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Guest Editorial Recent Advances in Wireless Multimedia

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ESEARCH and development efforts in mobile and wireless networking are progressing at an astounding pace. The next-generation “killer applications” are expected to be multimedia-based and to use wireless communication. Supporting multimedia applications and services over wireless networks are challenging due to various constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, high rate, limited bandwidth, randomly time-varying network interference, different protocols and standards, and stringent quality-of-service (QoS) requirement. Recent advances in wireless multimedia research seems to be focused on adaptively optimizing and trading off the available resources based on the multimedia content and type of wireless network, as well as traffic and cost structures. The focus of this special issue is to present state-of-the-art research in wireless multimedia processing and networking. For example, cross-layer protocol optimization seems to be a fast growing research area within this context that brings together researchers from physical to application layers. We solicited papers covering a variety of topics: error-resilience techniques, multimedia over wireless peer-to-peer networks, internetworking, space-time coding for multimedia, joint source-channel coding, and multiple description coding, “killer” wireless multimedia applications, wireless media streaming, cross protocol layer optimizations, multimedia over wireless ad hoc networks, low power algorithms and protocols, wireless multimedia security, mobility in multimedia, and multimedia over next-generation wireless networks. The theme of the special issue was intentionally made slightly broader than usual in order to cater to the general need of the broad audience of the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS with diverse interests. The response to the CFP was highly encouraging. We received 71 high-quality papers addressing issues from physical layer to application layer. Majority of the submissions received at least three independent reviews. It was challenging to select the final set of papers to appear in this issue. We have included in this issue a set of papers that deal with various aspects of wireless multimedia communications and networking. Some of the diverse topics that are addressed by the papers in this issue include: power control for video transmission, unequal error protection, joint source channel coding, call admission control strategies, capacity optimization, bandwidth reservation techniques, fair scheduling, and mobility-based transmission. In the first paper, “TRACE: Time Reservation Using Adaptive Control for Energy Efficiency,” Tavli and Heinzelman

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describe a time-division multiple-access (TDMA)-based media access control (MAC) protocol for energy efficient real-time packetized voice broadcasting in a single-hop radio network. TRACE can support multiple levels of quality-of-service (QoS) and provides performance guarantees for voice packets. In the next paper, “A Joint Source Coding-Power Control Approach for Video Transmission Over CDMA Networks,” Chan and Modestino “consider future third-generation (3G) wireless CDMA cellular networks supporting heterogeneous compressed video traffic and investigate transport schemes for maximizing the number of users that can be supported in a single cell, while simultaneously maximizing the reconstructed video quality of individual users.” In the paper, “Real-Time Unequal Error Protection Algorithms for Progressive Image Transmission,” Stankovic´ et al. investigate progressive optimization of joint source channel schemes based on unequal protection, linear time algorithm to facilitate such an encoding is provided that can compute rate-optimal and distortion-optimal solutions in real time for efficient transmission. An approximate analytical formulation of the resource allocation problem for handling variable bit rate multiclass services in a cellular direct sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system is presented in the paper, “Joint Connection Level, Packet Level, and Link Layer Resource Allocation for Variable Bit Rate Multiclass Services in Cellular DS-CDMA Networks With QoS Constraints,” by Wong et al. Araniti et al. who propose a mechanism that exploits user profiling techniques and suitable QoS mapping functions to introduce the soft QoS idea into a wireless multimedia scenario in the paper titled, “Adaptively Controlling the QoS of Multimedia Wireless Applications Through “User Profiling” Techniques.” The next paper, “Performance of CAC Strategies for Multimedia Traffic in Wireless Networks,” by Deniz and Mohamed, is a study on different call admission control (CAC) strategies for multimedia traffic in wireless networks for both narrowband and wideband users. In the paper, “Dynamic-Grouping Bandwidth Reservation Scheme for Multimedia Wireless Networks,” Chang and Chen introduce schemes to support QoS in multimedia wireless networks to optimize the utilization of scarce resources in such networks. The next paper, “QoS Enhancement for Adaptive Streaming Services Over WCDMA,” by Chemiakina et al. considers adaptive streaming over wireless wideband code-division multiple-access (WCDMA)-based networks and employs Radio Network Controller to determine decongestion over the air interface to show clear improvement over the traditional real-time control protocol (RTCP)-based mechanisms for detection of decongestion that results in reduced adaptation delay and buffer sizes. In the paper, “Uplink Capacity Optimization

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by Power Allocation for Multimedia CDMA Networks With Imperfect Power Control,” Shu and Niu introduce optimal and near-optimal power allocation schemes and assuming log normal distribution of received signals provide detailed theoretical analysis of capacity optimization. In the paper, “Content-Based FGS Coding Mode Determination for Video Streaming Over Wireless Networks,” Hung and Huang present a mode decision scheme for FGS(T) video transmission using statistical classifier. In the next paper, “Fair Channel-Adaptive Rate Scheduling in Wireless Networks Supporting Multirate Multimedia Services,” Li and Papavassiliou attempt to optimize both efficiency and fairness in resource allocation schemes in a CDMA wireless system by use of dynamically assigned data rates that match the channel capacity. In the paper, “A Transportation Protocol for Supporting Multimedia Streaming in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Fu et al. present a transport protocol using multimetric joint identification for network condition based on end-to-end measurements that increases the accuracy of identifying network states. In the paper, “NonStop: Continuous Multimedia Streaming in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With Node Mobility,” Li and Wang propose “NonStop,” a collection of middleware-based run-time algorithms that ensure the continuous availability of multimedia streaming services—they use partition prediction to adaptively provision continuous multimedia streaming in ad hoc networks with node mobility. In the paper, “Credit-Based Slot Allocation for Multimedia Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Chao and Liao describe a credit-based slot allocation protocol that provides fair scheduling with QoS support for multihop, multimedia ad hoc wireless networks—the approach is based on a two-tier scheduling algorithm that can cope with frequent node movements and fully distributed nature of ad hoc networks. In the paper, “Handoff Algorithms in Dynamic Spreading WCDMA System Supporting Multimedia Traffic” Wang et al. propose various techniques to support integration of voice and multimedia data services by using batch handoffs and thereby improving the throughput for both World Wide Web (WWW) traffic and video traffic considerably. In the next paper, “PASA: Power Adaptation for Starvation Avoidance to Deliver Wireless Multimedia,” Chen et al. introduce a very interesting concept of power adjustment as a tool for starvation avoidance in multimedia mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)—extensive simulation experiments show the scheme is able to achieve substantially better fairness without compromising transmission control protocol (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) throughput. In the paper, “Performance Analysis of Cellular CDMA With Voice/Data Cellular CDMA With SIR-Based Admission Control,” Anand and Chockalingam introduce the new parameter of signal-to-interference ratio (SIR)-based admission control strategy on the uplink in cellular CDMA systems with both voice and data traffic and provide a detailed analysis of the performance. The paper, “A Cross-Layer Quality-of-Service Mapping Architecture for Video Delivery Wireless Networks,” by Kumwilaisak et al. studies schemes to dynamically map the wireless link

characteristics into the service rate of the cannel, which in turn is used to provide a set of QoS classes for applications—using scalable video as an example, the paper shows how an application can make use of the classes to achieve quality delivery. In the paper, “Mobility Modeling and Analytical Solution for Traffic Distribution in Wireless Multimedia Networks,” by Ashtiani et al. introduce a new mobility model for multimedia wireless networks by considering region splitting and drawing a parallel between subregions, as well as their interconnections with a multiclass Jackson queuing network comprised of multiserver nodes. In the paper, “Joint Source Coding and Data Rate Adaptation for Energy Efficient Wireless Video Streaming,” Luna et al. investigate transmission power management for efficient transmission of video sequences under delay and quality constraints. The next paper, “Video Transport Over Ad Hoc Networks: Multistream Coding With Multipath Transport,” by Mao et al. proposes three techniques (all based on the motion-compensated prediction technique) to combine multistream coding with multipath transport. The authors show that in addition to general error correction techniques, path diversity provides an effective means to combat transmission error in ad hoc networks. In the paper, “Power Efficient Multimedia Communications Over Wireless Channels,” Lu et al. introduce a new interesting approach how to minimize power consumption of a mobile transmitter based on source compression, channel coding, and transmission subject to a fixed end-to-end source distortion. The authors illustrate how their scheme achieves better battery power usage. The next paper, “Adaptive Cross-Layer Protection Strategies for Robust Scalable Video Transmission Over 802.11 WLANs,” by van der Schaar et al. proposes different cross-layer strategies for multimedia streaming video with the objective of significantly improving visual performance for the transmitted video over a variety of channel conditions. In the next paper, “Wireless Incentive Engineering,” Liao et al. take a new approach to solving the problems of efficient regulation of bursty transactional applications, support for bandwidth reservation services while inhibiting bandwidth hogging by mobile devices in commercial networks by applying incentive engineering techniques to wireless access networks. In the paper, “Joint Source-Channel Decoding for MPEG-4 Video Transmission Over Wireless Channels,” Chen and Subbalakshmi investigate the use of joint source-channel coding for reliable transmission of MPEG-4 video over wireless channels and provide detailed theoretical and experimental analyses. In the paper, “A Framework for Bandwidth Degradation and Call Admission Control Schemes for Multiclass Traffic in Next-Generation Wireless Networks,” Das et al. study the tradeoff between an increase in carried traffic (i.e., revenue generation) and user’s QoS satisfaction for multiclass, real-time multimedia traffic in next-generation wireless networks. Their proposed framework models this tradeoff by introducing negative revenue from bandwidth degradation and finding the optimal degradation and admission policies that maximize the net revenue.

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We sincerely hope that this special issue contributes in a significant way to the development of next-generation wireless multimedia networking and applications. We are grateful to JSAC Editor-in-Chief Professor Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, our mentor editor Professor Chin-Tau Lea, and JSAC Executive Editor Sue L. McDonald for their guidance through the whole process. We thank the large number of authors who submitted for this special issue and we gratefully acknowledge the efforts of the reviewers who spent their valuable time to provide reviews in a timely fashion. We provide a list of all the reviewers: (we sincerely regret if we have inadvertently omitted any name) Yucel Altunbasak, Farooq Anjum, John Apostolopoulos, Swaroop Appadwedula, Richard Barton, Inaki Berenguer, Ranjan Bose, Fredrik Berggren, Jianfei Cai, Lei Cao, Shueng-Han Gary Chan, Y Chandramouli, Jie Chen, A. Chockalingam, Wong Tung Chong, Sunghyun Choi, Shun-Ping Chung, Sajal Das, Samir Das, Supratim Deb, Bin Dong, Elza Erkip, Sonia Fahmy, Bo Hong, Jacek Ilow, Lillykutty Jacob, Juan Manuel Romero Jerez, Jiang Shengming, Hari Kalva, Koushik Kar, Adiyta Karnik, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, Anurag Kumar, Kalyan Basu, T. V. Lakshman, Chuxiang Li, Jonathan C. L. Liu, Ben Lu, Songwu Lu, Ranjan Mallick, Hong Man, Daniela Maniezzo, Takis Mathiopoulos, Archan Misra, Kamesh Namuduri, Zhisheng Niu, Antonio Ortega, Thrasos Pappas, Giovanni Pau, Hayder Radha, Parmesh Ramanathan, Gagan Rath, Daryl Reynolds, Jawad A. Salehi, Aimin Sang, Huzur Saran, Sanjay Shakkottai, Gaurav Sharma,

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Meeta Sharma, Xiao Su, K.P. Subbalakshmi, Alberto Toledo, Jui Teng Wang, Zixiang Xiong, Jizheng Xu, Lie-Liang Yang, Aylin Yener, Bulent Yener, Mika Ylianttila, and Shengjie Zhao. R. CHANDRAMOULI, Guest Editor Stevens Institute of Technology Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA RAJEEV SHOREY, Guest Editor Indian Institute of Technology IBM India Research Laboratory New Delhi, 110016 India PRADIP K. SRIMANI, Guest Editor Clemson University Department of Computer Science Clemson, SC 29634-0974 USA X. WANG, Guest Editor Columbia University Electrical Engineering Department New York, NY 10027 USA HEATHER YU, Guest Editor Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Laboratory Princeton, NJ 08540 USA Chin-Tau LEA, J-SAC Board Representative

R. Chandramouli (S’97–M’99) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. and serves as a Co-director of MSyNC: Multimedia Systems, Networking, and Communications Laboratory. His research in wireless networking and security, multimedia security, and applied probability theory is currently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, New Jersey Center for Wireless Telecommunications, and Stevens Center for Wireless Network Security, among others. Dr. Chandramouli is a recipient of the NSF CAREER and IEEE Richard E. Merwin Awards. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY and is on the technical program committee of several international conferences. He is currently a Technical Track Chair for the Multimedia Track in IEEE ITRE (2003) Conference and an Invited Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Telecommunications (2002–2005).

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Rajeev Shorey (S’85–M’95–SM’01) received the B.E degree in computer science from the Department of Computer Science and Automation, and the M.S and Ph.D. degrees in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1987, 1990 and 1996, respectively. He is a Research Staff Member at the IBM India Research Laboratory, New Delhi, since March 1998. He is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, where he actively teaches and guides undergraduate and graduate students. His research interests include wireless LANs, wireless PANs, ad hoc networks, Internet protocols, and performance modeling and analysis of wire line and wireless networks. He has published numerous papers in international journals and conferences. He has to his credit one IBM U.S. patent and eight U.S. patents that are pending, all in the area of networking. Dr. Shorey serves on the Technical Program Committee of several international conferences in networking, namely, IEEE INFOCOM 2004 and IEEE ICC 2004. In the past, he has served on the Technical Program Committee for INFOCOM 2003 and INFOCOM 2002, GLOBECOM 2002, and GLOBECOM 2001 and ICC 2003.

Pradip K. Srimani (M’87–SM’90–F’99) received the Ph. D. degree in computer science from University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India, in 1978. He has served the faculty of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, the Gesselschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Bonn, West Germany, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, and Colorado State University, Ft. Collins. Since 2000, he has been a Professor and Chair of computer science at Clemson University, Clemson, SC. His research interests include reliable systems, parallel algorithms, fault-tolerant computing, networks and graph theory applications. He is Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer Society Press and is a Member of the Editorial Boards of IEEE Software Magazine and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING. He has served as a Distinguished Visiting Speaker and Chapter Tutorial Speaker for IEEE Computer Society for the past several years. He has Guest Edited special issues for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, Parallel Computing, IEEE COMPUTER, Software, Journal of Computer and Software Engineering, Journal of Systems Software, VLSI Design, International Journal of Systems Science, etc. He has also served many conferences in various capacities.

X. Wang (S’98–M’98) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and applied mathematics (highest honor) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1992, the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1998. From July 1998 to December 2001, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station. In January 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, as an Assistant Professor. His research interests fall in the general areas of computing, signal processing, and communications. He has worked in the areas of digital communications, digital signal processing, parallel and distributed computing, nanoelectronics, and bioinformatics. He has published extensively in these areas. His current research interests include wireless communications, Monte Carlo-based statistical signal processing, and genomic signal processing. Dr. Wang received the 1999 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and the 2001 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, and for the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing.

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Heather Yu received the B.S. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, all in electrical engineering. She is a Senior Scientist at Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Laboratory, Princeton, NJ. In 1998, she joined Panasonic, where her major focus is multimedia communication and multimedia information access R&D. She has published nearly 50 technical papers, holds three U.S. patents, and has more then 20 patents pending in the multimedia communication and multimedia information access area. Dr. Yu serves as Vice Chair of IEEE COMSOC Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA, Editor for ACM Computers in Entertainment, and IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Guest Editor of PROCEEDINGS OF IEEE (special issue on Multimedia Security for Digital Rights Management), Conference Steering Committee Member of IEEE ICME and IEEE CCNC, Technical Program Co-chair of IEEE ICC 2004 (International Conference on Communications) Multimedia Technologies and Services Symposium, Conference Technical Program Co-chair of IEEE ITRE 2003 (International Conference on Information Technology Research and Education 2003), Conference Technical Program Vice Co-chair of IEEE ICME 2004 (International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2004). From 1998 to 2002, she served as conference technical program chair, associate chair, session chair, technical committee member, best paper award committee member, keynote speaker, panelist, panel chair, and steering committee member for many conferences. She also served as reviewer for many renowned international journals in the area of multimedia communication and processing