This volume contains the papers presented at the 5th International Conference onDistributedComputingandInternetTechnologies(ICDCIT2008)heldduring December 10-12, 2008 in New Delhi, India. The conference was organized by KIIT University, Bhubanshewar, India. TheacceptanceofthequalityoftheICDCITconferencesbytheinternational computer science community is a source of much satisfaction to its organizers. This year, we received 96 submissions from authors from 13 countries. We also received tremendous support from the reviewers. Most of the papers were - viewed by at least three Program Committee members or additional referees. The overall quality of the submissions was very high and we had to turn away some papers which received good reviews and would have been accepted in past conferences. In all, 20 papers were accepted of which 8 are in the short paper category. Many people and organizations contributed to the success of the conference. WewishtothankAchyutaSamanta, Chancellor, KIITUniversityforhissupport of the conference. We also wish to thank all the Chairs, Steering and Organizing Committees for their support. Our most sincere thanks go to the ProgramC- mittee members whose contribution in carryingout a high-quality reviewhelped us come up with a strong conference program. We express our sincere thanks to theinvitedspeakers-WolfgangGentzsch, ManishGupta, andRajkumarBuyya. We acknowledge IIT Kanpur and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey for providing infrastructural support to carry out this editorial work. We thank with deep gratitude the assistance provided by our students Nitin Agarwal and Abhinav Jain at all the stages of the conference. Lastly, we would like to thank Springer for publishing these proceedings in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science ser