It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the Second International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MobiMedia 2006), which was named MSAN in the first edition. The conference is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to share their research results on developing new applications, solutions, and standards. On the basis of the exciting technical program, we believe that this objective will be fulfilled and we hope that the technical presentations will stimulate future research in this area.

This year, a total of 87 submissions were received and reviewed by a highly competent technical program committee. Following a rigorous selection, ranking and discussion process, 37 papers were included in the technical program as regular papers and 12 papers in the “work in progress” category, which consists of manuscripts that, even if requiring additional work, have been evaluated as based on a good core idea and then beneficial for the conference. In addition, we approached selected leading professionals to submit invited papers, which were also reviewed by the technical program committee. The conference was organized as a two-day event to ensure maximum interaction between the participants.

The technical program is also enriched by two stimulating invited keynote talks: Future standards for mobile multimedia, given by Leonardo Chiariglione, the founder of the MPEG standards committee; Integrating knowledge and content processing, given by Albert Gauthier, commissioner of the Unit INFSO E2, European Commission.

We would like to thank all the colleagues coming to the Conference to participate and discuss the research results and future directions in mobile multimedia communications. The keynote/invited talks and papers presented at the Conference will highlight the principles and practice necessary to build future networks, applications, protocols and standards in this field.

Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to all members of the organizing committee for their dedicated work and to representatives of our sponsoring organizations for their continuous support.

We hope you will enjoy your stay in Alghero and make this Conference an intellectually stimulating and enjoyable meeting.

General Co-Chairs:	Program Co-Chairs:
Luigi Atzori University of Cagliari, Italy	Ozgur B. Akan Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Ebroul Izquierdo University of London, UK	Pascal Frossard EPFL, Switzerland