Wireless and Mobile Networking IFIP Joint Conference on Mobile Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN'2008) and Personal Wireless Communications (PWC'2008), Toulouse, France, September 30 - October 2, 2008

Research and development in wireless and mobile networks and services areas have been going on for some time, reaching the stage of products. Graceful evo- tion of networks, new access schemes, flexible protocols, increased variety of services and applications, networks reliability and availability, security, are some of the present and future challenges that have to be met. MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks) and PWC (Personal Wireless Communications) are two conferences sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 that provide forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and computing. In 2008, MWCN and PWC were held in Toulouse, France, from September 30 to October 2, 2008. MWNC’2008 and PWC’2008 were coupled to form the first edition of IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC’2008). MWCN and PWC topics were revisited in order to make them complementary and coveringtogether the main hot issues in wireless and mobile networks, services, applications, computing, and technologies.

Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN'2008).- Environmental Monitoring Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Comparison of Proposed Path Selection Protocols for IEEE 802.11s WLAN Mesh Networks.- ETM – An Optimized Routing Protocol for Mobile SSM Sources.- A Synchronous Tiered Based Clustering Algorithm for large-scale Ad hoc Networks.- A Novel Power Counting Mechanism for Enhanced MBMS Performance in UMTS Networks.- Detours Save Energy in Mobile Wireless Networks.- Enhancing Power Saving Mechanisms for Ad hoc Networks.- An Analysis of Alterations to the SCTP RTO Calculation Mechanism for WLAN Environments.- Efficient Joint Unicast/Multicast Transmission over IEEE 802.11e WLANs.- Content-Aware Selective Retransmission Scheme in Heavy Loaded Wireless Networks.- Request Mechanisms to Reduce the Contention Period in 802.16: A Comparison.- Optimization of a QoS Aware Cross-Layer Scheduler by Packet Aggregation.- MANET Protocols Performance in Group-based Networks.- Performance Analysis of Reservation MAC Protocols for Ad-hoc Networks.- Evaluation of WiseMAC on Sensor Nodes.- Boosted Incremental Nelder-Mead Simplex Algorithm: Distributed Regression in Wireless Sensor Networks.- UMTS HSPA and R99 Traffic Separation.- Measuring Quality of Experience of Internet Access over HSDPA.- Impacts of Air Interface Call Admission Control on UTRAN Transport Simulations.- Definition of a Web 2.0 Gateway for 3rd Party Service Access to Next Generation Networks.- Validation of the Signaling Procedures of a Delivery Platform for IMS Services.- Trust Negotiation Protocol Support for Secure Mobile Network Service Deployment.- Personal Wireless Communications (PWC'2008).- Efficient Handover Scheme for Mobile IPv4 over IEEE 802.11 N etworks with IEEE 802.21 Triggers.- On Enhancing a Hybrid Admission Control Algorithm for IEEE 802.11e EDCA.- Study on Intermittent WLAN Consisting of Heterogeneous Multi-radio Devices.- On QoS Mapping in TDMA Based Wireless Sensor Networks.- Minimizing Single TDMA Frame Sizes in Alarm-driven Wireless Sensor Networks Applications.- Balancing Between Power Optimization and Iub Efficiency in MBMS Enabled UMTS Networks.- Downlink Macrodiversity in Cellular Network – A Fluid Analysis.- Multiple Cell Partitions for Increasing the CDMA-Based Cell Capacity.- Location Management in Civil Emergency Wireless Communication.- Dynamic Connectivity Analysis of ABF-based Ad-hoc Networks.- Impact of Mobility on Epidemic Broadcast in DTNs.- Supporting Adaptive Real-time Mobile Communication with Multilayer Context Awareness.- Path Selection of SCTP Fast Retransmission in Multi-homed Wireless Environments.- Towards these of Models for Autonomic Network Management.- Improved Lightweight Mutual Authentication Protocol for RFID Systems.