ICN 2006 Preface

Networking became the key economical factor in bridging countries and cultures, speeding the economy, and synchronizing the research topics across multi-national groups and universities. The International Conference on Networking (ICN) held in Mauritius, April 23-28, 2006 became now a reference in the networking community and provided an international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments targeting all areas of networking. ICN 2006 was the 5th conference of this successful series and was organized and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE, IEE and IARIA organizations with proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. As with the previous editions, this event continued to be very competitive in its selection process and very well perceived by the international networking community. As such, it is attracting excellent contributions and active participation from all over the world. This year more than 390 submissions were reviewed by the members of the technical program committee and about 40% were finally accepted for presentation at the conference. We were very pleased to receive a large amount of top quality contributions. The accepted papers cover a wide range of networking related topics spanning from VoIP, NAT and SIP to OLSR, DDoS, H.264, QoS, policy traffic management and routing. We believe that the ICN??2006 papers offered a large panel of solutions to key problems in all areas of networking and set challenging directions for industrial research and development.