Keynotes -- Video Coding Techniques for Ubiquitous Multimedia Services -- Multimedia -- Residual Signal Compression Based on the Blind Signal Decomposition for Video Coding -- Personalized Life Log Media System in Ubiquitous Environment -- An Embedded Variable Bit-Rate Audio Coder for Ubiquitous Speech Communications -- Performance Enhancement of Error Resilient Entropy Coding Using Bitstream of Block Based SPIHT -- A Study on the Personal Program Guide Technique Within Ubiquitous Media Community Environment Using Multi-band Sensor Gateway -- Applications -- Remote Diagnostic Protocol and System for U-Car -- Map-Building and Localization by Three-Dimensional Local Features for Ubiquitous Service Robot -- LRMAP: Lightweight and Resynchronous Mutual Authentication Protocol for RFID System -- Novel Process Methodology of Smart Combi Card (SCC) Manufacturing for RFID/USN -- Product Control System Using RFID Tag Information and Data Mining -- iSCSI Protocol Parameter Optimization for Mobile Appliance Remote Storage System at Smart Home Environment Approach -- Mobile, Wireless, and Ad Hoc Networking -- A Study on Optimal Fast Handover Scheme in Fast Handover for Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6) Networks -- DCAR: Dynamic Congestion Aware Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Anonymous Secure Communication in Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- A DiffServ Management Scheme Considering the Buffer Traffic Rate in Ubiquitous Convergence Network -- An Approach to Reliable and Efficient Routing Scheme for TCP Performance Enhancement in Mobile IPv6 Networks -- Ant Colony Optimization for Satellite Customer Assignment -- Advanced Remote-Subscription Scheme Supporting Cost Effective Multicast Routing for Broadband Ubiquitous Convergence IP-Based Network -- Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks -- Dual Priority Scheduling Based on Power Adjust Context Switching for Wireless Sensor Network -- WODEM: Wormhole Attack Defense Mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Layer-Based ID Assigning Method for Sensor Networks -- A Smart Sensor Overlay Network for Ubiquitous Computing -- An Efficient Sensor Network Architecture Using Open Platform in Vehicle Environment -- Privacy and Security -- Improved Reinforcement Computing to Implement AntNet-Based Routing Using General NPs for Ubiquitous Environments -- Web-Based Simulation, Natural System -- Design of a Cooperative Distributed Intrusion Detection System for AODV -- Towards a Security Policy for Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems (Position Paper) -- Architecture of an LBS Platform to Support Privacy Control for Tracking Moving Objects in a Ubiquitous Environments -- A New Low-Power and High Speed Viterbi Decoder Architecture -- Dynamic EPG Implementation for Ubiquitous Environment.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the First International Conference on Ubiquitous Convergence Technology, ICUCT 2006, held in Jeju Island, Korea in December, 2006. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 640 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia, applications, mobile, wireless, and ad-hoc networking, smart sensors and sensor networks, privacy and security, as well as Web-based simulation for natural systems.