Welcome to BMSB 2011 (June 8-10, 2011)
The IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB) is an industry-oriented premier forum for the presentation and exchange of technical advances in the rapidly converging areas of multimedia broadcasting, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and networking technologies.
This industry-oriented Symposium will bring together content originators and distributors, wireless service providers, and technology developers and suppliers of equipment, systems, and consumer platforms, focusing on research and development, applications, and implementation of mobile and portable multimedia systems.
The symposium is focused on the following five areas:
- Multimedia systems and services
- Transmission and networking
- Multimedia processing
- Multimedia Quality: Performance Evaluation
- Multimedia devices.
Among the topics to be explored will be Mobile TV, IPTV, Datacasting, and portable, mobile and handheld devices, from a systems and service-deployment perspective, as well as the enabling transmission and multimedia signal processing technologies.
The Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) is one of the founding organizations of IEEE, and has a history that stretches to the formation of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1912. The mission of the BTS is to serve its members by helping them to maintain and enhance their technical proficiency and professional standing through the activities of the Society and its chapters worldwide in the field of broadcasting.
Established in 1985, the Erlangen-based Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in its current configuration – with locations in Nürnberg, Fürth, Dresden and Ilmenau – ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning headcount and revenues.
Fraunhofer IIS is recognized for its research programs into microelectronics, information technology, telecommunications, audio and multimedia technology, digital radio, digital cinema, RF technology, satellite navigation, medical engineering, logistics, and mechanical and industrial automation. The researchers develop wireless communication systems, particularly digital broadcasting systems, as prototypes ready to go into commercial production. Technological ground and pillar are the audio and video coding schemes and their adoption as international standards.