Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks

This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2, 000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country.

Topics in this series include:

- The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science

- Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources

- Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks

- Ad-Hoc Networking

- Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility

- The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond

- History of Computing and Education

- Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing

- Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice

- Applications in Artificial Intelligence

- Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of Software

A Survey on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. - HIT: A Human-Inspired Trust Model. - Privacy and Location-Aware Service Discovery for Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems. - An Adaptive Approach to Service Discovery in Ad Hoc Networks. - Performances of geographical routing protocols combined with a position estimation process in wireless heterogenous networks. - Event-Driven Field Estimation for Wireless Sensor Networks. - Exploiting Web Technologies to Build Autonomic Wireless Sensor Networks. - Energy Efficiency Maximization for Wireless Sensor Networks. - A Simple and Fair Proposal to Improve the Performance of the IEEE 802. 11e Enhanced Coordination Function. - A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Middleware Architectures Based on Computational Reflection and Aspect Oriented Programming to Support Mobile Computing Applications. - ISPCell: An Interactive Image-Based Streaming Protocol for Wireless Cellular Networks. - The Generic Context Sharing Protocol GCSP. - ASMA : Towards Adaptive Secured Multipath in MANETs. - Wireless Ad Hoc Networks on Underserved Communities: An Efficient Solution for Interactive Digital TV. - Understanding the Role of Mobile Ad hoc Networks in Non-traditional Contexts. - A Time-based Admission Control Mechanism for IEEE 802. 11 Ad Hoc Networks. - Evaluation and Improvement of Multicast Service in 802. 11b.