This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, MSN 2007, held in Beijing, China, in December 2007. The papers address all current issues in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks and are organized in topical sections on routing, network protocols, energy efficiency, data processing, self-organization and synchronization, deployment and application, as well as security.

This book is intended to effectively address the main issues of today s Internet, including security, inflexibility, and mobility problems, and provides a revolutionary approach to the Internet. At the heart of this book are the theories and mechanisms of Smart collaborative Identifier NETwork (SINET), which is a promising design for the future Internet. In this book, important insights into the SINET are organized in three parts. In Part I, particular attentions are given to basic principles and theories of SINET. In Part II, network-related technologies are then explored, including mobility...