- From: Belén Carro <belcar@tel.uva.es>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:56:47 +0100
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(Sincere apologies for cross-posting) *********************************************************************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** IEEE Network Magazine *** Special Issue on "Digital Home Services" *** Manuscript submission due: May 1, 2009 *** http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/special.html *********************************************************************** Call for Papers IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Digital Home Services New broadband access technologies bring very high speed connectivity (in excess of 100 Mbps) to residential users removing bandwidth constraints for networked applications and services to the home. Furthermore, all-IP networks enabled by platforms such as IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), SDP (Service Delivery Platforms), and so on, offer new possibilities for communication services, well beyond traditional PSTN-based voice. Within this new promising landscape, providers are eager to find new innovative applications and services (going beyond a mere dumb pipe to the home) that satisfy the user needs. Future innovative digital home services that benefit from network capabilities are precisely the scope of this Special Issue. Building blocks for supporting these new services in the home are already evident in the industry with efforts including enhanced residential gateways, digital devices exchanging content through DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) and other middleware, home automation, Internet TVs, and so on. These efforts are pushing or pushed by user demand and expectation for superior, convergent (across all the screens: TV, PC, mobile) and personalized user experience which is certainly the key for the success of all these new residential services. Users will no doubt enjoy application features like pervasive services available everywhere at a fully automated home, accessible through most simple multimodal interactions, personalized to each individual user, serving all the user's communication needs, and so on. At the same time, with new green initiatives on the horizon, all these services will require to be attained with minimal and controlled environment impact. This special issue will bring together innovative contributions that describe completed work addressing various aspects of digital home services taking advantage of new network capabilities. Original, unpublished contributions will be considered for the issue in the following topic areas within the scope of services offered for residential customers in the digital home domain: § Pervasive and context-aware intelligent environments that surround the user anticipating his/her needs throughout the entire home § Multi-modal natural and intuitive interactions with the services achieving ease of use § Middleware for multi-device applications § Personalized services for each home individual § Converged user experience § High-definition audio/video communications § Fully automated homes § Energy savvy applications MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS AND SCHEDULE Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Prospective authors must prepare their in accordance with the IEEE Network guidelines to authors, see http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Authors should submit their manuscript to the guest editors according to the following timetable (authors are encouraged to notify at least 15 days before deadline, their intention to submit a paper indicating title, abstract, authors and keywords): · Manuscript submission: May 1, 2009 · Acceptance notification: August 1, 2009 · Final manuscript due: September 1, 2009 · Publication date: November/December 2009 GUEST EDITORS Antonio Sánchez-Esguevillas, Telefónica Email: a.sanchez-esguevillas@ieee.org Belén Carro-Martínez, University of Valladolid Email: belcar@tel.uva.es Bin Wei, AT&T Research Email: bw@research.att.com Wen Feng, China Netcom Group Labs Email: wenfeng@cnc-labs.com
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