This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks
ADHOCNETS 2016 held in Ottawa Canada September 26-17 2016. The 34 revised full papers
presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers provide visions
trends challenges and opportunities in the area of ad hoc networking and emerging
applications. The conference also features two workshops on ad hoc network security and
vulnerability and convergence of wireless directional network systems and software defined
networking respectively.
