CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
        The 18th International Workshop on Network and Operating
       Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2008)
                         Braunschweig, Germany
                            May 28-30, 2008
                        Sponsored by ACM SIGMM
                     http://www.nossdav.org/2008
             Early registration deadline: May 5, 2008
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The 18th NOSSDAV will be held in May 2008 at the Technical University
of Braunschweig, Germany.

As always at NOSSDAV, new and controversial ideas and approaches are
presented and discussed, and young and experienced researchers meet
for lively discussions. From its original focus on support for audio
and video, the scope of NOSSDAV has broadened to include networked
games, sensor networks, multimedia interfaces, and peer-to-peer
networking. As promised in the call-for-papers, interactivity plays a
major role in this year's NOSSDAV. Many speakers present research on
cooperative or interactive systems, and the attendees are invited to
take a first-hand look at research systems in the demo session.

The keynote speech of NOSSDAV 2008 will be given by Professor Joerg
Liebeherr, University of Toronto. In his keynote entitled "Overlays
can do more ...  if not everything", he claims that the fundamental
limits of overlay networking remain largely unexplored, and presents
the challenges of large numbers of co-existing overlays.

The invited talk by Paulo Mendes of INESC entitled "Cooperative
Networking as Boosting Tool for Internet Interactivity" will show us
that cooperative networking appears at several layers of the network
stack and start a discussion on conditions for successful or failing
systems.

The workshop features the presentations of 17 research papers on
topics including network and operating system support, new use of
multimedia services, the understanding of multimedia workload and
streaming with specific environments or applications.

The workshop will also include a demo session where participants
present prototypes of their software and research systems online and
interactively.

The authors and presenters come from 16 countries and expect your
questions and feedback.

You can find more about the program at

     http://www.nossdav.org/2008/program.html

If you have any questions, please get in touch with the co-chairs:
   Lars Wolf (Technical University of Braunschweig)
   Carsten Griwodz (Simula Research Laboratory)