Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: 8th International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, MMNS 2005, Barcelona, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3754) - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

We are delighted to present the proceedings of the 8th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS 2005). The MMNS 2005 conference was held in Barcelona, Spain on October 24-26, 2005. As in previous years, the conference brought together an international audience of researchers and scientists from industry and academia who are researching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. This year marked a challenging chapter in the advancement of management systems for the wider management research community, with the growing complexities of the "so-called" multimedia over Internet, the proliferation of alternative wireless networks (WLL, WiFi and WiMAX) and 3G mobile services, intelligent and high-speed networks scalable multimedia services and the convergence of computing and communications for data, voice and video delivery. Contributions from the research community met this challenge with 65 paper submissions; 33 high-quality papers were subsequently selected to form the MMNS 2005 technical program. The diverse topics in this year's program included wireless networking technologies, wireless network applications, quality of services, multimedia, Web applications, overlay network management, and bandwidth management.

Reseña del editor

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, MMNS 2005, held in Barcelona, Spain in October 2005.

The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on wireless networking technologies, wireless network applications, overlay network management, multimedia, Web applications, quality of services, and bandwidth management.