Autonomic Session 1 -- Pocket Switched Networking: Challenges, Feasibility and Implementation Issues -- Experiments on the Automatic Evolution of Protocols Using Genetic Programming -- Service Evolution in a Nomadic Wireless Environment -- User Cooperation and Search in Intelligent Networks -- Autonomic Session 2 -- Autonomic Wireless Network Management -- Context-Driven Self-configuration of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Autonomous Self-deployment of Wireless Access Networks in an Airport Environment -- Autonomic Session 3 -- Knowledge Networks -- Towards a Reliable, Wide-Area Infrastructure for Context-Based Self-management of Communications -- Semantic Interoperability for an Autonomic Knowledge Delivery Service -- Autonomic Session 4 -- Autonomic Communication Security in Sensor Networks -- Trust Management Issues for Ad Hoc and Self-organized Networks -- Multipath Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Security Issues and Performance Evaluation -- Autonomic Session 5 -- Autonomous Network Equipments -- Towards Self-optimizing Protocol Stack for Autonomic Communication: Initial Experience -- Towards Service Awareness and Autonomic Features in a SIP-Enabled Network -- Autonomic Session 6 -- Integration of Decentralized Economic Models for Resource Self-management in Application Layer Networks -- Service Discovery and Provision for Autonomic Mobile Computing -- Context Dissemination for Autonomic Communication Systems -- Autonomic Session 7 -- On Natural Mobility Models -- Nomadic Wireless Sensor Networks for Autonomic Pervasive Environments -- Adaptive Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Invited Program -- Keynote Talk Summary: Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor Networks -- Invited Talk I Summary: Opportunistic Spectrum Access for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Research Challenges -- Invited Talk II Summary: Incentive Schemes in Memory-Less P2P Systems -- Invited Talk III Summary: Coordination and Resilience in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks -- Panel Reports -- Panel 1 Report: Autonomicity Versus Complexity -- Panel 2 Report: Autonomic Communication Roadmap.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communication, WAC 2005, held in Athens, Greece in October 2005. The 22 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote paper, 3 invited papers and 2 panel summaries were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from numerous submissions. The papers discuss the principles of Autonomic Communication (AC) - a new communication paradigm to assist the design of the next generation networks. Matter of subject is to achieve purposeful behavior on top of self-organization (self-management, self-healing, self-awareness, etc.).