Call for Papers: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Adaptive Media Streaming

This special issue solicits novel contributions and breaking results on all aspects of Adaptive Streaming of Multimedia. The main objectives of this special issue are (but not limited to): Efficient delivery of multimedia content in an adaptive, progressive download/streaming fashion (incl. over HTTP); Support for streaming of live multimedia, to mobile users, low-capacity channels, bandwidth variations, as well as multipoint streaming over heterogeneous channels or paths; Efficient and ease of use of existing content distribution infrastructure components such as CDNs, proxies, caches, NATs and firewalls; Efficient content generation (encoding) techniques for content delivery (e.g., segmentation); Detailed performance analyses of deployed standard technologies or that uncover and rectify major problems in the behavior of such technologies; Measurement techniques for collecting consumption data (both application and transport-level performance metrics, viewer behavior, etc.) in content delivery; The effects of adaptation techniques on the end-user quality of experience; Viewer experiences from large-scale experiments and events (such as Olympics, World Cup, etc.).