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Kansas City) and Ashok Srivastava (NASA Ames Research Center, USA). The tutorials were on security issues in distributed systems and enterprise resource planning. Wetake this opportunity to thank various peopleand organizations who c- tributed to make this conference a grand success. Our heartfelt thanks to the track chairs whose full cooperation and technical assessments were crucial to achieve this high level of quality even in the ?rst edition of the conference. The full participation of the program committee members and the reviewers made it possible to complete the peer-review process in time. We are extremely thankful to them. We would like to thank our advisors and general chair for having c- ?dence in us. Our special thanks go to A. Samanta and P. K. Mishra of KIIT for their support and encouragement in organizing this conference. We gratefully acknowledge the ?nancial and logistic support extended by KIIT in hosting this conference. TheAllIndiaCouncilofTechnicalEducation(AICTE),Government ofIndia,NewDelhiprovided agenerousgrant-in-aid fororganizingICDCIT. We thankfully acknowledge AICTE's support.We are thankful to Springer for its cooperation in publishing the proceedings in such a short time. We are also thankful to our parent departments, Department of Computer Science and - gineering, IIT Kanpur and Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, for providing infrastructural support to carry out the editorial work. We thank Krithi Ramamritham and Pradeep Khosla for agr- ing to deliver the lectures in the plenary sessions.

This book examines two main topics, namely, Wireless Networking and Mobile Data Management. It is designed around a course the author began teaching to senior undergraduate and master’s students at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.The first part of the book, consisting of eight chapters, including the introduction, focuses exclusively on wireless networking aspects. It begins with cellular communication systems, which provided the foundation of wireless networking principles. Three subsequent chapters are devoted to the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM), Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Bluetooth, infrared (IR), ZigBee and 6LoWPAN protocols. There is also a chapter on routings in ad hoc networks, an area that is currently being intensively researched due to its potential applications in areas of vehicular network, traffic management, tactical and military systems. Furthermore, the book discussesmobile operating systems and wireless network application level protocols such as Wireless Application Protocols (WAP), Mobile IP and Mosh.The second part highlights mobile data management. It addresses the issues like location management, the importance of replication and caching in mobile environments, the concept of broadcast disk and indexing in air, storage systems for sharing data in mobile environments, and building smart environments. Given that the design of algorithms is the key to applications in data management; this part begins with a chapter on the type of paradigm shift that has been introduced in the design of algorithms, especially due to asymmetry in mobile environments. Lastly, the closing chapter of the book explores smart environments, showing the readers how wireless technology and mobile data management can be combined to provide optimum comfort for human life. Though the book has been structured as a monograph, it can be used both as a textbook and as a reference material for researchers and developers working in the area.