Title: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS)

Abbreviated: NOMS

First Year: 1988

Introduction: Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2012 will follow the 24 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas that are listed below. In addition, we invite submissions of proposals for technical panels, tutorials, workshops, and application session papers.

Network Management & Operational Experience

?Ad-hoc networks

?Wireless & mobile networks

?Personal Area Networks

?IP/MPLS networks

?LANs

?Optical networks

?Sensor networks

?Overlay networks

?P2P networks

?Broadband access networks

?Future Internet

?Home networks

?Smart grids

Service Management

?Multimedia service management

?Data service management

?Hosting

?Data center management

?Grid & cloud computing

?Virtualized infrastructure management

?Infrastructure as a Service

?Platform as a Service

?Software as a Service

Functional Areas

?Fault management

?Configuration management

?Accounting management

?Performance management

?Security management

?SLA management

?Event management

?Energy management

Management Approaches

?Centralized management

?Distributed management

?Autonomic and self-management

?Policy-based management

?Integrated management

Technologies

?Protocols

?Middleware

?Web Service technologies for service creation and management

?Mobile agents

?Data, information, and semantic modeling

Methodologies for Network Operations and Management

?Control theory

?Optimization theory

?Economic theory

?Machine learning

?Probability, stochastic processes, and queuing theory

?Design and simulation

?Experimental approaches

?Visualization

Website: www.ieee-noms.org

Period: 2 year | Ongoing: Still holding