Digital Broadcasting and Mobile Convergence Special Session
at ChinaCom 2008 (Call For Papers)
August 25-27, 2008, Hangzhou, China
http://www.chinacom.org

Scope: As we move towards an information era of widespread information availability, an effective system of convergence among the new broadcasting technologies, internet technology, and mobile systems becomes increasingly important. Countries are deploying multiple broadcast technologies; it will remain a key challenge for the industry and user communities to provide a uniform platform to content providers, and convergence is critical to overcoming this challenge.
The main purpose of this Digital Broadcasting and Mobile Convergence Special Session for ChinaCom2008 is targeting exchanges of ideas, achievements, opinions and information among the IST projects funded by European commission as well as international professionals and experts in the areas of digital broadcasting. The major concepts and technologies and some important results achieved recently will be presented in this special session.
Topics: Authors are invited to submit papers to the special session. Topics include, but are not limited to: DVB-H, DMB-T, DTMB, Middleware, Scalable video coding, interoperability between broadcasting networks, digital broadcasting, test bed, etc.
Organized and Supported by: IST MING-T project
Important Dates:

• Full paper deadline:                   30th April
• Notification date:                       15th May
• Camera-ready deadline:             31st May

Guidelines:

• Paper should be submitted through COCUS, http://cocus.eu
• Your paper can ONLY be submitted in PDF format. Please follow IEEE conference proceedings format to prepare your papers. Regular papers are allowed to be 5 pages (invited papers can be 8 pages). Extra pages will incur additional charges.
• All papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2008 Conference Proceedings and made available in IEEExplore Digital Library and indexed by Engineering Information (EI).

Contacts:

Prof. Jianwei Zhang                                                                                   Dr. Yabin YE                    
University of Hamburg                                                                                  Create-Net
Germany                                                                                                       Italy
zhang@informatik.uni-hamburg.de                                                                 yabin.ye@create-net.org