Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, III [electronic resource] : IFIP TC6 / WG6.2, 6.6, 6.7 and 6.8 Third International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, NetCon 2004 on November 2–5, 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain / edited by Dominique Gaïti, Sebastià Galmés, Ramon Puigjaner.

Network Policy -- Configuration Model for Network Management -- On-Line Control of Service Level Agreements -- Revenue-Aware Resource Allocation in the Future Multi-Service IP Networks -- Network Security -- A Kerberos-Based Authentication Architecture for WLANS -- An Efficient Mechanism to Ensure Location Privacy in Telecom Service Applications -- Network Security Management: A Formal Evaluation Tool Based on RBAC Policies -- Quality of Service -- A Dynamic Cross Layer Control Strategy for Resource Partitioning in a Rain Faded Satellite Channel with Long-Lived TCP Connections -- Content Location and Distribution in Converged Overlay Networks -- A Communication Architecture for Real-Time Auctions -- Wireless Networks -- An Interference-Based Prevention Mechanism Against WEP Attack for 802.11B Network -- Restricted Dynamic Programming for Broadcast Scheduling -- Performance Comparison of Distributed Frequency Assignment Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks -- Fast Handoff Support in an IP-Evolved UMTS Architecture -- Intelligent Networks -- Storage Capacity Allocation Algorithms for Hierarchical Content Distribution -- An Inference Algorithm for Probabilistic Fault Management in Distributed Systems -- New Protocol for Grouping Data Using Active Network -- Performance Evaluation -- An Algebraic Model of an Adaptive Extension of DiffServ for MANETs -- Cross-Layer Performance Evaluation of IP-Based Applications Running over the Air Interface -- Collision Avoidance in Metropolitan Optical Access Networks -- Posters -- Toward an Intelligent Bandwidth Broker Model for Resources Management in DiffServ Networks -- A Learning and Intentional Local Policy Decision Point for Dynamic QoS Provisioning -- Generic IP Signaling Service Protocol -- On Distributed System Supervision - A Modern Approach: GeneSys -- Multigroup Communication -- Policy Usage in GMPLS Optical Networks -- Beyond TCP/IP: A Context-Aware Architecture.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for Quality of Service, Security and Mobility (Net-Con'2004), celebrated in Palma de Mallorca (Illes Balears, Spain) during November 2-5, 2004. This IFIP TC6 Conference was organized by the Universitat de les Illes Balears and sponsored by the following Working Groups: WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems), WG6.7 (Smart Networks) and WG6.8 (Mobile and Wireless Communications). The rapid evolution of the networking industry introduces new exciting challenges that need to be explored by the research community. The adoption of Internet as the global network infrastructure places the issue of quality of service among one of the hot topics nowadays: a huge diversity of applications with quite different service requirements must be supported over a basic core of protocols. Also, the open and uncontrolled nature of Internet enforces the need to guarantee secure transactions among users, thus placing security as another hot topic. Finally, the explosion of mobility and its integration as part of the global infrastructure are probably now the most challenging issues in the networking field.