-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] CFP: JNSM Special Issue on IMS Management Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:00:48 -0300 Von: Edmundo Madeira edmundo@ic.unicamp.br An: mycolleagues@grid.lrg.ufsc.br

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Call for Papers - Journal of Network and Systems Management

Special Issue on Management of the IP Multimedia Subsystem

Today, the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is globally considered as the common service platform for providing a unified session control on top of various access network technologies for realizing new IP-based multimedia communication and information services. IMS is also driving the notion of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) by merging the fixed and mobile telecommunication networks with the Internet and the adoption of IP technologies within the telecom domain. Although we can witness the availability of international standards for NGN/IMS signaling, management solutions of this converging technology domain are not yet standardized Thus the global introduction of IMS platforms in fixed and mobile networks and provision of related IMS applications is challenged today by the questions around management issues.

In this special issue we would like to identify the challenges in IMS system and service management and to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in IMS management standards and related solutions development and deployment around the world. We are soliciting papers covering a variety of topics that include:

* State of the art in NGN / IMS management standardisation * Experiences / Best practices in IMS management from IMS trials and early deployments * Fault and Performance Management of IMS Core Systems / IMS Network Element Management * IMS services management * Management of IMS service enablers / service orchestration management * Managing 3rd party applications and application servers in IMS * Dynamic service provisioning in IMS * IMS End System Software Management / Device Management * Multidomain management aspects for interconnected IMS Systems * End-to End Policy-based QoS Management in NGNs * Security management issues in IMS * Charging and accounting management issues in IMS * Push 2 Talk management issues * FMC - Management in converging networks and of seamless services * Management of IMS Subscriber Data / User Profiles * Customer self management in IMS * ID Management in IMS / Single sign on

Papers should be of tutorial nature and contain state-of-the-art research and development materials. Authors must follow the JNSM´s guidelines regarding the manuscript format. For further information, please refer to JNSM website at www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm. All papers should be submitted in PDF format to the JEMS system at:

https://jems.sbc.org.br/jnsm_ims_management

Editors: Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin / FOKUS, Germany, magedanz@fokus.fhg.de Edmundo Madeira, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, edmundo@ic.unicamp.br Paolo Belavista, University of Bologna, Italy, pbellavista@deis.unibo.it

Important Dates: Manuscript submission due: March 31, 2007 Acceptance notification; May 30, 2007 Final manuscript due: August 30, 2007 Publication: March, 2008

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