This book contains the best papers of the First International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE 2004), held in Setúbal (Portugal). The conference was organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Communication and Control) in collaboration with the School of Business of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, who hosted the event. This conference represented a major initiative to increase the technical exchanges among professionals, who work in the e-Business and Telecommunication Networks fields, and who are implementing new services and technologies affecting the lives of ordinary consumers. The major goal of this conference was to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in areas related to e-Business, with a special focus on Telecommunication Networks. Four simultaneous tracks were held, covering different aspects, including: "Global Communication Information Systems and Services", "Security and Reliability in Information Systems and Networks", "Wireless Communication Systems and Networks" and "Multimedia Signal Processing". The sections of this book reflect the conference tracks.

Zusammenfassung
This book contains the best papers of the First International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE 2004), held in Setúbal (Portugal) and organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Communication and Control ) in collaboration with the School of Business of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, who hosted the event. This conference represents a major initiative to increase the technical exchanges among professionals, who work on the e-Business and Telecommunication Networks fields, and who are deploying new services and technologies into the lives of ordinary consumers. The major goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and developers from academia a and industry working in areas related to e-business, with a special focus on Telecommunication Networks. This year, four simultaneous tracks were held, covering different aspects, including: Global Communication Information Systems and Services, Security and Reliability in Information Systems and Networks, Wireless Communication Systems and Networks and Multimedia Signal Processing g. The sections of this book reflect the conference tracks. ICETE 2004 received 202 paper submissions from 43 different countries, from all continents. 110 papers were published and orally presented as full papers, i.e. completed work, and 44 papers were accepted for poster presentation. The full paper acceptance ratio confirms our confidence that ICETE 2004 has achieved a high quality standard that we will strive to keep and enhance in order to ensure the success of the next year ICETE edition.

Inhalt
Global communication information systems and services.- A decentralized location service.- E-MACSC: A novel dynamic cache tuning technique to maintain the hit ratio prescribed by the user in internet applications.- Efficient information retrieval from handheld terminals with wireless digital phone interface.- Secure web browsing over long-delay broadband networks.- Experimental based tool calibration used for assessing the quality of e-commerce systems.- Gender differences in online shoppers' decision-making styles.- Design and evaluation of the home network systems using the service oriented architecture.- Security and reliability in information systems and networks.- New non-adaptive distributed system-level diagnosis methods for computer networks.- GSM and GPRS performance of IPSEC data communication.- Practical auditability in trusted messaging systems.- Towards an adaptive packet marking scheme for IP traceback.- Baseline to help with network management.- Network-based intrusion detection systems evaluation through a short term experimental script.- A single sign-on protocol for distributed web applications based on standard internet mechanisms.- Wireless communication systems and networks.- Adjacent channel interference.- Care-of-prefix routing for moving networks in mobile IP network.- Service integration between wireless systems.- SPUR: A secured protocol for UMTS registration.- Providing QOS in 3G-WLAN environment with RSVP and DIFFSERV.- Fast mobile IPV6 approach for wireless LAN based networks.- CDMA2000 1X capacity decrease by power control error in high speed train environment.- UGSP: Authentication based secure protocol for AD-HOC networks.- Multimedia signal processing.- Image authentication using hierarchical semi-fragile watermarks.- Deployment of live-video services based on streaming technology over an HFC network.- A hardware-oriented analysis of arithmetic coding - comparative study of JPEG2000 and H.264/AVC comppression standards.- Audio watermarking quality evaluation.- Compression of hyperspectral imagery via linear prediction.- Bayer pattern compression by prediction errors vector quantization.- Application level session hand-off management in a ubiquitous multimedia environment.