Papers from a November 2002 conference report on results relevant for developing new communication technologies and novel network applications. Papers are grouped in sections on TCP wired and ad hoc/wireless networks, routing, formal methods, wireless TCP and overlays, multicast, Internet, security/DOS, and provisioning and resource setup. Some subjects are hybrid channel access scheduling in ad hoc networks, a formal approach for passive testing of protocol data portions, dynamic routing of bandwidth guaranteed multicasts with failure backup, clustering Web content for efficient replication, and using adaptive rate estimation to provide enhanced and robust transport over heterogeneous networks. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.