Next generations of Wireless Cellular Networks (WCNs), including 3G and 4G technologies are envisaged to support more mobile users and variety of Wireless Multimedia Services (WMSs). WMS enables the simultaneous transmission of voice, data, texts and images through radio links by means of the new wireless technologies. With an increasing demand for WMSs, better Radio Resource Management (RRM) is needed to improve system performance by maximizing the overall system capacity and maintaining the QoS of multimedia traffic . RRM in present cellular systems has essentially been optimized for voice services. However, this is not valid if WMSs are to be supported, since these have different traffic characteristics that need to meet their QoS requirements. These QoS can be parameterized as throughput, delay, delay variation (jitter), loss and error rates, security guarantees, etc. Therefore, the need for new RRM strategies to satisfy diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of WMSs becomes more important.
In this workshop, we intend to address and discuss the technical challenges, ideas, views, and research results in the next generation of wireless cellular networks dealing with radio resource management strategies for wireless multimedia services.
