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<div>IEEE Systems
Journal</div>
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<div>Special Issue on Recent Advances in Cloud-based Multimedia
Systems</div>
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<br /></div>
<div>The main concept of cloud computing is placing the required services on the
“cloud”.</div>
<div>Users do not need to understand the cloud infrastructure, nor restrict
control
within</div>
<div>the clouds, making it possible to offer a scalable Internet service. The
benefits of
this</div>
<div>service have gained a lot of attention within academic and industrial
communities
in</div>
<div>areas such as commerce, communication, and software security. Recently
consumer</div>
<div>demands for high quality multimedia services have increased, including
higher</div>
<div>resolution and more multimedia content. Cloud computing is a key technology
that</div>
<div>promises significant decreasing in hardware requirements and computation
time. It
is</div>
<div>also efficient technology that can be used to search for related multimedia
messages</div>
<div>to enable instant results when searching for content, while using the
heterogeneous</div>
<div>Internet structure to provide ubiquitous multimedia
services.</div>
<div>In this special issue, we solicit original works in all areas of multimedia
systems</div>
<div>that leverage cloud-computing technologies. In particular, we seek original
work
on</div>
<div>identifying new research and development challenges and developing new
techniques,</div>
<div>framework, and algorithms in protocol design and performance optimization
in</div>
<div>cloud-based multimedia systems. Specific topics include, but not limited
to,
the</div>
<div>following:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>1. Novel cloud-based multimedia system
architecture</div>
<div>2. Cloud-based multimedia
communication</div>
<div>3. Multimedia resource scheduling and allocation on cloud
computing</div>
<div>4. Quality of service for cloud-based multimedia
system</div>
<div>5. Robust cloud-based multimedia content
transmission</div>
<div>6. Cloud-based multimedia network
applications</div>
<div>7. Performance measurements for cloud-based multimedia
systems</div>
<div>8. Reliability, security and privacy for cloud-based multimedia
system</div>
<div>
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<div>Tentative
Schedule:</div>
<div>Paper Submission Deadline: August 1,
2012</div>
<div>1st Notification of acceptance: November 1,
20122</div>
<div>Submission due date of revised paper: December 15,
2012</div>
<div>2nd Notification of acceptance: February 1,
2013</div>
<div>Submission of final revised paper: March 1,
2013</div>
<div>Publication date: TBD by
EiC</div>
<div>Submission & Review
Instructions:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>All papers submitted to this Special Issue will undergo further reviews by
at least
3</div>
<div>independent reviewers. All manuscripts should be submitted electronically
to
the</div>
<div>IEEE Systems Journal by August 1, 2012
(http://ieeesystemsjournal.org/login.php).</div>
<div>Authors should indicate that their manuscript is being submitted for the
Special
Issue</div>
<div>on Recent Advances in Cloud-based Multimedia Systems. All submissions must
be</div>
<div>prepared according to IEEE Systems Journal submission guidelines. A copy of
the</div>
<div>manuscript should be emailed in PDF format to the special issue Guest
editors.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>Guest
Editors:</div>
<div>Prof. Han-Chieh Chao (Corresponding
Editor)</div>
<div>Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering and Department
of</div>
<div>Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, Taiwan
</div>
<div>Email:
hcc@niu.edu.tw</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>Prof. Victor C.M.
Leung</div>
<div>Dept. of Electrical and Computer
Engineering</div>
<div>The University of British Columbia,
Canada</div>
<div>Email:
vleung@ece.ubc.ca</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>Prof. Sherali
Zeadally</div>
<div>Department of Computer Science and Information
Technology</div>
<div>University of the District of Columbia,
USA</div>
<div>Email:
szeadally@udc.edu</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>Dr. Jong-Hyouk
Lee</div>
<div>RSM Department, TELECOM Bretagne,
France</div>
<div>Email:
hurryon@gmail.com</div>
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