This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking, NEW2AN 2008, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 3-5, 2008 in conjunction with the First ruSMART 2008.

NEW2AN.- Decentralized Synchronization and Estimation in Wireless Networks.- SICTA Modifications with Single Memory Location and Resistant to Cancellation Errors.- An Improved OCDMA/OCDMA Overloading Scheme for Cellular DS-CDMA.- Placement Algorithms for WiMAX Mesh Network.- On-Line Wireless Channel Modeling for Performance Control Purposes.- Multi-source Video Transmission with Optimum Perceptual Quality over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Interference Aware Construction of Multi- and Convergecast Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Optimum Resource Allocation for Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Networks with Differential Modulation.- LBS Position Estimation by Adaptive Selection of Positioning Sensors Based on Requested QoS.- Low Latency Cross Layer Handover Scheme in Proxy Mobile IPv6 Domain.- Effects of Interaction between Transport and Application Layers on SIP Signaling Performance.- Modeling Long-Range Dependent VBR Traffic Using Synthetic Markov-Gaussian TES Models.- Performance of Multi-service System with Retrials due to Blocking and Called-Party-Busy.- The Impact of Self-similarity on Traffic Shaping in Wireless LAN.- Service Concentration Node in Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).- Observing the Impact of QoS Negotiation on the Signaling Load of the IMS.- A Novel Approach to Optimize Information Dissemination in IMS Presence System.- Separation of Responsibilities between Application Servers and Media Servers in NGNs: A Practical Approach.- Systematic QoS Class Mapping Framework over Multiple Heterogeneous Networks.- A Fair Utility Function for Incentive Mechanism against Free-Riding in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Algorithm for Selecting either an Overlay or Flat Route Based on the Amount of the Delay Measurement Load on the Home Agent in a Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Network.- Application of Wavelet Packet Transform to Network Anomaly Detection.- ruSMART.- Towards the Dynamic Semantic Web.- From Smart Homes to Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges from an Industrial Perspective.- Smartness of Pervasive Computing Systems through Context-Awareness.- Home Automation with ZigBee.- The Smartest Space of All: A Global Space of (Machine-Understandable) Knowledge.- A Definition Approach to Smart Logistics.- A Method of Constructing Personal Network for Ubiquitous Personal Services.- Conductive Inkjet-Printed Wireless Sensor Nodes on Flexible Low-Cost Paper-Based Substrates.- Smart Sensing and Sensor Data Collection on the Move for Modelling Intelligent Environments.- Ubi-Board: A Smart Information Diffusion System.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking, NEW2AN 2008, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 3-5, 2008 in conjunction with the First ruSMART 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 60 submissions. The NEW2AN papers are organized in topical sections on wireless networks, multi-hop wireless networks, cross-layer design, teletraffic theory, multimedia communications, heterogeneous networks, network security. The ruSMART papers start with three keynote talks followed by seven articles on Smart Spaces.