together with its companion volume lncs 2344, this book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the international conference on information networking, icoin 2002, held in cheju island, korea in january/february 2002.the 140 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and revised during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. the papers are organized in topical sections on new networking applications, switching and routing, optical networks, network performance, quality of service, home networking and local access protocols, network management, wireless and mobile internet, 4 g mobile systems, satellite communication systems, network security, multimedia applications, and distributed systems.