Networking 2004 : networking technologies services and protocols; performance of computer and communication networks; mobile and wireless communications ; third International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference Athens Greece May 9 14 2004 ; proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP TC6 Networking Conference NETWORKING 2004 held in Athens Greece in May 2004. The 103 revised full papers and 40 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 539 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on network security; TCP performance; ad hoc networks; wavelength management; multicast; wireless network performance; inter domain routing; packet classification and scheduling; services and monitoring; admission control; competition in networks; 3G 4G wireless systems; MPLS and related technologies; flow and congestion control; performance of IEEE 802.11; optical networks; TCP and congestion; key management; authentication and DOS prevention; energy aspects of wireless networks; optical network access; routing in ad hoc networks; fault detection restoration and tolerance; QoS metrics algorithms and architecture; content distribution caching and replication; and routing theory and path computation