Servetti, Politecnico di Torino