Distributed Computing and Networking: 8th International Conference, ICDCN 2006, Guwahati, India, December 27-30, 2006, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2006 - formerly known as IWDC International Workshop on Distributed Computing) - held in Guwahati, India in December 2006.

The 29 revised full papers and 30 revised short papers presented together with 5 invited keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 245 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ad hoc networks, distributed computing and algorithms, security, grid and P2P computing, performance evaluation, internetworking protocols and applications, optical networks and multimedia, sensor networks, and wireless networks.