IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Services (MCS) 2011

Recent advances in communications technologies have witnessed a growing and evolving multimedia content delivery market based on information gathering, manipulation, and dissemination. It is a fact that personal communications, computing, broadcasting, entertainment, etc. have turned into streams of multimedia content, and the various communication and network technologies have become the means to carry that content to a wide variety of terminals. Wireless channel unreliability, stringent delay constraints, multimedia quality sensitivity, energy efficiency requirement and embedded system computing power are all significant challenges for transmitting multimedia content over a variety of networks especially wireless networks. Therefore, there are strong needs to develop novel wireless multimedia transmission protocols, scheduling algorithms, and optimization strategies to satisfy future users’ requirements. There are many issues that need to be addressed, such as signal processing, collaborations, power management, flexible delivery, dynamic access, telecommunications, networking, etc., due to the multidisciplinary nature of the applications in advanced multimedia communications and services.