This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Conference on Computer Networks, CN 2009, held in Ustro'{n}, Poland, in June 2010. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in the following new technologies applied in computer networks, particularly those related to nano, molecular and quantum technology; new standard technologies related to computer network structure; the fundamentals of computer networks, their architecture and programming; articles concerning the Internet in its broad meaning; papers related to data security in distributed systems; and a group of articles describing industrial computer networks; and papers on applications.
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