Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks Third International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2004, Vancouver, Canada, July 22-24, 2004, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2004, held in Vancouver, Canada in July 2004.
The 22 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 150 submissions. All current aspects of ad-hoc networking, sensor networks, mobile, wireless, and cooperating communication systems are addressed including, multicast, broadcast, performance, QoS, routing protocols, scalability, security, hybrid networks, self-organization, auto-configuration, energy consumption, peer-to-peer systems, and MAC protocols.

Contributed Papers.- Approximating the Minimum Number of Maximum Power Users in Ad Hoc Networks.- Multicast Versus Broadcast in a MANET.- Maximal Source Coverage Adaptive Gateway Discovery for Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks.- A Coverage-Preserving Density Control Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Improved Approximation Algorithms for Connected Sensor Cover.- Energy-Memory-Security Tradeoffs in Distributed Sensor Networks.- Utilizing the Uncertainty of Intrusion Detection to Strengthen Security for Ad Hoc Networks.- Weathering the Storm: Managing Redundancy and Security in Ad Hoc Networks.- A Secure Autoconfiguration Protocol for MANET Nodes.- Analysis of the Information Propagation Time Among Mobile Hosts.- Consensus with Unknown Participants or Fundamental Self-Organization.- Connectivity of Wireless Sensor Networks with Constant Density.- Range-Free Ranking in Sensors Networks and Its Applications to Localization.- An Analytic Model Predicting the Optimal Range for Maximizing 1-Hop Broadcast Coverage in Dense Wireless Networks.- Experimental Comparison of Algorithms for Energy-Efficient Multicasting in Ad Hoc Networks.- Improving Distance Based Geographic Location Techniques in Sensor Networks.- A Fair Distributed Solution for Selfish Nodes Problem in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Session-Based Service Discovery and Access Control in Peer-to-Peer Communications.- A Controlled Mobility Protocol for Topology Management of Ad Hoc Networks.- Efficient Data Collection Trees in Sensor Networks with Redundancy Removal.- Cross-Layer Optimization for High Density Sensor Networks: Distributed Passive Routing Decisions.- Adaptive Probing and Communication in Sensor Networks.- Progress Based Localized Power and Cost Aware Routing Algorithms for Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks.- Application of Eigenspace Analysis Techniques to Ad-Hoc Networks.- A Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Low-Power Ultra-Wide Band Ad-Hoc Networks.- Lifetime-Extended, Power-Aware, Non-position Base Localized Routing in Hybrid Ad-Hoc/Infrastructure Network.- Short Contributed Papers.- Routing Table Dynamics in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: A Continuum Model.- Realistic Mobility for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Simulation.- On Timers of Routing Protocols in MANETs.- UAMAC: Unidirectional-Link Aware MAC Protocol for Heterogeneous Ad Hoc Networks.