Recent Advances on Intelligent Multimedia Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, multimedia networking applications benefit from the rapid development of encoding techniques for multimedia data sources, effective Quality of Service (QoS) control mechanisms, and Quality of Experience (QoE) criteria for system optimization. Interoperability solutions are also being proposed to integrate wired and wireless heterogeneous networking systems for multimedia communication. Another challenge is ensuring that the multimedia-networked content is fully interoperable, with ease of management and standardized multimedia content adapted for interoperable delivery, as well as intellectual property management and protection (i.e., digital rights management) being successfully incorporated into the system. Meanwhile, multimedia networks can be more secure and intelligent by integrating some type of intelligence. Existing research works still need to find out efficient ways to establish Intelligent Multimedia Networks (IMNs). Intelligent Networks can be applied in several network shapes like edge/Fog/Cloud/p2p networks and even sensor/mesh networks to increase the performance and throughput of such systems as well as providing better QoE to satisfy customers’ experiences.

This Special Issue solicits novel work in terms of solutions and techniques for intelligent multimedia networks. We look forward to creating a forum in which researchers in the domain of intelligent multimedia networks can share their results, techniques, surveys, analyses, and discussions of the problems of intelligent multimedia networks. Topics of interest for this Special Issue are not limited strictly to traditional multimedia networking problems, but also include topics that address related fields over multimedia sensor networks such as (but not limited to):

• Transmission techniques for multimedia information over IMNs
• Scheduling and routing in IMNs
• Effective QoS control mechanisms
• Scalability, reliability, and performance of IMNs
• Network services and applications in IMNs
• Performance evaluation of IMNs
• Anomaly detection in IMNs
• QoS and security support in IMNs
• Multimedia system optimization through QoE criteria/support
• Encoding techniques to improve the end-user’s QoE in IMNs
• Digital rights and digital forensic management in IMNs
• Multimedia security mechanisms to protect content and privacy
• Video optimization in multimedia sensor networks
• Optimization algorithms in IMNs
• IMNs support for Edge Computing
• IMNs for IoT applications
• Network monitoring and analytical modeling in IMNs

Dr. Dimitris Kanellopoulos
Dr. Miguel García-Pineda
Dr. Daniel G. Costa
Guest Editors

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