-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IFIP/IEEE MMNS 2006 - Extended Deadline - May 19th Datum: Thu, 4 May 2006 00:58:33 +0100 (IST) Von: Brendan Jennings bjennings@tssg.org Antwort an: bjennings@tssg.org An: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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The 9th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2006)

CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------

Date: Oct 25-27th 2006 Place: Dublin, Ireland Extended Submission Deadline: May 19th Web: http://www.manweek2006.org/mmns/

The International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its ninth annual meeting on October 25 through October 27, 2006, in Dublin, Ireland. A single-track conference, MMNS 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, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).

SCOPE OF MMNS 2006

MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded recently to include management of emerging mobile networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from industry and academia researching and developing state-of-the-art management and multimedia systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration.

The demand for multimedia real-time services and mobile applications continues to grow rapidly, bringing forth enormous challenges in the management of their supporting networks. The need to evolve management tools and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in all devices. Concepts such as self organizing, self-healing adaptive networks and autonomic communications are bringing the academic and industry research communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity and systems problems, where management is inevitably key. In addition to the challenges provided by the requirements of multimedia services (e.g., delay/jitter bounds), mobility introduces yet another set of management challenges with highly dynamic (intermittently connected) network topology and resource constrained portable devices.

The MMNS 2006 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation. MMNS 2006 will continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in management of mobile networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Mobile multimedia network management - Management of wireless ad-hoc networks - Management of sensor and actuator networks - Network management models and architectures - Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia and mobile services - Multi-service over IP (voice, video and data over IP) network management - Grid networking for multimedia - Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks - Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks - Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks - IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management - Content distribution networking - Management implications of supporting new digital media - Distributed multimedia service management - Deployment of multimedia services - Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services - Novel protocols for multimedia services - Multi-point, multicast service management - Management of advanced audivisual services - Seamless mobility of multimedia services - Adaptive multimedia services - Creation and management of composed multimedia services - Pricing, Accounting and Billing for multimedia services - Security management for mobile and multimedia networks and services - Application of autonomic networking concepts to multimedia and mobile networks and services

PAPER SUBMISSION

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2006. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2006. 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 4 pages)

Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions.

PROCEEDINGS

The MMNS 2006 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer.

An award will be presented to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS will also get a chance to be published as an extended version in a special edition of the IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management - eTNSM.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

- Submission: May 19th 2006 - Notification: July 7th 2006 - Camera ready: August 2nd 2006 - Workshop: October 25-27th 2006

COMMITTEE

MMNS 2006 CO-CHAIRS: International chair: Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA; Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland; Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland.

MMNS STEERING COMMITTEE: Nazim Agoulmine, Univ. of Evry, France; Kevin Almeroth, Univ. of California in Santa Barbara, USA; Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul Univ., USA; Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada; Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA; David Hutchison, Univ. of Lancaster, UK; Alan Marshall, Queens Univ. of Belfast, UK; Guy Pujolle, LIP6, France; John Vicente, Intel, USA.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Pablo Arozarena, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Spain; Åke Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden; Chadi Assi, Concordia Univ., Canada; Fan Bai, General Motors Research Labs, USA; Javier Barria, Imperial College, UK; Mohamed Bettaz, Philadelphia Univ., Jordan; Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland; Greg Brewster, DePaul Univ., USA; Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA; Nicola Cranley, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland; Spyros Denazis, Univ. of Patras, Greece; Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA; Go Hasegawa, Osaka Univ., Japan; James Irvine, Strathclyde Univ., UK; Vana Kalogeraki, Univ of California, Riverside, USA; Ahmed Karmouch, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada; Lukas Kencl, Intel Research, Cambridge, UK; Andrej Kos, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Jun Li, Univ. of Oregon, USA; Hanan Lutfiyya, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada; Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City Univ., Ireland; Gerard Parr, Univ. of Ulster, UK; George Pavlou, Univ. of Surrey, UK; Andrew Perkis, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway; Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland; Reza Rejaie, Univ. of Oregon, USA; Karim Seada, Nokia Research Labs, USA; Rolf Stadler, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Burkhard Stiller, Univ. of Zurich/ETH Zurich, Switzerland; John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA; Marina Thottan, Bell Labs, USA; Bert-Jan van Beijnum, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands; Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland; Theodore Willke, Intel, USA; Lawrence Wong, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore; Theodore Zahariadis, Ellemedia Technologies, Greece; Roger Zimmerman, Univ. of Southern California, USA; Michele Zorzi, Univ. of Padova, Italy.

(in addition to all the steering committee members)

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