[CFP] ICME Workshop on Cloud-Centric Media System

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Call For Papers 

1st IEEE Workshop on Cloud-Centric Media System (CCMS-2012) 

In conjunction with IEEE ICME 2012, 9-13 July, Melbourne, Australia 

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.  Existing media delivery 

platforms are faced with many new challenges: low utilization in 

system resources, stringent power constraints of the mobile devices, 

unpredictability in the wireless communication channel, and 

heterogeneity in access networking technologies, just to name a few. 

On the other hand, the comparatively unlimited resources offered by 

cloud services and their flexible resource allocation mechanisms 

present a unique opportunity for taming some of the aforementioned 

challenges for media delivery targeted at a N-screen (e.g., TV, PC, 

smartphone and tablet) experience. Cloud computing is emerging as a 

promising technology to provide additional resources for many 

media-rich applications. 

The goal of this workshop is to bring together the state-of-the-art 

research contribution that describes original and unpublished work 

addressing the new emerging techniques on cloud-based media system. It 

seeks high quality submissions in both theoretical and practical 

research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the 

following scopes: 

l       Cloud-assisted media content recommendation 

l       Resource scheduling and allocation in the cloud for mediaapplications 

l       Distributed caching of media data 

l       Cloud-based multimedia processing 

l       Novel architecture for media clouds 

l       Performance measurements for cloud-based media systems 

l       Cloud-based media applications, such as online gaming, virtual 

desktop, etc. 

l       Multimedia communications over cloud 

A submission is 5 standard IEEE conference page; one more paper may be 

allowed with additional publication fee. 

Important dates 

u       Paper submission due: 5th March, 2012 

u       Decision notification due: 26th March, 2012 

u       Camera-ready and registration due: 9th April, 2012 

Workshop Chair 

Prof. Yonggang Wen 

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 

Email: ***@ntu.edu.sg 

TPC Chairs 

Dr. Liang Zhou 

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China 

Email: ***@ieee.org 

Prof.  Chin-Feng Lai 

National Ilan University, Taiwan 

Email: ***@ieee.org 

Prof. Honggang Wang 

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA 

Email: ***@umassd.edu