High Speed ASIC Design of DCT for Image Compression -- Image De-noising and Enhancement for Salt and Pepper Noise Using -- Improved Median Filter-Morphological Operations -- Block Based Image Segmentation -- Secured Two Phase Geographic Forwarding with GSS Algorithm -- On Demand Logical Resource Replication Scheme as a Service -- Data Storage Security Model for Cloud Computing -- Classification of Medical Images Using Data Mining Techniques -- A Novel Solution for Grayhole Attack in AODV Based MANETs -- Multilayer Feed-Forward Artificial Neural Network Integrated with Sensitivity Based Connection Pruning Method -- ACTM: Anonymity Cluster Based Trust Management in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Texture Based Image Retrieval Using Correlation on Haar Wavelet Transform -- Dynamic Cooperative Routing (DCR) in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Addressing Forwarder’s Dilemma: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Induce Cooperation in a Multi-hop Wireless Network -- Improving Reliability in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Multiple Description Coding -- Design and Development of an Enhanced UDDI for Efficient Discovery of Web Services.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Communication, Network, and Computing, CNC 2012, held in Chennai, India, February 24-25, 2012. The 41 revised full papers presented together with 29 short papers and 14 poster papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 425 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of issues in the field of Information Technology, Networks, Computational Engineering, Computer and Telecommunication Technology, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to advanced applications.