Call for Papers

Special issue on Embedded Systems for Real-time Multimedia

Today, the design process for high-end multimedia embedded systems has become a crucial bottleneck due to the increasing complexity of both the software and the underlying hardware, coupled with shortened time-to-market pressures. While there has been a notable growth in the use and applications of multimedia systems and in the evolution of system-on-chip design technology, there are still enormous opportunities for improving design productivity in this domain. Given this backdrop, the aim of this special issue is to report on different research achievements addressing the challenges (e.g., in terms of software, architectures, real-time systems, DSP, compilers, multimedia applications) that are faced during the design of hardware and software for multimedia embedded systems

Topics of interest include:

• Specification and modeling of multimedia systems
• Multimedia systems design methodologies and case studies
• Circuits and architectures for embedded multimedia architectures
• Multimedia processors and reconfigurable architectures
• Emerging trends (Systems-on-Chip, Networks-on-Chip, Game applications, etc.)
• Validation and verification
• Software optimization and compiler techniques
• Timing aspects of media streams
• Scheduling of media processing
• Resource and QoS management methods
• Temporal estimation and protection of media streams
• Real-time kernels, OS and middleware support

A selected number of top papers from IEEE ESTIMedia 2008 are invited by the guest editors for review. Authors of these papers are asked to extend their work for a TECS journal publication, which is then subjected to a rigorous review process. Besides submissions from ESTIMedia’08 any other high quality submissions that fits the topics of the special issues are welcome. Authors should submit their journal version at Manuscript Central adhering to the formatting instructions on the TECS Web page and indicate that you are submitting to the Special Issue on Embedded Systems for Real-time Multimedia (on the first page and in the field "Author's Cover Letter:" in manuscriptcentral). For additional questions please send an email.

Timetable:

Submission deadline:	February 15, 2009
Notification:	approx. May 15, 2009
Tentative publication:	approx.  July 2010

Please note: disclosure of review results and the final copy deadline may differ.

Guest Editors:

• Prof. Dr. Petru Eles, Linköping University, Sweden
• Dr. Andy D. Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Samarjit Chakraborty, TU München, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Mladen Berekovic, TU Braunschweig, Germany