IFIP/IEEE International
Conference on Management
of Multimedia Networks and
Services '97

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Scope :

Today, the trend is towards providing telecommunications services and in particular multimedia services in the emerging broadband, multimedia and "super-highway" era. To offer reliable multimedia services, the service architecture should integrate the service with its management while the multimedia networks that are used to provide those services need also a certain level of control and management. Therefore management is requested at both the service and network levels. Integration is also of paramount importance to facilitate the overall management process. The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers working in all facets of network and service management applied to broadband networks and multimedia services. The conference will serve as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, design, development, and implementation experiences.

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Topics of Special interest :

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Multimedia services specification, validation and management (e.g., Broadband VPN, Video on demand, tele-teaching, etc...)
• Distributed management of multimedia services
• Multimedia service and network management integration
• Multimedia network management models and architectures
• Resource management in broadband networks
• Performance and Fault Management for broadband networks
• Billing and Security for broadband networks
• Integration of broadband network control and management
• Quality of service management
• Policy-Driven Management
• Standards Frameworks and Issues for broadband networks management: OSI, IETF, ITU-T, TINA, EURESCOM, ETSI, ATM-Forum, etc...
• New software technologies for multimedia service and network management (Corba, JAVA, etc...)
• AI techniques for network and services management (Intelligent Agents, Expert Systems, etc...)
• Trials, case studies and experiences

   

  

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Important Information for Authors :

Submissions should be written in English, double-spaced and no longer than 5,000 words. A separate cover sheet must be included which provides the following information: title of paper, authors' names and affiliations, contact author's name and address (both postal and electronic), a ten-line abstract, keywords, and submission area (from the list of relevant topics of interest).

Please submit the paper electronically

• by ftp to:

  ftp ftp.crim.ca

  login: mmns97

  passwd: submit

  directory: incoming

• by clicking here and typing "submit" as password.

   

• through e-mail to mmns97@crim.ca.

Electronic submissions should be in postscript format which may be compressed (using Unix compress) and uuencoded. In the case where electronic submission is impossible please send 4 hard copies of your paper by postal mail to the following address :

Address:

• Raouf Boutaba
  Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal
  1801, McGill College Avenue, Suite 800
  Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3A 2N4

  Phone : +1 (514) 840-1265
  Fax : +1 (514) 840-1244
  E-mail : rboutaba@crim.ca

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a camera-ready manuscript that will appear in the Conference proceedings published by Chapman & Hall.

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Important Dates :

Today : send a message stating your intention to submit a paper or stating your general interest in the conference to mmns97@crim.ca.
Electronic and hard copy paper submission deadline : March 31, 1997
Notification of acceptance : May 26, 1997
Camera-ready manuscripts due : June 16, 1997

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Info: (514) 346-6000 - E-mail: festival@acces-cible.net

Old Port of Montréal: http://www.svpm.ca/welcome

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Maps of Montréal :

 Montreal subway's map: http://www.stcum.qc.ca/metro/mapmetro.htm

Old Montreal and Old Port clickable map: http://www.svpm.ca/map

The Olympic Park Map: http://www.rio.gouv.qc.ca/eng/sub1e.htm

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Program Committee :

General Chair :

Raouf Boutaba, CRIM, Canada

Program Committee :

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Organization Committee :

Alan Bernardi
Petre Dini
Mahamat Guiagoussou
Abdelhakim Hafid
Youssef Iraqi
Eric Leung-Tack
Ahmed Mehaoua
Andrei Negulescu
Micheline Perrault
Julie Theroux

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