MMNS 2009 - MMNS 2009: 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services

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Category MMNS 2009

Deadline: May 08, 2009 | Date: October 26, 2009

Venue/Country: Venice, Italy

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://www.manweek.org/2009/mmns

(part of MANWEEK 2009, October 26-30)

Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice, Italy

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Registration Deadline: May 1, 2009

Paper Submission Deadline: May 8, 2009

PDF: http://www.manweek.org/2009/download/cfp/mmns09-cfp.pdf

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management

of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will

be held in October 26 - 30, 2009 at the fascinating

Telecom Italia Future Centre, in the worldwide known and

magnificent Venice, Italy, as part of the 5th International

Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2009).

The MMNS 2009 conference will provide participants with a

high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate.

The conference is sponsored by the International Federation

for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on

Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with

technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society

and specifically the Technical Committee on Network

Operations and Management (CNOM).

SCOPE OF MMNS 2009

Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference

for research and innovation in the management of multimedia

technology and networked services. The scope of the conference

has been expanded in recent years to include management of

emerging mobile and wireless networks and their integration

with more traditional network infrastructures. The objective

of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists

from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art

management of converged multimedia networks and services across

heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public

venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration.

The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as

broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a

promising opportunity for existing providers to increase their

service subscriber base, so that the 4G vision and beyond becomes

a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main

actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport

technology, session signaling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity

of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). The efficient management of

wireless and wired technologies side-by-side and of the number of

multimedia services provisioned over these integrated networks is

a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective,

innovative, and mass-market solutions that are likely to become a

major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to

evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to

keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with

the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and

broadband networks, quadruple play convergence, and the

integration of embedded systems in different domains, from smart

homes/cities to next generation automotive systems.

The academic and industry research communities should unify forces

to address the challenges of developing and operating converged

multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management

is a key element in addressing this challenge.

The MMNS 2009 technical program committee is soliciting research

papers in the broad area of network and service management that

address new models, architectures, and technological designs to

enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2009

intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the

past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the

management of wired-wireless multimedia networks and services.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Management of multimedia streaming and real-time service delivery

Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks

Management of NGN/4G networks and services

Management of Service Oriented Architectures

Management of sensor networks for enhanced multimedia provisioning

Middleware for the management of mobile multimedia services

Middleware support for seamless mobility of multimedia services

Multi-service/multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and

mobility over IP) network management

Grid networking for multimedia

Cross-layer multimedia management

Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks

Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks

Planning and optimization of multimedia and mobile networks

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) operations and management

Management of service delivery platforms

Management of content distribution networking

Distributed multimedia service management

Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services

Wireless/mobile multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies

Novel protocols for multimedia services

Multi-point and multicast service management

Pricing, accounting, and billing for multimedia services

Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia

networks and services

Self-* properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services

Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning

Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks

End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in

mobile/wireless networks

Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services

Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks

Novel network architectures for mobile network management services

PAPER SUBMISSION

Paper submissions must present original and unpublished research

work or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress

reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission

to MMNS 2009. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted

to MMNS 2009. Authors are requested to submit either long papers

or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS

format (see below):

Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages)

Short papers describing work-in-progress

(up to 6 single-spaced single-column pages)

Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be

reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please visit the

conference website for detailed submission instructions:

http://www.manweek.org/2009/mmns/

PROCEEDINGS

The MMNS 2009 proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag

Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (pending approval). For

more information regarding manuscript format please visit the

authors' instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be

presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the

conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2009 will be

invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE

Transactions on Network and Service Management - TNSM.

CO-CHAIRS

Paolo Bellavista

University of Bologna, Italy

Tom Pfeifer

TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Registration: May 1, 2009

Paper Submission: May 8, 2009

Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2009

Camera-ready Papers Due: July 18, 2009

Conference Dates: October 26-27, 2009

We cordially invite you to submit papers to MANWEEK 2009. MANWEEK 2009 is the fifth in a series of events that was established in 2005, and will bring together leading figures from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest advances in management of networks and services. The Scientific Programme will include presentations given by leading invited speakers, as well as presentations based upon refereed papers selected by the International Programme Committee. The conference will take place at the Future Centre in Campo San Salvador close to Rialto. Rialto is an area of the San Polo sestiere of Venice, Italy, known for its markets and for the Rialto Bridge. The area was settled by the ninth century, when a small area in the middle of the Realtine Islands either side of the Rio Businiacus was known as the Rivoaltus, the "high bank". Soon, the Businiacus became known as the Grand Canal, and the district became the Rialto, referring only to the area on the left bank. The Rialto became an important district in 1097. The market grew, both as a retail and as a wholesale market. Warehouses were built, including the famous Fondaco dei Tedeschi on the other side of the bridge. Meanwhile, shops selling luxury goods, banks and insurance agencies appeared and the city's tax offices were located in the area. The city's abattoir was also in the Rialto. Most of the buildings in the Rialto were destroyed in a fire in 1514, the sole survivor being the Church of San Giacomo di Rialto, while the rest of the area was gradually rebuilt. The Fabriche Vecchie dates from this period, while the Fabbriche Nuove is only slightly more recent, dating from 1553.

Manweek 2009 will be supported by a comprehensive social programme, including a Welcome Reception, a Conference Banquet and a social event.

You are warmly invited to participate and we are looking forward to welcoming you to Manweek 2009 that is going to host the most reputable workshops in the area of management of networks and services:

DSOM 2009 - 20th IFIP/IEEE Intn. Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management

MMNS 2009 - 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services

IPOM 2009 - 9th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management

MACE 2009 ¨C 4rd IEEE Intn.. Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments

NGNM 2009 ¨C 6th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware