This is my first summary of several papers from the past MobiCom conferences sorted by relationship.

Theses topics involve the typical distributed operating systems issues of:

• Resource management
• Scalibility
• Reliability
• Caching
• Distribution
• Proxies
• etc.

MobiCom 2000
1. A Scalable Location Service for Geographic Ad Hoc Routing

Jinyang Li John Jannotti Douglas S. J. De Couto David R. Karger
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science
2. Tracking Mobile Users with uncertain parameters

Zohar NAOR
Department of Computer Science Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978 Israel
3. Intersystem Location Update and Paging Schemes for Multitier Wireless Networks *

Wenye Wang Ian F. Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology (MobiCom 2000)
4. Sending Messages to Mobile Users in Disconnected Ad-hoc Wireless Networks

Qun Li Dartmouth College (MobiCom 2000)
5. LeZi-Update: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Track Mobile Users in PCS Networks

Amiya Bhattacharya Sajal K. Das
Center for Research in Wireless Computing (CReW) University of North Texas (MobiCom 1999)
 

Infrastructure. Some topics are listed under pervasive computing. resource management of data useful to mobile devices. Additional data is from input devices. Their imformation needs to be distributed through the network from the source. Network resources are usually limited for such devices.
1. Distributed microsensing. Information from nodes to the rest of the network (MobiCom 2000)

Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor
Networks-Chalermek Intanagonwiwat Ramesh Govindan, USC/Information Sciences Institute
2. Supporting CORBA Applications in a Mobile Environment

Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin Ireland (MobiCom 1999)
3. Move data seamless among devices. 

Making Computers Disappear: Appliance Data Services
Andrew C. Huang (MobiCom 2001 pervasive)
4. Providing small devices with web browser

m-Links: An Infrastructure for Very Small Internet Devices
Bill N. Schilit Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory (mobiCom 2001)
5. Providing information to small devices

Exploiting Location Information for Infostation-Based Hoarding
Uwe Kubach and Kurt Rothermel Institute of Parallel and Distributed Germany (mobiCom 2001)
6. Providing small devices with service discovery when moving between networks.

Locating Application Data Across Service Discovery Domains 
Paul Castro*, Benjamin (mobiCom 2001)
7. Managing data and location

Next Century Challenges: Nexus - An Open Global Infrastructure for Spatial-Aware Applications
Fritz Hohl, Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR) (mobicom 1999)

I wish there were more OS related papers on physical tracking besides by networking and routing. 
1. The Cricket Location-Support System (MobiCom 2000)

Nissanka B. Priyantha, Anit Chakrabo
2. rty, and Hari Balakrishnan 

MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
3. The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications

Nissanka B. Priyantha, Allen K. L. Miu, Hari Balakrishnan
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Infrastructure issues are of interest. can be used as exmaples illustrating ideas from other papers. 
1. Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project

Keith Cheverst Distributed Multimedia Research Group Lancaster University, Lancaster UK
(Mobicom 2000)
2. The Anatomy of a Context-Aware Application

Andy Harter @uk.research.att.com (MobiCom 1999)
3. Smart Kindergarten: Sensor-based Wireless Networks for Smart Developmental Problem-solving Environments

Mani Srivastava EE UCLA (MobiCom 2001)