Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC-6, 8th IFIP/IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks, August 20-25, 2006, Santiago, Chile

This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country.

Topics in this series include:

- The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science

- Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources

- Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks

- Ad-Hoc Networking

- Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility

- The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond

- History of Computing and Education

- Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing

- Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice

- Applications in Artificial Intelligence

- Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of Software

A Survey on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- HIT: A Human-Inspired Trust Model.- Privacy and Location-Aware Service Discovery for Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems.- An Adaptive Approach to Service Discovery in Ad Hoc Networks.- Performances of geographical routing protocols combined with a position estimation process in wireless heterogenous networks.- Event-Driven Field Estimation for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Exploiting Web Technologies to Build Autonomic Wireless Sensor Networks.- Energy Efficiency Maximization for Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Simple and Fair Proposal to Improve the Performance of the IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Coordination Function.- A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Middleware Architectures Based on Computational Reflection and Aspect Oriented Programming to Support Mobile Computing Applications.- ISPCell: An Interactive Image-Based Streaming Protocol for Wireless Cellular Networks.- The Generic Context Sharing Protocol GCSP.- ASMA : Towards Adaptive Secured Multipath in MANETs.- Wireless Ad Hoc Networks on Underserved Communities: An Efficient Solution for Interactive Digital TV.- Understanding the Role of Mobile Ad hoc Networks in Non-traditional Contexts.- A Time-based Admission Control Mechanism for IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks.- Evaluation and Improvement of Multicast Service in 802.11b.