Wireless and Mobile Networking: IFIP Joint Conference on Mobile Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN'2008) and Personal Wireless Communications (PWC [Paperback]

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. MWNC2008 and PWC2008 were coupled to form the first edition of IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC2008). MWCN and PWC topics were revisited in order to make them complementary and coveringtogether the main hot issues in wireless and mobile networks, services, applications, computing, and technologies.Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN'2008).- Environmental Monitoring Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Comparison of Proposed Path Selection Protocols for IEEE 802.11s WLAN Mesh Networks.- ETM  An Optimized Routing Protocol for Mobile SSM Sources.- A Synchronous Tiered Based Clustering Algorithm for large-scale Ad hoc Networks.- A Novel Power Counting Mechanism for Enhanced MBMS Performance in UMTS Networks.- Detours Save Energy in Mobile Wireless Networks.- Enhancing Power Saving Mechanisms for Ad hoc Networks.- An Analysis of Alterations to the SCTP RTO Calculation Mechanism for WLAN Environments.- Efficient Joint Unicast/Multicast Transmission over IEEE 802.11e WLANs.- Content-Aware Selective Retransmission Scheme in Heavy Loaded Wireless Networks.- Request Mechanisms to Reduce the Contention Period in 802.16: A Comparison.- Optimization of a QoSlcb