Welcome to Coimbra—home to the oldest university in Portugal and one of the oldest in the world, dating back from 1290—and welcome to the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), the intellectual hub and melting pot of ideas from researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. During its history, the reputation of WoWMoM has rapidly grown and it has become one of the premier conferences in the field of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking. 

We are very pleased to present a diverse and well-balanced conference program that spans three days and includes two streams of parallel technical sessions on cutting-edge and future research topics. The program is further enriched by three keynote presentations offered by world-leaders in the field, Dr. Falko Dressler, Full Professor for Computer Science at University of Paderborn, Dr. Joerg Widmer, Research Professor at Institute IMDEA Networks, and Dr. Mario Gerla, Full Professor for Computer Science at University of California Los Angeles. The main program is complemented by a panel of renowned experts, a demonstration session, a Ph.D. forum, an N^2 Women forum, and, last but not least, four co-located pre-conference high-quality workshops.

IEEE WoWMoM 2016 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. 

The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, and create and exploit context-awareness. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome.