IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
IFIP/IEEE MMNS2001
October 29- November 1, 2001, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Management of Multimedia on the Internet
http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001
Organized by the Multimedia Networking Research Laboratory, School of Computer Science,DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
Sponsored by the IFIP Working Groups 6.4 & 6.6 and
the IEEE Communications Society
Call for Papers

The current unprecedented growth of multimedia streams in the Internet creates new challenges and concerns in the research communities. Providing scalable Quality of Service (QoS) while maintaining fairness and optimal network resource management are key challenges for the future Internet. Successful deployment of networked multimedia systems depends significantly on the ability of the management infrastructure to be scalable, dynamic and adaptive in order to address these challenges. The IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services will hold its fourth annual meeting Oct. 29 through Nov 1, 2001 in Chicago. The IFIP/IEEE MMNS is the premier IEEE/IFIP conference focusing on management of multimedia networks and services. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners working in the network and service management to present the latest development in the field. IFIP/IEEE MMNS uses single-track presentations, which provide an intimate setting for discussion and debate. 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. 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:

Distributed multimedia service management
Integration of network control and management
Network management models and architectures
Billing and security for broadband networks
Resource, performance and fault management
Configuration management of edge and core
Multi-point and multicast services management
Resource management in wireless multimedia
Wireless and mobile network management
Network programmability for multimedia services
Policy-based management for multimedia services
Packet scheduling and dropping techniques

Distributed event correlation
Monitoring
QoS management
Multimedia traffic management
Management of ad-hoc networks
Mobility management
Multimedia content protection
Deployment of multimedia services
Active network management
Multimedia service engineering
Multimedia session management
Middleware support for management

Paper Submission

Papers must be submitted electronically (postscript or PDF format only). Detailed instructions are provided at <http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001>. Paper length is limited to 20 double-spaced pages. The paper cover page must included: title of paper, authors' names and affiliations, contact author's name and address (both postal and electronic), a short abstract, keywords, and submission area (from the list of relevant topics of interest).MMNS 2001will provide Travel and Conference Scholarships for students. For any further information,please look at the home page above or direct your questions to mmns2001@cs.depaul.edu

Important Dates

Submission deadline:                         May 6, 2001
Notification of acceptance:               July 1, 2001
Final version due:                               July 29, 2001
Conference:                                         October 29 to Nov 1, 2001

CONFERNCE Co-Chairs
Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM Research, USA
Advisory Committee
Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Guy Pujolle, U. Pierre & Marie Curie, France
Wolfgang Zimmer, GMD FIRST, Germany
Program Committee
Ahmed Abutaleb, Lucent Technology, USA
Nazim Agoulmine, Univ of Evry, France
Salah Aidarous, NEC America, USA
Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Nikos Anerousis, VoiceMate.com, USA
Mohammed Atiquzzaman,U of Oklahoma, USA Michael Borella, 3Com, USA
Mohamed Bettaz, Philadelphia U, Jordan
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Jean Pierre Claudé, U. of Versailles, France
Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Marocco
Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland
Dominique Gaiti, U. of Troyes, France
German Goldszmidt, IBM Research, USA
Mohsen Guizani, U. of West Florida, USA
Abdelhakim Hafid, Telcordia, NJ, USA
Masum Hasan, Cisco Systems,  USA
Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA
Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Nortel Networks, USA
Joaquim Celestino Júnior, UECE, Brazil
Ahmed Karmouch, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Lundy Lewis, APRISMA, USA
Derong Liu, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Manu Malek, Lucent technology, USA
Allen Marshall, Queen's Univeersity, UK
Ahmed Mehaoua, U. of Versailles, France
Jose M. Nogueira, U. Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jong-Tae Park, Kyungpook National U., Korea
Puneet Sharma, HP Labs, USA
Yuval Shavitt, Tel Aviv U. and Bell Labs, USA
Chien-Chung Shen, Univ of Delaware, USA
Rolf Stadler, CTR/Columbia U., USA
Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ralf Steinmetz, GMD., Germany
José Neuman de Souza, U. Fed. do Ceara,Brazil
Alaa Youssef, IBM Research, USA
Tutorial Chair
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, U of Oklahoma, USA
Local Publicity Chair
Curt White, DePaul University
Organization Committee Chair
Greg Brewster, DePaul University
Organization Committee
 Mouayad Albaghdadi, Motorola
Anthony Chung, DePaul University
Hazem Hamed, DePaul University
Yongning Tang, DePaul University
Bin Zhang, DePaul University
MBONE Broadcast Specialist
John Kristoff, DePaul University