Recent spectacular achievements in wireless, mobile, and sensor networks have dramatically changed our lives in many ways. However, the rapid evolution of wireless systems not only promises increased functionality, reliability, availability, and security, as well as putting a wide variety of new services at the users’ disposal ? it also creates a number of design challenges that our research community is now facing. Scientists and engineers need to come up with, and promptly implement, novel wireless network architectures, while system operators and planners rethink their business models and attend to the growing expectations of their customer base. To provide a suitable forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners, and industry representatives interested in new developments in the respective research area, IFIP WG 6. 8 launched three separate series of conferences: MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks), PWC (Personal Wireless Communications), and WSAN (WirelessSensor and Actors Networks). In 2008, MWCN and PWC were merged into the IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2008), held in Toulouse, France, from September 30 to October 2, 2008. MWNC 2008 and PWC 2008 topics were subsequently revised with a view to covering the whole spectrum of hot issues in wireless and mobile networking. As a result, IFIP WG 6. 8 decided to add WSAN as another WMNC track.
Editors and Affiliations
Department of Computer Communications, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland
Jozef Wozniak,
Jerzy Konorski
Department of Radiocommunication Systems and Networks, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland
Ryszard Katulski
Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Andrzej R. Pach
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wireless and Mobile Networking
Book Subtitle: Second IFIP WG 6.8 Joint Conference, WMNC 2009, Gdansk, Poland, September 9-11, 2009, Proceedings
Editors: Jozef Wozniak, Jerzy Konorski, Ryszard Katulski, Andrzej R. Pach
