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About PWC´2008

Wireless and mobile networks, applications and services are rapidly growing areas that have attracted significant attention due to their potential impacts on the quality of life in multiple domains (health, emergency services, disaster recovery, commerce, shopping, TV, games…). To enable wireless and mobile computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of distributed computing, networking, communications and signal processing.

MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks) and PWC (Personal Wireless Communications) are two conferences sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 that provide forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and computing.
In 2008, MWCN and PWC are coupled to form the first edition of IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). MWCN and PWC topics are revisited in order to make them complementary and covering together the main hot issues in wireless and mobile networks, services, applications, computing, and technologies.

PWC´2008 is the thirteenth conference of this series sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8 and will be held in Toulouse (France) from 1 to 3 October 2008. The conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations. Previous events were held in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2007, Albacete (Spain) in 2006, Colmar (France) in 2005, Delft (The Netherlands) in 2004, Venice (Italy) in 2003, Singapore in 2002, Lappeenranta (Finland) in 2001, and Gdansk (Poland) in 2000.

Performance of wireless networks is the major factor that determines their feasibility for the given set of application requirements. Performance has many different aspects, from different layers, and all of these are intimately related to topology, energy efficiency, management, user mobility, and security issues. The key goals of this improvement include Quality of Service (QoS) support mechanisms, efficient channel access mechanisms, security and energy saving mechanisms, etc. The effort to improve the wireless networks is linked with many technical challenges including compatibility with legacy networks, complexity in implementation, and practical values in real market, etc.

The themes of PWC´2008 are:

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