Subject: MMNS 2001 Call For Papers

From: "Ehab Al-Shaer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 02:41:41 -0600

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                Fourth IFIP/IEEE International Conference on
    Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'2001)

                       October 29- November 1, 2001
                       Chicago, Illinois, USA
                       (http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001)

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:  April 20, 2001
Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2001
Final version due:  July 21, 2001
Conference:   October 29 to Nov 1, 2001

The IFIP/IEEE MMNS is the premier IEEE/IFIP conferences focusing on
management of multimedia networks and services. The conference is known
for its high-quality papers from various research communities. Selected
papers
will also be considered for publication as a special issue of the Journal of
High
Speed Networking and Journal of Networks and Information Systems.
MMNS 2001 will provide Travel and Conference Scholarships for students.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Distributed multimedia service management
Integration of network control and management
Network management models and architectures
Distributed event correlation
Monitoring
QoS management
Multimedia traffic management
Resource, performance and fault management for broadband networks
Configuration management of edge and core services for enabling
multimedia traffic management
Multi-point and multicast services management
Resource management in wireless multimedia
Wireless and mobile network management
Mobility management
Management of ad-hoc networks
Multimedia content protection
Deployment of multimedia services
Active network management
Network programmability for multimedia services
Middleware support for management
Multimedia session management
Packet scheduling and dropping techniques
Multimedia service Engineering
Billing and security for broadband networks
Policy-based management for multimedia service

PAPER SUBMISSION     See <http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001>.

Ehab Al-Shaer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems,
DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60604
[email-masked]