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********************************************************************** 1st IEEE International Workshop on FUTURE MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING http://fmn2008.dei.uc.pt 2008 September 17, Cardiff, Wales, UK Technical Co-sponsorship by IEEE Communications Society

Collocated with IEEE NGMAST 2008 (http://www.ngmast.com/) **********************************************************************

AIMS AND GOALS

Real-time multimedia services are contributing to enhance our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in future generation networks. The management of real-time multimedia services is an important key to attract and keep customers, while increasing profits to content providers. The efficient delivery and deployment of real-time multimedia services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wired and wireless systems is a challenging research objective. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols, as well as, the demand for improved Quality of Service (QoS) and user experience, and seamless mobility control creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols, architectures and methods towards Future Multimedia Networking Systems.

The objective of the Future Multimedia Networking (FMN´08) workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia systems, and networking. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Multimedia management in next generation networks - Content delivery networks - Audio-visual systems - Novel protocol for multimedia services - Grid networking for multimedia services - Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks - Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks - Quality of service management in multimedia networks - Quality of experience management in multimedia networks - Management of service oriented architectures - Seamless mobility of multimedia services - Novel multimedia architectures/platforms - Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management - IP multimedia system operations and management - Resource reservation for multimedia services - Multimedia in mobile and broadband wireless access networks - Experiments/lessons from recent deployments - Performance evaluation of multimedia services - Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services - Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services - Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services

Special Issue Journal Publication: Best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT).

PAPER SUBMISSION Full papers reporting original and unpublished research results on FMN´08 topics are solicited. Submissions must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere while being evaluated for this conference.

- Formatting: The proceedings will be published by the prestigious IEEE Computer Society Press. Submissions must be in IEEE two-column format and must not exceed 6 pages, including figures, tables and references. The cover page should contain title, author names, affiliations, and email addresses. Please indicate clearly the corresponding author. Include up to five keywords from the above list and an abstract of no more than 300 words.

- How to submit: The paper submission for FMN´08 will only be accepted through the EDAS Paper Submission System accessible from the link on the website. Only papers in PDF will be accepted for reviewing. Submissions as e-mail attachment will not be accepted.

To register or submit a paper click on http://edas.info/6285

- Reviewing: Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive rigorous peer reviewing. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. Selection will be based on full papers. All accepted papers of the conference are expected to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 2008 / April / 28 Acceptance notification: 2008 / June / 01 Camera ready: 2008 / June / 20

COMMITTEES General Chair Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra, Portugal - ecoelho (at) dei (.) uc (.) pt General Co-chair Thomas Michael Bohnert, Siemens CT, Germany - thomas.bohnert (at) siemens (.) com TPC Chair Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal - boavida (at) dei (.) uc (.) pt

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMITTEE Parag Mogre, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA; Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy; Antônio Jorge Abelém, Federal University of Para, Brazil; Eng Keong Lua, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan; Luigi Iannone, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Center, Finland; Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy; Marília Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Fernando Kuipers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil; Matti Siekkinen, University of Oslo, Norway; Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom; Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil; Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia; Ralf Schmitz, Zühlke Engineering GmbH, Germany; Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Shiqiang Yang, Tsinghua University, PRC; Pedro Neves, Portugal Telecom Inovacao, Portugal; Nicola Ciulli, NeXtworks S.r.l., Italy; Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden; Matthias Scheffel, Siemens CT, Germany; Guome Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Luis Veloso, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Augusto Neto, Institute of Telecommunications - Aveiro, Portugal; Marc Brogle, University of Bern, Switzerland; Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway; Alexandre Fonte, Polytechnical Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal; Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PRC; Kelvin Dias, Federal University of Para, Brazil;

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