Understanding the Interactions between Unicast and Group Communications Sessions in Ad Hoc Networks -- Cross-Layer Simulation and Optimization for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Networks Using Loss Differentiation Algorithms -- TCP Performances in a Hybrid Broadcast/Telecommunication System -- Handoff Notification in Wireless Hybrid Networks -- Selective Active Scanning for Fast Handoff in WLAN using Sensor Networks -- An Analysis of Mobile IPv6 Signaling Load in Next Generation Mobile Networks -- Peer-to-Peer Based Architecture for Mobility Management in Wireless Networks -- Supporting Groupware in Mobile Networks -- RSM-WISP: Roaming and Service Management in Hotspot Networks Through a Policy Based Management Architecture -- Integrated Reconfiguration Management for the Support of End to End Reconfiguration -- Replica Allocation Considering Data Update Intervals in Ad Hoc Networks -- Anova-Informed Decision Trees for Voice Applications over Manets -- Route Stability Techniques for Enhanced Video Delivery on Manets -- A New Smoothing Jitter Algorithm for Voice over Ad Hoc Networks -- On the Complexity of Radio Resources Allocation in WCDMA Systems -- Optimization of Pilot Power for Service Coverage and Smooth Handover in WCDMA Networks -- An Alternative Metric for Channel Estimation with Applications in Bluetooth Scheduling -- Distributed Pairwise Key Generation Using Shared Polynomials for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- Collaboration Enforcement and Adaptive Data Redirection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Only First-Hand Experience -- A Simple Privacy Extension for Mobile IPv6 -- A Trust-Based Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks -- Short-Term Fairness of 802.11 Networks with Several Hosts -- RAAR: A Relay-Based Adaptive Auto Rate Protocol for Multi-Rate and Multi-Range Infrastructure Wireless LANs -- A Non-Token-Based-Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Single-Hop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- The Receiver’s Dilemma -- Theoretical Capacity of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- How to Discover Optimal Routes in Wireless Multihop Networks -- Asymptotic Pheromone Behavior in Swarm Intelligent MANETs -- Randomized Routing Algorithms in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- RBR: Refinement-Based Route Maintenance Protocol in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- Enabling Energy Demand Response with Vehicular Mesh Networks -- Context-Aware Inter-Networking for Wireless Networks -- Performance Impact of Mobility in an Emulated IP-based Multihop Radio Access Network -- Broadcast Services and Topology Control in Ad-Hoc Networks -- Space and Time Curvature in Information Propagation in Massively Dense Ad Hoc Networks -- Cluster-based Location-Services for Scalable Ad Hoc Network Routing -- On Selecting Nodes to Improve Estimated Positions -- Energy-Efficient Multimedia Communications in Lossy Multi-hop Wireless Networks -- Analyzing the Energy Consumption of IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks -- Energy-Efficient Reliable Paths for On-Demand Routing Protocols -- Minimum Power Symmetric Connectivity Problem in Wireless Networks: A New Approach.

This book draws together papers presented at the IFIP/IEEE Sixth Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications. It focuses on the convergence of mobile wireless networks and the Internet, in particular, integrating stand-alone mobile networks with infrastructure wireless networks to create more robust and accommodating wireless networks.