Selected Papers from the 1st ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks J.UCS Special Issue

The workshop provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among industry practitioners and researchers working on all aspects of self-assembling wireless networks, including, but not limited to: modeling and optimization of heterogeneous self-assembling wireless networks, authentication, privacy, and security, dynamic networks and dynamic graph algorithms, dynamic frequency and channel assignment, multi-hop routing in heterogeneous ad hoc and sensor networks, multi-path forwarding for fault tolerance, wireless multicasting, performance of end-to-end protocols over wireless networks, data aggregation and management, caching and prefetching for information access in wireless networks, mechanisms design and cooperation enforcement, synchronization and scheduling issues in ad hoc wireless networks, resource management in mobile, wireless and ad hoc networks, energy saving protocols for ad hoc and sensor wireless networks, monitoring management in sensor networks, mobility and location management, and algorithms for multimedia QoS and traffic management. This special issue of J.UCS includes extended versions of 5 papers selected from the 14 papers presented at the workshop. These papers have passed an