IEEE Network Magazine
Special Issue on Transmission and Distribution of Digital Video
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/special.html
Guest Editors:
Bhumip Khasnabish Anindo Banerjea
GTE Labs. Inc., MS-48 University of Toronto, Dept. of ECE
40 Sylvan Road 10 King's College Road
Waltham MA 02254, USA Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
Tel: +1-617-466-2080 Tel: +1-416-946-3063
Fax: +1-617-890-9320 Fax: +1-416-971-3020
E-Mail: bhumip@gte.com E-Mail: banerjea@comm.utoronto.ca
www1.acm.org:82/~bhumip/ www.comm.utoronto.ca/~banerjea/
Scope: A picture is worth a thousand words. Human beings can communicate
more effectively using images and sound as compared to textual data. Digital
transmission and distribution of audio-visual information enables multimedia
communication over the same network that supports data communication. This
makes it possible for the consumer to interact with the audio-visual
programming, in ways that were not possible with one way analog broadcast
systems. Digital representation of audio/video opens up the possibility of
computerized processing of the multimedia information, allowing consumers to
archive, index and retrieve the programs in a content-based manner, or to
have agents filter the programs that they wish to see. Digitally encoded
information is also much more resilient to degradation during transmission
and storage, giving the consumer a better picture and sound quality.
The purpose of this special issue of IEEE Network Magazine is to present six
or seven tutorial level articles covering major results/aspects of
transmission and distribution of digital video. In addition it will also
present reports on new developments and experimental results on all aspects
of transmission and distribution of digital video. The special issue will
look at the entire spectrum of bit-rate and quality requirements, looking at
issues from technologies to services.
1. Technologies for digital video transmission and distribution: CBR, VBR,
and ABR ATM services. ATM or IP over xDSL lines. Video over broadband
wireless links. Issues of integrating multiple technologies.
2. Techniques for coding, manipulation and delivery of high quality video:
CBR coding, VBR coding, layered coding, MPEG-4, etc. Video delivery in
heterogeneous multicasting environments. Effect of network impairments
on video.
3. Endsystem/server issues in relationship to networks: Set-top
technologies. Network computers. Realtime operating systems. Video on
demand (VOD) server architectures and operating systems. Storage
systems. Synchronization issues. Articles must address network
implications.
4. Services and applications: Adaptive applications. Video conferencing.
Entertainment and games. Virtual reality. Relationship between network
characteristics and service quality. Human Machine Interface (HMI).
Middleware for multimedia QoS control. Service enhancement. Content
based agents/search engines. Articles must address network
implications.
5. Management and control of digital video distribution networks: Resource
reservation. QoS signalling and routing. Multicast routing. Management
architectures for multimedia networks.
6. Field trials and experimental results: Video over the "Last Mile".
Video over xDSL. Video over ATM. Low and variable bitrate video over
Internet. Other access technologies. MPEG-2 over networks.
7. Tools: Cost analysis. Simulations of digital video networks. Analytical
models for digital video networks.
Authors are invited to submit hardcopies or electronic files of their papers
to bhumip@gte.com or banerjea@comm.utoronto.ca. Papers should not exceed
twenty double spaced pages in length, excluding figures and diagrams.
Schedule:
* Submission deadline: April 15, 1998
* Acceptance notification: August 1, 1998
* Final manuscripts due: September 1, 1998
* Publication date: November, 1998
Copyright (c) 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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