Guest editorial special issue on “Future multimedia networking”
Eduardo Cerqueira, Mikołaj Leszczuk, Sherali Zeadally, Marília Curado, Andreas Mauthe · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 2010
In recent years, the ubiquity of multimedia services along with the proliferation of mobile devices and the demand for new audio and video applications are changing the life style of users.The multimedia era is allowing users to create, distribute, and access content in ubiquitous way and cost-effectively, while providers explore new ways to increase their revenues.The efficient delivery of real-time multimedia services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous systems is a challenging research goal.The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols as well as the demand for improved Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE), and seamless mobility create new challenges and opportunities for further research on novel communication protocols, architectures, and methods to efficiently support current and future multimedia networking systems.In 2009, the Second International Future Multimedia Networking (FMN 2009) workshop was organized in Coimbra, Portugal and achieved exceptional success attracting 64 submissions from 33 countries.FMN 2009 produced a high quality peer reviewed technical programme with an acceptance rate at around 25% and addressed important aspects of future multimedia systems with a focus on Autonomic Content Networks.Authors of selected papers from FMN 2009 were invited to submit extended versions of their papers in order to be considered for inclusion in this Special issue on Future Multimedia.These papers were peer-reviewed again and then further revised by the authors.