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Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems

The IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences announces a forthcoming Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems to be published in November 2018. The IEICE TC SIS conducted the 2017 International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Asia (SISA 2017) in order to enhance research activities on smart multimedia & communication fiel...

Advanced Multimedia Communication Systems

A fundamental challenge for present and future communication systems is the ability to transport multimedia content to a wide variety of terminals (TV, PC, PDA, cell phone), over a variety of networks (broadcast, Internet, GPRS, CDMA), at different channel conditions (congestion, high bit-error), different bitrates and different quality-of-service. This challenge leads to a number of technical ...

Broadcasting Multimedia Channels in Future Mobile Systems

In this paper, we present ongoing work on an application-level platform that assists in broadcasting multimedia streams in heterogeneous mobile systems. Our work revolves around the notion of a technology domain, which is a set of resources that serve mobile clients connecting to the mobile system through a specific wireless technology. We consider the policies that technology domains use to (a...

Communication Services for Multimedia Systems

Technology for Supporting Informal Communication in Multimedia Conferencing Systems

This dissertation presents work on designing multimedia conferencing systems that better support informal communication among groups. In this case the term “informal” refers to the ability of the system to support unplanned communication and side conversations between members of the group. This contrasts from the classical goal of video-conferencing systems, which was to support room-to-room me...