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THE LATEST IN CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS, STRAIGHT FROM THE IEEE CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2011
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very year in January, researchers working on consumer communications and networking come together for the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking conference in Las Vegas. Major themes of the conference are Emerging Consumer Technologies and Applications, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Content Distribution, Security and Content Protection, Multimedia and Entertainment Networking and Services, Smart Spaces and Personal Area Networks, and Wireless Consumer Communications and Networking. Each of these themes forms a separate track in the conference program. In addition, the conference is host to a series of Special Sessions and Workshops as well as prototype demonstrations. Some of the latter were selected to also be shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show, which is hosted in Las Vegas around the same time as CCNC. This issue of the Consumer Communications Series features selected articles from the CCNC conference. These have been nominated as candidates for the Best Paper Awards at the conference. The first article in this series, “An Adaptive User Interface Based on Spatiotemporal Structure Learning” by Hosub Lee and his co-authors from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, was the winner of the award. Their article describes a novel user interface prototype for the Android smartphone that recommends a number of applications to best match the user’s context. Context is the combined state from time, location, weather, emotion, and activities. Using a probabilistic learning and inference algorithm, the best three applications are recommended. The second article, “Synchronized Multimedia Streaming on the iPhone Platform with Network Coding” by Peter Vingelmann and his co authors from Budapest University of Technology and Arlborg University, won the Best Student Paper Award. This article proposes a solution for streaming content from a single source to multiple
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receivers using a novel network coding approach to efficiently and reliably deliver multimedia content to the destinations in a synchronized manner. The remaining three articles were selected as best in their respective track and were runners up to the awards. These articles are “Real-Time Probing of Available Bandwidth in Home Networks” by Archi Delphinanto et al., who propose a novel probing technique for heterogeneous IP-based home networks. This approach, which does not require a priori knowledge on the link layer topology, is sufficiently accurate to decide on admission of highthroughput media streams such as IPTV. The next article, “Using Home Routers as Proxies for Energy-Efficient BitTorrent Downloads to Mobile Phones” by Imre Kelenyi et al., analyzes the implications of hosting a BitTorrent proxy on home routers. The final article in this series, “Takeover TV: Facilitating the Social Negotiation of Television Content in Public Spaces” by Greg T. Elliott et al., provides a new approach to social TV. This article introduces a novel system that lets users influence and interact with movies and TV shown in public spaces such as bars. All of these articles are reprints from the CCNC conference proceedings. If any of the articles in this series are of interest to you, we strongly urge you to consider participating in the next running of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) that will be held next January in Las Vegas in conjunction with the Consumer Electronics Show, the largest CE show in the world. See http://www.ieee-ccnc.org for details.
BIOGRAPHIES MARIO KOLBERG [SM] (
[email protected]) is a lecturer within the Institute of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling. His research interests include peer-to-peer overlay networks, home automation, and IP telephony. He was leading a project funded by Panasonic (USA) investigating efficiency gains in structured peer-to-peer overlays. He was the academic supervisor in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership focusing on developing a peer-to-peer overlay for mobile handsets. He is working in the ESRC project Interlife where he is working on using peer-to-peer networks
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SERIES EDITORIAL with 3D virtual worlds in an educational context. He is also involved in the MATCH project, focusing on integrating different network technologies for care in the home. He is on the editorial Board of the Springer journal Peerto-Peer Networking and Applications and has a longstanding involvement with the IEEE CCNC conference series. He served as its TPC Chair for the January 2011 running. He is TPC co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Systems Architecture and Applications (IMSAA-11) to be held in December 2011 in Bangalore, India. He has published more than 50 papers in leading journals and conferences. He is a member of a number of international conferences program committees on networking and communications. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. STAN MOYER [SM] (
[email protected]) is executive director and strategic research program manager in the Applied Research area of Telcordia Technologies, where he has worked since 1990. Currently, he is the product manager for the Telcordia Mobile Messaging and Application Solution. In the past he has led research and business development activities related to digital content services and home networking. Prior to that he worked on ATM switch hardware, broadband network architectures and protocols, middleware, Internet network and application security, Internet QoS, and voice over IP. He is currently president of the OSGi™ Alliance. He is a member of the Board and Treasurer for the IEEE Communications Soci-
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ety, vice-chair of the IEEE CCNC steering committee, and a member of the IEEE Technical Activities Board Finance Committee. MADJID MERABTI [M] (
[email protected]) is a professor of networked systems and director of the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. He holds a Ph.D. from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He has over 20 years’ experience in conducting research and teaching in the areas of computer networks (fixed and wireless), mobile computing, and computer network security. He is widely published, with over 150 publications in these areas, and leads the Distributed Multimedia Systems and Security Research Group. He is principal investigator in a number of current projects: Mobile Networks Security and Privacy Architectures and Protocols, Secure Component Composition in Ubiquitous Personal Networks, Networked Appliances, Mobile and Ad Hoc Computing Environments, Sensor Networks, and computer games technology. He was Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Research Developments in Consumer Communications and Networking of Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal (Kluwer, September 2005). He is a member of the Steering Committee for IEEE CCNC. He has acted as TPC chair for a number of international conferences, including the 5th IEEE Workshop on Networked Appliances, Liverpool, October 2002. He is a member of a number of international conferences program committees on networking, security, and computer entertainment.
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