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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
       The 18th International Workshop on Network and Operating
      Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2008)
                        Braunschweig, Germany
                           May 28-30, 2008
                    http://www.nossdav.org/2008/

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As it is established practice at NOSSDAV, the 18th installment will
focus on cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in multimedia and
newly emerging areas. NOSSDAV in Braunschweig will be held under the
dual sign of interactivity. Firstly, we encourage submissions to the
topic of system support for interactive multimedia in particular. New
and innovative ideas will be preferred over contributions aimed at
perfecting established topics. Controversial ideas and approaches and
their open discussion are strongly encouraged. Secondly, we want to
incite interactivity among the senior and junior participants.
Workshop setting and schedule will be such that discussion is
fostered, and it should be especially worthwhile for graduate students
with innovative ideas to meet senior researchers as well as peers and
receive feedback from them.
 
The workshop will include special sessions where participants are
invited to present prototypes of their software, demos, or entire
research systems online and interactively.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A
publication of the best papers of the workshop in a special issue of
MMSJ is intended.
 
Please note that IWQoS is held on June 2-4 at the University of
Twente. If you are also interested in attending IWQoS, you can easily
combine the two trips.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Wireless and mobile multimedia systems
- Resource management in Ad-hoc networks
- 3D multimedia and tele-immersion
- Streaming 3D graphics and virtual worlds
- Networked games
- Sensor networks and architectures
- Real-time operating system support for multimedia
- Peer-to-peer streaming
- In-network stream processing
- Programmable subsystems for multimedia
- Multimedia system using heterogeneous processing architectures
- Multimedia grids
- Energy awareness
- Application-level multicast
- Multimedia middleware and the IP multimedia subsystem
- Multimedia security
- Digital rights management

Paper registration: January 28, 2008
Paper deadline:     February 4, 2008
Review deadline:    March 17, 2008
Notification:       March 24, 2008
Final papers due:   April 14, 2008
Workshop:           May 28-30, 2008

Co-chairs:
Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Technical Program Committee:
Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France
Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA
Songhyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University, USA
Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University, USA
Paal Halvorsen, Simula Research Laborator, Norway
Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews, UK
Matthias Hollick, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Markus Kampmann, Ericsson, Germany
JongWon Kim, GIST, Korea
Ewa Kusmierek, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA
Dmitri Loguinov, Texas A&M, USA
Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK
Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore
Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon, USA
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Prashant Shenoy, UMass Amherst, USA
Cormac Sreenan, UC Cork, Ireland
Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore