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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2017, held in Messina, Italy, in September 2017.
The 22 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: internet of things; security; smart city; ad-hoc networks; implementations and validations; wireless sensor networks; data management; wireless systems.

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Internet of Things.- SustainaBLE: a Power-Aware Algorithm for Greener Industrial IoT Networks.- The 3D redeployment of nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks with real testbed prototyping.- Semantic Resource Management of Federated IoT Testbeds.- Targeted Content Delivery to IoT Devices Using Bloom Filters.- Security.- Trust Based Monitoring Approach for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- An Implementation and Evaluation of the Security Features of RPL.- A ticket-based Authentication Scheme for VANETs preserving Privacy.- A Trust based Communication Scheme for Safety Messages Exchange in VANETs.- Smart City.- Mobility as the main enabler of opportunistic data dissemination in urban scenarios.- Analysis and classification of the vehicular traffic distribution in an urban area.- User-space network tunneling under a mobile platform: a case study for Android environments.- Mobile Crowd Sensing as an Enabler for People as a Service Mobile Computing.- Ad-hoc networks.- SVM- MUSIC Algorithm for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc Networks.- Optimization of a modular ad hoc land wireless system via distributed joint Source-Network Coding for correlated sensors.- AdhocInfra Toggle: Opportunistic Auto-configuration of Wireless Interface for Maintaining Data Sessions in WiFi Networks.- Simulation of AdHoc Networks Including Clustering and Mobility.- Implementations and validations.- Highlighting Some Shortcomings of the CoCoA+ Congestion Control Algorithm.- Experimental Evaluation of Non-Coherent MIMO Grassmannian Signaling Schemes.-WEVA: A Complete Solution for Industrial Internet of Things.- Validating Contact Times Extracted from Mobility Traces.- Wireless sensor networks. -Optimising Wireless Sensor Network Link Quality through Power Control with non-Convex Utilities using Game Theory.- Routing protocol enhancement for mobility support in wireless sensor networks.- Correlation-Free MultiPath Routing for Multimedia traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Impact of Simulation Environment in Performance Evaluation of Protocols for WSNs. -Data management.- A Real-Time Query Processing System for WSN.- Centralized and distributed architectures: Approximation of the response time in a video surveillance system of road traffic by logarithm, power and linear functions.- Secure Storage as a Service in Multi-Cloud Environment.- Policy Management and Enforcement Using OWL and SWRL for the Internet of Things.- Wireless systems.- BSSACH: A Big Slot Scheduling Algorithms with Channel Hopping for Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks.- A hybrid ant-genetic algorithm to solve a real deployment problem: a case study with experimental validation.- Interference Analysis of Nonlinear and Asynchronous OFDM in Multiuser Cognitive Radio Networks.

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