Call for Papers
7th International
Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services
Host:
IT@Intel
Information Technology Research
Intel Corporation
San Diego, California, USA
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The International Conference on Management of Multimedia
Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its seventh annual meeting on October 3
through
MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for
research and innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and
networking services. The objective of the conference is to bring 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.
The demand for real-time services, integrated multimedia
communications and mobile application services thrives in today’s
consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve management tools and
methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture
with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and
broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and
communication in all devices. Concepts such as autonomics, self-healing, self-organized
and adaptive computing systems are bringing both the academic and industry
research communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity
and systems problems, where management is inevitably key.
MMNS broadly solicits research in network and service
management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services
to enable multimedia proliferation. This year, MMNS 2004 will continue the
success of the outstanding agendas of the past, but also emphasize and solicit
novel research in network autonomics and new architectures in wireless systems
and multimedia services to facilitate security, quality of service and
mobility.
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
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: