Recent spectacular achievements in wireless, mobile, and sensor networks have dramatically changed our lives in many ways. However, the rapid evolution of wireless systems not only promises increased functionality, reliability, availability, and security, as well as putting a wide variety of new services at the users' disposal ? it also creates a number of design challenges that our research community is now facing. Scientists and engineers need to come up with, and promptly implement, novel wireless network architectures, while system operators and planners rethink their business models and attend to the growing expectations of their customer base. To provide a suitable forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners, and industry representatives interested in new developments in the respective research area, IFIP WG 6. 8 launched three separate series of conferences: MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks), PWC (Personal Wireless Communications), and WSAN (WirelessSensor and Actors Networks). In 2008, MWCN and PWC were merged into the IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2008), held in Toulouse, France, from September 30 to October 2, 2008. MWNC 2008 and PWC 2008 topics were subsequently revised with a view to covering the whole spectrum of hot issues in wireless and mobile networking. As a result, IFIP WG 6. 8 decided to add WSAN as another WMNC track.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 6.8 Joint Conference on Wireless and Mobile Networking, WMNC 2009, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2009.

The 30 thoroughly revised papers presented together with one invited talk were selected from 65 submissions. The papers are evenly split among three tracks: Personal Wireless Communications (PWC), Wireless Sensor and Actors Networks (WSAN) and Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN) reflecting the state of the art, current discussions, and development trends in wireless and mobile networks and services. They are divided in topical sections on IMS interoperability; QoS and multimedia support; network design; sensor networks; trust management and competitive networking; location algorithms; evolution of 3G, 3G/4G and future generation systems; and handover mechanisms.

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Invited Talk.- Unified Charging and Billing Solution. Unified Next Generation of Charging Systems in Mobile Networks.- IMS Interoperability.- Presence Management and Merging Presence Information for NGN Services.- Interoperability of IP Multimedia Subsystems: The NetLab Approach.- A General IMS Registration Protocol for Wireless Networks Interworking.- Analysis of Session Establishment Signaling Delay in IP Multimedia Subsystem.- QoS and Multimedia Support.- Adaptive Reservation MAC Protocol for Voice Traffic in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.- On the Shortcoming of EDCA Queues in the Presence of Multiservice Traffic.- Accessing of Large Multimedia Content on Mobile Devices by Partial Prebuffering Techniques.- Performance Analysis of Multicast Video Streaming in IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Testbed Environment.- Network Design.- Optimization of Frame Structure for WiMAX Multi-hop Networks.- Robust Transmission of H.264/AVC Video Using 64-QAM and Unequal Error Protection.- An Optimization Approach toCoexistence of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Networks Operating in ISM Environment.- Sensor Networks.- Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.15.3 MAC Protocol with Different ACK Polices.- Efficient Sensor Data Gathering and Resilient Communication for Rescue Scenarios.- Self-Organizing Wireless Monitoring System for Containers.- Trust Management and Competitive Networking.- Enabling SAML for Dynamic Identity Federation Management.- DST-Based Detection of Non-cooperative Forwarding Behavior of MANET and WSN Nodes.- Competitive Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks: A Dynamic Non-cooperative Game Approach.- Location Algorithms I.- A Novel AoA Positioning Solution for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Based on Six-Port Technology.- On the Impact of Node Placement and Profile Point Selection on Indoor Localization.- Hyperbolic Position Location Estimation in the Multipath Propagation Environment.- Evolution of 3G, 3G/4G and Future Generation Systems.- Efficient Assignment of Multiple E-MBMS Sessions towards LTE.-CATS: Context-Aware Triggering System for Next Generation Networks.- Performance Analysis of Uplink Packet Schedulers in Cellular Networks with Relaying.- A Method of the UMTS-FDD Network Design Based on Universal Load Characteristics.- Location Algorithms II.- Dynamic Localized Broadcast Incremental Power Protocol and Lifetime in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks.- Information-Importance Based Communication for Large-Scale WSN Data Processing.- Considerations for RFID-Based Indoor Simultaneous Tracking.- Handover Mechanisms.- The Efficiency Performance on Handover's Scanning Process of IEEE802.16m.- Optimized Handover Schemes over WiMAX.- Data Collection for Heterogeneous Handover Decisions in beyond 3G Networks.- A Cross-Layer User Centric Vertical Handover Decision Approach Based on MIH Local Triggers.