This volume 4465 of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series is a collection
of the papers of the NET-COOP 2007 conference, a first-of-a-series Euro-
NGI/FGI Conference on Network Control and Optimization. The event took
place in the beautiful city of Avignon, France, June 5–7, 2007, was jointly organized
by INRIA and the University of Avignon and was hosted by the latter.
Internet communications and services are experiencing an increase in volume
and diversity both in their capacity and in their demand. This comes at the
cost of an increase in the complexity of their control and optimization, mainly
due to the heterogeneity in architecture as well as usage. The need for new
ways of effectively and fairly allocating resources belonging to a wide set of not
necessarily cooperative networks to a collection of possibly competing users is
urgent and is the aim of this conference.