IFIP Working Group 6.6 Report

Management of Networks and Distributed Systems

May 2003
Raouf Boutaba
Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Email: rboutaba@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca / Phone: +1 519 888 4820 / Fax: +1 519 885 1208
 1	Conferences and Workshops
The main efforts of Working Group 6.6 are the organization of the biannual International Symposia on Integrated Network Management (IM), the annual Working Conferences on the Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS), and the annual workshops on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM). MMNS is co-sponsored by WG6.4. All these events are co-sponsored by IEEE/CNOM. In addition, the Network Operations and Management Symposium is organized by IEEE/CNOM with the co-sponsorship of IFIP WG6.6. 
1.2	MMNS 2002
5th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 2002
Radisson Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
October 6-9, 2002
Theme: Managing IP Multimedia end-to-end
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/conferences/MMNS02/

76 papers were submitted to the workshop. 27 papers were presented. The conference program includes one day of tutorials (2 tutorials are scheduled); three days of technical sessions; one keynote talk and one invited talk; and 1 panel. 59 attended the conference including 46 paid registrations. The conference proceedings were published by Springer Verlag.
1.3	DSOM 2002
13th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management 2002
	Main Campus, University of Montreal, CANADA
21-23 October, 2002
Theme: Making e-commerce and e-business applications successful through management
http://www.dsom2002.org/

40 papers were submitted to the workshop from which 16 papers were accepted and presented. In addition, two keynote talks were given during the workshop as well as a Panel discussion. Approximately 40 attended the workshop. The workshop proceedings were published by Springer Verlag.

1.4 	IM 2003
8th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
March 24-28, 2003
Theme: Managing it all
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/im/2003/

Provisioning, Modeling, Wireless, QoS, Faults, Power, Optical, Configuration, Peer to Peer, Intrusion Detection, Accounting, Policies and Performance Management are some of the topics and issues that will be covered by the 41 papers, 5 panels, 24 posters, 16 tutorials, and 6 keynote speakers. TPC consisted of 48 members residing in 15 countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas. 149 papers were submitted to the symposium. In addition to the 41 full papers, 24 short papers were presented and published in the conference proceedings. The symposium program also featured 14 tutorials, poster sessions, 6 panels and 3 birds of a feather sessions. About 170 attended the conference from which approximately 150 are paid registrations. The conference proceedings were published by Kluwer.
1.2	MMNS 2003
6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 2003
Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
September 7-10, 2003
http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/dsp/mmns2003/

75+ papers have been submitted to the workshop. The conference program will include one day of tutorials (2 tutorials are confirmed); three days of technical sessions; one keynote talk and one invited talk; and 1 panel and a workshop on end-to-end monitoring. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.
1.3	DSOM 2003
14th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management 2003
	EURESCOM, Heidelberg, Germany
20-22 October, 2003
Theme: Self Managing Systems
http://www.dsom2003.org/

The call for papers have been distributed and the submission deadline extended to May 1st (originally scheduled on April 15). The workshop proceedings were published by Springer Verlag.
1.1	NOMS 2004
9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004)
COEX Convention Centre, Seoul, Korea
19-23 April 2004
Theme: Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services
http://www.noms2004.org/

The call for papers has being finalized and is now being distributed.
3	WG 6.6 Meetings
A meeting of the working group took place during DSOM 2002 in Montreal (Canada) on October 22, 2002 at 1:00 PM and another meeting took place during IM 2003 in Colorado Springs (USA) on March 27, 2003. The next regular meeting of the working group will be held in conjunction with DSOM 2003 on Wednesday, October 21st   at 1:00 PM, in Heidelberg, Germany. 
4	Other Working Group Activities
 4.1 		IEEE/CNOM and IFIP WG 6.6 cooperation
Continuous interactions with IEEE CNOM for the smooth organization of the working group events. 
4.1	Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM)
A conference report on IM 2003 was published in JNSM April/May issue.