Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs are presenting two papers based on innovative research this week at MobiCom 2004 in Philadelphia, the premier international forum for mobile computing and wireless networking. First, they'll describe a method for dynamically improving how data packets are routed through a wireless network by modifying its topology in response to changing traffic patterns and user demand. Next, they'll describe how the performance of wireless local area networks (WLANs) can be greatly improved by seamlessly shifting users from heavily loaded to lightly loaded access points - thereby relieving network congestion and increasing the number of users that can access the network at any given time. Both of the approaches described at the conference hold the promise of improving the performance, reliability and availability of wireless communications. This work is yet another example of how Lucent continues to push the envelope and lead the evolution towards high-speed mobile data.