Presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. This book includes topics such as: the 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science; Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks; Ad-Hoc Networking; History of Computing and Education; Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice; and more.

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.

International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication.  The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction.  Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured.  These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research.  The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.   For more information about the 300 otherbooks in the IFIP series, please visit www.springer.com.   For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.org.

From the reviews: "I agree with the author that low power consumption technology is a major issue for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). … In order to improve the performance of these wireless, networks, the author propose the use of a reliability control based on a polling service, along with controlled transmissions. … I recommend this book as part of the suggested reading list for a one-semester, advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate course on networks." (J. Myerson, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (8), August, 2008)

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