Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of Multimedia Communications, Services and Home Networking are solicited for submission to the ICC2007 Multimedia Communications and Home Services Symposium. Papers may present theories, techniques, applications, or practical experiences on topics including but not limited to the following tracks:

Topics of Interest
Media streaming and real-time delivery
1) Techniques and architectures for streaming media and IP telephony
2) Joint source and channel coding and error control schemes
3) Scalability and transcoding technologies for heterogeneous networks
4) Multimedia delivery to wireless embedded devices
5) Cross protocol layer design and optimizations
Mobile multimedia communications
6) Cross-layer design for multimedia communication
7) Medium access control for multimedia over wireless local area network and personal area network
8) Mobile content distribution networks
9) Mobility management for wireless multimedia
10) Software-radio-based techniques for multimedia communication
Quality of service in multimedia communications
11) Multimedia QoS support for wired and wireless networks
12) MAC protocols with multimedia QoS support in wireless networks
13) Transport/streaming protocols for end-to-end QoS support
14) Multimedia QoS in peer-to-peer and overlay networks
15) VoIP/RTC support in wireless multi-hop networks
Multimedia communications systems and applications
16) Online gaming (Service, architecture, protocol, and security)
17) Virtual home environment
18) Content distribution and web services (including media caching and replication)
19) Distributed services middleware and systems for multimedia communications (e.g. Open Service Interfaces)
20) Private or peer-to-peer network services for multimedia communications.
21) Emerging trends, standards, applications, services, and field trials
Home networking and services for multimedia applications
22) Home networks protocols (WLAN, WiMax, UWB, ad-hoc, etc.) and architectures
23) WAN support of home networks
24) Wireless and wireline broadband multimedia access
25) TV-centric home networks, DTV, and home networked entertainment and games
26) Residential gateways, and home networked appliances for multimedia applications
27) Novel home networking multimedia applications and enabling technologies
28) Test Beds, trials and demonstrations

5 NETWORK SERVICES AND OPERATION (網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)和操作)

The concept of network convergence was developed to merge different networks into one multi-service network. This concept is becoming real using an Internet-based infrastructure and Internet protocols for transferring information. However, strategic research is still required to achieve the best integration architecture, services and operations management, and service provisioning in both wired and wireless domains. Many topics like network resilience, network and service security and availability, Quality-of-Service, or mobility management in the future network are still widely considered by researchers, network operators, device manufacturers and service providers.
The aim of the proposed symposium is to provide the forum for discussions on this and other challenging research areas concerning network operation and services in future converging networks.

Topics of Interest
Network control
1) Internetworking heterogeneous wireless/wire-line networks
2) Quality-of-Service management
3) Network control and signaling
4) Network resource management
5) Self-organized networks
6) Routing in overlay and peer-to-peer networks
7) Transport protocols for wireless
8) Signaling for integrated wire-line/wireless networks
9) Mobility, location and handoff management
10) Autonomic networking
Services and applications
11) Wireless multimedia services and applications
12) Mobile network service generation
13) Service portability across homogeneous and heterogeneous networks
14) Service mobility techniques
15) Traffic and service charging
16) Mobile IP technologies and services
17) Service provisioning platforms
18) Service roaming
19) VoIP protocols and services
20) Context-aware applications and services
21) Converged services
Network security
22) Access control and auditing
23) Identity management
24) Security protocols
25) Security of mobile ad-hoc networks
26) Security of sensor networks
27) Security of VoIP networks
28) Security verification
29) DoS attacks prevention
30) Secure signaling in IP networks