The First International Workshop on Multimedia Aware Networking 2011 (WoMAN’11) solicits novel contributions and breaking results on all aspects of multimedia-aware networking. In particular, workshop papers should describe algorithms, issues and experiences related to content-aware networking and network-aware applications, future (media) Internet architectures, self-* and adaptivity, cross-layer design and optimization, applications, and interoperability.
We would like to acknowledge our sponsors Dolby, RADVISION, IEEE MMTC, and FP7 ICT ALICANTE.
Workshop organizers
Christian Timmerer is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group (MMC), Klagenfurt University, Austria. His research interests include the transport of multimedia content, multimedia adaptation in constrained and streaming environments, distributed multimedia adaptation, and Quality of Service / Quality of Experience. He was the general chair of WIAMIS 2008 and EUMOB 2009 and has participated in several EC-funded projects, notably DANAE, ENTHRONE, P2P-Next, and ALICANTE. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Computer Science Computing Now, Area Editor for Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication, and a Key Member of the Interest Group on Image and Video Coding of IEEE MMTC. He also participated in ISO/MPEG work for several years, notably in the area of MPEG-21, MPEG-M, MPEG-V, and DASH. He received his PhD in 2006 from the Klagenfurt University. Publications and MPEG contributions can be found under http://research.timmerer.com, follow him on http://www.twitter.com/timse7, and subscribe to his blog http://blog.timmerer.com. Full bio can be found at http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/~timse/cv/.
George Xilouris was born in Athens, Greece in 1976. He received his BSc in Physics from University of Ioannina in 1999 and his MSc in Automation Control Systems from National Technical University of Athens in 2001. Since 2002 he is a PhD candidate with the University of Athens, department of Informatics and Telecom. He joined Digital Telecommunications Lab at the National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos” in 1999. Currently he is working toward the PhD, having granted a scholarship from Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR “Demokritos” since 2001. He has actively participated in several EU funded projects (MAMBO, SOQUET, REPOSIT, ENTHRONE,ATHENA), with presentations and publications at various conferences, workshops, scientific journals. His current research activities include Interactive Digital Television (DVB), Next Generation Networks, Satellite Communications, Network Design and IT services.
Daniel Negru received his MSc. Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris 6, in 2002. Then, he worked in the centre of research of Motorola, Paris, specifying and developing a complete IPv6 stack from scratch, including Mobile IPv6 and multimedia components. Between 2003 and 2006, he worked at the CNRS laboratory, Paris area – French computer science research centre doing research in the underlying technologies for the next generation global information infrastructure. He received his PhD in 2006 in the field of Broadcast and Internet convergence solutions at the network and service levels. In 2007, he became Associate Professor at ENSEIRB School of Engineers / University Bordeaux, specializing in multimedia and networking and his main fields of research reside in the domains of mobility and multimedia over heterogeneous networks, IMS convergence, service accessibility and adaptation, content/context aware networking and network/context aware applications. His work on these subjects led to numerous publications in conferences and journals (IEEE, ACM, Springer, …). He has experience in participation to national and European projects, such as ANR RIAM NMS, IST FP6 ATHENA, IST FP6 ENTHRONE, IST FP6 ENTHRONE2, IST FP6 IMOSAN, ICT FP7 ADAMANTIUM, ANR ARPEGE ARDMAHN and he is now the coordinator of the ICT FP7 ALICANTE project.
Eugen BORCOCI, is professor at the Telecommunications Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology of University “Politehnica” of Bucharest (UPB). His expertise is in theoretical and/or experimental knowledge in telecommunication/computer systems and networks: architectures and protocols; multicast and multimedia communications; research/design/teaching on fields in the above mentioned area; development and implementation of HW/SW communication systems. His main area of interest in last years is in Internet architecture, communication protocols, QoS, integrated management of complex multi-domain systems for multimedia distribution. He has been a UPB team co-ordinator of several international EC research projects: COP 62, KIT, FP5 MOICANE, FP6 WEIRD, Networks of Excellence – Euro-NGI, EuroFGI, FP7 SMART-NET, ALICANTE and or research group leader in FP6 ENTHRONE, ENTHRONE II. He was and still is member of several Committees of International Conferences. His scientific and technical publications list includes books, textbooks and a lot of scientific or technical papers/reports on subjects from the above mentioned domains. He participated at many research, design and development/co-operation with industry, being team leader or member of more than 25 national scientific or technical projects.
