This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2008, held in Sophia-Antipolis, France, September 2008. The 40 revised full papers and the 15 poster presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers deal with advances in Ad-Hoc networks, i.e. wireless, self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Their topology is dynamic, decentralized, ever changing and the nodes may move around arbitrarily.

Autorentext
Ivan Stojmenovic, PhD, is a researcher in DISCA, IIMAS, UNAM, Mexico, and a professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a managing editor of Multiple-Valued Logic and an editor of several journals. He has also published more than 150 academic papers.

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Local Maximal Matching and Local 2-Approximation for Vertex Cover in UDGs.- Opportunistic Clock Synchronization in a Beacon Enabled Wireless Sensor Network.- Mitigating Reply Implosions in Query-Based Service Discovery Protocols for Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Adaptive MANET Routing: A Case Study.- Self-interference in Multi-hop Wireless Chains: Geometric Analysis and Performance Study.- Energy-Efficient Multi-path Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Approximating Minimum-Power k-Connectivity.- A Secure Cross-Layer Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Body Area Networks.- Communication in Random Geometric Radio Networks with Positively Correlated Random Faults.- The Mathematics of Routing in Massively Dense Ad-Hoc Networks.- Localized Spanner Construction for Ad Hoc Networks with Variable Transmission Range.- Geographic Routing with Early Obstacles Detection and Avoidance in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks.- DIN: An Ad-Hoc Algorithm to Estimate Distances in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Cheating on the CW and RTS/CTS Mechanisms in Single-Hop IEEE 802.11e Networks.- Adapting BitTorrent to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Optimal Gathering Algorithms in Multi-hop Radio Tree-Networks ith Interferences.- Distributed Qualitative Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Lower Bound on the Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Cooperating Nodes.- Attacks on CKK Family of RFID Authentication Protocols.- On Backoff in Fading Wireless Channels.- TSLA: A QoS-Aware On-Demand Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Query Dissemination with Predictable Reachability and Energy Usage in Sensor Networks.- A Prediction Based Cross-Layer MAC/PHY Interface for CDMA Ad Hoc Networks.- Utility-Based Uplink Power Control in CDMA Wireless Networks with Real-Time Services.- AdaptivePriority Based Distributed Dynamic Channel Assignment for Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks.- Ranking and Sorting in Unreliable Single Hop Radio Network.- Distributed Monitoring in Ad Hoc Networks: Conformance and Security Checking.- Improved Distributed Dynamic Power Control for Wireless Mesh Networks.- Identifying the Boundary of a Wireless Sensor Network with a Mobile Sink.- Analysis of IEEE 802.11e Line Topology Scenarios in the Presence of Hidden Nodes.- Interference and Congestion Aware Reservations in Wireless Multi-hop Networks.- Low-Cost and Accurate Intra-flow Contention-Based Admission Control for IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks.- An Energy-Efficient Query Aggregation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Novel Algorithms for the Network Lifetime Problem in Wireless Settings.- Message Quality for Ambient System Security.- Request Satisfaction Problem in Synchronous Radio Networks.- A Novel Mobility Model from a Heterogeneous Military MANET Trace.- Measuring Energy-Time Efficiency of Protocol Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- A Framework for Joint Cross-Layer and Node Location Optimization in Mobile Sensor Networks.