Service-oriented design for broadband wireless networks - [Message from the Editor-in-Chief]

The paper gives an introduction to the collection of articles in this publication that includes: security in a service-oriented vehicular networks; multipath routing for multiple description video communications over wireless mesh networks; using P2P overlays to provide QoS in service-oriented wireless networks; network-coding-based scheduling and routing schemes for service-oriented wireless mesh; quality-driven decision engine for live video transmission under service-oriented architecture; dynamic composition of services for end-to-end information transport; topology control for service-oriented wireless mesh networks; and downlink scheduling for multimedia multicast/broadcast over mobile WiMAX.