Welcome to Future human-centric Multimedia Networking (FhMN) 2013, which this year is held on August 16, 2013, in conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2013. The workshop gives researchers and professionals in the area of networking, content distribution, social media and the Future Internet a unique opportunity to share their experiences, exchange ideas and discuss state-of-theart research results. Networking nowadays goes beyond Layer 3 or IP protocol issues. Future networks have to provide a platform for interpersonal communication, content distribution and exchange, and serve a wide constituency with different interests and varying expectations. This has been captured in the call for papers of this workshop where topics such as Social Multimedia Networking, Information and Story Centric Networking, Human-centric Multimedia Search and Retrieval, Quality of Experience (QoE) Metrics and Optimization, and Human-centric Network Management and Provisioning cover the different aspects future networking architecture and management have to consider. This inclusion of human aspects, which often have been neglected, also pose ethical and social issues. While these cannot be solved solely through technical means, they have to be considered in the further development and provisioning of future human-centric networking services. FhMN strives to be a notable scientific forum that brings together significant researchers from all these areas to discuss the related issues.
The call for papers has resulted in a significant number of submitted high-quality papers, of which we have selected nine papers for publication, presentation and discussion at the workshop. The topics range from the investigation of novel congestion control schemes to human-centric systems deployed in healthcare therapy. QoE is again a very strong theme, but also other aspects of humancentric networking such as the use of better user knowledge in routing and personalized ranking are represented in the workshop. This is a truly exciting program through which we want to stimulate discussion and encourage thinking beyond the boundaries of established domains. In order to do so we have two slots of keynotes and an "Outrageous Opinions" panel in which we want to open to the floor not only to challenging new ideas but also to interesting research contributions. We deliberately chose this format in order to involve everybody and not just an expert panel or the keynote speakers.
FhMN 2013 is the 5th workshop dealing with networking and communication issues related to multimedia, content and user-centric communication. We are convinced that the workshop will be again an occasion to exchange knowledge among specialists involved in the multimedia and networking domain. As in previous years, putting together the workshop has been a team effort and we would like to thank everybody who has been involved. First of all we would like to thank the authors who have submitted papers and we would like to congratulate those who had their papers accepted after a rigorous peer-review process. We also would like to thank all the Technical Program Committee members and additional reviewers for their hard work in reviewing the papers. Further, we are grateful for ACM SIGCOMM to run the workshop as part of the SIGCOMM conference, which truly adds weight and kudos. We hope you will find the workshop challenging, interesting and inspiring.
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Information centric networking for media distribution: will it blend?
Information Centric Networking's natural "sweet spot" is the distribution of content. One of the largest sources of content is entertainment media, which is today processed, published and delivered using conventional file processing tools and content ...
Human-centric music medical therapy exploration system
Music emotion analytic is useful for many human-centric applications such as medical intervention. Existing studies have shown that music is a low risk, adjunctive and therapeutic medical intervention. However, there is little existing research about ...
Downton abbey without the hiccups: buffer-based rate adaptation for HTTP video streaming
Recent work has shown how hard it is to pick a video streaming rate. Video service providers use heuristics to estimate the network capacity leading to unnecessary rebuffering events and suboptimal video quality. This paper argues that we should do away ...
Towards network-wide QoE fairness using openflow-assisted adaptive video streaming
Video streaming is an increasingly popular way to consume media content. Adaptive video streaming is an emerging delivery technology which aims to increase user QoE and maximise connection utilisation. Many implementations naively estimate bandwidth ...
Experimental investigation of the google congestion control for real-time flows
Enabling real-time communication over the Internet is of ever increasing importance due to the use of Internet for audio/video communication. The RTCWeb IETF working group has been established with the goal of standardizing a set of protocols for inter-...
AdapComm: a bandwidth allocation methodology for multimedia applications in wireless networks
In this article, we propose AdaptMetric Communication (AdapComm), an end-to-end bandwidth estimation and allocation methodology putting emphasis on Quality of Experience at the user side. AdapComm dynamically samples the connection by sending dummy ...
A fixed-point model for QoE-based charging
Within the current paradigm change from Quality-of-Service (QoS) towards Quality-of-Experience (QoE), the question of how to charge for QoE is widely neglected in the research community despite of its obvious importance. In this paper, we present and ...
User cooperative mobility for better multimedia communication quality
For mobile multimedia communications, Quality of Service (QoS) is significantly important. In general it will incur costs to improve QoS. Regarding utility function of cost versus gain for an individual user, it is useful to evaluate relationship ...
Towards human-centric personalized expertise ranking in community-based question answering
Search engine has been the major source for discovering user-generated content with authority, not only on content-centric multimedia but also on human-centric social networks. Many studies have demonstrated the power of graph-based ranking algorithms ...
How disorder impacts routing in human-centric disruption tolerant networks
Human-Centric DTNs exhibit some degree of regularity on their temporal contact patterns. The impact of this regularity on network performances has not been well studied and analyzed. In this paper, we study this temporal dimension of Human-Centric DTNs ...
Empowering the creative user: personalized HTTP-based adaptive streaming of multi-path nonlinear video
- Vengatanathan Krishnamoorthi,
- Patrik Bergström,
- Niklas Carlsson,
- Derek Eager,
- Anirban Mahanti,
- Nahid Shahmehri
This paper presents the design, implementation, and validation of a novel system that supports streaming and playout of personalized, multi-path, nonlinear video. In contrast to regular video, in which the file content is played sequentially, our design ...
Outrageous opinion panel: do we really have to consider the human factor in networking?
The "Outrageous Opinions Panel" discusses the main question of FhMN, namely if and how much human factors should be considered in the actual and future communication infrastructures or in management functions at the user side or inside the network. In ...
Index Terms
- Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future human-centric multimedia networking
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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FhMN '13 | 20 | 9 | 45% |
Overall | 20 | 9 | 45% |