This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International
Workshop on Distributed Computing, IWDC 2002, held in Calcutta, India,
in December 2002.
The 31 revised full papers and 3 student papers presented together with
3 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 90
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web
caching, distributed computing, wireless networks, wireless mobile
systems, VLSI and parallel systems, optical networks, and distributed
systems.