organizing committee

General Chair:

Xun Zhang, ISEP, France

General CoChairs & International Steering Committee:
  • Andrei Vladimirescu,
  • France, ISEP Yiyan Wu,
  • IEEE BTS/CRC, Canada Pablo Angueira,
  • UPV/EHU, Spain
  • Maurizio Murroni, U. of Cagliari, Italy
  • Bill Hayes, Iowa Public TV/IEEE BTS, USA
  • Ralph Hogan, Rio
  • Salado College/IEEE BTS, USA
  • Albert Heuberger, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
  • Shuji Hirakawa, Japanese Standards A., Japan
  • Peter Seibert, DVB, Switzerland,
  • Ulrich Reimers,
  • TU Braunschweig, Germany Jian Song, Tsinghua U., China Wenjun Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong U., China
Technical Program Committee Co‐ Chairs:
  • Fen Zhou, ISEP, France
  • Fredric Amiel, ISEP, France
  • ETRI, Korea
  • Jeongchang Kim, KMOU, Korea
  • Sungho Jeon, KBS, Korea
  • Jintao Wang, Tsinghua U., China
  • Jian Xiong, Shanghai Jiaotong U., China
  • Dazhi He, NERC‐ DTV, China
  • Xianbin Wang, UWO, Canada
  • Liang Zhang, CRC, Canada
  • Jon Montalban Sachez, UPV/EHU, Spain
  • Kenichi Murayama, NHK, Japan
  • Yue Zhang, U. of Lecester, UK
  • Cristiano Akamine, Mackenzie P. U., Brazil
  • David Gomez-Barquero, UPV, Spain
  • Giuseppe Araniti, Mediterranean U., Italy
Keynote Chairs :
  • Fen Zhou, ISEP, France
publication Chairs :
  • Lina Mroueh, ISEP, France
Regional Promotion and Liaison Chairs:
  • David Gomez-Barquero, UPV, Spain
  • Bo Rong, CRC, Canada
  • Yoshiaki Shishikui, Meiji U., Japan
  • Amanda Temple, IEEE BTS, USA
  • Rafael Sotelo, U. Of Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Hyun-woo Lee, ETRI, Korea
financial Chairs :
  • Yue Liu, ISEP, France
  • Amanda Temple, IEEE BTS, USA

call for papers

The symposium seeks unpublished technical papers on the following topics:
1. Multimedia Transmission:
  • Channel modelling & simulation
  • Advanced signal processing for transmission
  • MISO and MIMO processing
  • Channel estimation and equalization
  • Antenna technologies
  • Propagation and coverage
  • Terrestrial and satellite delivery
  • Mobile TV and advanced HD Radio
  • Field Trials and test results
  • Next generation of broadcasting standards and systems
  • 5G: New Radio & New Core
  • LTE Advanced Pro
  • Making better use of the spectrum
2. Multimedia Networking:
  • IPTV and streaming
  • Internet TV and OTT
  • LTE eMBMS, MooD & SC‐PTM
  • VoD, interactivity, datacasting
  • Multimedia NFV and SDN
  • Traffic and performance monitoring, congestion control
  • Networking and QoS
  • Cloud‐based multimedia services
  • Cloud and Content management
3. Multimedia Signal Processing:
  • Audio coding and processing
  • Video coding and processing
  • Content adaptation and scaling
  • Error resilient and concealment
  • Rate control
  • Retrieval and indexing
  • 3D and multi-view video
  • Immersive audio
  • Content protection and watermarking
  • Objective video and audio quality assessment
  • Artificial intelligence in media processing
  • Scalable video coding & Content adaptation
4. Multimedia Service, Quality and Content:
  • Multimedia for connected cars - Multimedia IoT
  • Multimedia datacasting and security
  • Broadcast applications to Smart Cities
  • Multimedia service deployments
  • Performance evaluation techniques
  • Objective evaluation techniques
  • Subjective evaluation techniques
  • Audience measurement & behavior study
  • Object-based broadcasting
  • Quality of Experience
  • Future broadcasting services
  • Convergence of Broadcast and Broadban

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final paper submission

Steps for Final Manuscript Submission

The authors of the accepted extended abstracts must follow the steps below for the full paper submission. Please make sure you complete all the steps for the final manuscript submission before the deadline (15 April 2019).

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2. Registration

In order for your paper(s) to be published in the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB) Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore, an author (including students) of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the Full (member or non-member) rate on or before 15 April 2019. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one Full Registration is required.

The registration process needs to be performed before uploading the Final Manuscript to Easy Chair.

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3. Submission of IEEE Copyright

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Deadline

The hard deadline for submitting the final manuscript is 15 April 2019 6 May 2019

Questions

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