The First International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI) was held in Athens, Greece during October 13–14, 2009, hosted by the National Technical University of Athens. Through what we hope will be a long-lasting series of events, this new international conference aims at bringing together top researchers, academics, and practitioners specializing in the area of mobile network management. Multiaccess and resource management, mobility management, and network management have emerged as core topics in the design, deployment, and operation of current and future networks. Yet, they are treated as separate, isolated domains with very little interaction between the experts in these fields and lack crosspollination.
MONAMI 2009 offered the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals, and academics to meet and discuss the latest advances in these areas and present results related to technologies for true plug-and-play networking, efficient use of all infrastructure investments, and access competition. MONAMI 2009 featured eight full papers and five short papers, which were selected after a thorough peer-review process based on their relevance to the scope of the conference and their technical merit. The overall acceptance rate was 50%. The contributing authors covered a range of topics in mobile networks and their management that are currently of high interest in the wireless research area. In particular, the revised papers included in this volume address handovers in multiaccess networks, along with the associated resource management issues; context and connection management for self-organizing networks; Future Internet architectures; and applications and algorithms. All papers were orally presented in a single-track format, which fostered active participation from all attendees.
The conference opened with a tutorial on “Mobility and Multiaccess in Emerging Internet Architectures” by Kostas Pentikousis. Antonio Puliafito opened the second day of the conference with a keynote speech on “Managing Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies: Objects Tracking and Services Development”. Finally, the conference program included a panel session on “Energy Efficiency in Mobile Multiaccess Networks”.
We acknowledge the vital role that the Technical Program Committee members and referees played during the review process. Their efforts ensured that all submitted papers received a proper evaluation. Finally, yet importantly, we thank Create-Net and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland for technically co-sponsoring the event.
