This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th international conference on ad-hoc mobile and wireless networks adhoc-now 2008 held in sophia-antipolis france september 2008. The 40 revised full papers and the 15 poster presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers deal with advances in ad-hoc networks i.E. Wireless self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Their topology is dynamic decentralized ever changing and the nodes may move around arbitrarily.