Multimedia over Wireless (1) -- Enhanced Multimedia and Real-Time Stream Throughput in Wireless Ad-Hoc LAN Using Distributed Virtual Channel Based MAC -- Adaptive Streaming of Combined Audio/Video Content over Wireless Networks -- Management of IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN for Realtime QoS-Guaranteed Teleconference Service with Differentiated H.264 Video Transmission -- Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- Link Available Bandwidth Monitoring for QoS Routing with AODV in Ad Hoc Networks -- An Efficient and Robust Service Discovery Protocol for Dynamic MANETs -- Modeling Energy Consumption in Error-Prone IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks -- Video Streaming -- MaVIS: Media-aware Video Streaming Mechanism -- On the Power of Cooperation in Multimedia Caching -- Delay Constrained Spatio-temporal Video Rate Control for Time-Varying Rate Channels -- Short Papers -- A Scalable Framework for Content Replication in Multicast-Based Content Distribution Networks -- VidShare: A Management Platform for Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Asset Distribution Across Heterogeneous Access Networks with Intellectual Property Management -- A Service-Oriented Framework to Promote Interoperability Among DRM Systems -- A Distributed Hierarchical Structure for Object Networks Supporting Human Activity Recognition -- A Bandwidth-Broker Based Inter-domain SLA Negotiation -- Efficiency of Loss Differentiation Algorithms in 802.11 Wireless Networks -- Seamless Mobility -- Towards Autonomic Handover Decision Management in 4G Networks -- Evaluation of an Intelligent Utility-Based Strategy for Dynamic Wireless Network Selection -- Overlays on Wireless Mesh Networks: Implementation and Cross-Layer Searching -- Bandwidth Provisioning and Control -- Adaptive Quality of Service Management for Next Generation Residential Gateways -- On the Location-Awareness of Bandwidth Allocation and Admission Control for the Support of Real-Time Traffic in Class-Based IP Networks -- An Integrated Network Management Framework for Inter-domain Outbound Traffic Engineering -- Multimedia over Wireless (2) -- RTS/CTS Based Endpoint Admission Control for VoIP Over 802.11e -- Improving Multicast Stability in Mobile Multicast Scheme Using Motion Prediction -- End-to-End QoS Issues of MPEG4-FGS Video Streaming Traffic Delivery in an IP/UMTS Network.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland in October 2006 in the course of the 2nd International Week on Management of Networks and Services, Manweek 2006. The 18 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia over wireless, mobile ad-hoc networks, video streaming, short papers, seamless mobility, as well as bandwidth provisioning and control.