QSHINE

Recent technological developments in broadband peer-to-peer and overlay networks, wireless and mobile networks, and grid computing have led to a wide variety of new challenging problems. These include the provisioning of Quality of Service (QoS), survivability, resilience and scalability in a wide range of emerging applications � such as large-scale multimedia systems � across both wired and wireless networks.

The Third International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2006) focuses on all aspects of these challenges, including the QoS provisioning, performance optimization, cross-layer design, resilience, scalability and survivability of distributed applications in heterogeneous networks. It will serve as a forum for researchers from academia and industry to present the latest research results on QoS issues for both wired and wireless networks, with the hope to develop viable cross-layer design methodologies.