Ebook: Challenges for Next Generation Network Operations and Service Management: 11th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, APNOMS 2008, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, APNOMS 2008, held in Beijing, China, in October 2008.

The 43 revised full papers and 34 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on routing and topology management; fault management; community and virtual group management; autonomous and distributed control; sensor network management; traffic identification; QoS management; policy and service management; wireless and mobile network management; security management; short papers.

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This year, the APNOMS call for papers received 195 paper submissions from 19 different countries, including countries outside the Asia-Pacific region (Europe, Middle-East, North and South America). Each paper was carefully reviewed by at least three international experts. Based on review scores, the APNOMS 2008 Technical Program Committee discussed the selection of papers, and selected 43 high-quality papers (22.1% of submissions) as full papers and 34 papers as short papers. Accepted papers were arranged into ten technical sessions and two short paper sessions (poster presentation). These sessions include Routing and Topology Management, Fault Management, Community and Virtual Group Management,Autonomous and Distrubted Control, SensorNetworkManagement, Traffic Identification, QoS Management, Policy and Service Management, Wireless and Mobile Network Management, and Security Management.