Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2007, held in Bangalore, India, in December 2007. This book presents 13 revised full papers and 20 revised short papers together with 3 invited papers that were reviewed and selected from 170 submissions.

Section 1 - Network Protocols.- Time-Efficient Broadcasting in Radio Networks: A Review.- An Efficient and Optimized Bluetooth Scheduling Algorithm for Piconets.- EETO: An Energy-Efficient Target-Oriented Clustering Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks.- On the Design of Mobility-Tolerant TDMA-Based Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol for Mobile Sensor Networks.- Self-stabilizing Routing Algorithms for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.- A Structured Mesh Overlay Network for P2P Applications on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- A Scalable and Adaptive Clustering Scheme for MANETs.- Section 2 - Security and Privacy.- A Key Establishment Scheme for Large-Scale Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks.- Monitoring Information Leakage During Query Aggregation.- An Efficient Certificate Authority for Ad Hoc Networks.- Design and Analysis of a Game Theoretic Model for P2P Trust Management.- Hasslefree: Simplified Access Control Management for XML Documents.- LISA: LIghtweight Security Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Section 3 - Network Management.- An Optimal Weighted-Average Congestion Based Pricing Scheme for Enhanced QoS.- Distributed Resource Adaptation for Virtual Network Operators.- Maximum Lifetime Tree Construction for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Overlay Network Management for Scheduling Tasks on the Grid.- Section 4 - Network Services.- An End-Systems Supported Highly Distributed Content Delivery Network.- An Analytical Estimation of Durability in DHTs.- A Multiple Tree Approach for Fault Tolerance in MPLS Networks.- Selective Querying and Other Proposals for a Less Congested Gnutella Network.- Section 5 - e-Application Engineering.- Language Support and Compiler Optimizations for STM and Transactional Boosting.- Unifying Denotational Semantics with Operational Semantics for Web Services.- PHAC: An Environment for Distributed Collaborative Applications on P2P Networks.- Webformer: A Rapid Application Development Toolkit for Writing Ajax Web Form Applications.- Section 6 - e-Application Services.- Continuous Adaptive Mining the Thin Skylines over Evolving Data Stream.- Service Recommendation with Adaptive User Interests Modeling.- An Approach to Aggregating Web Services for End-User-Doable Construction of GridDoc Application.- An Adaptive Metadata Model for Domain-Specific Service Registry.- Section 7 - e-Applications.- Globalization from the Information and Communication Perspective.- WAND: A Robust P2P File System Tree Interface.- A Tsunami Warning System Employing Level Controlled Gossiping in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Relation Extraction and Validation Algorithm.- A Fair-Exchange and Customer-Anonymity Electronic Commerce Protocol for Digital Content Transactions.- A Practical Way to Provide Perfect Forward Secrecy for Secure E-Mail Protocols.- Augmentation to GT4 Framework for B2B Collaboration over Grid.

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