Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
Special Issue on Quality of Experience for Advanced Broadcast Services
With the catching on of second-screen adoption and the increase of real-time news consumption via
social channels, the broadcast landscape underwent a major transformation in the last years: viewers have
begun to demand highly customized experiences that meet their individual needs. Beside
traditional Terrestrial/SAT/Cable broadcast, global service providers have begun to offer fixed/mobile
advanced media delivery on the customer premise, enabling consumers to enjoy the emergence of new
services offered by IPTV, 3DTV, SU/U-HDTV advancements in cloud services, and over-the-top
(OTT) content providers. Moreover, new technologies such as multi sensorial media, augmented reality,
holographic screens and the proliferation of connected devices through the Internet of Things (IoT), could
create an immersive environment that will enrich a rapidly growing array of customer experiences and
become the next frontier of advanced broadcast services. To this end, there is a need to evaluate the level of
enhancement of these experiences and to compare their functionalities and requirements so operators
can properly design their networks and regulators can assess the services offered to the audience. The
present special issue seeks for original high quality papers on QoE for advanced broadcast services. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:
● QoE for Emerging Technologies: multi sensorial media; Hi-Fi/spatial/3D audio quality; stereo/multiview
video quality; high resolution/dynamic-range/frame-rate imaging; light-field imaging;
holographic imaging; quality in immersive environments (virtual/augmented/ mixed realities); IoT and
Emotional TV.
● QoE for Mobile Broadcasting: quality evaluation for mobile devices; adaptive media streaming;
impact of viewing conditions, context and device properties, user behaviour.
● QoE for Web and Social Media Broadcasting.
● Big data QoE analytics: Media streaming platforms, crowdsourcing studies.
● QoE-based network and service management: KPI and KQI definition for QoE optimization in
emerging environments; control, monitoring and management strategies; inter-operator QoE-oriented
collaborations.
● QoE-driven processing, compression and transmission technology.
● QoE Fundamentals: Understanding experience and quality formation; quality vs. user satisfaction vs.
acceptance; long-term quality measurement; physiological QoE assessment.
● Reproducible QoE Research: Benchmarking and certification; automation tools for subjective quality
assessment; multimedia quality databases; testing conditions and methods; standardization efforts and
recommendations for quality targets for TV, desktop, and mobile viewing use cases.
Prospective authors should visit http://bts.ieee.org/publications/ieee-transactions-onbroadcasting/
information-for-authors.html for information on paper submission. Manuscripts should be
submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tbc. When submitting your paper please chose Special issue
Manuscripts and the title Quality of Experience for Advanced Broadcast Services. All papers will be
peer reviewed according to the standard IEEE process.
Important Dates:
Manuscript submission due: December 1st, 2017
First review completed: March 1st, 2018
Revised manuscript due: April 15th, 2018
Second review completed: June 1st, 2018
Final manuscript due: July, 15th, 2018
Publication date: September 2018
Guest Editors:
Maurizio Murroni, University of Cagliari, Italy
(murroni@diee.unica.it)
Reza Rassool, RealNetworks, USA
(reza@realnetworks.com)
Rafael Sotelo, University of Montevideo,
Uruguay (rsotelo@um.edu.uy)
Li Song, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
(song_li@sjtu.edu.cn)
