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CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourth IFIP/IEEE International Conference on
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
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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

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Guy Pujolle, U. Pierre & Marie Curie, France
Wolfgang Zimmer, GMD FIRST, Germany

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA
USA Giovanni Pacifici, IBM Research, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ahmed Abutaleb, Lucent Technology, USA
Nazim Agoulmine, U. 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 University, 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

TUTORIAL CHAIR
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, U of Oklahoma, USA

LOCAL PUBLICITY CHAIR
Curt White, DePaul University

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIR
Greg Brewster, DePaul University

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