Computer Communications

Editor-in-Chief: Marco Conti Inst. of Informatics and Telematics (IIT), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy, Fax: +39 050 315 2593, Area Editors: Stuart Allen Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, Eitan Altman Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Sophia-Antipolis, France, Paul D. Amer University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, Lachlan Andrew Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia, Nirwan Ansari New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA, Chadi M. Assi Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Albert Banchs Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes (Madrid), Spain, Giuseppe Bianchi Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy, Andrea Bianco Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, Fernando Boavida Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, Luciano Bononi Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Torsten Braun Universität Bern, Berne, Switzerland, Raffaele Bruno Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Pisa, Italy, Levente Buttyan Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, Tracy Camp Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA, Antonio Capone Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Hojung Cha Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, Mainak Chatterjee University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, Sunghyun Choi Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, South Korea, Song Chong Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, South Korea, Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK, Sajal K. Das University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, Roberto Di Pietro Università di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy, Josep Domingo-Ferrer Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, Cem Ersoy Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, Do Young Eun North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, Sonia Fahmy Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Serge Fdida Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France, Christina Fragouli École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Xiaoming Fu Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Silvia Giordano SUPSI, Manno, Switzerland, Isabelle Guerin-Lassous Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, Lyon, France, Mahbud Hassan University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Paul J.M. Havinga Universiteit Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, Markus Hofmann Bell Laboratories Holmdel, Holmdel, NJ, USA, David Hutchison Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK, Weijia Jia City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, Jussi Kangasharju University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Holger Karl Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, Polychronis Koutsakis Technical University of Crete, Crete, Greece, Marwan Krunz University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, Mohan Kumar University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, Miguel Labrador University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, Guy Leduc Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, Francis Bu-Sung Lee Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, Victor Leung University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Minglu Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Xiang-Yang Li Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, Ying-Dar Lin National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, ROC, Alex Liu Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI, USA, Jiangchuan Liu Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Javier Lopez Universidad de Malaga, Malaga, Spain, Petri Mähönen Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, Martin Maier INRS Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Montréal, QC, Canada, Martin May Thomson Paris Research Lab, Paris, France, Madjid Merabti Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, Refik Molva Institut EURECOM, Valbonne - Sophia Antipolis, France, Edmundo Monteiro Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, José Neuman de Souza Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, Cristina Nita-Rotaru Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Ilkka Norros VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland, Mohammad S. Obaidat Monmouth Unive