Please find below the abstracts and short biographies on the two confirmed tutorials scheduled to take place on the first day (25th September) of the IEEE/IFIP MMNS'2000 International Conference, to be held in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, 25-28 September 2000. For more information and registering, you should access the web site at http://www.ufc.br/mmns2000.

Best Regards,

Neuman. IEEE/IFIP MMNS'2000 General Co-Chairman.

########## Day 1 – 25th September – TUTORIALS

08 : 00 – 09 : 00 – Registration

09 : 00 – 12 : 00 – Tutorial 1

Title: IP Impact on the Evolution of Telecom Networks (i)

Speaker: Salah Aidarous, NEC America, Inc., USA (ii)

12 : 00 – 14 : 00 – Lunch

14 : 00 – 17 : 00 - Tutorial 2

Title: Quality of Service for real time service in Data Networks (iii) Speaker: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA (iv)

(i) Title: IP Impact on the Evolution of Telecom Networks

The tutorial examines the issues facing service providers in evolving their networks to offer IP-based services while maintaining their competitiveness. It describes what needs to be managed, both from a network and service perspective, and the challenges facing the industry to provide the appropriate management solutions. Several management paradigms have been developed, and are being deployed with different degrees of maturity. From an IP-based networks and services perspective, management solutions are still at the conceptual state, and more work is needed. Another important aspect is the need to build the business case for management solutions to accelerate their adoption and implementation. In addition, the smooth evolution from the current multi-domain environment to an integrated end-to-end management infrastructure, while preserving the current investment in network and operations management systems, is required. The opportunities and challenges in achieving a unified view in managing the resulted environment will be discussed.

(ii) Speaker: Salah Aidarous, NEC America, Inc., USA

Salah Aidarous has been working in telecommunications networks planning and development for over 20 years. His current interests include next generation network planning, impact of new IT/Telecom technologies, network management, and transition strategies. Prior to NEC America, he worked for Nortel Technology (formerly Bell Northern Research) on network planning, introduction of new technologies in transport and switching networks, network and service management requirement specifications, interoperability standards, and process re-engineering. He participated in the planning and development of several products for Nortel, Bell Canada, and Telecom Canada (now Stentor). He has been involved in several projects with service providers in North America, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile), and Japan. Salah Aidarous has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, and held various academic positions at Ain Shams University, Carleton University and University of Ottawa. In addition to teaching and supervision of graduate researchers, he was principle investigator for several research grants and contracts in digital mobile radio, CATV, expert systems technology, and published over 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Aidarous is Senior Technical Editor of IEEE Networks Magazine, ComSoc Editor for the IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, Editorial Advisory Board of the JNSM, Co-editor and author of "Network Management into the 21st Century: Techniques, Standards, Technologies and Applications" IEEE Press, 1994 and "Telecommunications Network Management: Technologies and Implementations" IEEE Press, 1997. He is Co-editor of the IEEE Press Series on Network Management, Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure (TCII), and the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Speaker on New Technologies (IP, WDM, IMT2000) Impact on Network Evolution.

(iii) Title: Quality of Service for real time service in Data Networks

The Internet is based on the TCP/IP protocol that does not provide Quality of Service (QOS) guarantees to real time applications such as multimedia. The next generation data networks are expected to provide QoS to applications to multimedia applications. Current efforts to incorporate QoS in the Internet include Integrated Services, Differentiated Service, Multiprotocol Label Switching and Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Topics to be covered in this tutorial include characteristics of multimedia, QoS requirements for multimedia, Integrated Services, Differentiated Services, QoS mapping from Integrated Services to Differentiated Services, ATM in the core of the Internet, Explicit Congestion Notification to reduce loss, and active buffer management techniques.

(iv) Speaker: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA

Mohammed Atiquzzaman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Dayton, Ohio. He earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the University of Manchester, England in 1987 and 1984 respectively. He is a senior editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine and serves on the editorial boards of Computer Communications journal, Telecommunication Systems journal and Journal of Real Time Imaging. He has guest edited 10 special issues of various journals including Parallel Computing, Image and Vision Computing, European Transactions on Telecommunications and Real-Time Imaging. He has also chaired and served in the technical program committee of 30 national and international conferences. He is the director of the Computer and Telecommunications Research Laboratory at University of Dayton. His current research interests are in Computer and Telecommunication networks, Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Image Processing. He has over 100 publications in journals and conferences.