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Call for Papers for Special Issue: Circuits and Systems for Real-Time
Security and Copyright Protection of Multimedia
International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier
Ltd.)
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/description)

Guest Editor(s):
-- Saraju P. Mohanty, University of North Texas, email:
smohanty@....
-- Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University, email: memon@....
-- Karam S. Chatha, Arizona State University, email: kchatha@....

Following the explosive growth of the Internet, concerns about
protection and enforcement of IP rights of digital content involved in
transactions have been mounting. Easy unauthorized replication and
manipulation with inexpensive tools has worsened the scenario. Due to
this, the movie/audio industry loses several billions of dollars every
year. Hence, DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems are necessary for
establishing ownership rights, tracking usage, ensuring authorized
access, preventing illegal replication, and facilitating content
authentication. Such DRM systems may need various techniques including,
encryption, watermarking, steganography, scrambling, digital
certificates, secure communications protocols, etc. In the last decade,
significant research progress has been made to develop these techniques
which primarily work offline. However, in case of emerging applications,
such as, digital television broadcasting, internet protocol television
(IP-TV), video on demand, pay-TV, electronic passport (e-passport),
credit cards, driving licenses, etc. security and copyright protection
mechanisms have to work in real-time. Consequently, appliances, like
digital cameras, network processors, mobile/video phones, graphics
processing units, DVD player, etc. need to be equipped with such
mechanisms. In these situations, software only solutions may not be
adequate to provide real-time performance, rather hardware assisted
solutions is needed for easy integration with multimedia hardware,
low-power consumption, higher reliability/availability, and low-cost
compared.

The guest editors invite original manuscripts addressing the above
challenges. The topics of research interest include, but not limited to:
-- Real-time performance integrated circuits for DRM techniques.
-- Operating-system and (micro) architecture-level support for security
and copyright protection.
-- Methods to integrate security and copyright protection mechanism in
embedded architectures.
-- Building SoCs such as camera, mobile phones, network processors with
DRM technology.
-- Building media processors, graphics processing units with DRM technology.
-- Techniques for secure multimedia broadcasting in wireless systems.
-- Security and copyright techniques for home entertainment, such as
IP-TV and digital TV, etc.
-- Techniques for real-time multimedia processing in encryption and/or
watermarking domain.
-- Design of side-channel-resistant embedded systems to enable
attack-proof DRM development.
-- Low-power DRM technology for portable appliances.

Submission Information: Manuscripts should be emailed to the guest
editors (smohanty@... and memon@... and kchatha@...) as
pdf files. The maximum page limit for a manuscript is 25 pages. The pdf
file should be named using last name of the first author followed by a
keyword from the paper title. For example, the filename for authors S.
Mohanty and N. Memon submitting the paper titled: "On Watermarking
Technique's Developments" would be Mohanty-Watermarking. Guidelines for
manuscript preparation can be found at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/authorinstructi\
ons.

Schedule:
-- Paper Submission Deadline: 15th June 2007
-- Notification of Acceptance or Request for Revision (if any): 15th
August 2007
-- Notification of Revised Papers Acceptance: 31st August 2007
-- Camera Ready Final Version Due: 30th September 2007
-- Appearance of Special Issue: December 2007 / Early 2008

Questions and More Information: Please feel free to contact the guest
editors.
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