Ieee Comsoc Mmtc E-letter E-letter from Cross-layer Optimization to Cognitive Source Coding for Multimedia Application Layer Qos Provisioning for Wireless Multimedia Networks with Message from Editor-in-chief

Welcome to the November Issue of E-Letter! First I would like to call your attention to a few notices posted in the pages 3-4. The winter and holiday seasons are coming soon; it is time for many members to plan for their family vacations, Hawaii could be a warm and wonderful place to consider, even not mentioning that the IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 will be held there during Nov. 30-Dec. 4. Our MMTC meeting will be held during the conference, and all members are invited to attend (please see our MMC Chair, Dr. Qian Zhang's message on page 3). On the other hand, it is time to nominate the new Editor-in-Chief for this E-Letter, please send your nomination to Qian by Nov. 15 (the Call for Nominations is posted on page 4). Then I would like to thank Dr. Guan-Ming Su (Marvell Semiconductors, USA), who continues his earlier efforts in the September Issue to put together a second wonderful Special Issue on New Research Trends, with four invited position papers contributed from world top scientists in the field. Please check out this special issue starting from Dr. Su's Guest Editorial on page 7. In the following article, Dr. Greg Cermak (Verizon Labs, USA) gives positions, directions and suggestions on the consumer research and subjective quality evaluation for multimedia communication applications, based on his many years' experience in VQEG and other quality standardization efforts. After that, Dr. Simone Milani (University of Padova, Italy) introduces a new term " Cognitive Source Coding " in his paper, which refers to a cognitive-radio-like technology that receives a description of the network conditions from the lowest layers in the protocol stacks and adopts the most appropriate source coding solution from a set of possible choices. It differentiates from cross-layer design in that the later jointly tunes the transmission parameters at different layers without changing the structure of the involved coding architecture while cognitive source coding implies reconfiguring the architecture of the source coder depending on network status. Please read more details in his paper. In the focused technology column, Dr. F. demonstrates an integrated approach to optimize application layer QoS for wireless multimedia communication networks. In their effort, the multimedia intra-refreshing rate is jointly optimized with access strategy and spectrum sensing for media transmission in a cognitive radio network.

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