-----Original Message-----
From: Vicente, John
[mailto:john.vicente@intel.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004
1:02 AM
Subject: MMNS04 Call For Papers
Dear MMNS04 TPC colleagues,
The MMNS04 CPF submission deadline is fast
approaching (April 30th). Please forward the below MMNS04 CFP to
your local research community. We have also attached PDF and DOC versions of
the CFP, if you would be kind enough to print one and post locally.
The updated MMNS04 CFP includes information
on our invited Keynote Speakers, Application Sessions, E2EMON Workshop and
planned 2004 Conference Tutorial topics. This year, we will provide 6 student
stipends towards Best Student Papers to encourage quality contributions from
the academic community.
Best regards,
John and David
MMNS 2004
Call for Papers
7th
International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services
http://www.intel.com/it/mmns/index.htm
Organized
by:
IT@Intel
Information Technology Research and
The 7th MMNS conference brings together
researchers and scientists from industry and academia researching and
developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue
for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. Providing keynote
speakers, application sessions, workshop, and tutorials with a focus on network
autonomics and new architectures in wireless systems and multimedia
services. A single-track conference, MMNS will provide participants with
an intimate setting for industry and collegial discussion and debate.
The
MMNS program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the
area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to):
• Network autonomics & autonomous systems
• Adaptive computing systems
• Wireless and mobile multimedia network management
• Ad-hoc and Sensor networks
• Distributed multimedia service management
• End-to-end IP multimedia management
• Converged communications (VoIP) service management
• Active multimedia network management
• Multimedia session management
• Video, streaming, real-time video service management
• Middleware, reflective systems support for management
• Multimedia traffic management
• Multimedia content protection
• Large-scale monitoring and provisioning systems
• Policy-based management
• Network programmability for multimedia services
• Trustworthy & survivable systems
• Quality of service management
• Resource, performance and fault management
• Multi-point, multicast services management
• Deployment of multimedia services
• Traffic engineering and optimization
• Network management models and architectures
• Billing and security for multi-media services
• Content distribution networking
• RFID-based management systems
• Cable multimedia network management
• Optical multimedia network management
MMNS 2004 Keynote Speakers:
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Pertti Alapuranen, Mesh Networks, Inc., USA
§
Patrick Reilly, Intel Corporation,
Application Sessions:
This year, MMNS 2004 Program will solicit industrial
contributions and hold sessions featuring selected talks in the main topic
areas for this year’s conference:
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Network autonomics
§
New architectures in wireless
systems and multimedia services
Tutorials:
MMNS 2004 Program will offer tutorials pertaining to
application adaptability, multimedia security, multimedia traffic and
measurement, and wireless IP QOS.
Workshop:
Title: E2EMON End-to-End Monitoring
Techniques and Services
After a very successful Workshop in 2003, E2EMON
will continue as part MMNS 2004. Workshop papers in the area of end-to-end
monitoring are solicited.
***Student Stipends***
MMNS 2004 will award six student stipends to Best Student Papers.
Stipends may be used towards conference fee and hotel stay.
Paper Submission: Papers
must be submitted electronically in postscript or PDF format. Detailed
instructions are provided on the conference web site, https://www.itsharenet.org/MMNS/Papers.
Sponsored by: Intel
Corporation, IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, IFIP
For further information, please
contact the co-chairs:
John Vicente
(john.vicente@intel.com) or David Hutchison (d.hutchison@lancaster.ac.uk)
Important dates:
Submission deadline:
Notification of acceptance:
Final version:
MMNS04
Conference: