Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM international symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my pleasure to welcome you to MobiHoc 2012, the Thirteenth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing. MobiHoc continues its tradition of serving as the premier forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners on a broad spectrum of wireless networking and mobile computing topics that include mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, cognitive radio networks, and other emerging areas. MobiHoc 2012 is being held on the beautiful Hilton Head Island, SC, which we hope will provide an enjoyable environment for presenting the most recent research achievements and connecting with the research community in these areas. This year's MobiHoc includes seven exciting technical sessions that include 24 exceptional papers, four workshops, and a poster session. The technical program committee led by the chairs Yih-Chun Hu and Sanjay Shakkottai did an outstanding job in reviewing and selecting the MobiHoc papers, while maintaining the MobiHoc tradition of high selectivity and fairness. The Workshop chairs Ryuji Wakikawa and Wenye Wang did an excellent job in getting together the MobiHoc workshops: the Workshop on Sensor-Enhanced Safety and Privacy in Public Spaces; the Workshop on Airborne Networks and Communications; the Workshop on Name-Oriented Mobile Networking Design - Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications; and the Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare. These workshops are focused on areas of emerging interest and provide significant diversity to the MobiHoc program. The poster chair Karthik Sundaresan did substantial work to have poster papers reviewed and accepted in time for the proceedings. I am deeply thankful to all of these committee members. I am delighted to announce keynote presentations from two renowned contributors to MobiHoc (as well as their respective research areas): Dr. Edward Knightly from Rice University, who will be presenting on Urban-scale Wireless Networks in Unlicensed sub-GHz bands; and Dr. Nitin Vaidya from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who will be presenting on Resilient Distributed Consensus.