VBTS 2009: "The Future of Television"

Event Detail

General Information
Dates:
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Friday, November 20, 2009
Days of Week:
Thursday
Friday
Target Audience:
Academic and Practice
Location:
Cal Poly Pomona Pomona, CA USA
General Phone:
909-689-3831
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Price:
TBD
Registration Information
Registration Phone:
909-869-2400
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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE VBTS 2009 "THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION"
9th ANNUAL VIDEO AND BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM
www.csupomona.edu/wtsi
November 19-20, 2009
Kellogg West Conference Center
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
The Worldwide Telecommunications Studies Initiative Committee of the College of Business and College of Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in association with the
IEEE Communications Society Foothill Chapter invite the submission of applied research papers to the 9th Annual Video and Broadband Telecommunications Symposium, VBTS 2009, which will be held November 19-20, 2009 at the Kellogg West Conference Center on the campus of
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in Pomona, California, USA. For further information,
visit www.csupomona.edu/wtsi.
The Video and Broadband Telecommunications Symposium brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities to exchange information on advances in video and broadband telecommunications technology, applications, management,
policy, and security. Organizations represented at VBTS in the past have included Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Verizon Communications,The Walt Disney Company, Comcast, Charter Communications,
and AVAYA. The theme for VBTS 2009 will be "The Future of Television". Planned highlights of VBTS 2009 include executive presentations and keynote addresses; presentations of accepted academic
and practitioner research papers; panel discussions; tutorials and workshops; and a poster paper session.
Refereed proceedings will be published by the IEEE and be available on its Xplore online publication system. The proceedings also will be distributed at the Symposium via a CD. Awards will be given
for the most outstanding paper presented and best student paper presented. Some selected high quality papers from VBTS 2009 will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal
of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications & Networking, IGI Global publisher, pending their successful extension and an expedited review process.
Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Internet Television and Multimedia
Video Investments and Ventures
Satellite Based Video Systems
Video Coding and Processing
Global Video Services and Business
Cable Television Networks & Systems
Video Platform Operating Systems and Architectures
Digital Television Transition
Video Network Security and Privacy
Signal Processing in Video Systems
Video Network Modeling, Algorithms, and Simulation
Broadcast Spectrum Management and Policy
QoS and Video Network Reliability
Video over IP and Home Networks
Video Telecommunications Management
Multimedia Services, Systems, and Devices
Mobile and Fixed Video Network Interoperability
Mobile Cellul