… Today, the IP Multimedia Subsystem (… management of emerging service delivery platforms
on top of IMS infrastructures. In this special issue we address some of the major management …

… Whereas the information management subsystem provides … critical design issues for each
of these three subsystems. … , we will only discuss technical challenges for ensuring continuous …

… multimedia services to users through ubiquitous networks. The aim of IP Multimedia Subsystem
(… IMS can be used to manage all service related issues such as Quality of Service (QoS), …

… the UMTS protocols for mobility management and authentication which are essential for the
… WLAN network, which can cause security challenges. Extensive efforts are required for the …

… concepts and challenges related to managing QoE for networked multimedia services. …
articles addressing the topic of QoE management, we address QoE management in the context of …

… -based data, voice, and multimedia services. However, it is a big challenge to integrate the
IP-… enhance the basic IP connectivity with enhanced signaling and session management. IMS …

… management frameworks to an open set of developers to address the various challenges
and … This paper examines resource management frameworks for linking session based IMS …

… subsystems using easily available past data. We explicitly list ten challenges for the multimedia
… ten essential research challenges in building multimedia systems to manage emergency …

… Furthermore, we identify many challenges at the PaaS level. One … the IMS structure and
management aspects. Another challenge is the design of elastic management and orchestration …

… challenges presented by the comprehensive performance management of future multimedia
… 1, whereas the term "performance management system" will be used only for a subsystem …