This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2009, held in Murcia, Spain, in September 2008.

Regular Papers.- TCP over Multi-Hop Wireless Networks: The Impact of MAC Level Interactions.- Cooperative Signalling and Its Application in a Power-Controlled MAC Protocol.- Joint Source-Channel-Network Decoding and Blind Estimation of Correlated Sensors Using Concatenated Zigzag Codes.- Challenges for Routing and Search in Dynamic and Self-organizing Networks.- Routing Metric for Interference and Channel Diversity in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks.- Minimum Delay Data Gathering in Radio Networks.- Asymptotic Delay Analysis and Timeout-Based Admission Control for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.- Statistical Properties of the Delivery Rate for Single-Sink and Multiple-Sink Sensor Networks.- Application-Driven Analytic Toolbox for WSNs.- A Diffusion Approximation Analysis of Multilevel Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks.- Localized Sensor Self-deployment with Coverage Guarantee in Complex Environment.- An Efficient and Scalable Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Towards Fair Leader Election in Wireless Networks.- Auction Aggregation Protocols for Wireless Robot-Robot Coordination.- On Minimizing the Maximum Sensor Movement for Barrier Coverage of a Line Segment.- Mobile Sinks for Information Retrieval from Cluster-Based WSN Islands.- Secure EPC Gen2 Compliant Radio Frequency Identification.- On the Trade-Off between User-Location Privacy and Queried-Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks.- SenSearch: GPS and Witness Assisted Tracking for Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks.- Monte Carlo Localization of Mobile Sensor Networks Using the Position Information of Neighbor Nodes.- Autonomous Transmission Power Adaptation for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks.- A Decentralized Approach to Minimum-Energy Broadcasting in Static Ad Hoc Networks.- Heavily Reducing WSNs' Energy Consumption by Employing Hardware-Based Compression.- Optimal and Fair Transmission Rate Allocation Problem in Multi-hop Cellular Networks.- Short Papers.- A Topology Management Routing Protocol for Mobile IP Support of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Implementation and Comparison of AODV and OLSR Routing Protocols in an Ad-Hoc Network over Bluetooth.- Inside-Out OLSR Scalability Analysis.- Proximal Labeling for Oblivious Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Proposal and Evaluation of a Caching Scheme for Ad Hoc Networks.- A Secure Spontaneous Ad-Hoc Network to Share Internet Access.- A Middleware Family for VANETs.- Joint IP Address and Public Key Certificate Trust Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- A Localized Algorithm for Target Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Wireless Sensor Network Architecture for Homeland Security Application.