International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC)

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Mission

The primary goal of the International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC) is to provide researchers and academic communities around the world with the highest quality articles while reporting the state-of-the-art research results and scientific findings allowing students, developers, engineers, innovators, research strategists, and IT-managers in this field to gain greater insight into mobile multimedia as they relate to applications, management, and opportunities within any given construct. This journal publishes original research papers, state of the art reviews, technical notes, case studies, innovative projects, and books reviews on topics leveraging all aspects of mobile computing and multimedia communications: from underlying technologies to applications, from theory to practices, and from servers to networks to devices.

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Topics Covered

The coverage of this journal ranges from innovative topics to research findings to trends analysis on mobile multimedia and related theories, technologies, methods, applications, and services from all engineering, business and organizational perspectives.

Contributing papers may deal with, but are not limited to the following topics:

Active multimedia network

Advances in MAN

Augmented reality

Billing and security for mobile multimedia services

Coding, equalization, and modulation

Consumer applications

Content distribution architectures

Content distribution internetworking

Cooperation in mobile multimedia

Database for mobile systems

Digital rights managements

Economics of mobile multimedia

Effect of mobility on computing

Emerging access networks

Enabling infrastructures for mobile computing and multimedia

Ergonomics and health issues

Home networking

Industrial applications

IP video, streaming, and interactive video services

Location- & context-aware dependent computing

Low power networking

Marketing strategies

Measurement and modeling of network operation

Medical applications

Middleware support for mobile multimedia

Military applications

Mobile and multimedia markets and business models

Mobile aware applications

Mobile CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work)

Mobile multimedia interfaces

Mobile multimedia network traffic engineering

Mobile multimedia platforms

Mobile multimedia software architectures

Mobile operating systems

Multimedia and integrated services

Multimedia traffic management

Multi-point, multicast services

Network models and architectures

Network programming for mobile multimedia services

New mobile and multimedia applications and services

People with disabilities

Personal area networks

Personalization, privacy, and security issues

Portable computers with wireless access

Portable devices and smart sensors

Provisioning of multimedia networks and services

QoS management

Regulatory and legal frameworks

Regulatory and societal issues of mobile computing and multimedia

Security and authentication

Social implications

Source coding/compression

Spread spectrum communications

Standardization

Streaming media protocols

Training

Ubiquitous and pervasive computing

Value added chains for mobile multimedia

VoIP services

Wearable computers and PDAs

Wireless and mobile multimedia network management

Wireless data services

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Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Ismail Khalil (http://www.iiwas.org/ismail/) is a senior researcher and lecturer at the institute of telecooperation, Johanes Kepler University Linz, Austria, since October 2002. He is the president of the international organization of Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (@WAS). He holds a PhD in computer engineering and received his habilitation degree in applied computer science on his work on agents’ interaction in ubiquitous environments in May 2008. He currently teaches, consults, and conducts research in Mobile Multimedia, Cloud Computing, Agent Technologies, and the Semantic Web and is also interested in the broader business, social, and policy implications associated with the emerging information technologies. Before joining Johannes Kepler University of Linz, he was a research fellow at the Intelligent Systems Group at Utrecht University, Netherlands from 2001-2002 and the project manager of AgenCom project at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg - Austria from 2000-2001. Dr. Khalil has authored around 100 scientific publications, books, and book chapters. He is the editor of the Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia series, the book Mobile Multimedia: Communication Engineering Perspective, the book Multimedia Transcoding in Mobile and Wireless Networks, the book Innovations in Mobile Multimedia Communications and Applications: New Technologies and the book Advancing the Next-Generation of Mobile Computing: Emerging Technologies. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Web Information Systems (IJWIS), International Journal on Pervasive Computing and Communication (IJPCC) both published by Emerald Group publishing, UK, Journal of Mobile Multimedia (JMM) published by Rinton Press, USA, International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communication (IJMCMC) published by IGI Global, USA, Advances in Next Generation Mobile Multimedia book series published by IGI Global, USA, and Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence book series published by Atlantis and Springer. He is on the editorial board of several international journals. His work has been published and presented at various conferences and workshops.Edgar R. Weippl (CISSP, CISA, CISM) is Science Director of Secure Business Austria and an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on applied concepts of IT-security and e-learning. Edgar has taught several tutorials on security issues in e-learning at international conferences, including ED-MEDIA 2003-2007 and E-Learn 2005. In 2005, he published Security in E-Learning (Springer). After graduating with a PhD from the Vienna University of Technology, Edgar worked for two years in a research startup. He then spent one year teaching as an assistant professor at Beloit College (WI, USA). From 2002 to 2004, he worked with the software vendor ISIS Papyrus, as well as he worked as a consultant for HMO (Empire BlueCross BlueShield) in New York and Albany (NY, USA) and for Deutsche Bank (PWM) in Frankfurt (Germany).

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Editorial Board

Managing Editor
Teddy Mantoro, University of Technology Malaysia, Malaysia

International Advisory Board
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ali Hurson, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Associate Editors
Benabdallah Abderazek, The University of Aizu, Japan
Eduardo Carrillo, University UNAB, Colombia
Mohamed Ali Feki, Institute for Infocomm Research/Media Division, Singapore
Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abdulhussain E. Mahdi, University of Limerick, Ireland

International Editorial Review Board
Ashraf M. A. Ahmad, Princess Sumya University, Jordan
Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Philippe Canalda, Multimedia Development Center "NUMERICA", France
Thanh van Do, Telenor & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Panayotis Fouliras, University of Macedonia, Greece
Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Saad Harous, University of Sharjah, UAE
Ivar Jorstad, Ubisafe AS, Norway
Ghita Kouadri-Mostefaoui, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Dorel Picovici, University of Limerick, Ireland
Key Pousttchi, University of Augsburg, Germany
Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia
Francois Spies, University of Franche-Comte, France
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Dian Tjondronegoro, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Utz Westermann, Mercatis GmbH - Ulm, Germany
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Daqing Zhang, National Institute of Telecommunications (INT/GET), France