this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ifip-tc6 8th international conference on personal wireless communications, pwc 2003, held in venice, italy in september 2003. the 49 revised papers presented together with 6 special track papers, 1 invited paper, 11 project descriptions, 7 work in progress reports, and 8 novel ideas reports were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. the papers are organized in topical sections on mobile computing, wireless access, sensor networks, transport protocols, performance models, wcdma, ad-hoc networks, wireless and mobile systems, cellular networks, ipv6, bluetooth, and security and cooperations in ad-hoc networks.