Second Call For Papers
Multimedia services over IP networks are
proliferating at an enormous speed. There
is also increasing demand for
solutions which provide assured levels of service quality.
All of these
require novel paradigms, models and architectures for realising integrated
end-to-end service management rather than managing network elements in
isolation.
Providing scalable Quality of Service (QoS) while maintaining
fairness, along with
secure and optimal network resource management are key
challenges for the future
Internet. These challenges apply to both fixed and
wireless networks.
The IFIP/IEEE International Conference on
Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
will hold its sixth annual
meeting from September 7th to September 10th, 2003 in Belfast,
Northern
Ireland. MMNS provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate. In just 6
years,
MMNS has established itself as one of the premier conferences with a
focus on the management
of multimedia networks and services. The conference
objective is to bring together researchers
working in all facets of network
and service management as applied to broadband networks and
multimedia
services. MMNS deals with all aspects of designing, developing and deploying
networked multimedia systems and it serves as a forum for the dissemination
of state-of-the-art
research and development results.
MMNS 2003 will also include panel sessions in which
experts
offer their observations and opinions about current hot topics. The
keynote speaker will be
Professor Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of
Technology who will present a vision of future
interplanetary network
architectures. Professor Derek McAuley, head of Intel's recently formed
laboratory at Cambridge, UK, will describe some of the new research being
undertaken on global
overlay networks and applications.
The 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, the
following:
* Active
multimedia network management
*
Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
*
Augmented and Virtual Reality Networks
* Billing and Accounting
* Cable multimedia network
management
* Content distribution
internetworking
* Deployment of
multimedia services
* Distributed
multimedia service management
*
End-to-end IP multimedia network and service management
* IP Video, streaming,
interactive video service management
* Middleware support for
management
* Multimedia network
traffic engineering and optimization
* Multimedia traffic management
* Multimedia content protection
* Multimedia session management
* Multi-point, multicast services
management
* Network management
models and architectures
*
Network programmability for multimedia services
* Optical multimedia network
management
* Policy-based
management for multi-media services
* Provisioning of multimedia
networks and services
* QoS in
WLANs
* QoS management
* Resource, performance and fault
management
* Security and
Authentication
* VoIP service
management
* Web Services
* Wireless and mobile multimedia
network management
Papers must be submitted electronically in
postscript or PDF format. Detailed
instructions are provided on the
conference web site, http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003.
Submission
date: 18th April 2003
Notification of acceptance: 6th June
2003
Final
version:
4th July 2003