This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 5th COST264 International Workshop on Networked Group Communications, NGC 2003, and the 3rd International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2003, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2003.The 25 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on application multicast support, anycast and search in peer-to-peer networks, peer-to-peer systems, security and multicasting, multicast mechanisms,...

Welcome to the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wired/ Wireless Internet Communications held at the University of Bern from May 10 12,2006. As in 2005, WWIC was selected as the o?cial conference by COST Action 290, and Springer accepted to publish the conference proceedings in the LNCS series. These facts have helped to again attract a large number of hi- quality paper submissions. We received 142 submissions out of which 29 papers were selected by the International Program Committee for presentation at the conference. This resulted in a low acceptance rate of 21%. To limit...

Welcome to the 3rd International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet C- munications (WWIC). After a successful start in Las Vegas and a selective c- ference in Germany, this year s WWIC demonstrated the event s maturity. The conference was supported by several sponsors, both international and local, and became the o?cial venue for COST Action 290. That said, WWIC has now been established as a top-quality conference to promote research on the convergence of wired and wireless networks. This year we received 117 submissions, which allowed us to organize an - citing program with excellent...