Subject: IEEE/IFIP MMNS2001 Deadline Extension

From: "Ehab Al-Shaer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 03:34:11 -0500

Due to the numerous requests, the Submission Deadline
of MMNS2001 (www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001)
will be extended to MAY 6, 2001.

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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

IMPORTANT DATES
    Submission deadline:  May 6, 2001
    Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2001
    Final version due:  July 21, 2001
    Conference:   October 29 to Nov 1, 2001

The IFIP/IEEE MMNS is the premier IEEE/IFIP conferences focusing on
management of multimedia networks and services. 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.
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 PROCEDURE     See
<http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001>.