Wireless and Mobile Networking

1. Environmental Monitoring Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
2. ETM – An Optimized Routing Protocol for Mobile SSM Sources
3. A Synchronous Tiered Based Clustering Algorithm for Large-scale Ad hoc Networks
4. Detours Save Energy in Mobile Wireless Networks
5. Enhancing Power Saving Mechanisms for Ad hoc Networks
6. Request Mechanisms to Reduce the Contention Period in 802.16: A Comparison
7. Optimization of a QoS Aware Cross-Layer Scheduler by Packet Aggregation
8. MANET Protocols Performance in Group-based Networks
9. Performance Analysis of Reservation MAC protocols for Ad-hoc Networks
10. Evaluation of WiseMAC on Sensor Nodes
11. Boosted Incremental Nelder-Mead Simplex Algorithm: Distributed Regression in Wireless Sensor Networks
12. UMTS HSPA and R99 Traffic Separation
13. Measuring Quality of Experience of Internet Access over HSDPA
14. Impacts of Air Interface Call Admission Control on UTRAN Transport Simulations
15. Location Management in Civil Emergency Wireless Communication
16. Dynamic Connectivity Analysis of ABF-based Ad-hoc Networks
17. Impact of Mobility on Epidemic Broadcast in DTNs
18. Supporting Adaptive Real-time Mobile Communication with Multilayer Context Awareness
19. Path Selection of SCTP Fast Retransmission in Multi-homed Wireless Environments

Research and development in wireless and mobile networks and services areas have been going on for some time, reaching the stage of products. Graceful evo- tion of networks, new access schemes, flexible protocols, increased variety of services and applications, networks reliability and availability, security, are some of the present and future challenges that have to be met. MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks) and PWC (Personal Wireless Communications) are two conferences sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 that provide forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and computing. In 2008, MWCN and PWC were held in Toulouse, France, from September 30 to October 2, 2008. MWNC’2008 and PWC’2008 were coupled to form the first edition of IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC’2008). MWCN and PWC topics were revisited in order to make them complementary and covering together the main hot issues in wireless and mobile networks, services, applications, computing, and technologies.