This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2006 - formerly known as IWDC International Workshop on Distributed Computing) - held in Guwahati, India in December 2006. The 29 revised full papers and 30 revised short papers presented together with 5 invited keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 245 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ad hoc networks, distributed computing and algorithms, security, grid and P2P computing, performance evaluation, internetworking protocols and applications, optical networks and multimedia, sensor networks, and wireless networks.

Distributed security algorithms by mobile agents	p. 1
A real-time guarantee scheme based on the runtime message scheduling and error control for the dual wireless ad hoc sensor network	p. 15
ADIAN : a distributed intelligent ad-hoc network	p. 27
A mobility tolerant cluster management protocol with dynamic surrogate cluster-heads for a large ad hoc network	p. 40
Prediction based QoS routing in MANETs	p. 46
MCDS based multicasting in mobile adhoc networks	p. 52
Programmer-centric conditions for itanium memory consistency	p. 58
A group quorum system of degree [actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 70
An efficient non-intrusive checkpointing algorithm for distributed database systems	p. 82
Adaptive connected dominating set - an exercise in distributed output switching	p. 88
An efficient and scalable checkpointing and recovery algorithm for distributed systems	p. 94
On distributed verification	p. 100
The price of defense and fractional matchings	p. 115
Construction of adaptive IDS through IREP++ and ARM	p. 127
Proving optimality of DWS (distance-weighted sampling) probability function for EMS IP trace-back technique	p. 133
A mechanism for detection and prevention of distributed denial of service attacks	p. 139
Auction based resource allocation in grids	p. 145
MLBLM : a multi-level load balancing mechanism in agent-based grid	p. 157
Data management for a distributed hash table	p. 163
DRWT : an efficient random walk algorithm for unstructured P2P networks	p. 169
Stochastic models of IEEE 802. 11e wireless networks with multimedia applications	p. 175
Maintaining information about nearby processors in a mobile environment	p. 193
Energy aware topology management in ad hoc wireless networks	p. 203
On maximizing network lifetime of broadcast in WANETs under an overhearing cost model	p. 215
On maximizing residual energy of actors in wireless sensor and actor networks	p. 227
Locant : a nature inspired location service for ad hoc networks	p. 239
An analytical model for capacity evaluation of VoIP on HCCA and TCP file transfers over EDCA in an IEEE 802. 11e WLAN	p. 245
Developing analytical framework to measure robustness of peer-to-peer networks	p. 257
Design and implementation of a network processor based 10Gbps network traffic generator	p. 269
Stochastic spectral density analysis on network traffic characterization	p. 276
Negotiating monitoring task allocation for orbiters	p. 282
Primality tests based on Fermat's little theorem	p. 288
Efficient distributed handshake using mobile agents	p. 294
Improved distributed exploration of anonymous networks	p. 306
The complexity of updating multi-writer snapshot objects	p. 319
Simultaneous consensus tasks : a tighter characterization of set-consensus	p. 331
Database summarization and publishing in wireless environments	p. 342
Read-write reductions	p. 349
Large scale voice over IP experiences on high performance intranets	p. 355
Z!Stream : an application streaming system by copy-on-reference block of executable files	p. 367
Supervised grid-of-tries : a novel framework for classifier management	p. 373
BGPSep. S : an algorithm for constructing IBGP configurations with complete visibility	p. 379
Performance enhancement in REM using adaptive drop policy for protective and best-effort traffic	p. 385
A new precomputation scheme for MPLS traffic engineering routing	p. 391
A mobility aware technique for clustering on mobile ad-hoc networks	p. 397
Design and analysis of rate aware ad hoc 802.11 networks	p. 409
Tightly packed IP address configuration (TPIA) protocol in small-scale MANET	p. 421
TransMAN : a group communication system for MANETs	p. 430
On fault tolerance of two-dimensional mesh networks	p. 442
Feedback control with prediction for thread allocation in pipeline architecture web server	p. 454
Variants of priority scheduling algorithms for reducing context-switches in real-time systems	p. 466
Dynamic path shared protection for survivable differentiated reliable WDM optical networks	p. 479
A time model for distributed multimedia applications	p. 491
Destination initiated multi-wavelength reservation protocol (DIMRP) in WDM optical networks : finding the optimal selectivity for wavelength assignment	p. 497
A hybrid transformation technique for video coding	p. 503
Location verification based defense against Sybil attack in sensor networks	p. 509
A new scheme for establishing pairwise keys for wireless sensor networks	p. 522
Distributed location and lifetime biased clustering for large scale wireless sensor network	p. 534
Power aware duty scheduling in wireless sensor networks	p. 546
Data forwarding protocol for reliable delivery service in wireless sensor networks	p. 552
Synchronous and asynchronous auction models for dynamic spectrum access	p. 558
A one-pass method of MIP registration by WLAN host through GPRS network	p. 570
An idea bag strategy to discourage selfish behavior under random token MAC protocols for wireless LANs	p. 582
A signalling technique for disseminating neighbouring AP channel information to mobile stations	p. 594
A predictive location management scheme by extracting the unique sub-patterns from the mobility logs	p. 600
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