These papers cover topics such as future Internet testbeds, wireless testbeds, federated and large scale testbeds, network and resource virtualization, overlay network testbeds, management provisioning and tools for networking research, and experimentally driven research and user experience evaluation.

A Satellite Network Emulation Platform for Implementation and Testing of TCP/IP Applications.- GAIA Extended Research Infrastructure: Sensing, Connecting, and Processing the Real World.- Infrastructure Overview with Focus on Experimental Facility.- LTE Emulation over Wired Ethernet.- Environment-Independent Virtual Wireless Testbed.- FPGA-Based Wireless Link Emulator for Wireless Sensor Network.- Implementation and End-to-end Throughput Evaluation of an IEEE 802.11 Compliant Version of the Enhanced-Backpressure Algorithm.- ExoGENI: A Multi-domain Infrastructure-as-a-Service Testbed.- Experimental Demonstration of Network Virtualization and Resource Flexibility in the COMCON Project.- A Passive Measurement System for Network Testbeds.- Monitoring Pairwise Interactions to Discover Stable Wormholes in Highly Unstable Networks.- DNEmu: Design and Implementation of Distributed Network Emulation for Smooth Experimentation Control.- MagicLink: Weaving Multi-site Wireless Sensor Networks for Large-Scale Experiments.- Data Filtering and Aggregation in a Localisation WSN Testbed.- Automated Deployment and Customization of Routing Overlays on Planetlab.   

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2012, held in Thessanoliki, Greece, in June 2012. Out of numerous submissions the Program Committee finally selected 51 full papers. These papers cover topics such as future Internet testbeds, wireless testbeds, federated and large scale testbeds, network and resource virtualization, overlay network testbeds, management provisioning and tools for networking research, and experimentally driven research and user experience evaluation.