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