Due to the numerous requests, the Submission Deadline 
of MMNS2001 (www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001) 
will be extended to MAY 6, 2001. 

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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 

IMPORTANT DATES 
    Submission deadline: May 6, 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 PROCEDURE See 
<http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001>.