This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2006, held in Guwahati, India in December 2006. Coverage in this volume includes 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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Distributed Computing, IWDC 2003, held in Kolkata, India in December 2003.

The 32 revised full papers presented together with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed algorithms, internetworking and web, parallel and distributed systems, wireless and mobile networking, ad-hoc and sensor networks, learning and optimization, and optical networking