Message from General Co-chairs

The International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks 2012 (MSN 2012) was held at Yinhe Dynasty Hotel, Chengdu, China. This is the Eighth conference in the series, following the successful MSN 2005 in Wuhan, MSN 2006 in Hong Kong, MSN 2007 in Beijing, MSN2008 in Wuhan, MSN 2009 in Wuyi, MSN 2010 in Hangzhou, and MSN 2011 in Beijing. This year we have received 86 submissions for the conference from different countries. The selected papers address a broad range of research issues and challenges in the field of mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks.