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Fourth IFIP/IEEE International Conference
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Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'2001) October 29- November 1, 2001 Chicago, Illinois, USA (http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001) 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 conferences focusing on management of multimedia networks and services. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners working in the network and service management and 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. Of specific interest to MMNS2001 is the management of multimedia in the Internet. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. 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 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). For any further information, you can direct your questions to mmns2001@cs.depaul.edu 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 Conference CO-CHAIRS Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA Giovanni Pacifici, 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 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 Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland Dominique Gaiti, U. of Troyes, France Leon A. Garcia, U. of Toronto, Canada 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 Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland Joaquim Celestino Júnior, UECE, Brazil Ahmed Karmouch, U. of Ottawa, Canada Derong Liu, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA Manu Malek, Lucent technology, USA Allen Marshall, Queen's Univeersity, UK Subrata Mazumdar, Bell Laboratories, USA Ahmed Mehaoua, U. of Versailles, France Jose M. Nogueira, U. Minas Gerais, Brazil Jan Roos, U. of Pretoria, South Africa Jong-Tae Park, Kyungpook National U., Korea Punnet 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 Jose Neuman de Souza, U. Fed. do Ceara, Brazil Yechiam Yemini, Columbia U., USA Alaa Youssef, IBM Research, USA Douglas N. Zuckerman, Telcordia, USA ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Aftab Ahmad, DePaul University Mouayad Albaghdad, Motorola Anthony Chung, DePaul University Ramy Khasawneh, DePaul University Hazem Hamed, DePaul University Ye Guanhua, DePaul University Yonnning Tang, DePaul University Bin Zhang, DePaul University Qiao Zhang, DePaul University MBONE Broadcast Specialist John Kristoff, DePaul University |
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