Editorial: recent advances in communication networks and multimedia technologies

To successfully support multimedia applications, it is necessary to improve the state-of-the-art multimedia technologies and multimedia transmissions over communication networks in order to provide quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees between end-users and to achieve a high quality-of-experience for end-users. The accepted papers in this special issue deal with a wide range of important aspects and challenging issues of communication networks and multimedia technologies, and the contents are built on analytical modelling, experimental and simulation studies. The contributions of these papers are outlined below.