Guest Editorial Special Issue on Multimedia Services Provision Over Future Mobile Computing Systems

Motivated by further examining recent advances in this field and promoting the optimization of the existing methodologies and/or approaches, this Special Issue aims to present recent advances in multimedia services provided over energy-efficient mobile computing environments, toward alleviating associated problems and addressing related challenges. More specifically, the target of this Special Issue is to foster dissemination of high-quality research in the interrelated scientific fields and present future directions, in terms of energy-efficient, high quality multimedia services provision over mobile computing systems, as well as novel multimedia processing technologies with emphasis on mobile applications. Eleven papers were selected out of 31 submitted, which were reviewed by qualified anonymous referees according to the practices of this journal. These papers cover a variety of important and challenging topics in the area of mobile computing systems and multimedia. The special issue papers are briefly summarized.