6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on 
               Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
 7th - 10th September 2003, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
                      http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003


                          *Second Call For Papers*

Multimedia services over IP networks are proliferating at an enormous speed.
There is also increasing demand for solutions which provide assured levels
of service quality. All of these require novel paradigms, models and
architectures for realising integrated end-to-end service management rather
than managing network elements in isolation. Providing scalable Quality of
Service (QoS) while maintaining fairness, along with secure and optimal
network resource management are key challenges for the future Internet.
These challenges apply to both fixed and wireless networks.

The IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks
and Services will hold its sixth annual meeting from September 7th to
September 10th, 2003 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. MMNS provides an intimate
setting for discussion and debate. In just 6 years, MMNS has established
itself as one of the premier conferences with a focus on the management of
multimedia networks and services. The conference objective is to bring
together researchers working in all facets of network and service management
as applied to broadband networks and multimedia services. MMNS deals with
all aspects of designing, developing and deploying networked multimedia
systems and it serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art
research and development results.

MMNS 2003 will also include panel sessions in which experts offer their
observations and opinions about current hot topics. The keynote speaker will
be Professor Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology who will present
a vision of future interplanetary network architectures. Professor Derek
McAuley, head of Intel's recently formed laboratory at Cambridge, UK, will
describe some of the new research being undertaken on global overlay
networks and applications.


The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in
the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

         * Active multimedia network management
         * Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
         * Augmented and Virtual Reality Networks
         * Billing and Accounting
         * Cable multimedia network management
         * Content distribution internetworking
         * Deployment of multimedia services
         * Distributed multimedia service management
         * End-to-end IP multimedia network and service management
         * IP Video, streaming, interactive video service management
         * Middleware support for management
         * Multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization
         * Multimedia traffic management
         * Multimedia content protection
         * Multimedia session management
         * Multi-point, multicast services management
         * Network management models and architectures
         * Network programmability for multimedia services
         * Optical multimedia network management
         * Policy-based management for multi-media services
         * Provisioning of multimedia networks and services
         * QoS in WLANs
         * QoS management
         * Resource, performance and fault management
         * Security and Authentication
         * VoIP service management
         * Web Services
         * Wireless and mobile multimedia network management


Papers must be submitted electronically in postscript or PDF format.
Detailed instructions are provided on the conference web site,
http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003.

Submission date:            18th April 2003
Notification of acceptance: 6th June 2003
Final version:              4th July 2003


Conference Chairs:
    Professor Alan Marshall, a.marshall@ee.qub.ac.uk
<mailto:a.marshall@ee.qub.ac.uk>, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
    Professor Nazim Agoulmine, nazim@rp.lip6.fr
<mailto:nazim@rp.lip6.fr>, University of Evry, France