This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th AnnualInternational Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, andApplications, WASA 2010, held in Beijing, China, in August 2010.The 19 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presentedtogether with 18 papers from 4 workshops were carefully reviewed andselected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topicasections on topology control and coverage, theoretical foundations, energy-aware algorithms and protocol design, wireless sensor networksand applications, applications and experimentation, scheduling andchannel assignment, coding, information theory and security, security ofwireless and ad-hoc networks, data management and network control inwireless networks, radar and sonar sensor networks, as well ascompressive sensing for communications and networking.