Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Section on Green Mobile Multimedia Communications Scope Recent ubiquitous deployment of mobile broadband devicesand serviceshasled to the explosive demands for mobilemultimedia communications, whichhavesignificantly increased not onlyspectrum requirements but also energy consumptions. Currently, the telecommunicationsindustry is responsible for about 2 percent ofglobalCO2 emissions, andit could increase to 4 percent by 2020given the projected growthin mobile multimedia communications. This demonstrates an urgent need for energy-aware and spectrum-efficienttechnologies to achieve green mobilemultimedia communications. The broadband nature of mobile multimedia communications, combined with radio channel variations due to user mobility, brings many technicalchallenges to thedeliveryofsatisfactory quality of service andquality of experience to mobile users. For agiven performance requirement, there is a saturation point, wherethe energy consumption can no longer be reduced. For a fixedhomogeneous network deployment, the performance saturation point is dictated by hardware performance; while for a flexible heterogeneous networkdeployment, the performance saturation point isdictated by the achievable capacity of the network architecture and transmission techniques. Moreover, traditional mobile communication networksare designed statically based on the“worst case” of all expected communication scenarios. Without considering the dynamic nature of channel conditions and user traffic demands, existing mobile communication networksoften result in a very inefficient usage of the radioresources. For example, the conventional spectrum allocation approachesarenotflexible enough to cope with the varying channel conditions and user demands. All these challenges have motivated comprehensive efforts from both industry and academia in designing new energy- and spectrum-efficientnetwork architectures, protocols, algorithms and transmission technologies forgreenmobilemultimedia communications. The objective of this special issue is to cover the most recent research and development on the enabling technologies for green mobile multimedia communicationsand to stimulate discussions on state-of-the-art and innovative aspects in the field. This special issue is focused on energyand spectrumefficiency in mobile multimedia communications. Originalandunpublished papers are encouraged. Topicsof Interest · Energy-aware and spectrum-efficient transmission techniques formobile multimedia communications · Energy- and spectrum-efficientmobile multimedia systems · Energy, spectrum and cost trade-off in the context of mobile multimedia communications · Green cloud-based multimedia services · Mobile system architecture design and performance analysis · Cognitive and adaptive mobile multimedia systems · Cooperative and relay technique in multimedia delivery · Energy efficiency and power management for mobile multimedia communications · Enabling technologiesforemerging mobile multimedia systems (e.g. WiMAX, LTE-Advanced) · Quality of experience (QoE) oriented resource allocation · Cross-layer design for mobile multimedia communications · Location based mobile multimedia services · Handoverin mobile multimedia communications Submission Instruction Authors should follow the IEEE TVT manuscript format and submission procedure,which can be found at the IEEE TVT home page (http://transactions.vtsociety.org/)under Information for Authors. We recommend a length of 20 pages in the TVT submission format (or 8 pages in final publication format) for regular papers submitted to this special section. Authors who need more space maysubmit papers of up to 35 pages as TVT policy allows, butextra page charges will apply (see TVT website for details). Prospective authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via the journal online paper submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tvt-ieee Important Dates (tentative) Manuscript Due: August 1, 2013. First Editorial Decision: October 15, 2013. Revised Manuscript Due: November 15, 2013 Final Editorial Decision: January 1, 2014. Final Manuscript due: February 1, 2014. Publication: 2nd Quarter 2014. Guest Editors: Yi Qian ([email protected]), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Xiaoli Chu ([email protected]), University of Sheffield, UK Xianbin Wang ([email protected]), The University of Western Ontario, Canada Hai Lin ([email protected]), Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Fumiyuki Adachi ([email protected]), Tohoku University, Japan Hussein T. Mouftah ([email protected]), University of Ottawa, Canada _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
