Special issue on wireless multimedia networks and security services

Abstract

Wireless multimedia networks allow people to access rich multimedia content anytime, anywhere, using different access networks and different computing devices. It is anticipated that wireless multimedia services will change the way we operate and interact with the world with the development of numerous interesting wireless multimedia applications. The new of wireless multimedia computing pose several research challenges. One of the challenges is security issue in wireless multimedia networks. Therefore, in wireless multimedia networks, not only novel techniques, algorithms, architectures and experiences regarding multimedia applications but also security services should be considered. This special issue focuses on the challenges and issues related to wireless multimedia networks and security services. The main aim of this special issue is to expose the readership to the latest trends and research results on wireless multimedia networks and security services. There were large number of submissions to this special issue. Out of these submitted manuscripts, after thorough review process, we have selected eight papers, which cover a number of related topics, demonstrate pioneer work in this