Pervasive Computing and Networking covers existing and emerging communications and computing models, design architectures, mobile and pervasive wireless applications, technology and research challenges in pervasive computing systems, networking and communications. It addresses various fundamental designs, trends, applications and implementation issues in pervasive computing and networking, and provides state-of-the-art research on architectures, algorithms, protocols and applications of pervasive computing and networks. Includes chapters on topics such as: Tools and Technologies for Building Pervasive Systems, Models for Service and Resource Discovery in Pervasive Computing, Interactive Context-aware Services and User Interfaces, Cooperation in Pervasive Environments, Power Management in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Mobile and Opportunistic Pervasive Services, Standards and Implementation of Pervasive Computing Applications, Multimodal Pervasive Computing Applications, Smart Devices, Systems and Intelligent Environments, Intelligent Middleware in Pervasive Environment, Pervasive Healthcare Systems and Applications, Quality of Services in Pervasive Networks, and Security and Privacy in Pervasive Networks. Key Features: Discusses existing and emerging communications and computing models, design architectures, mobile and pervasive wireless applications, technology and research challenges in pervasive computing systems, networking and communications Provides detailed discussions of key research challenges and open research issues in the field of autonomic computing and networking Offers information on existing experimental studies including case studies, implementation test-beds in industry and academia Includes an accompanying website including PowerPoint slides

Professor Mohammad Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
Mohammad Obaidat received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently a full Professor of Computer Science at Monmouth University, NJ, USA. Among his previous positions are Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University and a faculty member at the City University of New York.

Professor Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Mieso Denko received his MSc form the University of Wales, UK, and his PhD from the University of Natal, South Africa, both in Computer Science. Since November 2002, Dr. Denko has been with the Department of Computing and Information Science, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, where he is now an Associate Professor.
Dr. Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada

Isaac Woungang received his M.Sc and Ph.D degrees all in Mathematics from Université de la Méditerranée-Aix Marseille II, Luminy, France, and Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. In 1999, he received an M.A.Sc from the INRS-Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a Software engineer at Nortel Networks. Since 2002, he has been with the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University.