Management of Convergence Networks and Services: A Report on APNOMS 2006

Abstract

The 9th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2006, http://www.apnoms.org/2006) was held on September 27–29, 2006 in Busan, Korea. APNOMS 2006 was organized by KICS KNOM (Korean Institute of Communication Sciences, Korean Network Operations and Management Committee) and IEICE TM (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Telecommunication Management) Committee with support from IEEE CNOM (Committee on Network Operations and Management), IEEE APB (Asia Pacific Board), IEEE ComSoc Japan Chapter and TMF (TeleManagement Forum). APNOMS 2006 has continued to play an important role for exchanging and discussing all aspects of telecommunications management among academic and telecommunication industry at large in the Asia-Pacific region. As in the previous APNOMS symposia [1–8], APNOMS 2006 was a great success, attracting over 300 researchers, practitioners, service providers, vendors from 14 countries. The theme of this symposium was “Management of Convergence Networks and Services.” Recently, various convergences in wired and wireless networks, and convergence of telecommunications and broadcastings are taking place for ubiquitous multimedia service provisioning. For example, broadband IP/MPLS wired networks are converged with IEEE 802.11e wireless LAN, IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN, 3G/4G wireless cellular networks, and direct multimedia broadcast