Network Policy -- Configuration Model for Network Management -- On-Line Control of Service Level Agreements -- Revenue-Aware Resource Allocation in the Future Multi-Service IP Networks -- Network Security -- A Kerberos-Based Authentication Architecture for WLANS -- An Efficient Mechanism to Ensure Location Privacy in Telecom Service Applications -- Network Security Management: A Formal Evaluation Tool Based on RBAC Policies -- Quality of Service -- A Dynamic Cross Layer Control Strategy for Resource Partitioning in a Rain Faded Satellite Channel with Long-Lived TCP Connections -- Content Location and Distribution in Converged Overlay Networks -- A Communication Architecture for Real-Time Auctions -- Wireless Networks -- An Interference-Based Prevention Mechanism Against WEP Attack for 802.11B Network -- Restricted Dynamic Programming for Broadcast Scheduling -- Performance Comparison of Distributed Frequency Assignment Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks -- Fast Handoff Support in an IP-Evolved UMTS Architecture -- Intelligent Networks -- Storage Capacity Allocation Algorithms for Hierarchical Content Distribution -- An Inference Algorithm for Probabilistic Fault Management in Distributed Systems -- New Protocol for Grouping Data Using Active Network -- Performance Evaluation -- An Algebraic Model of an Adaptive Extension of DiffServ for MANETs -- Cross-Layer Performance Evaluation of IP-Based Applications Running over the Air Interface -- Collision Avoidance in Metropolitan Optical Access Networks -- Posters -- Toward an Intelligent Bandwidth Broker Model for Resources Management in DiffServ Networks -- A Learning and Intentional Local Policy Decision Point for Dynamic QoS Provisioning -- Generic IP Signaling Service Protocol -- On Distributed System Supervision - A Modern Approach: GeneSys -- Multigroup Communication -- Policy Usage in GMPLS Optical Networks -- Beyond TCP/IP: A Context-Aware Architecture.

The rapid evolution of the networking industry introduces new exciting challenges that need to be explored by the research community. This book contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Net-Con'2004, organized by the International Federation of Information processing and held at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain in November 2004. Key areas covered include: Network Policy; Network Security; Quality of Service; Wireless Networks; Intelligent Networks; Performance Evaluation This valuable new book will be essential reading for all those working in computer science and engineering departments, especially researchers, engineers and students in university and industry research laboratories.