Mobile Video in the 5G/IoT Era

The enormous popularity of smart phones and other mobile hand-held devices has led to a dramatic increase in wireless video traffic. Until just recently, there were very few mobile devices with any capability for video reception. According to recent estimations, mobile video traffic is expected to be 60-75% of the global mobile traffic by 2020, and this percentage will only increase with the myriad applications of the “everything connected” Internet of Things upcoming era. However, a number of significant challenges need to be addressed and overcome before the full potential of mobile video networking is reached. Such challenges include, among others:

New sets of traffic control procedures must be implemented in order for networks to cope with the high variance in video traffic Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and guarantee the required Quality of Experience (QoE) for users;
The small display size, limited battery and processing capabilities of mobile devices are constraints which can negatively influence user QoE;
Pricing models for mobile video services;
User discomfort in holding their phones at a set distance from their faces for the time of a video conference;
Compatibility issues between the equipment and the software of mobile video users.

All of the challenges related to mobile video networking are further hindered by user mobility and by the high error rates in wireless networks. Given the small display size, even a relatively low video packet dropping probability may considerably deteriorate the viewer’s QoE. Additionally, errors due to packet loss in a reference frame propagate to the dependent difference frames. Depending on the effectiveness of the encoding/decoding scheme, this phenomenon can have a significant impact on the quality of the received video sequence.

Call for Papers

This special issue is devoted to covering all aspects of current work on mobile video and to providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their most recent contributions in the field. Previously unpublished, original papers of high quality that are not currently under review by another journal or conference are solicited on (but not limited to) the following topics of interest:

Mobile video services and applications (social networking, gaming, surveillance)
Cloud-based mobile video delivery
Power management for mobile video
QoS issues and performance evaluation of mobile video over wireless networks
Mobile video streaming in cloud and mobile cloud computing environments
Video for wireless sensor networks
Reducing video transport cost over mobile networks
Mobilevideo traffic modeling
Mobile video QoE metrics and optimization
Protocols and algorithms maximizing bandwidth utilization for mobile video traffic transmission
Mobility management for mobile video users and applications
Wireless video coding
3D Video compression for mobile devices
Pricing of mobile video services
Peer-to-peer mobile video
Mobile video in m-health networking
Video in hybrid networks, e.g., WLAN-to-cellular, mobile hotspot to cellular
Mobile video services supported by mobile cloud computing techniques

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2017.

Author Notification: June 15, 2017.

Submission Instruction

Please see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom for preparation guidelines and visit http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom to submit your manuscript. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, please select \”SI: Mobile Video 5G/IoT\” when you reach the Article Type step in the submission process. For further information, please contact the guest editors.

Guest Editors

Polychronis Koutsakis, Murdoch University, Australia

Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA