This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International ICST Conference on Communications Infrastructure, Systems and Applications, EuropeComm 2009, held in London, United Kingdom in August 2009.

The 15 full papers and 6 work-in-progress papers were selected from 52 submissions. Further carefull selected experts in their fields were invited and submitted 7 more invited papers.

EuropeComm 2009 brought together decision makers from the EU commission, top researchers and industry executives to discuss directions of communications research and development in Europe. The papers focus on a wide range of future Internet infrastructure, intelligent transportation systems, healthcare and transportation sectors, as well as open models and innovation processes.

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Emerging Infrastructure and Technologies I.- Building Digital Economy - The Research Councils Programme and the Vision.- Why the Internet Is So 'Small'?.- Reactive Management of Quality of Service in Multimedia OBS Networks Based on GMPLS.- Enhancing Java RMI with Asynchrony through Reflection.- SNR Based Digital Estimation of Security in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Quantifying the TV White Spaces Spectrum Opportunity for Cognitive Radio Access.- Emerging Infrastructure and Technologies II.- MIMO Free-Space Optical Communication Employing Subcarrier Intensity Modulation in Atmospheric Turbulence Channels.- RSVP-TE Based Impairments Collection Mechanism in DWDM Network.- MIMO-OFDM System's Performance Using LDPC Codes for a Mobile Robot.- Hybrid M-QAM with Adaptive Modulation and Selection Combining in MIMO Systems.- Performance Analysis of a Joint Space-Time Block Codes and Channel Estimation Scheme in DL-PUSC Mode of Mobile WiMAX.- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).- The Changing Transport Datascape - Opportunities and Challenges.- Intelligent Control of Urban Road Networks: Algorithms, Systems and Communications.- Congestion Reduction Using Ad-Hoc Message Dissemination in Vehicular Networks.- Intelligent Mobility Systems: Some Socio-technical Challenges and Opportunities.- iRide: A Cooperative Sensor and IP Multimedia Subsystem Based Architecture and Application for ITS Road Safety.- DVB-T/H Portable and Mobile TV Performance in the New Channel Profiles Modes.- Localization to Enhance Security and Services in Wi-Fi Networks under Privacy Constraints.- A Proportional Fairness with Bandwidth-Borrowing Scheme for a Two-Tier NEMO System.- Intelligent Healthcare Systems (IHS).- Healthcare Information Systems - Requirements and Vision.- The Impact ofeHealth on the Quality and Safety of Healthcare.- e-Labs and Work Objects: Towards Digital Health Economies.- Mandatory and Location-Aware Access Control for Relational Databases.- The Interaction of Production and Consumption in the News Media Social Space.- Optimization of TCP/IP over 802.11 Wireless Networks in Home Environment.- Analysis of the Contextual Behaviour of Mobile Subscribers.- Work-in-Progress and Short Papers.- Improved Classification and Framework Association of Security Vulnerability, Threats and Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Challenges for Mobile Social Networking Applications.- Mobile Monitoring Stations and Web Visualization of Biotelemetric System - Guardian II.- Practical Issues of Wireless Mobile Devices Usage with Downlink Optimization.- Reliable Communications Using Multi-layer Transmission.- Effects of the Distinction between Long and Short Data Grants in DOCSIS Network.