By Nadjia Kara, Jean Conan, André Girard (auth.), José Neuman de Souza, Raouf Boutaba (eds.)

Welcome to the 3rd foreign convention on administration of Multimedia Networks and providers (MMNS'2000) in Fortaleza (Brazil)! the 1st MMNS was once held in Montreal ( Canada) in july 1997 and the second one MMNS used to be held in Versailles (France) in November 1998. The MMNS convention occurs each year and a part and is aimed to be a very overseas occasion by means of bringing jointly researchers and practitioners from everywhere in the international and by way of setting up the convention every time in a unique continent/country. over the last numerous years, there was a large amount of examine in the fields of multimedia networking and community administration. a lot of that paintings has taken position in the context of coping with Quality-of­ carrier in broadband built-in prone electronic networks similar to the A TM, and extra lately in IP-based networks, to answer the necessities of rising multimedia purposes. A TM networks have been designed to aid multimedia site visitors with varied features and will be used because the move mode for either stressed out and instant networks. a brand new set of web protocols is being built to supply higher caliber of provider, that's a prerequisite for aiding multimedia purposes. Multimedia purposes have a unique set of necessities, which affects the layout of the underlying verbal exchange community in addition to its administration. numerous QoS administration mechanisms intervening at varied layers of the conversation community are required together with QoS-routing, QoS-based shipping, QoS negotiation, QoS edition, FCAPS administration, and mobility management.