Deadline extended to April 30th.
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MMNS 2004 Call for Papers
7th International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services
http://www.intel.com/it/mmns/index.htm

 
Organized by:
IT@Intel Information Technology Research and 
School of Computer Science, Lancaster University, UK
Hilton Hotel Harbor Island, San Diego, California, USA
October 3-6, 2004

 
The 7th MMNS conference brings together researchers and scientists from
industry and academia researching and developing state-of-the-art management
systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and
intellectual collaboration. Providing keynote speakers, application
sessions, workshop, and tutorials with a focus on network autonomics and new
architectures in wireless systems and multimedia services.  A single-track
conference, MMNS will provide participants with an intimate setting for
industry and collegial discussion and debate.

 

The MMNS 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):

 Network autonomics & autonomous systems
 Adaptive computing systems 
 Wireless and mobile multimedia network management 
 Ad-hoc and Sensor networks 
 Distributed multimedia service management 
 End-to-end IP multimedia management 
 Converged communications (VoIP) service management 
 Active multimedia network management 
 Multimedia session management 
 Video, streaming, real-time video service management
 Middleware, reflective systems support for management
 Multimedia traffic management 
 Multimedia content protection 
 Large-scale monitoring and provisioning systems
 Policy-based management
 Network programmability for multimedia services 
 Trustworthy & survivable systems
 Quality of service management
 Resource, performance and fault management 
 Multi-point, multicast services management 
 Deployment of multimedia services 
 Traffic engineering and optimization 
 Network management models and architectures 
 Billing and security for multi-media services 
 Content distribution networking 
 RFID-based management systems
 Cable multimedia network management 
 Optical multimedia network management


MMNS 2004 Keynote Speakers:

-Pertti Alapuranen,  Mesh Networks, Inc., USA
-Patrick Reilly, Intel Corporation, USA

Application Sessions:

This year, MMNS 2004 Program will solicit industrial contributions and hold
sessions featuring selected talks in the main topic areas for this years
conference:

-Network autonomics
-New architectures in wireless systems and multimedia services

 
Tutorials:

MMNS 2004 Program will offer tutorials pertaining to application adaptability, 
multimedia security, multimedia traffic and measurement, and wireless IP QOS.

 
Workshop:

Title: E2EMON End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services

After a very successful Workshop in 2003, E2EMON will continue as part MMNS 200
4. Workshop papers in the area of end-to-end monitoring are solicited. 

 

***Student Stipends***

MMNS 2004 will award six student stipends to Best Student Papers. Stipends may 
be used towards conference fee and hotel stay.

 

Paper Submission:  Papers must be submitted electronically in postscript or PDF
 format.  Detailed instructions are provided on the conference web site, https:
//www.itsharenet.org/MMNS/Papers.

 

Sponsored by: Intel Corporation, IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, IFIP

 

For further information, please contact the co-chairs:

John Vicente (john.vicente@intel.com) or David Hutchison (d.hutchison@lancaster
.ac.uk)

 

Important dates:

Submission deadline:                April 30, 2004

Notification of acceptance:         June 29, 2004

Final version:                      July 30, 2004

MMNS04 Conference:                  October 3-6, 2004