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MMNS 2009:     12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on
Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services
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http://www.manweek.org/2009/mmns

(part of MANWEEK 2009, October 26-30)
Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice, Italy

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Registration Deadline:   May 1, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline:     May 8, 2009

PDF: http://www.manweek.org/2009/download/cfp/mmns09-cfp.pdf

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management
of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will
be held in October 26 - 30, 2009 at the fascinating
Telecom Italia Future Centre, in the worldwide known and
magnificent Venice, Italy, as part of the 5th International
Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2009).

The MMNS 2009 conference will provide participants with a
high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate.
The conference is sponsored by the International Federation
for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on
Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with
technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society
and specifically the Technical Committee on Network
Operations and Management (CNOM).

SCOPE OF MMNS 2009
Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference
for research and innovation in the management of multimedia
technology and networked services. The scope of the conference
has been expanded in recent years to include management of
emerging mobile and wireless networks and their integration
with more traditional network infrastructures. The objective
of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists
from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art
management of converged multimedia networks and services across
heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public
venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration.
The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as
broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a
promising opportunity for existing providers to increase their
service subscriber base, so that the 4G vision and beyond becomes
a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main
actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport
technology, session signaling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity
of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). The efficient management of
wireless and wired technologies side-by-side and of the number of
multimedia services provisioned over these integrated networks is
a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective,
innovative, and mass-market solutions that are likely to become a
major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to
evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to
keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with
the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and
broadband networks, quadruple play convergence, and the
integration of embedded systems in different domains, from smart
homes/cities to next generation automotive systems.
The academic and industry research communities should unify forces
to address the challenges of developing and operating converged
multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management
is a key element in addressing this challenge.

The MMNS 2009 technical program committee is soliciting research
papers in the broad area of network and service management that
address new models, architectures, and technological designs to
enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2009
intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the
past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the
management of wired-wireless multimedia networks and services.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Management of multimedia streaming and real-time service delivery
Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks
Management of NGN/4G networks and services
Management of Service Oriented Architectures
Management of sensor networks for enhanced multimedia provisioning
Middleware for the management of mobile multimedia services
Middleware support for seamless mobility of multimedia services
Multi-service/multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and
mobility over IP) network management
Grid networking for multimedia
Cross-layer multimedia management
Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks
Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks
Planning and optimization of multimedia and mobile networks
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) operations and management
Management of service delivery platforms
Management of content distribution networking
Distributed multimedia service management
Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services
Wireless/mobile multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies
Novel protocols for multimedia services
Multi-point and multicast service management
Pricing, accounting, and billing for multimedia services
Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia
networks and services
Self-* properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services
Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning
Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks
End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in
mobile/wireless networks
Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services
Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks
Novel network architectures for mobile network management services

PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions must present original and unpublished research
work or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress
reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission
to MMNS 2009. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted
to MMNS 2009. Authors are requested to submit either long papers
or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS
format (see below):

Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages)
Short papers describing work-in-progress
(up to 6 single-spaced single-column pages)
Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be
reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please visit the
conference website for detailed submission instructions:

http://www.manweek.org/2009/mmns/

PROCEEDINGS
The MMNS 2009 proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (pending approval). For
more information regarding manuscript format please visit the
authors' instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be
presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the
conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2009 will be
invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE
Transactions on Network and Service Management - TNSM.

CO-CHAIRS
Paolo Bellavista
University of Bologna, Italy
Tom Pfeifer
TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Registration: May 1, 2009
Paper Submission: May 8, 2009
Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2009
Camera-ready Papers Due: July 18, 2009
Conference Dates: October 26-27, 2009

Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.
Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering
EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing
DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)
Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073
Email: paolo.bellavista@unibo.it
Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/