Dominique Gaïti 
Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, IV 
Fourth IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Lannion, France, November 14-18, 2005

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for Qo S, Security and Mobility, NETCON 2005. The conference, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing, was held in Lannion, France from November 14-18, 2005. Coverage explores network security, network policy, quality of service, wireless networks, intelligent networks, and performance evaluation.

Table of Content

Unreduced Dynamic Complexity: Towards the Unified Science of Intelligent Communication Networks and Software.- Predictive Mobility Support with Secure Context Management for Vehicular Users.- A Token Based Key Distribution Protocol for Closed Group Meetings.- Upgrading PPP security by Quantum Key Distribution.- Fast and secure handoffs for 802.11 Infrastructure Networks.- The Open Eap Smartcard platform.- End to End Quality of Service over Heterogeneous Networks Eu Qo S.- Qo S management for mobile users.- A Differentiated Services API for Adaptive Qo S Management in IP Networks.- A generic conceptual framework for self-managed environments.- Modified Location-Aided Routing Protocols for Control Overhead Reduction in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- A Distributed Architecture for Massively Multiplayer Online Services with Peer-to-Peer Support.- The use of COPS and NSIS in the Eu Qo S Project.- New CAC Algorithm using Adaptive Modulation Control.- Diff Serv Management on Mobile IP Networks using COPS-PR.- Towards a global autonomic management and integration of heterogeneous networks and multimedia services.- Towards an Adaptive and Intelligent MPLS Network.- Multicast Group Authentication.- Efficient Loss Recovery Algorithm for Multicast Communications in Active Networks.- Programmable Network Context Adaptation for Content Delivery Services.- Flow Context Tags: Concepts and Applications.- Modelling the Temporal Aspects of Network Configurations.- Programmable Network Functionality for Improved Qo S of Interactive Video Traffic.- Characterising Distributed Haptic Virtual Environment Network Traffic Flows.- Security Associations Management (SAM) Model for IP Multimedia System (IMS).- A Vision for Reliable Network Services Architecture.- Security Verification of a Virtual Private Network over MPLS.