Dear Colleagues, Apologize for any duplicates;
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Please distribute to interested people to encourage contributions ans submissions to the 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services : 7th - 10th September 2003, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003 . -------------------------------------------------------------------
Please note the extension to the deadline for submission of papers to MMNS2003 is 18th April 2003. Please circulate to your colleagues to ensure a good turnout.
For further information about the conference please see the web site at http://ee-server.ee.qub.ac.uk/dsp/mmns2003/
Best Regards,
Ahmed Mehaoua (Publicity chair)
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MMNS 2003 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 7th - 10th September 2003, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003
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
Conference Chairs: Professor Alan Marshall, a.marshall@ee.qub.ac.uk, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Professor Nazim Agoulmine, nazim@rp.lip6.fr, University of Evry, France
Qiang Gu Advanced Telecommunication Systems Laboratory School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland. BT9 5AH Email: qiang.gu@ee.qub.ac.uk Telephone: +44 -2890-274142 Fax: +44 -2890-274417 --------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Mehaoua University of Versailles - CNRS PRISM Lab. 45 av. des etats unis 78000 Versailles - France Email : mea@prism.uvsq.fr Tel : +33 1 39 25 40 45
Call for Papers
2004 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004)
"Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services"
Seoul Korea, 19-23, April 2004
The 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004) will be held 19-23 April, 2004 in COEX Convention Center, Seoul, Korea. NOMS 2004 will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of network operations and management. Held in the even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2004 continues the established tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary forum for technical exchange of research, standards, development, systems integrator, service providers, and user communities. An exciting, peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, application sessions, panels, tutorials, posters, and vendor exhibits will address the ever-increasing interest in overall management solutions for all types of communications and computing networks, systems, services and enterprise applications.
The symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM), and by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems.
The concept of network convergence has recently emerged as a new attempt for the merging of telephony and data networks into a single, multi-service network exploiting the ubiquity of the Internet. For this increasingly attractive business model, in both wired and wireless domains, strategic research is required to devise the best integration architectures, operations and management solutions. This creates a unique opportunity for the network operations and management community to respond to the ever-increasing demand for network resilience, security, quality-of-service and mobility management at unprecedented scales. NOMS 2004 provides the forum for discussing these research challenges and many others inherent to the integrated management of next generation converged networks and services.
NOMS 2004 will broaden the scope of previous NOMS by expanding its program to include a broader set of topics ranging from network operations and management to network planning, service engineering and business processes for network and service management. Special attention will be given to experiences that emphasize lessons learned and reports on practice from industry.
The NOMS 2004 program consists of three distinct sessions: technical, application, and panels. Technical sessions present the papers on the latest research results in the network operations and management area. Application sessions present the papers focusing on the experience of IT/telecommunications industries (service providers, OSS/equipment vendors, etc.) and customers based on their system implementation and business practice in the operations and management. Panel sessions focus on business implications, market trends of cutting edge technologies, and applications with the panelists consisting of technology experts and business executives. In addition, NOMS 2004 will feature tutorials, posters, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and vendor exhibitions.
Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors are also invited to submit proposals for tutorials, panel sessions, poster demonstrations and BoF sessions.
Important Dates: Deadline for Technical Session Papers: 1 August 2003 Deadline for Application Session Papers: 15 September 2003 Deadline for Tutorials, Panels and Posters: 15 September 2003 Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2003 Deadline for Submitting Revised Papers: 15 December 2003 Final Camera Ready Papers Due: 15 January 2004
Visit http://www.noms2004.org for the detailed information
***** Paper submission deadline extended to Friday 15th August 2003 *****
Network Operation & Management Symposium 2004
"Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services"
Seoul Korea, 19-23, April 2004
See < http://www.noms2004.org/%3E for latest information
The 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004) will be held 19-23 April, 2004 at Seoul, Korea. Held in the even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2004 will continue the established tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary forum for technical exchange of research, standards, development, systems integrator, service providers, and user communities. NOMS 2004 will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of network operations and management. An exciting, peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, tutorials, posters, panels and vendor exhibits will address the ever-increasing interest in overall management solutions for all types of communications and computing networks, systems, services and enterprise applications.
The concept of network convergence has recently emerged as a new attempt for the merging of telephony and data networks into a single, multi-service network exploiting the ubiquity of the Internet Protocol. For this increasingly attractive business model, in both wired and wireless domains, strategic research is required to devise the best integration architectures, operations and management solutions. This creates a unique opportunity for the network operation and management community to respond to the ever-increasing demand for network resilience, security, quality-of-service and mobility management at unprecedented scales. The NOMS 2004 provides the forum for discussing these research challenges and many others inherent to the integrated management of next generation converged networks and services.
This year NOMS 2004 will broaden the scope of previous IM and NOMS by expanding its program to include a broader set of topics ranging from network operation and management to network planning, service engineering and business processes for network and service management. Special attention will be given to experiences that emphasize lessons learned and reports on practice from industry. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors are also invited to submit proposals for tutorials, panel discussions, poster demonstrations, or birds-of-a-feather sessions.
Important Dates: Deadline for Submitting Papers: 15 August 2003 Deadline for Tutorials, Panels and Posters: 1 October 2003 Notification of Acceptance:15 November 2003 Deadline for Submitting Revised Papers:15 December 2003
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