The Tang and Song Dynasties of China are often referred to as the high points of culture in the history of Chinese civilization. The hundred poems featured in this book- carefully selected by translator and literature scholar, Qiu Xiaolong-represent the most famous and poignant of these poems. The Tang Dynasty poets were known for their distinctive personal styles and their rich and textured poems, while the Song Dynasty poets were known for their lyricism and depictions of town life.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, MSN 2005, held in Wuhan, China in December 2005. The volume also contains 12 papers of the MSN workshop on Modeling and the Security in the Next Generation Mobile Information Systems (MSNG 2005).The 112 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 512 submissions. The papers address all current topical areas in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks such as network architecture and protocols, software platforms and development tools, self-organization and synchronization, routing and data dissemination, failure resilience and fault isolation, energy management, data, information, and signal processing, security and privacy, network planning, provisioning, and deployment, network modeling and performance evaluation, developments and applications, as well as integration with other systems.